Left Out Skerries by the South entrance (called South Mouth). We carefully followed both leading lines and then went the wrong side of a pot marker which had a floating rope across most of the narrow entrance. After a bit of panic trying to avoid the rope we ended up with it tangling in the prop and fending the bow off from the rocks. Fortunately the water was deep at that point and the rock blanketed the sail from the wind. I pulled on the rope and was surprised to find the rope cutter had done its job! So we soon got away undamaged and started trying to concentrate on the pilotage to Symbister, which required avoiding several skerries. We arrived with fair tide through the Sound of Linga just as the local skiffs were starting their race. These boats are more highly modernised than the ones we had seen at Westray, complete with built-in buoyancy and powerful modern rigs.
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track of this day
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Leaving Out Skerries by the South Mouth –
on the leading line |
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Which side of that pot buoy should we go?
Not much room between it and the beacon.
Its rope stretched the other way! |
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| In harbour at Symbister, together with big trawlers |
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| Symbister. Fishing boats old and new |
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