Our most recent activities:

So, 2024 season has already come and gone. In March completed a delivery of the former Isle of Herm ferry from Guernsey to Inverness. Spent time on the new Dolphin Boat with extended trips from Inverness. Also a delivery from Troon to Inverness.

2023 brings new challenges. Still doing the occassional Dolphin Spirit trips but now also skippering day trips to St Kilda, from Stein on Skye, for about a week a month.

A new report on a delivery from "Douglas to Gairloch" by John Prentice, organised through this site.

2022 back on Spirit quite a lot as covering for a medical absence.

So 2021 has me back on the Dolphin Spirit. No barges this year and very little movement on deliveries.

Well 2020 has mostly proved to be a wash out. It looked like there would be none of the usual, regular work at all, but Dolphin Spirit started back late July and went through to the end of October. Unfortunately the barges on the Caledonian Canal have not been able to operate at all.

A new story has been posted "Tales from the Barges"

Delivery of a 65ft workboat from Inverness to Aberdeen

Assisting with boat handling in new feature film "Marionette"

Skippering 54ft ketch with 6 passengers around Mull

Delivery of 25m ex-fishing boat Milford Haven to Kinsale in February gales

Teaching Dayskipper from Ardvasar on Skye

Relief skippering on Dolphin Mischief - 9m RIB with twin 250HP outboards (and still on Dolphin Spirit - 70 passenger MV)

Teaching Dayskipper and Competent Crew from Largs

Delivery Emsworth to Inverness

Inverness - Training Boatmaster and Competent Crew

Delivery Inverness to Hayling Island

Delivery Inverness to Southwold

Skippering the Island Princess (aka The Kenilworth) in the remake of the feature film Whisky Galore

Relief skippering Ros Cranna on the Caledonian Canal (143ft Barge)

Relief skippering Fingal of Caledoinia on the Caledonian Canal (135ft Barge)

Relief skippering Dolphin Spirit from Inverness

Moray Firth - Dayskipper courses

Delivery Gosport to Inverness

Canaries - Qualifying as a RYA Cruising Instructor

Inverness - Teaching three Boatmaster candidates.

Delivery Arbroath to Antwerp

Delivery Rhu to Inverness

Delivery Brittany to Cavalaire

Delivery Inverness to Port Edgar

Delivery Cullochy Loch to Peterhead

Delivery Inverness to Thyboron

Delivery Stavanger to Southampton via Holland

Delivery Inverness to Stavanger

Delivery Las Palmas to St Martin (story called The Milk Run)

Delivery Kirkwall to Inverness

Delivery of ferry Southampton to Cromarty

Delivery Rothesay to Cromarty

Delivery Monnickendam to Inverness

Delivery Inverness to Lochinver

Work boat and safety boat on Deephaven Pier

Relief skippering on 1936 ex-ferry

Delivery Teignmouth to Inverness via East Coast

Commissioning two ferries in Sierra Leone

Delivery ferry Montrose to Whitby

Delivery ferry Whitby to Thames Estuary

Maimi to Scotland via Bermuda and Azores

Delivery Faversham to Tilbury Docks in the Thames

Relief skippering on trimaran, ex Thames fast ferry

Delivery Rhu to the Canaries

Read some of the stories of these deliveries in  The Story So Far section.