Happy in Inverness

Here in Inverness - it’s been an amazing few days. Had a lovely evening stay in Whitehills, out to the local village hotel for dinner - great to get off the boat to stretch the legs. The wind picked up over night quite significantly, thankfully the harbour entrance seemed fine so it was on with the layers and wet weather gear - which hasn’t been out for a while I have to say - and out into the wind and waves. It was a little lumpy and rather wet - well it’s all character building and sadly no more whale sightings. About 3 o’clockish we passed Lossiemouth - our most northerly point on our voyage and then we were able to have some south in our heading - so half way round now - can’t believe we’re now homeward bound. Also managed to get our fastest speed on the trip 11.9 knots - tremendous. What an amzing welcome we got coming into Inverness Firth, a surprise visit from the RNLI to escort us in - superb and jumping dolphins at Chanonry Point. Also got to sail past our old house in Avoch - forgot what an amazing view we had from the house - will need to move back some day. Amazing welcome from the marina staff, and what a great marina it is, right at the mouth of the River Ness. Really pleased to be here in Inverness, just wish it was for longer :-( However, Caledonian Canal next - so can’t complain!! Karen


Heya,
Had a mad few days recently. Set out from Whitehills yesterday for what can only be descirbed as an epic journey to Inverness. Was very wet, wind and loads of waves. Was good fun for a while but then I got a little seasick :-(. Ended up going to sleep just after Lossiemouth. Woke up just in time to see the Dolphins and have a ride on the RNLI inshore lifeboat (which was great fun and very very quick!)
Inverness is amazing and welcome has been incredible! Everyone has been so so friendly. We went dolphin spotting today and saw....seals! No Dolphins though but we had a nice chilled out sail and it was lots of fun.
No Pirate invasions yet, the weather is wrong for the Pirate Ship.
Emma



helloooooo its benny boy again lol
what an amazing day yesterday sailed from white hills to the all mighty inverness
who has the most awfull footabll team going hahaha.
but omg the waves were fantastic splashing all over us getting us drenched “brilliant”,
but when we got a bit close to inverness what an escort it only had to be the almighty
RNLI which was great im supprised how fast it went for 145hp engine, bit sad we didnt see our best friend william the whale but saw ernie the dolphin tho which brightened up the day after being drenched.
today we went for a little sail to the inverness firth but no dolphins but apparently kim saw one might be the anti-sickness tablets making her hillucinate haha.
but when i done my almighty seal dance even tho i looked like an idiot the seals apeared so looks like im the new dr doolittle lol, now just waiting for my massive extra large meat feast pizza to come cant wait im starving was going to have a pancake earlier but piers ended up mistaking jam for onion relish and thats a consultant for you haha.
speak again tomorow bye folks

Ben Murphy ;-)




hey every body,

party fiesta for ever............all night long ...all night long ....sorry about that singing in the saloon....just about too eat a pizza free from inverness marina and getting alittle scared about how nice, freindly and dahm right welcoming the scottish are ....arrrrrrgggggghhhhh.......


kim is the best.......so she says....


yeah pizza is here bye ...ha

john-boy, kims name for me ...
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