The Cooperative Sailing Trip of a Lifetime. Sailing with Cruise Ecosse was full of life affirming experiences. It felt like everyone on the boat became one big happy family working together as a team during the sailing and social time. John the skipper and Derek enabled us to sail in places that less experienced boats would not dare. The trip started at Castlebay and re-positioned to Oban, but that does not do the trip justice. Due to John's expertise and knowledge we sailed over to Skye past the 3 Mermaids stacks and into the marina at Carbost. This then put us in a position to sail to people’s Bucket-lists of Loch Scarvig, Loch Moidart and Tobermory. Loch Scarvig sitting under the Black Cullin ridge was magical and mysterious with menacing winds swirling down from the Cullins. This has been a dream of mine to be there and John allowed this to happen. But on this day John wanted to give us a wonderful sailing experience so 40NM later we blind navigated into Loch Moidart. John allowed the crew to take the yacht through this tricky navigation, with his watchful eye. We anchored in this quiet and tranquil loch, relaxed on deck and even played a game of cards, which wasn’t that tranquil! Derek providing his usual fantastic meal. The following day we sailed past the Point of Ardnamurchan, having lunched at Singing Sands bay whilst a force 8 blew through. Again it was John’s experience that delayed sailing around the Point as the sea was rough and chaotic. As a crew we loved every minute, helming, tacking and navigating though big seas. After a quick stop in Tobermory for the evening meal we sailed on to LochaLine marina, witnessing a perfect sunset with a pod of dolphins jumping. Derek was always there to provide sustance and Mint Imperials from the local COOP. The trip came to a finish in Oban and as John said were all now in “Boat Mode”. This was a fantastic sailing experience. 200NM in 4days! We developed new skills, saw lots of wildlife including a humpback whale and became a family. Everyone was so cooperative and we were delighted to have visited so many beautiful places in Aislig Bheag. Chippy Steve

Great skipper and crew. Food was excellent. love the boat.

Another great trip on Aislig Bheag. Brilliant to get out to St Kilda and get a lot of sailing in.

Trip of a lifetime sailing in the Hebrides in fantastic weather , made it to St Kilda and numerous other islands and beaches . Great boat , food, crew and other guests, with a bonus bike trip across Harris to cap it off.

I have no words to describe the week that I had with the Crew. That was more than extraordinary. Thank you to Richard and Gordon for their professionalism and kindness. Thank you to the whole crew, we were such a great team. I’d certainly come back for more time! A week was too short 😎