The BBC series Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs will feature cove and Loch Long next week.
The fourth episode of the current series featuring Paul Murton will be screened on BBC One Scotland at 7.30pm on Monday, September 23.
It features Paul sails travelling through the Kyles of Bute to Dunoon, discovering a secret history of World War Two bouncing bombs along the way.
From Dunoon and its connections with international singing star Harry lauder, he gets nostalgic about nuclear submarines in the Holy Loch, where he meets a man with an impressive water-powered organ.
Crossing the loch, Paul beats hot steel with a blacksmith whose ancestors have been working Vulcan’s forge for six generations – their work includes the Golden Gates at Ben More gardens, where Paul learns about a sugar daddy who collected art on a scale to rival the Tate collection.
Finally he takes to the water on Loch Long, to scale the heights of ‘the people’s mountain’ – The Cobbler.
Last month he was filming that stretch of the journey on the Rosneath Peninsula, sailing from Cove Sailing Club on a Loch Long with Erin Macleod.
Erin said the BBC had been put in touch with her and her husband Alan as their Loch Long ‘Pied Piper’ is the oldest sailing vessel at the club – for details and more pictures see this story from August.
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