After very heavy rain during the night, it was a bright and sunny morning. In the marina there was hardly a breath of wind but the forecast showed SE F6/7. That seemed a bit strong to me, having been caught out so many times this trip, but it was a following wind and we were heading into more sheltered waters, we made the decision to go.
We were rewarded with a great sail, even though the wind did top 32 knots we had only raised the genoa and were still achieving 9 knots boat speed. We arrived at Kyle Rhea Narrows exactly on slack water so there were no dramatics with overfalls or eddies as we passed on into Loch Alsh. There were a few seals around in the narrows but all a bit camera shy. As we had passed under Skye Road Bridge, there was a completely different weather system. Literally as we passed under the bridge the wind went from 30 knots to 4 or 5 and we crawled along heading north up the inner sound, bound for Loch Carron and then around into Plockton Harbour.
Once moored up we dinghied ashore and strolled about the village. We found the Plockton has a small sailing club and it was the first race of the season, we found a vantage point to watch the race over a pint from the garden of the Plockton hotel.
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