Yachting Monthly

A Scottish sailing season

There are only two kinds of skippers on the west coast of Scotland, those who have hit a rock and those who are going to. Fortunately, I’m still in the second category but there have been a couple of near misses.

I’ve long enjoyed spending time in the wilder areas of Scotland, in my younger days as a climber, mountaineer and skier, and more recently racing on the Clyde and cruising on other people’s boats. I purchased my Bavaria 38 in early 2018 and spent the season based close to home at Conwy cruising the North Wales coast and the Irish Sea, but the

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