Not sure why the brain does it, but it happens every time. Whenever you have a day off, you end up staying up late and getting nothing done. Whether it’s a Friday night or here on the water, it’s the same thing. It didn’t make it any easier that it was forecast for afternoon wind today, meant there was nothing urgent to get up for. Although, even after a late night of Gin Rummy, we were still up for 08:00 and starting to do odd boat jobs. Poor Stew has come home to a leaky window for the last three days, big drips forming and landing on his bed. We think it’s because the fly-bridge has been quite damp with all our wet gear, and it’s dribbling in from somewhere. It’s his bed, so he was incentivised to fix it this morning; out came the silicon gun and fingers crossed this did the job.
After how rolly the cut between Tiree and Coll was last time, we packed everything away properly, tying anything down that might come loose. Jeremy couldn’t believe his eyes when I told him to look outside to where we were. Today, the same stretch of water was butter flat. So much so, that I could even rest the knife on the top of the mayonnaise jar while I made sandwiches, and it didn’t go anywhere. What a difference the wind and sea state can make!
The start of kiting today was a game of let’s get Islay to swim. It was extremely marginal, but we’d motored all the way out here, so wanted to give it a shot. After half an hour we decided to pack in and wait a while.
Same as yesterday, as soon as I put the kettle on, the wind filled in. So back out we went. This time pumping both kites up before the wind dropped. It was enough to get you half standing on the board, so Stew and I bunny hopped our way along for the next hour. Big dives of the kite rolling us into a crouched position before dunking back in again. Finally after an hour of being a tea bag, it filled in and we were off, heading towards Barra, then as we got closer South Uist. Just off the point, as Stew started dreaming of his Carbonara dinner, the wind evaporated and both our kites dropped out the sky, almost on top of one another. So close that Jeremy could hold and deflate both kites simultaneously on either side of the rib. Well, he could have done if coordination allowed it, would be a pretty cool trick if he could, would save us 20 minutes each night!
Scotch on the Rocks/Whiskey Galore
SS Politician was a cargo ship that ran aground off the coast of Eriskay on 4 February 1941. Her cargo included 22,000 cases of malt whisky and £3 million worth of Jamaican banknotes. The whisky had been taken from bonded warehouses in Leith and Glasgow that had been damaged by German bombing, and was being shipped to the US to raise hard currency for the war effort; as an export product, none of the bottles bore an excise stamp. After the ship had been abandoned, much of the whisky was recovered by islanders from across the Hebrides, but because no duty had been paid on the whisky, members of HM Customs and Excise pursued and prosecuted those who had removed the cargo. Eventually salvors were used to rescue as much of the ship as they could, and the whisky they raised was shipped back to its bonded warehouses; only for it to be looted again during its journey.
Because of the loss of the Jamaican notes, and the number that were being cashed in banks, from 1 July 1952 the blue ten-shilling notes were no longer accepted as legal tender. They were replaced with notes of the same design, but printed in purple on a light orange background.
Map of today’s route
Map Key: Stew (Red), Islay (White) and Mentor (Blue)
| Days since start of trip | 73 |
| Number of Kiting Days | 33 |
| Distance Travelled Today | 43 nm |
| Distance Kited Today | 61 nm |
| Time spent kiting today | 5 hrs 37mins |
| Total Distance Travelled | 1101 nm |
| Total Distance Kited | 1582.5 nm |
| Total Kiting time | 167hrs 33mins |
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