Today it is hot. Yesterday was hot and, miracles of miracles, they say tomorrow will be hot! If it lasts to the end of the week it may be our summer. So, today Holly and me and my long suffering wife went sailing. Tacking up the Holy Loch in a force two and a half was like a mouse nibbling cheese. Very slow but methodical. The cheese vanished at Strone point, so we lay becalmed and had lunch. Then with much reluctance fired up the trusty engine to twenty thousand RPM and raced at all of four knots (on the GPS so it must be true) up Loch Long to Ardentinny. There we lazed, hove to under mainsail drinking tea and disliking the submarine pens across the way until a gentle force two arrived urge us homeward. It is incredible how much fun you can have in a sailboat doing about half a knot! Lovely chuckling sounds from the bow, delectable curves in the sails. We arrivedhome relaxed and happy, set to make a perfect landing on our not-so-easy to reach berth. Then I accepted an offer of help from a bystander ashore! Direct Link

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