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43 - Sunday, June 18, 1989 - North Shore News.

Seeing Scotland by boat proving popular

SCOTLAND, long the land-

of golf, the whisky trail and
generally tramping around
the heather, is emerging as a
new destination for travel-
lers who would also like to
be afloat.

The range of vacations has been
growing steadily over the. years,

propelled largely by. Caledonian:

MacBrayne’s Hebridean and Clyde. .

ferries and P & © Scottish Ferries

to the Orkney and Shetland
islands. Yachting in the Western .

Isles has also been doing well ac-
cording to sailboat charter com-
panies in resorts such as Oban.

travel
talk
David Wishart

Nick Ryan, owner of the Crinan

Hotel, says these waters have the
best sailing in Europe. His hotel is
at the western end of the Crinan
Canal, an attractive transit that
opens up the isles to-yachts and
powerboats from Clyde ports such
as Largs and Troon.

Says Ryan, whose hotel has its
own fishing boat bringing daily
seafood catches to the restaurant:
“The secret of. these glorious
waters is coming to an end. We are

going to have to share this paradise .

with a few more people.”*

One man intent on doing this is
Tony Binns, chairman of Hebri-
dean Island Cruises, whose vessel,

Scottish trip.

the Hebridean Princess, has started
@ new career as a miniature luxury
liner in the Western Isles.

Formerly the Caledonian Mac-
Bryne ferry Columbia with a pas-
senger capacity of up to 600, the
Hebridean Princess has had a $3
million refit allowing for just 48
passengers in 23 staterooms. Two
have private balconies.

The 220-ft.-long, 1,420 ton
vessel is based in Oban for a sum-
mer-long program of three to
seven-night cruises to famous

names such as St. Kilda, Colonsay, |

Tiree, Stornoway, Rhum, Eigg,
Harris, Mull, Jura, Skye and Ar-
ran. Cars can be carried on board.

Sailing, fishing and clay pigeon
shooting are included in the fares,
which for a seven-day cruise range
from U.S. $850 to $2,790.

Binns says the vessel has been
elegantly furnished and the one-
sitting meals will feature new
menus every day with fresh, Scot-
tish nouvelle cuisine and barbecues
on deck.

Says Binns, who has cruised the
Western Isles for years in his own
sailbcat: ‘‘As a yachtsman ! felt
privileged at being able to see this
breath-taking beauty and knew

_ there was a market for others to

share it.’’
The cruise company’s repre-

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Are yau using yours?

For island hoppers, Caledonian
MacBryne has introduced a money
saving Island Hopscotch program
of 23 pre-planned itineraries which
take in as many as a dozen Hebri-
dean and West Coast ports of call.

Also new this year is Orkney
Ferries, operating from Gill's Bay
near John O’Groats to the
southern tip of South Ronaldsay,

‘ Uinking with a good road to

Kirkwall and Stromness. The
one-way trip takes 45 minutes.
‘Orkney is also served by the
John O’Groats ferry, which offers
the passage and day tours of
Orkney by coach. Travetlers will
see Scapa Flow,- Stromness, the
neolithic village of Skara Brae, and
Maeshowe, the finest chambered
tomb in Europe dating from 2760
B.C,

Summer in Orkney offers 18
hours of sunshine and the potential
of golf tee-off times at midnight.

P & O's large ferries serve
Orkney and Shetland from
Scrabster near Thurso and from
Aberdeen.

Getting started will be easier
too, thanks to the $100 million
rail/road plan to link Prestwick
Airport with Glasgow and_ the
Road to the Isles. Roddy McPhee
of Air Canada in Prestwick, which
has a direct flight from Vancouver,
says the new commitment will
reinforce Prestwick as the spr-
ingboard for touring Scotland.

British -Rail; meanwhile, does
London to Edinburgh and London
in just four and a half hours, while

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ScotRail has scenic routes such as
Glasgow-Stirling-Perth-Gle
neagles-Aberdeen that offer a
relaxing alternative to driving.

For more information contact
the British Tourist Authority. 94
Cumberland St., suite 600, Toron-
to, Ont., MSR 3N3, 416-961-8124,
fax 416-961-2175.

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