It was a choice between an early start or a late start for leaving Arisaig to allow for enough water in the entrance channel. Given we'd had 3 pints of homemade cider each the night before the late start was preferrable - although when we did wake there was no hangover :-)

So a morning of filling up with water, a bit of tidying the boat and some admin and by 3pm we were ready for off. A big rain cloud was looming in the distance so we pushed it to get out of the narrow channel before any gusts arrived.

The rain missed us and we went for a genny sail with the wind off the back quarter setting rolling us along in the swell. We managed to sail to within a mile of the moorings at Inverie, bimbling along at about 4kt which was very pleasant, especially when the sun came out.

There was much confusion about which of the moorings at Inverie belonged to the Old Forge Inn - one guide said they were marked with the pub name, one said they all had red pickups, but there was a complete mishmash of different mooring buoy shapes and colours when we arrived. There were quite a few boats in so we didn't have much choice and went for one that wasn't marked but had a red pickup. Nobody has moved us on so far....

The Old Forge is the remotest pub in mainland Britain - the only way to get here is either by boat or by walking in over a couple of Munroes. We launched the dinghy and rowed ashore to check out the bar and book in for a meal tonight for a treat. There's a band on tonight too so it looks like I'm going to get to finally hear some live local music.