Western isles coastal cruises Ltd

11/04/2026

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JOB OPPORTUNITY! 🛥️

Our vessel “AUCH AYE THE MOO” is now fully coded and ready for chartering.

🚤 Experienced Skippers Wanted – Join Western Isles Coastal Cruises 🌊

We’re looking for experienced, local skippers to join our growing team at Western Isles Coastal Cruises, operating around the Clyde Estuary and surrounding waters.

If you know these waters well and enjoy delivering high-quality charter experiences, this is a fantastic opportunity to combine your seamanship with a varied, rewarding role.

Role Overview:
A hands-on position combining skippering, charter coordination, and vessel promotion.

Key Responsibilities:
• Skippering charter vessels safely and professionally
• Promoting our charter services via Facebook and social media
• Assisting in sourcing and organising crew for confirmed charters
• Supporting smooth day-to-day charter operations

What We’re Looking For:
• Experienced skipper with relevant qualifications
• Strong local knowledge of the Clyde Estuary and surrounding areas
• Confident communicator with good customer service skills
• Comfortable using social media for promotion (Facebook experience preferred)
• Reliable, organised, and proactive

What We Offer:
• Regular charter work in a upcoming local business
• A flexible, varied role both on and off the water
• Competitive pay based on experience

📍 Based around the Clyde Estuary
📩 Interested? Send us a message on Facebook or email your CV to [email protected]

Or WhatsApp 07795561853

Join us and help deliver unforgettable experiences on the water ⚓

From the historic castles perched on rugged cliffs to the serene beauty of remote islands, every moment on our cruises is designed to captivate and inspire.

17/01/2026

Fancy a relaxing weekend?

We have had excellent feedback on our boat stays which we have recently put on air b&b.

It has been a great success with everyone who has stayed mentioning how nice and relaxing their stay was.

Please check us out on air b&b for dates and availability and for discounts come to us directly on here…

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Regards
Kenny WICC.

https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/1364223287180330729?viralityEntryPoint=1&s=76

05/01/2026

We are doing short term stays on the boat now, it’s situated in Greenock.

6 berths so you can bring the family for a exciting weekend stay on our lovely vessel.

The boat is fully equipped for cooking and taking a few nights to chill and relax on the water.

The boat boasts hot water supply, 2 x showers 1 of which is ensuite on the boat or you can use the marinas facilities where you can find toilets and showers also.

The heating is top notch and we have heated blankets on all of the beds for those cold nights to snuggle up.

TV channels are plentiful and you can sit and have cup of tea while watching your favourite programme.

Even just for the experience of staying on a boat for a night, we have had excellent feed back so far from our previous guests.

For any enquiries get in touch directly on here, my name is Kenny and I would be happy to assist with making your stay extra special and as comfortable as possible…

Kenny MacaulayKW Building and Joinery

28/12/2025

So we never made it, powder steering completely shut down!
Not the way I planned on starting the trip but glad it happened when it did, so I look on the bright side for that reason!
Anyhow, we will get to portivadie eventually! Tomorrow is another day…
But how are we going to get there??
Catch us tomorrow in the next video to find out 👍

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Kenny Macaulay KW Building and Joinery Ltd.

28/12/2025

Early morning starts!!
Kenny Macaulay

07/12/2025

PART 2

Hello everyone, so if you have followed me and read my Part #1 of my first trip/collection of “Auch aye the moo” 🐮 well I have now found some time to write the next part of the trip, I will break it down into 7/8 parts, so I will see what responses I get and see how far I go with it 😂
Remember if you follow this page it will inspire me to write and post a lot more! On the same note thanks for everyone who has started following the page and sharing it with others!

Here is Part 2…

So as I left off out of shamrock quay marina, there was a huge amount of boating traffic and luckily two of my crew had a vast amount of boating knowledge and both were competent skippers… however their knowledge and experience was more in line with sailing yachts and not motor yacht vessels. (Piloting mainly the difference between the two)
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The rules of the water are some what different between sailing and power vessels but the main rules of the water, buoys, lights and signage still apply mostly!
Which was very very interesting as at that time I had not very much (shall I say) knowledge about the rules of the water, hence the reason for them coming with me..

We managed to get out of the river and out into the channel passing calshot castle and out past the Isle of Wight.
There was also an old fort which I cannot find the name of this place anywhere online so if anyone can comment please and let me know I have some pictures of it attached to this post you will see..

Anyhoo… We were already late setting out so we didn’t have enough time to make steady progress on this day.
At this point it had been a very long day with many hours already lost ensuring we got to the boat for the sale transfer to even proceed!

We decided to head for Poole quay boat haven, this was our first stop after around 4 hours of traveling on the boat. We all agreed a nice meal was in order and a couple of beers to settle the day!
We found a delightful restaurant called “Sambo” just out side the marina which did some delicious meat dishes carved and served right onto your plate infront of you at the table! I would almost be inclined to travel 500 miles just to go back to here just to have another meal, it was really good!

After dinner it was straight to bed with the rest of the crew as the next day was to be a steady and long trip the next day (16th may 2024). We had it all planned it out a strategy, we had worked out tides, route, calculated speed to distance range. 8 hours at 16 knots. We were ready to attack this next day head on!
Seriously what else could go wrong??? 😂
We were organised for progression and not for failure… boats being boats when everything is good it’s good but when things go bad… well things can get pretty terrible 😢

See the videos and pictures uploaded in sequence to how this part of the trip went.

Again please follow this page if you would like to the rest of the journey it was over 5 days and I will have 7/8 parts of the story with many pictures and epic details from the whole trip.

P.s it won’t let me post videos and multiple videos unfortunately on this page for some reason

Kenny Macaulay KW Building and Joinery Ltd.

Thanks

Kenny - WICC 🚤

Kenny Macaulay
KW Building and Joinery Ltd.

27/11/2025

Hello all, well today is the big day we have been working towards for the pst few months.

It’s coding day!

All items have been covered ✅
All checks have been made ✅
All cabins & decks have been cleaned ✅
All funds have been used from tbe bank account ✅💰😂

But we have finally made it to the day we will now be a fully licensed charter boat!

Wishing all a productive and successful Thursday today, stay with us to see what happens next!

Kenny - WICC 🚤⚓️

25/10/2025

If you see the logo give us a like and follow!

We have exciting things coming up for starting our charters.

Some free giveaways, some exciting new trips and routes, gift vouchers and lots lots more. 🆓🚏🚤⚓️🎁

Behind the scenes we are establishing and organising the company.
Our plan is to have the booking platform available to make bookings before the end of the year.

PART 2: of the story will be ready and uploaded over the weekend.

Thankyou for all the followers who have followed us already we appreciate you all.

24/10/2025

We set up our website to let our future customers see what we can offer, as we are out of season just now I’m going to update the website and add some actual trips and a calendar for upcoming trips and events in the near future.
All these trips and events will also be put up on this page.

If anyone is interested or has any question please get in touch.

https://www.westernislescoastalcruises.co.uk

Kenny Macaulay

From the historic castles perched on rugged cliffs to the serene beauty of remote islands, every moment on our cruises is designed to captivate and inspire.

21/10/2025

PART #1

This was the day I bought 🐮“AUCH AYE THE MOO” 🐮 and what an epic week ahead it was going to be..

It was on May 15th 2024 at roughly 15:45, when I first turned those ignition keys.

🚤The trip to come - her first trip with me in command was over 600 nautical miles! Southampton to port Glasgow… AYE ENGLAND TO GLASGOW 😳

Iv told this story if not 999 times Iv told it more than 1000 times now.

So here it goes…

The first day we traveled to get the boat, at the time she was named GMT. Short for Golf Mike Tango.
Myself and 4 guys were traveling to go collect her and bring her back from Plymouth.

It was an exciting day and we were flying down to Plymouth direct from
Glasgow.
Long story short, we went for a “coffee” some people chose to have a breakfast, the TVs that show the flight departure gates at the time (we didn’t realise) were not working and had stuck, it wasn’t showing the gates it just said - gate to show soon!

Any how…

Due to the breakfasts that were ordered, we ended up missing the flight.
Nightmare I know, so next flight rebooked this time to London, hire car to Plymouth then on to collect the boat.
We were already 6 hours late for our departure…

My stress levels were high and my planning had already been chucked out the window!
Anyways we managed to get there an hour and a half before high tide so that was spot on for leaving the marina we were in as it was quite shallow where the boat was berthed!

Note: (At this point of the trip) it’s was a glorious sunny afternoon around 27degrees if I remember correctly.

On arrival we met the seller and the broker, I walked round while the guys I was with started to plan routes and get things ready.
The seller was explaining how most things worked as you would do selling a large boat to someone. He knew all the ins and outs of his boat that he had owned for more than 8 years. I was stepping into no mans land with this new boat not knowing how things worked or what to do in the event of an issue..

(Funny part on its way) SO, if you know me you may know that I have some knowledge of boating - this new vessel is 56ft that measures just over 17m with swim platform of another 1.5m! It also weighs 34 TONNES at present kitted out.

So just for comparison my last boat was a 6.8m long! It was almost 1.5 TONNES.

BIG DIFFERENCE EH! I was well aware.

Anyways I will cut to the chase, meanwhile the boat seller was walking me round proudly showing off his loved and cherished boat, he was telling me how to work the sky tv and how to turn on the microwave that he had just replaced, heating system, hot water, showing me sea c***s and the toilet systems…. All I could bloody think about was how the hell am I going to drive (or now I say) “pilot” this out of this tight marina! 😂😂
I was literally crapping myself I had to keep my cool as my soon to be crew might have just left me if they new I didn’t know how to “DRIVE” this ship 😂

So eventually the seller finishes and the broker gets me to sign the documents and transfer the final balance to them…

The best part of the whole journey for me was when I asked these 2 men plus my own crew to be “HOW DO YOU DRIVE THIS THING!” (Pilot I should have said).
At this point it felt like everyone on the boat just turned to me and gasped, it was like they genuinely hit a wall of fear!
I continued swiftly to state the fact that I had another boat and I had been on boats since I was young to try calm the situation!

💡 Good news was that iv been a builder for 24 years and in fact with a combination of previous boating experience and operating diggers with dual sticks and a whole lot of slowly slowly, I done not too bad on exiting the marina in my new vessel!

I find the twin screw vessels much like operating a digger just on the water is a lot different with drifting, tides and winds etc! ALOT DIFFERENT!

If you have read this far and have enjoyed the story so far please follow my page for the rest of the trip/ story where we have all sorts of issues and fun on the way home to James Watt marina in port Glasgow.

Also give it a share, muchas gracias!

The picture attached is a picture of the day I walked down to get the boat from
The marina it was in it was a beautiful day and myself and the boat have came a long way since that day

Kenny Macaulay KW Building and Joinery Ltd.