Och Aye the Pool. A taste of summer at Gourock I’m up to my neck in hot water. Hot salty water. Floating effortlessly under a summer sky. It’s a perfect Sunday morning and I am floating free; free as the gulls above as they drift upon the sea breeze. Welcome, dear reader, to the Lido [...]
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Adventures for Men: One to One Father Son Adventures
Adventures for Men: One to One Father Son Adventures A new business venture is setting out to transform the relationships of fathers and sons. Using the Scottish outdoors as a playground, Adventures for Men will give lads and dads the encouragement and space to get to know each other better and build the foundations for [...]
Do you speak Arranish? Cycling around Arran
Cycling around Arran “See you on Tuesday then. We do a great Scottish breakfast,” says the man at the other end of the phone at a guest house in Arran’s Blackwaterfoot. I tell him I’m looking forward to it as I’m partial to a bit of lorne sausage. There is silence. “We don’t do lorne [...]
High and dry at the end of our family sailing school
High and dry at the end of our family sailing school Life on the ocean waves Day 5. High & dry in Largs Day 5 is cancelled. Well all tuition and sailing are anyway. Breakfast is however served in the marina café. Scottish sausage, bacon and eggs. It’s never tasted so good. Over coffee Simon [...]
Titanic?? We’ve all got that sinking feeling
Titanic?? We’ve all got that sinking feeling A life on the ocean waves: Day 4 Portovadie – Largs Stuart and I sneak off to the posh toilets for a shower, and then back to the bar for an early morning coffee, leaving the two instructors to babysit. When we come back there is breakfast on [...]
You seriously expect me to take the helm?
Hanging out in Portovadie is more my sort of thing A life on the ocean waves: Day 3 Sailing practice in Tarbert – Portovadie Today I am asked to take the helm and direct the rest of the crew to competently manage sails/reefs/compass and wind direction. We are to have a race around four buoys. [...]
Which way does the wind blow?
Stuart seems happy enough A life on the ocean waves: Day 2 Rothesay – Tarbet Our instructor Simon stands behind Stuart. Stuart stands behind the wheel. We set a course for Tarbert, about five hours of sailing time away. The wind is strong. Stuart is being quizzed on wind direction, and is required to alter [...]
A life on the ocean waves
It’s VERY windy, but you need wind to learn to sail. Don’t you?? We rock in our berths like newborn babies. While the sheltered marina keeps the full gale force of the wind from battering our boat, it whistles into the mast, lashes against the ropes and whips around idle winches. All around us, millions [...]
The morning after
I awake with a headache, perhaps like a hangover at the end of a party. The tent is a peculiar shape, the wind pushing the guy ropes to their limits. I put on layer upon layer before even venturing to the toilet. The wind blows me back, but I walk on, out to strange collection [...]
Young Groaters: Finishing LEJOG as a family
Finishing LEJOG as a family It was a long time in the coming, but we made it. From the most south westerly point to the most north westerly point of the British mainland, from Lands End to John O Groats or LEJOG. Now most people who do this become known as Old Groaters, but with [...]
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