West of Scotland Rally 2010 — 02 June '10

02 June –12 June

We began with dinner at the Royal Northern & Clyde, stopped off in Crinan then went off to the Highlands through the Great Door and out to the Western Isles. Read Members' snapshopts of a wonderful two weeks below.

Elvin Patrick's Snow Leopard off Ardnarmurchan in NW Scotland

Brief overview from Rally Leader, Chris Perring.

It was great to see a number of RTYC yachts make the effort to come all the way from the South Coast.  I hope they found it was worth the journey!  It was also good to see so many Scotland based RTYC members joining us at various points in the Rally.

For me, there were two particularly memorable high points among so many brilliant memories of a fantastic couple of weeks.

The Dinner at the Crinan Hotel, followed by Malcolm McKeag's rendition of the story of that hitherto little known Belfast Shipyard engineering marvel the Diagonal Steamtrap and then coffee and nightcaps in the bar upstairs as the sun set all made for an exceptional evening.

And our visit to Staffa, which included the chance to row into Fingal's Cave (and be startled by the monster), and then a run ashore to admire amazing views all around, was quite unforgettable.  It was the first time either Andrew (owner of Sarabanda which I had "borrowed" for the cruise) or I had been able either to go inside the cave or get ashore in many years of cruising in the area.

More pictures, some words and a chart of where we got to aboard Sarabanda can be seen on the new RTYC Cruising Log.  Visit http://royalthames.followingwind.co.uk/ and use "Callsign" Sarabanda and "PIN" 7310.  Use the link on the home page of this site to apply for your own account, and then you can see where all the boats currently using this system are and where they have been.

 Chris Perring, Leader - RTYC West Scotland Rally 2010

To see some of Chris Pictures, go here

 For a detailed document on the event please click here