Inverness to Whitehills: 61 miles.
High points: the haar (fog) lifted early; leaving under Kessock Bridge at 10kn with the tide; briefly seeing the famous local bottlenose dolphins; having a gull adopt us for a while (they sometimes think we are a trawler); the autopilot, that steered us all day; friendly reception by Whitehills harbourmaster.
Low points: had to motor all day; flat calm first thing (0530) and very cold; sun came out for a while, with a nice sailing breeze but dead ahead and with 60 miles to do there's no time to be tacking; clouded over, wind built to F6 and still on the nose even when we adjusted course along the coast, creating very lumpy sea.
No pics - only the wildlife would have been interesting, and it was too quick for us.
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