A bit of a lay in this morning, but still up at 0600 ready to leave before we sank into the mud, (we had a very shallow berth.) To visit Edinburgh is a long way off the quick route up the east coast and many miss out the Firth of Forth completely. We would have preferred to spend more days here but we must make use of the good weather. Or so we thought! Today we paid the price as the wind conspired against us all the way. Timing its direction exactly to our route until we turned north at Tully bothy Rocks when it died altogether and the tide then took its turn.

Still it was a lovely sunny day and there was much bird life to watch as well as the passing scenery. We took it in turns I hour apiece to hand steer and arrived about an hour later than we’d planned. Arbroath is lovely little harbour, the only trouble is we are locked in. I hadn’t realised that the lock wouldn’t open till the afternoon tide, too late for a journey to Peterhead.

So we plan to go to Stonehaven, a small harbour half way to Peterhead and continue our journey on Friday.