Scottish Meet – Loch Ard _ 20th May 2007
Due to the abysmal weather forecast the main event was shortened from the planned weekend to the Sunday although Arthur and Roddy both arrived and launched on the Saturday afternoon. Hosts, the Loch Ard Sailing Club (http://www.lochardsc.org.uk), made us very welcome; the site was superb with excellent launching facilities and a nice shelving beach for the canoes.
Seven Boats were there in the end…
Steam Launches Talisker (Tom Peebles), Silkie (?) and Brunel (Roger Martin), all regulars on the Loch and at the Portsoy STBF.
Sailing – Weekender ‘Greygoose’ built by Roddy Hill and crewed by ‘Uncle’ Alex, and though they were not strictly speaking part of our event, a 37 year old Heron Dinghy and a 40 year old Enterprise, both home-built, were taking part in the LASC afternoon races.
Canoes – Jim Day’s kayak, Arthur Jones’ SFD Waterman ‘Wayward’, and Chis Perkins’ Oughtred MacGregor ‘Scotch Mist’ having its first (nervous) taste of water.
The weather on Saturday was absolutely atrocious, raising the Loch by more than a few inches, but after one west highland downpour around midday on Sunday, the skies cleared for most of the rest of the afternoon with some good spells of sunshine. The greatest natural hazard to be faced was an unseasonably early attack of the dreaded midgie. Gentle winds were the order of the day – indeed flat calm prevailed later in the afternoon allowing Roddy to demonstrate the use of his ‘Yuloh’ getting back to the slip.
words by Alec Jordan & Chris Perkins
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- “just where is that capsized block?”
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- Arthur and Roddt scrutinising Silkie
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- Arthur Jones’ Waterman
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- Sail when you can, paddle when you must
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- Arthur paddling Wayward home
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- This was very atmospheric
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- Greygoose
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- Greygoose
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- The arty boating in Scotland shot
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- Not sure what was happening here, quite a bit of water got where it shouldn’t
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- Detail of Greygoose’s figurehead
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- Talisker heading for the trees
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- Jim powering out on to the Loch
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- Jim Day’s Kayak, a happy man
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- Jim Day’s Kayak
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- LASC veteran, one of their homebuilt Heron’s
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- Loch Ard from the sailing club
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- Scotch Mist’s builder feeling very nervous.
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- Preparing Greygoose for the off
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- Roddy Hill at the Helm of Greygoose
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- This was Scotch Mist’s first encounter with water
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- S.L.Silkie making progress
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- S.L.Talisker
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- Back end of Scotch Mist before the rudder fittings went on
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- The three canoes awaiting crew
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- Greygoose pulls away
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- Uncle Alex practising semaphore as nobody on shore understood he didn’t get his cup of tea.
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- Scotch Mist in rather more capable hands than her builder
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- Wayward meeting up with Greygoose
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- Wooden Outboard in action
Nice little website. Wish i had been there on the day you visited.
By: Ann Boyd on June 11, 2009
at 9:10 pm