Sailing to Scotland

After an eventful night in Whitehaven, with Paul sleep talking, we woke up ready for another day at sea.


We spent the morning at our berth alongside the Sugar Quay, where the sugar used to be brought into Whitehaven. Just next to this is the lime berth. We cleaned Tenacity throughout making her shipshape! We also made ourselves clean and tidy with a visit to the lovely facilities.

We sailed from port, after filling our water tanks, and saying hello to former headmaster Mr. Wright and his wife. Five hours of a mixture of sailing and motoring followed, on our course to Little Ross near Kirkcudbright. The last hour of our passage was made a little more exciting as we passed near to a firing range being used by the Army. We were asked to steer a certain course so the helicopters could keep their exercise going. We watched and heard the helicopters firing at targets on the land just across the bay from where we have anchored for the night.

After tea we got the dinghy down, complete with its four stroke engine, and used it to get to Little Ross Island. On the way we spoke to the firing range control boat who had directed us today. On the island we thought we were in a Famous Five book and all saw numerous smugglers, bandits and ship wrecks!