These days the distillery, now owned by Whyte & Mackay, makes a fine Highland-style Scotch, less smoky and peaty than its cousins from the nearby island of Islay, except for an extraordinarily strong version called Superstition.Īt the 2006 London Boat Show, Dalglish and Ross Ryan encountered a representative from the Jura distillery, who mentioned that the company was looking to sponsor an event. The islanders have been distilling whisky since 1810, when Archibald Campbell (of the Campbell clan) erected the first still there. One of the wildest islands in the Inner Hebrides, Jura has only 180 inhabitants, and its sole industry is the distillery, which is located in the village of Craighouse. The whisky is complimentary, courtesy of the Isle of Jura Distillery, on nearby Jura.
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Nick Ryan and a pretty waitress in a blue tartan skirt facilitate the drinking by circulating through the crowd with trays that briefly are full of Jura whisky shots the shots disappear at an astonishing pace. They mingle cheerfully in the rain on either side of a stone rampart that separates the Crinan Hotel from the point where the canal meets Loch Crinan. Other promising entrants include Tryad, a 33-foot yacht from 1956, and Nan of Gare, a 40-foot cruiser that dates to 1965.īut the first race does not begin until tomorrow morning, and tonight, at the ceilidh, the assembled participants are attending to perhaps more serious business: imbibing. Ryan just finished restoring his “wee boat,” as he calls it, and she is fast. Ross Ryan plans to race his own sailboat, Truant, built in 1910 by the famous Scottish boatbuilder William Fife III. As they entered the bay-called Loch Crinan, though it is not a lake-one of them (they have forgotten which one) said, “Wouldn’t it be great to see this place full of classic boats?” In the summer of 2006, Dalglish and Ross Ryan were sailing on the Sound of Jura between Crinan and the island of Jura. Frances and Nick have a son, 33-year-old Ross Ryan, who is a friend of Dalglish’s. The MacDonald group includes Frances Ryan, née MacDonald, a talented painter and the wife of Nick Ryan, proprietor of the Crinan Hotel, which stands close to the canal. The Campbell contingent includes 34-year-old Mike Dalglish, one of the two organizers of this gathering. Among the revelers are several members of the Campbell and MacDonald clans, dancing the old steps together. The pipers, wearing black slickers over their kilts, are entertaining a crowd that has assembled on the shore for a ceilidh, a Scottish party. The tug, taken by the Allies from Germany’s Elbe River as a prize following World War II, lies moored in a lock of the Crinan Canal. On a rainy night in July of this year, the sound of bagpipes comes not from a ghost but from members of the Mid Argyll Pipe Band, who are playing on the Duke of Normandy II, an old black and red tugboat. This 295-Foot Gigayacht Has a Pool That Turns Into a Dance Floor When You’re Ready to Party These New Business-Class ‘Suites’ Come With Their Own Sliding Door for Added Privacy
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