Update on Gaza aid flotilla – at least 10 killed in Israeli attack in...
We published a news item earlier today – on the Oban Concern for Palestine group’s anxiety about the flotilla of ships aiming to bring medical and food aid to the residents of Gaza, besieged for three...
View ArticleTimetable for Save Clyde Coastguard’s ‘Flare Friday’ Red Flare Flotilla
(Updated below on political supporters) This Friday, 31st August, Save Clyde Coastguard is holding a dramatic demonstration to enable the naval, shipping and leisure sailing worlds and the widespread...
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Support flaring for Clyde Coastguard
The will to SaveClydeCoastguard reddened the skies and crowded the Esplanade at Greenock tonight (31st August 2012) – a dreich evening with lowering clouds, rain mist and a spectacle that went from...
View ArticleQE2 future in doubt again – and this time it’s very bad news
The cruise liner QE2′s last arrival, on 5th October 2008, in a ceremonial farewell to her birthplace in the Clyde was a waterborne carnival of an impromptu flotilla that saw TV presenter Muriel Gray...
View ArticleBeyond parody: ridiculously overblown BBC intro to Boat Race
[Updated below] We’ve had a disquisition on London and on random events in the history of the River Thames; the usual load of irrelevant ‘reporters’ and a scattering of knowledgeable ones; a jingoist...
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SSACN skate recapture shows territorial evidence
The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network’s weekend fishing for skate in the Sound of Jura – from Friday 19th to this afternoon, Sunday 21st April – was focused on recapture, hoping to catch and...
View ArticleOban lifeboat in rescue of canoeist from Loch Leven – in silence from MCA on...
Oban lifeboat was on a shout to Loch Leven at 14,30 on Saturday 26th April when an over-turned canoe was reported seen two miles from Kinlochleven at 2.30pm.Coastguard Rescue teams from Fort William in...
View ArticleTomorrow’s Round Kerrera Sea Kayak Race proceeds go to Oban Lifeboat for 4th...
More than 80 kayakers will arrive en masse in Oban Bay tomorrow (Saturday August 24th) for one of the sport’s biggest races in the UK.The competition, which circumnavigates the isle of Kerrera, is the...
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Tobermory, Oban, marinas, missed opportunities, cruise ships and Twitter
Talking at the Scottish Boat Show yesterday, 12th October, with the very informed Mary MacGregor, Business Administrator of the admirably go-ahead Tobermory Harbour Association, brought a series of...
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Longboat flotilla to sail from Inveraray to Ardrishaig to Tarbert to open...
What could be more spectacular? A Viking longboat, built by local craftsfolk and launched days ago, will sail on 25th June – next Wednesday – from Inveraray to Ardrishaig, with a flotilla of other...
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Duke of Argyll kidnapped yesterday
The Viking raid on Inveraray yesterday saw the Duke of Argyll kidnapped by the marauders, manhandled [below centre] through the water on to the waiting longboat and carried off towards Ardrishaig.This...
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The view from Lochinvar: party of the century from the Commonwealth Flotilla
Yesterday, 26th July 2014, was about a great river – the Clyde; about boating and commercial maritime business; and about people – so many people. CalMac’s newest ferry, MV Lochinvar, led the...
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