Porty People and Places

Club Med II . Inbound to Leith from the northern isles. She is the larger sibling of Windsurf that visited Leith last summer. I tracked her passage from the mouth of The Tay hoping that she might be using her full rig of sail. Her schedule and the brisk westerly combined to ensure she was motoring rather than sailing. Being of shallower draught than the conventional cruise liners she did not have to follow the deep Forth channel north of Inchkeith Island making for a more interesting backdrop with the Fife hills in the distance.

The beach was busy today. The test cricket dwindled towards a draw after five days of play. A concept impossible for the billions preparing to watch a ninety minute football match this evening to begin to comprehend. . My money is on Germany!