Category: Mull of Kintyre

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  Scottish Islands Peaks Race

  Spring 2016 Oban – Troon This is no normal race and it is well to remember that! For sailors it is a demanding race which takes in some tricky tidal areas. Unusually for a race, picking up the crew or dropping the anchor, has to take place under sail. Equally it is a demanding race for…

  Alasdair

  27 May 2016

  Arran, Isle of Mull, Jura, Mull of Kintyre, Oban and Dunstaffnage, Places, Running, Walking and Training, Sailing in General, Scotland, Scottish Islands Three Peaks Race, Troon

  #scottishislandsthreepeaksrace, #sitpr

• The Mull of Kintyre

  By now we knew we were the last boat to leave Jura for Arran. Barbara, who was one of the organisers had politely asked if we were still competing. “Of course we are” was Charlotte’s reply. To get to Lamlash on Arran we would have to round the Mull of Kintyre – a notorious headland…

  Alasdair

  1 June 2012

  Mull of Kintyre, Pilotage, Scottish Islands Three Peaks Race