A 7-day trip along the scenic west coast of Scotland.

Given the abundant variety and nearby locations of beautiful islands and coastal anchorages in this sailing area, we are spoiled for choice.

The combined coastline length of these islands and mainland, is more than the coastline of France and these are just some of the islands we can visit: Islay, Jura, Scarba, Luing, Seil, Gigha, Kerrera, Colonsay, Oronsay, Lunga, Garvellachs, and Shuna.

Our skipper has guided many guests on land based whisky tours, given evening talks and conducted tastings so you could say he knows a thing or two about malt whisky, having grown up in Speyside and now living and working on the west coast of Scotland with fine distilleries all around.

During this 6-night Island Malt Whisky Tour we will get the chance to visit and sample some fine classics.

We will depart from the town of Oban being famous for having its distillery right in the centre, in fact it is said the town grew up around the distillery. We go on to sail and anchor around the islands of Islay, Jura and Mull some have argued the best malt whisky region in Scotland, if not the world.

Distilleries we have and can visit are Oban. Tobermory, Ardnamurchan, the Islay classics of Lagavuilan, Ardbeg, Laphroiag, Caol-isla and Bunnahabhain. Also, one of the skippers current favourites Jura.

While this is a whisky cruise its not all about the “water of Life” we get the chance to sail some stunning locations, enjoy wonderful fresh local produce from hand dived scallops to fresh out of the water mussels and just landed langoustine. Not to mention the great locally sourced venison and lamb.

If Whisky is not your thing (yes, we recognise there are some people out there that have not yet found a whisky to their liking), we do stock and enjoy some of the fantastic new Scottish gins on offer from Oban, Islay, Jura, Harris and Barra.

Or indeed from our long-standing family friends who have just started producing a wonderful, infused Rum from the Isle of Rum. Imagine visiting the distillery in the morning setting sail to a remote anchorage and settling down with your chosen dram whilst watching one of our breath-taking sunsets, I do not think days could get much better, but you could say I’m a little biased.

No two trips are the same and we take pleasure in consulting our guests to make a suitable plan using the skipper’s extensive local knowledge and based on the weather, tides, guests’ desires and other factors.