I would find it very hard to live my life here on Eriskay without the use of a boat.  Basically surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean with ferries that only sail to relatively few destinations, to me, not having a boat would be like having only one arm.  I would live - but with difficulty.

There are numerous islands of various shapes and sizes that are scattered around the British Isles in general and The Hebrides in particular that are "off the beaten track" and that are rarely visited apart from the occasional cruise ship or small ferry.

North-West Coast of Scotland

So far since the middle of 1999, I have been a little way up the the east side of the Hebrides, south to Mingulay and Barra Head, around Skye and a number of places on the mainland.  Now I want to go a little further and to visit some of the other islands.

Although I have no planned dates at the moment, I would like to make three main trips as well as a few smaller ones:
--- to Stornoway including a number of stops en-route and
--- the Inner Hebridean islands of Eigg, Muck, Rhum, Canna and Hyskeir
as I've shown on the maps on the relative pages.

So far, St. Kilda remains elusive to me as "Saorsa" is not exactly the best type of boat to make the trip, to say the least, simply because the weather can be so fierce and unpredictable in those waters and there is no shelter to run to if it got bad.  However, perhaps, "where there's a will, there might just be a way", to slightly mis-quote a well-known phrase!