Adventure Now Season 2 Ep 16. Crinan Canal, Loch Fyne, Millport and Largs, our berth for the winter 

Phenomenal. Inspiring. Emotional.

cant wait until season three. you guys are the salt of the earth. cheers

Magical !!! enjoy every minute of your fantastic adventure !!! Please come back soon and share your wind and seas !!! Best regards from Muros !!!!

Followed from the beginning, excellent production ,real life live aboard KEEP GOING Thank you both

Thank you for taking me with you, bliss!

great video! your best one so far i think! :)

Superb series guys. Your last 2 episodes have inspired me...Sindur is bound for Clyde Marina, Ardrossan, at the end of March (works permitting). Looking forward to Series 3 now. Best wishes, Chris, Karen and Diesel.

Thank you for a fantastic season 2. Some really beautiful places - I need to get to the Faroes one of these days. Millport was where I spent summer holidays as a kid, great memories. Glad you got a sunny day there!

Slainte Mark + Asha. Failte gu Alba. great video. the best yet i think. Inspiring. i love the poetry. dont stop adventuring... one day we will meet..

Absolutely fantastic guys, love it 🥃🇬🇧

.......and thank you for allowing us to share the journey with you. Looking forward to your next season! :-)

You make thoughtful, quality and often poetic videos…..surely just a matter of time before your subscriber numbers match your quality. Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic series, really enjoyed being with you.

Looking forward to next seasons adventure 👍

Loved your final video of the season, as always, you have inspired us! Can't wait for your next season of videos. Hoping one day we can meet up in our Moodys!

Great end to a great series, thanks for the joy you have shared and given. Hurry on back

Wow! What a finale to your second Season. It's been fascinating following your experiences. Thank you for sharing them with us. Like you, I too feel that this year seems to have passed by very quickly. My first summer of full retirement, though circumstances have meant that my time has been spent very much closer to home than yours, so following you to so many beautiful and fascinating destinations has been very welcome. Your trip along the Crinan Canal and out into the Firth of Clyde brought back so many of my memories of the 1980's steaming aboard VIC32, working in the engine room and learning the basics of navigation on charters with friends from the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (some sadly no longer with us) . Good to see that she's still operating. I like your supposition that the "cup and ring" carvers of the Bronze or Iron Ages were in fact unsuccessful apprentices, or graffitists sent to improve their craft somewhere they could inconvenience no-one. Conversely, they could have been imparting some deep arcane knowledge which has been lost to us over the ages, and somewhere they're laughing up their (fur-clad) sleeves at our ignorance in being unable to understand the import of their work.It has certainly survived for many more millennia than any spray-painted artwork is likely to do! I recall our passage of the Crinan Canal aboard VIC32 on a bright day in May, having felt our way in fog the previous day down Loch Linnhe from Neptune's Staircase at the seaward end of the Caledonian Canal, and on past Oban and Mull, without seeing any of the wonderful views w'd been looking forward to. As we passed through the canal, with only the barest amount of water under VIC32's flattened bottom, many of "Altor's" sisters heading in the opposite direction, on sighting our bluff black bows, threw out fenders, and drew into the bank, reminding me of well-dressed ladies stepping aside to avoid the passing of a particularly obnoxious and grubby old vagrant! But the "Puffers" and the fishing boats were for what the canal was originally constructed by Telford, avoiding the perilous passage around the Mull of Kintyre. After Queen Victoria and her Royal party passed along it from Ardrishaig to Crinan in 1847 aboard a specially decorated Royal Barge, it became part of the "Royal Route" to the Highlands, before the Oban and Fort William railways were completed. We had plenty of hands to help with our passage through the locks, and I remember we reached the "summit" basin at Cairnbaan as the Waterways men knocked off for lunch, so we followed suit. I was sitting on the hatch cover enjoying my food in the sun when an old Morris Minor drew up and two very "tweedY" middle aged ladies stepped out. They admired and photographed the ship and one asked me if it was mine. When I replied that unfortunately it wasn't, one of the ladies remarked "Oh. you're from Kent" I was quite surprised that rather than saying I was a Londoner, she could identify the origin of my accent so accurately. I can remember a few Friday nights in Ardrishaig, (quite lively when the "Tarbet boys" turned up!) after we'd coma ashore from VIC32,and were waiting for the morning bus from Campbeltown to take us into Glasgow (sadly steamers to the Broomielaw are very few and far between these days.) My sailing experience on Loch Fyne and in the Firth of Clyde extended to trips aboard VIC32's lug sail dinghy, and while there's often plenty of breeze at the seaward ends of both stretches of water, your concerns about being sheltered from the wind by the surrounding high ground can be very pertinent towards the head of Loch Fyne and in the Kyles of Bute. On a number of occasions, this resulted in taking to the 2 - (arm) stroke "engine" to make progress. This earned us a "dipped ensign" salute from one of H M Submarines which rose "Jaws" like from the depths of Loch Fyne off our port beam as we rowed back to Inverary after an abortive attempt to sail across to the pub on the far shore. We rested on our oars, sail dropped while they passed ahead of us. We later watched them carrying out "perisher" survival apparatus training in the deep waters off of Inverary. We also sailed from Millport on Cumbrae down to Little Cumbrae, where we received an inhospitable greeting when we were hailed from the quay and told that the island was a private residence . Having sailed downwind on our outbound leg, we had a lot of tacking to do to return to the ship, and this took us close to the shipping lane as a large bulk carrier, the "Norland" passed by. She was in ballast, bound for Hunterston Quay, and her hull and superstructure towered above us with our few inches of freeboard like a cliff surmounted by a block of flats, This was 1983, in the midst of Mrs Thatcher's "handbagging" of the Miners, and Hunterston was being prepared as a secure port into which supplies of foreign coal could be shipped. Usually it was the port of entry of iron ore for the Ravenscraig steelworks near Motherwell (one of my railway colleagues was ASM at the BR depot there, and always one of the sets of the hopper wagons which conveyed the ore from Hunterston was in the works having the brake linings replaced, such was the wear caused by running on the undulating line inland). Ravenscraig was another casualty of Mrs Thatcher's hit list of British industries. Cumbrae is an attractive island and in the days of Glaswegians steaming "doon the watter". Millport was considered a cut above the more popular resort of Rothesay on Bute. I remember leading a peloton of my Keighley and Worth Valley Railway colleagues on a "Tour de Cumbrae" aboard a rather ramshackle collection of bicycles which Nick Walker, the then Skipper/owner of VIC32 had collected during the ship's cruises. I guess your winter will be occupied in refitting "Altor" in readiness for next year's sailing adventures. Enjoy Christmas and the New Year, and I'm sure all your subscribers will be looking forward to following your next experiences, so well produced and presented.

Just binged watched your channel from the start. Really love it. We took the leap and bought our own boat last year, it had been a Plan for the future - but we decided to do it now. We can’t go sailing full time yet, but it is in the pipeline and your channel helps to firm up those plans. If you fancy a short cruise before heading back north I’d suggest heading to the anchorage at Sanda Island, then across to Rathlin Island and then push further west to Lough Swilly - our home cruising ground. You won’t be disappointed.

Fabulous footage coupled with emotionally intelligent commentary. Thank you Adventure Now. Enjoy your winter break and come back refreshed for Season 3!

Amazing! We are planning a trip down the Crinan Canal this year so was great to see you guys go through easily. Looks like a blooming amazing trip that you had, and I am excited to see where you go in season 3

Wow….. fantastic! I have loved every minute of watching your Adventure. Excellent final episode with some great sailing footage and some spectacular scenery. Love the music choices too. It was great to have a recap of your previous episodes. What an adventure you have had, thank you for your videos, well done and I am proud of you both xx 💙 💖

Great films thanks

What an epic journey you've had! I've loved every minute of it. See you on Wednesday. Chris

Ive enjoyed your journey too. I guess you could call me a virtual stowaway. Thanks.

Very nice series of videos, well done!

Well done to you both spectacular inspiring footage and commentary can’t wait until next season videos. Have a good break tony jane and family x

it's been said before, but the music choices are pretty well-intertwined with the scenery. What are yall? VLOGGING PROS? 🙃All jokes aside, thanks for showing our channel some love and support recently, and here's to seeing you out there one day in the big blue!

Ace me and the wife used to go to Crinan 3 times a year not on a boat or yacht as I work on a pilot boat we used to rent a cottage up the road from the boat yard love the place we now have campervan to see more of God's country Scotland

One good season i have to say on to the next

Great series. Love the goofy humor, great sailing and beautiful locations. The recap was fantastic I'm jealous. Cant wait for season 3. All the best to you both!!

Wonderful stuff! That's quite a season! Just an idea - we had Christmas a couple of times at Portavadie on the boat and it was fantastic.

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good movie) but will be better to use life jackets )))

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well , that was cool

Brilliant video, a quick question, how do you find your wind vane? Does it give a decent output?

What's happening with that pair of land lumbers?....where is the Adventure Now?... Rob....Inverness....