05/02/2007, Castlebay
Pictured here is Dan Currie homeward bound after his afternoon cruise. His little cruiser is slighly slower than his son Brian's Flether speed boat. I'm sure Brian will find out as the years pass by the horse power declines with them.
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05/01/2007, Vatersay Sound
The end of another beautiful day as the sun slips beneath the waves in the sound of Vatersay.
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05/01/2007, Vatersay
Tom Paterson pictured here returning from his maiden voyage to drop his co-sailors at Vatersay causeway. As you can see from the surface he couldn't really comment on the boats stability. The vessels top speed is still in doubt untill he gets a GPS aboard.
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05/01/2007, Castlebay
This is Bunji's rib, he was slightly peeved that I hadn't included him with the yuppie seamen. He did assure me that he's installed a radio cassette player with stereo speakers so I guess we can add him at the bottom scale of the yuppie seamen's list.
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04/30/2007, Castlebay
As much as I enjoy all this sunshine and good weather there always has to be a down side. On the good side the sun brings out the flowers and gives colour to our countryside, on the downside it takes out of hibernation nutters like my sister Catherine pictured here. F@?k it give me back the rain.
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04/30/2007, Castlebay
Pictured here is Donald & Jim MacNeil after bringing a couple of passengers back from Kisimul castle. The new Historic Scotland ferry is equipped with a bow ramp for disabled access.
Photo by Iain.
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04/30/2007, Vatersay
With Barra into it's third week of sunshine and great weather the yuppie seamen are launching their high class cruising boats. This lovely looking cabin cruiser was launched on Vatersay causeway this evening. The vessel was launched Barra Hi-speed style. For those of you who don't know what that is, you go down the jetty at speed and hit the brakes when the wheels reach the water. The main benifit of this style is no rusty hubs or axle greasing to be done. I hope that the vessel brings Tom Patterson many days happiness. God bless this ship and all who sail on her.
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04/30/2007, Castlebay
Yuppie seaman two is sporting an Arrow Fletcher speed boat with a top speed of 42 kts or so I'm told. A beautiful leisure seacraft and the envy of anyone with saltwater running through his veins.
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04/28/2007, Barra
After such a long time with no material to update my blog with, I was very glad to snap this one. This is the well known bible John of Barra. This was snapped right after I told him I was a good person. I just hope he doesn't get on the panel on Judgement day or I'll be getting a bit of heat.
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04/06/2007, Vatersay
Anyone wanting to buy a well armed, bad tempered cow just contact me at above email address. We.ve been giving her calf a supplement feed and she gets very annoyed about that. it's best to feed the calf with your bum to a solid wall. Safer anyway.
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04/01/2007, Vatersay
Eoin Boyd taking the fishermens landing at the Vatersay causeway. Pictured is Ali MacNeil getting his landing into the back of Eoin's lorry.
Photo by Iain.
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03/02/2007, Bereray Sound
Barra lifeboat in the sound of Berneray posing for a few PR pictures. They went above my head and sent in their own photographer. I can't remember the dudes handle so he can't be that famous. I nicked these of the coxwains BEBO site.
Cheers D.W.
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03/02/2007, Berneray Sound
Another action picture of our Cruiser.
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02/28/2007, Vatersay
Bagh Cornaig on Monday and it hasn't stopped raining since.
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02/28/2007, Vatersay
Bagh Cornaig scene 2
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
The following pictures are the ones I took in Malliag last Wednesday starting with an overhead view of the pier area. I will add comments to some of them at a later date but for now they're just getting flung in.
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
Mallaig Photo by Iain.
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
Mallaig Photo by Iain.
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
Mallaig Photo by Iain.
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
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02/24/2007, Mallaig
The boatyard in Mallaig.
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02/24/2007, The Minch
Asti a gabhal norrac air an rathad a Mallaig.
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02/24/2007, Eriskay
The MFV Gentle Rose sitting on anchor in Eriskay.
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02/24/2007, Eriskay
The View from the churchyard of the Eriskay causeway.
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02/24/2007, Eriskay
The Eriskay ponies have come down from the hills in their homeland Eriskay.
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02/11/2007, The Minch
Things got a little rough crossing the minch in a spring storm.
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02/11/2007, Minch
Things got a little more stormy out in the middle.
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01/26/2007, Northbay
Photo by Iain.
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