HCC RNLI Exercise
RNLI exercise with Helensburgh Lifeboat. Photos say it all... 6.5 nm 5 hours (Mostly sitting around) GPS track...
Helensburgh Sugar Boat Greenock Grourock Dunoon Kilcreggan
So you may (or may not) be asking how come I've only logged one sea trip so far this year, and it is now April? Well, it's been a bit of a funny 2025 so far, with lots of family stuff happening. Mainly clearing and selling houses, and hopefully moving to Scotland, once we...
The Sugar Boat wreck off Helensburgh
The Sugar Boat, or correctly named MV Captayannis was anchored off Greenock at the Tail of the Bank waiting to unload a cargo of raw sugar from East Africa for processing at the Tate and Lyle refinery when, on the night of 27th January 1974, a fierce gale caused her to drag her anchor....
Helensburgh Sugar Boat in very windy conditions
Friday Lunchtime: I had some time to kill before setting off for home from Dunbartonshire. With it being a public holiday weekend for King Charles Coronation, I didn't see much point setting off at lunchtime, only to hit the holiday traffic below Preston, Manchester and Stoke on the M6. Setting off much later, say...
