This superb photograph - for which many thanks to Calum MacPhail - shows the Crown Princess passing close to the Ormsaigbeg cliffs on 31st July. Built in 2006, with a length of almost 300 metres and weighing in at 113,000 tonnes, this is a big cruise ship by any standards. Her destination was Reykjavik.
An even newer ship is the Vestnes. Delivered by Yantai Raffles shipyard to Jebsons Management January 2010, she's a self-loading bulk carrier but, compared to the Yeoman Bontrup, she's a third of the size, with a cargo capacity of 30,000 tonnes.Those of you who are close followers of the Diary will know that the spectacular photographs of the Yeoman Bontrup on fire at Glensanda, published early in July, were suddenly removed. They are back again. See them here.
Ah, the Crown Princess - that's what it was. We had an idea it might be the Queen on a last gasp "let's spend the entire civil list before David Cameron claims it back" mega-yacht charter. The way she cut around Sron Bheag it was beginning to look like Her Majesty was going to pull a handbrake turn and come up into the bay for a quick 'walkabout'.
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