A Sad, Sad Sight

One of the few serious casualties of last Monday's storm was this yacht, thrown onto the rocks near Camas Innes, some miles to the east of Kilchoan along Loch Sunart.

All boats, be they anything from a model yacht through a rigid inflatable to a ferry or an ocean liner, have personality. Some, like this one, have elegance, some, like the working ships we see passing in the Sound, are functional, some are brutally ugly. Whatever role boats have in the lives of the humans who surround them, all have soul.

This is a particularly lovely yacht, and one has only to look closely at the condition she is in, at the neatly furled sails, the saltire at her cross-trees and the smart paintwork, to know that she is much loved. To make her agony worse, her distress is on full display, for she sits right next to the road bewteen Kilchoan and the Corran Ferry.

Let's hope that the damage done to her isn't serious, and that her owner is able to float her free on the next high tide.