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Learning the rules of the road

We had departed Dunstaffnage and sailed through Oban Bay, down the Kerrera Sound. The boat was ‘in the groove’ sailing across the bay. A fishing boat started her course across the natural line a yacht would take to enter The Sound of Insh, forcing us to change course to pass behind her with little room to spare.

The fishing boat was not fishing; there were no inverted cones to be seen and on this dark morning,

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