Bruce wrote " ... 'cos we've hired a Moody 28 on the Caledonian for a week next year "
and then added " ... although Ness can get quite choppy I'm told " Yup. when we hired a cruiser to do the Caledonian in the summer of 97 we met bl@@dy big waves on the Ness and had to help a couple from a yacht where the female had become very sick. It was laughable as her fiancé had booked the weekend up there to prepare her for the honeymoon yachting trip he'd arranged. I wonder if they're still together. After that we sat in the channel north of the loch waiting for the weather to calm and down a trip boat full of Japanese tourists came past heading South. The lock keeper said the skipper would radio back the latest weather conditions to him. He told us we couldn't go onto loch Ness for at least four hours. The trip boat returned empty a few hours later and the green Japanese tourists arrived by coach to re-board. It would appear they had mutinied at Urquhart castle. Graham www.jannock.org.uk
