Had a fantastic day out on Thursday with Celia and Pam. Celia providing the transport and Pam leading the Yoga on the beach. A lovely relaxing yoga session followed by lunch on 'Selkie'. Perfect.

Just did 5 brilliant days with Celia, Dean, and Dionny aboard Selkie. We covered over 250 nautical miles, visited Eigg, (accompanied by 12 dolphins swimming in the yachts bow wave) passed Rhum, Canna and Skye to reach North Uist, stopping overnight at Lochmaddy (couple of sneaky pints in the bar before dinner) before navigating the Sound of Harris, passing Pabay ( spotting minke whales) and out to St Kilda, 40 miles out into the Atlantic where we stayed the night and walked round the village. St Kilda was evacuated at the St Kildens request in 1930 and sailed round the sea stacks to see the amazing sea bird colonies (1 million birds) gannets, skua, puffins and fulmar. Next day after a great dinner cooked by Dean, we had a great sail to Mingaly (as in the famous boat song) Rounding the headland we were greeted by the site of 300+ seals hauled up on the beach making a hell of a racket. Some of the seal pups were curious and came right up to the boat. Last day we sailed back towards the mainland, through the Small Isles. We crossed the path of a luxury cruise ship whose passengers I could only feel sorry that they were not sailing with us on Selkie. We spent the final night at Inverie, Knoydart . Had a slap up dinner at The Old Forge of local scallops and fine scots beef. Parting next day at Mallaig was sad but a least I could look forward to a fantastic rail journey back to Glasgow on the famously scenic West Highland Line (see the Harry Potter and Trainspotting movies)

Some quick points
Selkie is a safe fast and capable yacht, ably crewed and one of the most comfortable I have been on.

You don't need any sailing experience at all but I'm guessing Celia will have you on the helm before long!

Don't worry about sea sickness, people rarely get it on a sailing yacht

Dean provides great home cooked meals. This included a full roast lamb dinner and all the trimmings, cooked while at sea and for the benefit of those who already sail, close hauled! The lamb and salad were from Celia's own croft on Eigg and washed down with fine Eigg brewery beer. All inclusive means all inclusive!

If you feel you want to get there quickly, anchor up and have dinner. Dionny will tweak the sails, take the helm and then Selkie will really fly.

Let me say that if you are cap and blazer wearing, gin and tonic, red ensign hauled down a dusk, Captain Bligh sort of a sailor Selkie is not for you. However If you like wilderness, wildlife, great company and sailing amongst some of the most beautiful islands on the whole planet Selkie is what you are looking for.

Too good to be true? look at the photos