Route One - August 2006. Launch at Drimnin OS: 47  GR: 556539 

Routes Two - April 2007. Launch near Glenborrodale OS: 47  GR: 583620 

Route One  - At weekends it’s OK to park where the small passenger ferry unloads, but not when it’s operating. This is a short paddle but easily extended and best undertaken on a Saturday when the excellent fish-and-chip van on Mull’s sea-front is open.

Route Two - A full day-trip to the same destination, but launching in a bay after the Ardnamurchan Visitor Centre. House building makes parking increasingly difficult.

Tidal Information

Entrance to Loch Sunart

In stream -0505 / Out stream +0132 HW Oban

Between Rubha nan Gall and Auliston Point

NW stream +0400 / SE stream -0045  HW Oban  1 kn springs

The tidal streams are not equally divided time-wise.  The NW stream for about 6.75 hrs at the NW end of the Sound and 5.25 hrs at the SE end of the Sound