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EXPERIENCE THE LOCH LOMOND ASSOCIATION LOCH LOMOND HONORARY PRESIDENT: HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF MONTROSE the loch lomond cruise co. --CRUISING SINCE 1880 DAILY CRUISES WATERBUS SERVICES PRIVATE CHARTERS Featuring cruise commentary by T.V. historian Neil Oliver. Newsletter Designed and Printed by JJR Print Ltd, Dumbarton 01389 763765 Ltd, JJR Print by Designed and Printed Newsletter Loch Lomond News & Review for 2015 “Conserving The Waters – Protecting Your Rights In This Edition: • Lomondside Ex-Police Chief Slams Proposed “Your Park” Byelaw Proposals STILL • Seatrek Marine Services Establishes Loch Lomond Training Base 28 PAGES • The LLA Needs Your Help - Membership Form on page 21 & STILL • Round-The-Loch Club Reports FREE • Police: Didn’t know how to call out the Loch Lomond Rescue Boat! page 10 www.sweeneyscruises.com t: 01389 752376 E: [email protected] P.O. BOX 373 DUMBARTON G82 5YG SCOTLAND WWW.LOCHLOMONDASSOCIATION.CO.UK EMAIL: [email protected] LLA 2015.indd 2 22/04/2015 13:48 HOTEL Quicksilver Activ 705 Cruiser Ardlui Marina, Loch Lomond LODGES Marina facilities include: • Finger berthing, swinging moorings and yard storage Bayliner 315 Cruiser • 20 Ton Travel Hoist • Slipway & trailer storage • Shore power & fresh water MARINA • Showers & toilets • Floating fuel pontoon - LPG coming soon! • Pump out • Laundry & Shop • Boat Sales • Marine Engineer HOLIDAY PARK • Hotel, Bar & Restaurant • Overnight & visitor berthing Ardlui Hotel & Restaurant • Lift from Loch to yard or transporter • Discounts on accommodation for berth holders • Hull maintenance & antifouling - incl short term lifts • Food served all day • Secure yard storage available all year round • Live music calendar • Berth to Berth Package - we will collect & return your • Outside covered & heated decking area boat to any berth on the loch (RYA Qualified Skipper) • Pub with pool table, juke box and fire • Maintenance & Service packages available on request • Sky Sports BOOK ONLINE NOw 07782 478595 www.ardlui.co.uk Ardlui, Loch Lomond, Argyll, G83 7EB To arrange a test sail, contact Stan Prosser on 07515 575420 Nick O’Donnell, our resident engineer is on hand to help T: 01301 704 243 | E: [email protected] you with all your service and Cameron House Marina, Loch Lomond, Dunbartonshire G83 8QZ maintenance requirements. For berthing enquiries contact Glenn on 07841 044 883 Visit us online at www.marinesalesscotland.com LLA1794 2015.indd Autumn LLA 3 Mag Ad.indd 1 22/04/201526/1/12 15:52:17 13:48 LLA CHAIRMAN - PETER JACK LOOKS BACK ON 2014 planning limbo for over two years without We can also record renewed hope for approval, while outraged public opinion more widely publicly acceptable policies faded. It has just recently been quietly and decisions from the NPA, following approved, so that Luss Estates can now Gordon Watson’s recent appointment as go ahead with their private & exclusive C.E.O. Time will tell, of course! We wish commercial Lodge development. Ahead him well. of this occurence, of course, this same Similarly, with that same hope in mind, ‘wildlife-concerned’ landowner, reportedly we are just embarking on a joint initiative had the island’s wallaby population shot with the NPA Executive and Board almost to extinction, to discourage public to foster some closer inter-personal Dear Reader & LLA Member, interest in even visiting The Haven beach relationships. In doing so, we do not plan Once again we have striven with overnight, at the opposite end of the to compromise on our core principles, difficulty to keep our 28-page LLA same island. expressed on this page last year. Magazine format going this year, as per Anyway, this has no intent to resurrect We do, however, need to understand our previous edition. I say “with difficulty” yesterday’s issues, only to ensure the much more clearly, for example, where do because, whilst more pages mean more continuation of an active vociferous proposed policies originate from, which news and information on what’s going on lobbying group on your behalf, and set out apparently to alienate the great for local boaters and water recreational supporting your future Loch interests. majority of Scottish participants in outdoor users of Loch Lomond, more pages also Rant over! water sports, and on-water and on-shore mean for the LLA more monetary cost and recreations of a dozen different flavours. voluntary effort to produce them. Without Nor can we ignore the disadvantaged more water community financial support With regret, we accepted the retiral of ramblers and mountain climbers who in future, that situation cannot continue Ernie East in 2014 from the Committee share our views on proposed Park byelaw indefinitely. after many years of loyal service, with our plans. Nor can we ignore the publicly Our committee is often told how vital thanks. Ernie often spoke on behalf of his expressed views of the clearly disaffected is the work undertaken by the LLA, to own sport of game fishing, and he was not retired Chief Inspector of Police who defend recreational rights in a National known to be a man to ‘miss and hit the used to run operational policing on Loch Park whose management authority wall’ when venturing his opinion on many Lomond, when he allegedly claims: “the sometimes pays scant regard to such matters. He will also be remembered for proposed new byelaws ... (are) wholly rights, despite these being enshrined in his humour, and an inexhaustable supply wrong, ... badly crafted, cynical and Scottish legislation. The sad fact is that if of jokes on just about every subject in the shamefully presented ... and that they more water-user beneficiaries of our work world. In recent years he became Vice would criminalise people innocently on their behalf are not prepared to put Chairman of the LLA. We wish Ernie many accessing the countryside”. their money (£8 p.a.) where their mouth is, happy and healthy future angling years on Lastly as always, may I thank my and join the LLA’s membership, then it will the Loch, and look forward to seeing him committee colleagues for their support cease to exist. Our annual subscription out on the water. over the last year. I similarly thank all equates to less than the cost of a couple Willie Dow has now taken on the who support the LLA through their club, of pints of beer and a glass of wine, which Vice-Chairman role, and is actively ably individual or family memberships, and will hardly break the bank for most Loch participating in the many executive and those who advertise their businesses and recreational water users. administrative functions which need services in our pages. We are a force for If we disappear, the authorities will have fulfilling. I am very grateful for his putting good on Loch Lomond, and we make free-rein to charge for every remaining his head above the parapet in this role, no apologies to those who would claim right and innocent pleasure you and in addition to still running his former otherwise. your family presently take for granted duties as LLA Cruising Representative, Have a safe year, and kind regards to all. to be yours to expect. Expect again to to communicate with the various Loch & Peter Jack find islands access and camping rights River Leven boating and cruising clubs. under renewed attack, and probable His involvement is returning to me some later total public bans. Expect the actual time for life beyond the LLA, a matter for Loch Lomond Association and currently proposed shoreline of Loch which my wife is also appreciative. Lomond under threat of access restriction There are many articles on a wide A G M and camping bans, to grow from 26 miles variety of current topics in this year’s as now, to 40+ miles with landowner pages, and we recommend reading these 7.00pm support, within 5-10 years. Expect for increased awareness of what keeps us Wednesday 6th May 2015 inappropriate planning developments to busy as an association in this, as indeed in encroach more and more on irreplaceable every year. As always, there are club and To be held in the LL & TT NPA HQ scenic rural shorelines, as the economy activity reports for the year past, and we Robert Grieves Room improves. You don’t think any of this could appreciate the effort they put in not only (by kind permission of the Authority) happen? to keep us abreast of their happenings, Carrochan, Well, do you recall that contentious but that they send their delegates to Balloch G83 8EG planning application in 2012, to replace our monthly meetings, which are almost All interested persons are welcome to attend & express Inchconnochan’s derelict house with a always well-attended their views on Loch Lomond affairs, but only fully pre- large new holiday-rental lodge with 8 I am also pleased to report that our paid LLA Individual, Family (or Life) Members may vote. beds, its own warden, and private access routine interaction with the NPA at these N.B. Voting rights will not be acquired by joining the jetty. It all seemed to disappear into NPA meetings is also now flourishing. Association on the night of the AGM . 1 LLA 2015.indd 6 22/04/2015 13:48 Fishing on Loch Lomond in 2014 Report by Malcolm MacCormick, Chairman, Loch Lomond Improvement Association s we know we can never be too certain about the weather in Scotland and I suppose one of the great things about this country of ours is that one year can be so different from the last. If you think back to 2012 for many of us anglers it was a real bonanza Ayear, particularly if you fished on the rivers.