Oban Lifeboat out again to fisherman in water
The Oban Lifeboat was out on a shout in the early hours this morning - launched just after 1.00am.There was a fisherman in the water off Oban’s Railway PIir, calling for help and unable to re-board...
View ArticleAirlift for man overboard off Gigha
Around lunchtime yesterday (6th Jauarty 2011), a fisherman went overboard off the Argyll Isle of Gigha, falling off his own boat, Blue Angel.He suffered serious injuries and was airlifted to...
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Campbeltown lifeboat crewman achieves Yachtmaster ‘ticket’
John Ramsay of the Campbeltown lifeboat has been quietly at work behind the scenes all year, studying for his Yachmaster Offshore Certificate of Competency.With great fanfare, the lifeboat team are...
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Mull’s Ninth Wave surfs to award win – against Michelin Star competition
[Update 29th October below] Talk about a David and Goliath contest. At the 2013 Highlands and Islands Food and Drink Awards, the little 18-covers Ninth Wave restaurant at Fionnphort on the Isle of Mull...
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MacQueen family charity funds radar for LochWatch Boat on Loch Awe
Graham MacQueen of Oban’s MacQueen Brothers business, has presented the LochWatch Loch Awe patrol boat with an award from his family’s charitable trust.This will pay for the radar needed by the new...
View ArticleOban Lifeboat involved in concern for small boat in rough seas near Isle of Seil
At 2pm today, Wednesday 30th October, an anxious fisherman contacted Oban Lifeboat Station after sighting a small boat heading South in the Sound of Kerrera.The boat was heading into rough seas and...
View ArticleThomas Ralston: For John P McWhirter of Campbeltown
This eulogy, written for the late John P McWhirter by his long time colleague in lifeboating, Thomas Ralston, a Campbeltown man, fisherman, former Coxswain of the Mallaig lifeboat and author who has...
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Mull’s Ninth Wave restaurant cook book to be published by BIrlinn
The Ninth Wave:Love and Food on the Isle of Mull, a memoir and cookbook full of the adventures of building and running a restaurant on the wild moors of a Hebridean Isle, is shortly to be published by...
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Tommy Ralston: Peel fishings
What was it like, steaming into Peel among a fleet of ringers?’ This question came to me from Mike Craine recently. [Ed: Mike Crinae is Editor of 40+.Fishing Boats Association, who originally edited...
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