⚓ Scottish AnchoragesCharles Warlow
The Outer Hebrides from Eigg
The Outer Hebrides from Eigg

It is said to be a something of a challenge going north around Ardnamurchan Point, but if you pick your time with a nice wind on the beam it's a piece of cake (But do remember you have to get back against any contrary wind which might have got a whole lot stronger.). Indeed it was so easy on my first attempt that the crew renamed it 'Softnamurchan Point'. So far I have not yet included many anchorages in this area except for the so-called Small Isles, that wonderful quartet of exotic and strange names: Muck is small, pastoral and well farmed; Rum is much larger, mountainous and wild; Eigg is more of a crofting sort of a place; while Canna is both rural and wild with one of the best harbours in the Hebrides. And with a few other anchorages on the mainland I have added Rubha an Dunain and Loch Scavaig, the most dramatic anchorage in the UK apart from St Kilda, and perhaps Foula although I have never been there (possibly too late now, but you never know).