This is a “clickable” map showing this leg of our sailing. If you click on this map, you can zoom in and out and see different perspectives of this region. You can also shift to the Google Earth view : A couple of points to explain some odd tracks in our route: You’ll see we […]

After a week of cold, rainy, and windy weather in Tarbert, we were able to set sail (or motor-sail) and get on with exploring west Scotland. From Tarbert we went to Campbeltown near the SE corner of the Kintyre peninsula. This positioned us for rounding the Mull of Kintyre (required careful timing with the weather

We enjoyed our week in Largs and we were excited to go to Tarbert on 28 May. We had a nice sail to Tarbert, and then the weather turned. Currently we are waiting for a weather window when we can leave this very well-protected harbor to sail south to Campbelltown and then around the Mull

Honolulu to Scotland: A Scenic Route 1 May – 27 May, 2025 We departed Honolulu on 1 May and went to Boston to see Adam’s sister, Karla, and her husband Roger. Adam’s other sister, Julie (from Dallas), joined us there, as did Adam’s stepbrother, Jay and his wife (from New York), and cousin Ted and

Or, What we are doing in the off-season of cruising. Before Returning to Honolulu As noted in a previous post, we put the boat away earlier than planned due to cold and stormy weather. It was a relief to know the boat was out of the water and safely stored indoors for the winter months

Largs, Firth of Clyde After our lovely anchorage at the north end of the Kyles of Bute, we headed back across (southeast) the Firth of Clyde to Largs Yacht Haven for protection from the next bout of heavy weather. We made friends with a cruising couple from Germany who also own a Hallberg-Rassy (25-year-old HR!).

Holy Loch We enjoyed being on a mooring ball and hanging out in Millport, but it was time to go to a marina because the weather was about to turn. We went up a small loch to Holy Loch. The passage from Millport to Holy Loch was like a game of “dodge ’em” with ferries

Too often this summer, this has been our view of Ireland and W. Scotland. We tie up in a marina, wait out windy, rainy weather for 4-5 days, then scoot to the next port on a fair weather day, and REPEAT. We’ve got our fingers crossed right now, because the current forecast shows that we

Ballycastle While sitting out the bad weather in Port Ellen, Islay, we realized how very close we were to Northern Ireland – just 25 miles!  So we thought: Why not? So after three days in Port Ellen (with two days of winds gusting over 45 mph), we set off for Ballycastle, Ireland in lighter winds

While at Craobh, we saw that we were going to have a one day weather window before more bad weather was on the way. After reviewing possible destinations that we could hole up in bad weather, we decided to head to the island of Islay (pronounced EYE-lah), about a 48-mile-trip south. MJ and I spent