The crew awoke in the mightly shadow of the Abbey of Iona, in Martyrs bay, where the vikings murdered the monks of Iona hundreds of years ago. Straight away we set off for Barra, via Gunna Sound, the channel of water between Coll and Tiree. Here we encountered a dead calm and we spotted a basking shark; the first of many for the day. We anchored for lunch, andwhilst at anchor Russ caught a Pollock which skipper Dave 'sorted out' - he appears to be a secret fishmonger!
During the afternoon we set the autopilot again to steer a course to Barra and the crew slept, read books and Steve and Paul had a go at learning light signals with a pack of navigation cards that Dave had brought along.
On our arrival at Castlebay the anchor was dropped and the crew went ashore for a mooch and a visit to the pub. At the pub there was some live music on - a traditional bagpipe player and backing instruments of accordian and flutes.
We all returned to Tenacity for our evening meal and chocolate fondue. Yum! Again we all fell into our bunks and were asleep in seconds.
Read more about Sail Training on board Tenacity of Bolton at http://www.tenacityofbolton.org/
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