Inverkip to Lamlash - Day 34

Inverkip to Lamlash - Thursday 9th June - Day 34

I had returned to the yacht the previous afternoon with my new crew member, Jack Evans from Newcastle, who I first met when we went to junior school together 55 years earlier and had lost touch  until I joined the local yacht club where Jack was a member and yacht owner.
We provisioned and fueled up and left Inverkip marina at 12.30 and with sails set were making good progress down the Clyde when above Great Cumbrae were hit with gusts of force 6 as Jack sorted out how she reacted to the conditions.  The wind eased off as we passed the ferries moving between the island and the mainland above Largs.  Down the channel is the now almost redundant large ship unloading complex of Hunterstone terminal which is a monument to the shut down Ravenscraig steel plant.  There is a fine view up into Millport Bay as you pass Little Cumbrae island and the Island of Arran lies before you.

Lamlash is a bay situated between the Island of Arran and Holy Island.  I called the Arran yacht club for permission to use one of their visitor mooring buoys and duly picked up No.11 buoy in the bay at 18.30.
A lovely quiet spot and we stayed on board for a pie and beans supper.
As we swung round the buoy with the chaging of the tide during the night, at times the buoy bumping into the yacht, Jack reckoned it was a basking shark wanting to get in.