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would allow space for ten divers and some partners to join us . Initial advertising soon tentatively filled the ten spaces . However , our first challenge was encountered . When planning a trip in early 2021 we had no idea if ten people from different households could share a house together in August !
Reluctantly , we took the decision to move to B & B accommodation to comply with Covid rules that were in force at the time , and that we believed would most likely be applicable in five months ’ time . We could only find B & B space for six of us , so we were now reduced to six divers in two RIBs . Once we settled on the six of us who were going , we added Janet Khan and Alison Fish to our planning meetings .
As we were staying in a B & B , we had removed much of our catering needs , meaning that only food to make lunch had to be brought with us .
We planned our trip and booked our accommodation . Mallaig was the obvious choice to launch our RIBs . A call to the friendly harbourmaster confirmed that launching would be okay . He even offered to arrange storage for our boat trailers and told us where we could leave our cars .
We planned to take all dive equipment across in the two RIBs along with any gear and clothes in dry bags . Sands and I were to crew the RIBs from Mallaig to Inverie . The remainder of our party would take the passenger ferry with anything that could not risk getting wet , or could not easily be
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Spanish John II at Inverie jetty |
Loaded RIBs at Mallaig |
PHOTO : JANET KHAN |
Janet makes the morning swim for the boat |