Lochleven Seafood Café Muster 2025

Peter Duggan Events, Musters, Sailing 3 Comments

Our Thursday 19 June Camas na h-Eirghe/Lochleven Seafood Café evening muster is fast approaching and we’re hoping to see a good turnout. We now need to know how many people expect to be joining us there so the café can plan for the evening.

We have tables booked for 7:45pm that evening, which should hopefully allow both people coming from work to attend and boats to return to GBC in midsummer daylight/twilight.

It’s on a ‘skiff’ night because we were unable to book a Wednesday ‘sailing’ night, but musters are for all types of boats and we hope to see at least a skiff-load of rowers there.

There should be a mooring available that we can raft up on if necessary.

While we’ve planned a muster for boats and would obviously like to see boats heading across, it’s equally appropriate to go by road if you can’t take a boat and/or the weather’s not suitable. It’s very much a social event either way and something we hope to repeat in future years, so please try to support and make this first one a success if you can.

What we really need to establish now is an idea of likely numbers, so we’re both polling you via social media/email to gauge interest and requesting that you contact Vice Commodore Peter Duggan direct on with numbers of crew/guests if you have definite plans to attend. If you have further questions, please also address these to Peter.

Thank you.

Wednesday night sailing starts this week

Peter Duggan Sailing 0 Comment

Wednesday night sailing starts this week (7 May) and we have a new boat!

So what’s the format? While we can’t be sure till we see it actually up and running, we’re aiming firmly at informal, fun sailing and envisage that:

* People with sailing boats (whether keelboats or dinghies) will come sailing when possible on Wednesday evenings and some will be able to take extra crew.
* We will have a safety boat running whenever possible to cover dinghy sailors, but may have to organise some Wednesdays differently in the absence of safety boat cover. (At the time of writing, we believe we at least have all May Wednesdays covered.)
* We hope to be able to match would-be crew with suitable boats/skippers on a ad-hoc basis and encourage people looking for a sail to come along with that in mind, but simultaneously can’t promise that everyone just turning up will always get out. So, while we are inviting would-be sailors to simply come along and see what’s doing, you can also help us help you by letting us know if you’re a boat owner and can take people out, pre-arranging with boat-owning friends where you can or simply telling us you’re interested so we can try to match you up in advance.
* That said, we have just purchased a Topper Topaz Omega (large, sail-training-oriented dinghy) from Lochaber Yacht Club and were planning to have this on the water this Wednesday night with taster sails in mind, but that’s currently in the balance with some set-up issues still to solve first.
* It may also be possible for those with appropriate experience to sail some of our smaller, mostly single-handed, dinghies.

Please note that we are not an RYA training centre and not offering the formal tuition you could get at one although we’ll try to accommodate people without boats and/or experience to simply come sailing.

Come for 6pm if you can, but we’ll keep an eye out for people arriving for as long as we reasonably can when there’ll be boats to prepare and crews to assign before we can be on the water, or you can give us an ETA if you know you’ll be much later.

Sailing dinghies again

Peter Duggan Club news, Sailing 0 Comment

New members Joe, Callum, Oliver and Cormac have been helping Vice Commodore Peter start sorting the Club dinghies that haven’t been used for a while and today Joe, Oliver and Cormac came back to actually take some sailing. So here you see the smallest boats (three of our Toppers and the solitary Laser Pico) because we’ve still to check the others and, despite starting and finishing in close to glassy calm, we had some better sailing in the brief breeze we enjoyed north of the islands. Just phone-through-waterproof-pouch photography from Peter in the Pico, but enough to give a flavour and we’re looking forward to getting some bigger boats going too! 🙂

New website for the club

webcraft Website - Technical

Glencoe Boat Club’s old website was becoming outdated, and was  hosted by a 3rd party in such a way that the club did not  have full control over it.

The committee therefore asked a local company with experience of creating boating-related sites (Webcraft, based on Seil island)  to  create a completely new website to promote the Boat club. This is the result. We have complete control over editing existing content or adding new content, and with full support from Webcraft we can make the new site do pretty much anything we want.