Anchorage: Scarp
Position: 58° 01’.100N 007° 05’.900W
Distance Travelled: 45 NM

We sailed from Cheese Bay out to the Cabbage Patch where we saw three lightning porpoises and a grey seal. The sightibilty was not great to start with but improved slightly over the course of the morning. We crossed the treacherous Sound of Harris and soon came across an area with a largest number of gannets we had encountered so far. In a flash of inspiration we later called this area “gannet city”. We then headed out to the North Atlantic on a route which would have taken us to St Johns, Newfoundland. We passed the “cast-away” island of Taransay before we rounded the wee islet of Gaisgeir and decided to call it a day. Our anchoring place for the rest of the day was the quiet waters of Caolas an Scarp. This happened to be the place where back in the 1920s (Susie please check date) an experiment to link the island of Scarp to the mainland with a rocket-powered rocket system powered by the deficient prototype of the V2 rocket failed. Viewers of the first series of the “Coast” television programme will remember a reconstruction of this attempt. We then explored the romantic island of Scarp where we found plenty of sheep feeding on flowering meadows. Unfortunately none of us felt the courage to swim in the crystal clear waters despite the beautiful white sandy beaches surrounding us.