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Scotland Cruising Guide

An online cruising guide for yachts sailing around Scotland.

Scotland
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Capital: Edinburgh
Language: English, Scots Gaelic
Currency: GBP
Timezone: GMT (GMT+1 from April to October)
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This Cruising Wiki cannot hope to cover all the sailing areas in the United Kingdom but we will attempt to list ports and information of particular interest to cruisers.

Scotland (Gaelic: Alba) is a country that occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. It is part of the United Kingdom, and shares a land border to the south with England. It is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. In addition to the mainland, Scotland consists of over 790 islands; the main groups of islands being The Outer Hebridies and The Inner Hebridies on the west coast, The Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands on the north coast. The coastline of Scotland is varied and consists of flooded glaciated valleys running deep inland on the West Coast, large river estuaries (Firth of Clyde, Firth of Forth, Solway Firth, Cromarty, Beauly Firth) and long coastlines on the North and East. In general the waters are deep close to the shore with notable exceptions in the river estuaries where extensive tidal drying areas exist.

Climate & Weather

The climate of Scotland is temperate and oceanic, and tends to be very changeable. It is warmed by the Gulf Stream from the Atlantic, and as such has much milder winters (but cooler, wetter summers) than areas on similar latitudes, for example Copenhagen, Moscow, or the Kamchatka Peninsula on the opposite side of Eurasia. However, temperatures are generally lower than in the rest of the UK, with the coldest ever UK temperature of -27.2 °C (-16.96 °F) recorded at Braemar in the Grampian Mountains, on 11 February 1895.[66] Winter maximums average 6 °C (42.8 °F) in the lowlands, with summer maximums averaging 18 °C (64.4 °F). The highest temperature recorded was 32.9 °C (91.22 °F) at Greycrook, Scottish Borders on 9 August 2003.

Sources of weather forecasting: -

The primary source of weather information is from The Met Office (United Kingdom Meteorological Office) [1]. This is an online weather resource that provides detailed weather information for land, coast and sea areas around the UK. The Met Office issues the Shipping Forecast, Inshore Waters Forecast and actual weather reports which are updated throughout the day. The shipping forecast and inshore waters forecast issued by the Met Office is transmitted by the Coastguard on VHF radio and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 LW and FM. The Met Office web site should be consulted for Radio 4 Shipping Forecast transmission times and the Marine Coastguard Agency (MCA) web site [2] for Coastguard shipping forecast transmission times. The Coastguard announces on VHF Channel 16 the working channel that weather information will be transmitted on. The Met Office shipping forecast is also transmitted by Navtex.


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Local Radio Nets

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Arrival/Departure procedures

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Immigration

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Customs

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Health & Security

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Ports & Popular Stops

Offshore Islands

Cruiser's Friends

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References & Publications

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