Harbouring-A Desire – A 4 part book series

My name is Kevin Scott (58) from Newton Mearns, Glasgow. Married -2 children. Lockdown for me provided the ideal opportunity to fulfil one of my earliest retirement goals. And that was to complete my journey around the Scottish mainland , once again, this time documenting and capturing tales and local histories of all of its 340 harbourages.

These were gathered with the omission of all of the islands and towns and villages sitting upstream from the mouths of the rivers Clyde, Forth, Tay and Dee. Intended as one book to cover all, it has resulted in four (400 page-full colour) books entitled ‘Harbouring-A Desire’. Parts 1-4, which covers, anti-clockwise, the journey from Burnmouth, in Scotland’s south-east corner on the border, around to the Dumfriesshire town of Annan in the south-west.

This was done, with all monies raised going directly to the RNLI charity who do, and have done this year especially, a tremendous role in safeguarding our shores, all on a voluntary basis. ‘Staycations’ have resulted in many more callouts or ‘shouts’ than ever previously recorded. Just watch the enthralling BBC series Saving Lives at Sea’ for just a few examples.