Just after Hogmanay phones started ringing on the shores of Seil
Sound as recovering residents tried to find out exactly what had just passed
their windows. Those of us in the know were able to tell them that the long
double-ended boat now speeding under the bridge at Clachan Seil was Chris
0’Kanaird enjoying his first trip of 2013. He (she?) had come over from
Anstruther for the holidays.
The long-awaited Kilmelford Rowing Club has now been formed and hope
to start on their kit later this month. Babs and Alan kindly brought Chris
round to Loch Melfort and the weather kindly allowed some of the team to
get out on the water. We had a good few circuits of the top end of Loch na
Cille and got a nice introduction to skiffing.
Personally the thing that struck me most was finding how little
resistance there is as the skiff gathers speed. There was probably less effort
involved than in sculling about in a much smaller dinghy. One minute we were at
the edge of the moorings, the next right up at the head of the loch, so fast
that the photograph Iain B took of us is a wee bit blurred.
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