6/27/2023 0 Comments On Celtic Tides by Chris Duff![]() ![]() ![]() It took Duff about 13 hours to cross the Minch. “The land slowly takes on details of rock and cleft, and further inland, fresh snow on the higher elevations.” “Gulls appear from nowhere - shadows silently wheeling and circling overhead veering off and calling out in the darkness. “Flat calm water for the first two hours - a crescent moon rising between bands of predawn black clouds,” Duff wrote. He crossed the Minch, the strait that runs between the Hebrides and the west coast of Scotland, and posted a Wednesday blog entry from Stornoway, a town on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides some 50 miles from his starting point in Ullapool. There, he made modifications to the Northern Reach and tested her sails while staying with friends he met last year. “I also have a parasail that I’ll be experimenting with if I get winds straight aft of my course.”ĭuff arrived in Ullapool, a small village on the shores of Loch Broom on the northwest side of the Scottish mainland, on March 29. ![]()
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