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by Mike McNamee Published 01/08/2016
Staffa is presumed to have formed part of a larger island complex that includes Mull, Iona and the Treshnish islands, but now requires a boat journey which in turn provides employment for a number of crews.
There are a number of boats sailing to the Treshnish Islands and Staffa from Fionnphort/Iona and others from Tobermory.
From Iona you can take the romantic option and use the Birthe Marie, a gaff ketch rigged sailing boat. On the day we went to Iona she was on hire to a local photographer who was working from the pier and kindly provided a beautiful model for the sail past! Built as a fishing boat in Denmark in 1933, Birthe Marie fished, as far as is known, in the North Sea and the Baltic.
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