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Tall ships leave Scottish waters
Thursday 14th July 2011
One of the tall ships leaving Greenock: Courtesy:http://forargyll.com/2011/07/tall-ships-to-campbeltown-mirly-a-wylde-swan-chase/
The tall ships leaving Greenock in the spectacular Parade of Sail were struggling to get anywhere. Shooting off to Skipness on the Kintyre peninsula, facing the north coast of the Isle of Arran, was an attractive notion. The idea was to catch the ships there as three of them – Wylde Swan, Rona 2 and Tomidi – headed south down Kilbrannan Sound to Campbeltown. But the next sighting was when she was caught (above) in the setting sun from the heights south of Carradale.
There's something bone grabbing about the Tall Ships. Gaberlunzie recalls watching the harbour at Aberdeen in 1991 slowly crowding with their gathering and all the smaller boats that suddenly appear as an admiring shower of hangers on!!
There is nothing quite like watching the totally analogue of white masted ships and their sometimes stately sailing or sudden speeds when they pick up the winds and simple run with their skirts.
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