BAD WEATHER WOES

We had a good day in the garden today. Iain and Duncan have nearly finished the sitootery and I managed to get some planting done.

Our sailing friends dropped by at various times today with their tales of drama and destruction on the west coast last week in the gales which gusted up to storm force at times.

Peter was storm-bound in Crinan Canal en route to Plockton in his own wee boat Kirsty. On an earlier trip he was unable to row out to his dinghy from the shore one night and ended up grabbing on to an adjacent boat who took him aboard for the night. It was a near thing because if he missed they would have been blown out to sea. I don't like to think about it!

Then Brian and Maggie gave us an up-date on treatment for Maggie's hand injury which she obtained when tying to secure a warp on the bow of their boat in storm force winds in Loch Aline. They had a bit of drama when the rope tying them on to a mooring broke in strong winds (and sea) and ... eventually ... with help, they got another mooring but Maggie got her left hand squashed and it involved all the palaver of getting to shore and getting her to the Belford Hospital in Fort William.

There was a lot of damage on the west coast (and in the Clyde) last week. Quite a few boats dragged their mooring and ended up ashore in Loch Melford and Loch Craignish. Thank goodness Iain's week sailing with Jane, Michel and Helene was only "driech", not "dangerous"!