Trip Reports
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Raasay Friday 3rd June to Sunday 5th June
8 of us met at Sconser pier for this trip. Northerly winds were forecast but deemed of low enough strength for the trip to take place. we headed up the west coast as the forecast suggested a NNE wind. The ferry car park was busy so having unloaded boats we moved cars to fill the…
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Pathway paddle 29 May 2022
Sixteen new members arrived at Silversands, Aberdour at 1000 to meet the leader group for the first introductory paddle of the year. Introductions and boat exchange/loans sorted, we briefed on time (!) and split into three groups of roughly the same size, with some rough-looking leaders allocated to each. After some preliminary practice/sussing-out in the…
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Flotilla celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Union Canal, Saturday May 21
Cherry Kelsey and I paddled from Hermiston, a good place to launch with plenty of free parking, and a low bank, at OS NT 181705. The main flotilla, seven canal boats, started from Fountainbridge on Friday and overnighted at Ratho. We caught them up approaching the M8 bridge before Broxburn, and arrived at Broxburn slightly…
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Lismore 29 April – 1 May 2022
Around 10.30 on the Friday Clare Eadie, Gordon McGeorge, Dave Bertram, Angus Crozier and David Grieve packed boats for a paddle to the camping spot by the long route taking in Castle Stalker, lunch at the north end of Shuna and a circumnavigation back to Eilean nan Caorach to set up camp and take in…
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Loch Lomond 2nd April 2022
5 of us – Andy Young, Graham Bailey, Andrew McColl , Jim Clark & myself met a Millarochy bay car park yesterday. Minimal wind ( glassy at times) we paddled around most of the islands avoiding wild swimmers , Jetskis and fast ribs under intermittent blue skies and enjoying the fabulous conditions. Great to be…
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Grade A Paddle, North Queensferry – Sunday 6 March
The first grade A paddle of the year and we could not have asked for better weather! However, a higher tide for launching would have helped. We arrived on a frosty clear morning before 9am hoping to get on the water by 9.30 we did not manage to get going until 10am. We had decided…
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Bore-dom
It’s that excellent book on tides by William Thomson that reminded me of it…..years ago I’d surfed the Severn Bore in a Mountain Bat (precursor of the modern creek boat) and knew that Britain was unique in possessing 20% of the world’s tidal bores. The Severn even then was a crowded circus with the 2…
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Three mermaids of Bute and a cautionary tale – 10-15th Sept
This trip was organised by Phil Burgess who was eventually joined by Ruaridh MacAlister and Gerry Mulligan after a number of others gradually dropped out as the day approached. Our plan originally was to paddle from Colintravie around Bute and over to Skipness point, the area had been recommended to us by Alice McInnes as…
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10th September N Berwick to Bass Rock
This time with the photo See 10th September N Berwick to Bass Rock for orginal trip report
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10th September N Berwick to Bass Rock
3 of us met at Milsey Bay on a misty friday morning for a quick trip out to the Bass and Seacliffe. David Simpson , Sarah Stark & myself . Calm seas and visibility of 200m , minimal wind and a falling tide. We met a man testing a thermal imaging drone ( as you…