4 Kidneys and a Wonky Leg

We’d anchored overnight in Urquhart Bay, and as a belt and braces measure, I downloaded an anchor watch app to my phone and tablet. I was pretty sure we weren’t going to drag but there were some big winds forecast overnight.

Thankfully no alarms went off, we didn’t move and we both slept soundly. In the morning we reviewed the weather and decided to leave early for Fort Augustus about 12 miles South West of us. That decision turned out to be a bit of a mistake! As we came out of the lee of Urquhart Point, there was an 18 knot wind on the nose and a small choppy sea, The speed went down to 5 knots increasing our passage time to about 2 and a half hours, more or less what we expected, so no problem. Well five hours later we arrived at our destination having experienced steadily increasing winds, a nasty 40 knots for most of the last hour. Out to sea such winds would have kicked up very big waves, fortunately in the confines of the loch just a moderate choppy sea. Oh and did I say it was raining for much of the time, so visibility wasn’t great either.

On the bright side, we’d still arrived in time for lunch.

We also have an explanation for the depth soundings. Our depth gauge for some reason starts again at 200 meters, so if it’s 207 meters deep It will say 7 meters. Bit odd but there it is, not the thermocline, not Nessie, just odd electronics.