cheeny
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Reged: 12/03/2007
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any one got any pros and cons on boating in loch lomond for the summer. will hopefully be keeping the boat near balloch to use the new slipway have only been up a couple of times at balmaha etc looks lovely.
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hlb
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Reged: 16/05/2001
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Loc: Any Pub Cornwall or Devon
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Used to trailer a boat up there, umm 20 years ago, was never impressed. The bonny, bonny banks looked like steap oppressive cliffs to me. Council house type of town at one end. A fawlty house towers hotel with a little harbour half way up, that did cheap weekends for pentioners, the top end with the little wobbly marina and the pub. I remember it well. It's as rough as being on the sea and even more rough than the sea, views or hospitality wise. Oh well it might have changed!!
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cheeny
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Reged: 12/03/2007
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hi hlb
balloch is still a bit (neddy) so I hear. but theres been big improvements I hear in twenty years. new slipway at balloch wich is manned constantly by park rangers. its actually the most impressive well built I have ever seen. you should have a look . also lots of new by laws, a bi reduction in jet skis over the years (checked park rangers surveys)
also I beleive there are two park ranger ribs on the loch each day in the summerwith police as back up (visual) on alternative days. plus its a lot quieter up there now, espescially since twenty years (hey Im that old too). lots of nice new developments at balloh also the small pub/hotel at balmaha is a real gem. new owners a round ten years ago but totally rebuilt very friendly with rooms and dorms but classis country pub style but not being fake and overloooking sandy marina / bay what more could you ask for
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Oneaway
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what more could you ask for
for it to stop raining! 
even the locals say, there no bad weather, just bad choice of clothes 
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honeybee
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Reged: 06/06/2007
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I totally love boating on Loch Lomond, My boat is berthed in at Cameron House - near to Balloch. The islands are great to spent a day cruising round them or if you want to head north for a good run you can. I have boated here now for 3 years and love it everytime I go out.
chris
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Clyder
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Reged: 21/09/2004
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Loc: Sunny Largs
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Hi Cheeny, LL is fine for a while, but you'll soon outgrow it and move to the sea.
Like you I used about my first four boats on LL and started off on the east shore at Balmaha, then moved over to the Duncan Mills Slip @ Balloch.
The Balloch slip is good but it is ALWAYS mobbed. The rangers police it with a rod of iron, and you only get enough time to get the boat off the trailer before they start pestering you to move on!! Oh, aye and the queuing (or the lack of it / the concept of a queue escapes most!!)
The on water rangers re a pain in the proverbial too. We were stopped three times in the one day by them...once for a registration check, once for a safety check and once for towing the ringo apparently within the 150 meter "exclusion zone" near the islands (which we proved we were not!!)
The pub on Inchmurrin is good....good bar meals...steer clear of the restaurant.
Cheers
Clyde.
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silver_boy
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Reged: 14/12/2005
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Loc: Loch Lomond
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We've also got our boat a Cameron Marina (You'll see it from the slipway) - and love Loch Lomond. Islands will be fairly busy on a good summer day but all the more fun. You should try camping on one of them. Can't beat it! Just make sure you don't lose control of your boat too near the golf course  clicky. Plenty of places to eat dotted around. Inchmurrin, the Cruin, Luss, Rowardennan to name a few. Just be careful with your speed in the limited bits - patrol boats like to hide then jump out on you. Feel free to ask for any more info!
Edit - You can also check out the weather here before you go - webcam
Edited by silver_boy (12/05/2008 18:15)
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jimmcgee
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Reged: 31/07/2006
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will be up there tonight at 7.30 testing my new boat   so if you see someone on a bayliner 2255 with a big grin its meeeeee 
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silver_boy
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Reged: 14/12/2005
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Loc: Loch Lomond
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I saw you!! I think - we were out playing in our sealine s28 bout that time - sure I saw you buzzing about outside cameron marina. Looked like you were having fun!
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jimmcgee
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Reged: 31/07/2006
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it was me had a run up the river and out on the loch and then back in , nice to see they put put markers out the river, lost a prop on a big rock there a couple of years ago, seen you too , the next two weeks are going to drag in , then its all systems go
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