Thanks for all your info folks.
It looks like my partner is getting out on official business so we only have to find one fair so that it makes it ever more probable that I'm going.
Never been to that part before but got lots of friends there.
I'll also have to get down to Pictou and see the Hector especially as it sailed from my home town of Ullapool (Loch Broom)

Mor an taing
Andy