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Round Britain with Moonshine

Read John Hooper's account of his voyage in his Maxi 1100, summer 2006

Five years ago I was fortunate to be invited to crew on a friend's yacht from Peterhead to Oban through the Caledonian Canal.  This was a memorable and enjoyable experience which gave me my first taste of sailing in Scotland and which I was determined to build on.

Having done the Canal, as crew, I was keen to see if I could go right round the top, as skipper, and started to make my plans with that in mind.  The pilot books do their best to make the Pentland Firth and Cape Wrath seem as frightening as possible but it became clear that the Summer months provide reasonable periods of calm enough weather if one is lucky.  The key lies in getting the tides right and, for the Pentland Firth in particular, it's best by far to tackle it at neaps, as Spring tides can run in excess of 8 knots.  Provided there's an absence of fog and winds are less than F4 there shouldn't be too much of a problem...

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