Abandoning Ship
It seems a bit of an anti-climax, but we have completed our planned trip and arrived back at Oban town jetty. It is time for me to leave Kindred Spirit and get the bus back to the real world. I feel as though I am abandoning ship. In a couple of days Mark will be joined by his sailing club friends and will go through the Caledonian Canal and back down the east coast to their base at Blackwater Sailing Club near Maldon. I wish them fair winds and am sure they will have a good time whatever the wind and weather throw at them. Leaving Tobermory... It seems to me that cruising is a long game. Mark and I have been on a journey, with the main aim to get round. A French sailor at Tobermory yesterday evening said they would wait until Saturday to come down to Oban, so that the winds would offer a good sail. Well today was difficult, sailing down the Sound of Mull, which is broadly in a south-west direction, when the bris