A Yacht

We don't often see yachts off Golspie - or, for that matter, any other vessels except our local skiff and the few local creel boats. The reasons are fairly obvious: there is no port in the Dornoch Firth to draw larger ships in, so coastal-travelling ships, large and small, with no need to come in to the firth, cross from Brora or points north straight to the point of Tarbet Ness. 

The only bigger ships we occasionally see are Scottish Marine Protection boats, ships such as those serving the offshore oil and wind platforms, those sheltering from winter storm winds, and the rare naval ships on exercise.

So it was good to wake this morning to find....

....the Big Strit anchored off Golspie, a French-registered yacht of 13m length, though I was a bit anxious for her as she was close to the shifting sand bars which parallel the coast between Golspie and the mouth of Loch Fleet.