Road journeys always cover boats in far more grime than usual. So, firstly, we needed to clean Jomima and then stock her with fresh food ready for heading to our base, for the next week, at Holy Loch. The journey to Holy Loch Marina, near the old US nuclear submarine base vacated over ten years ago, was uneventful. We carefully crossed the Clyde traffic
lanes at 90 degrees as instructed – but without another vessel in site. Holy Loch itself is stunning. It looks like a small estuary but is nearly 50m deep – which is why it was used by the US submarines. The marina is being converted from the old landing area used by the US marines. They had a permanent mother ship and dry dock moored off shore with nearly 3,000 men attending to the refurbishment of the subs when they came in for servicing.
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