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coordinate: 57°20'16.20"N 005°38'28.00"W

Overview of Loch Caron with the bay at Plockton

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  • Admiralty 2209 - Inner Sound

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[edit] Navigation

[edit] Lights

There are no lights for guiding visiting yachts, althought there is an old white lighthouse on a rock.

[edit] Approach

Coming from the west on Loch Carron following the coastline, keep between the 10 and 20 meter depth line. When approching the white lighthouse, the depth will be around 5 meters. Keep the lighthouse on starboard, a wooden beacon on a submerged rock on your port side. The depths will be around 6 meters (at low tide). After this passage the depth will change to more than 10 meters.

For more security and to open up the bay, sail further towards a small beacon on another rock (Bogha Dubh Sgeir).

[edit] Entry

The Plockton Rocks are small rocks, but are not submerged (see second photo below). Leave those on your port side.

[edit] Berthing

There are special visitor moorings in the bay. The only way to get to the shore is by a dinghy. Depths are around 2 meters at low tide. It is possible to anchore outside at a depth around 4 meters. Use 2 anchores for extra safety because it is a rocky ground.

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