What size boat can fit through the Grey Dogs?

[NormanS]

I happen to have an old log book from 1990 with me, and have found the following:

HW Oban 0845, 2108. 0.7 - 4.0m.
1235 Weighed anchor Bagh nam Glen Muc. (Pig Bay, Jura)
E through the Corryvrechan with the last of the ebb, then W through the Grey Dogs at about slack water.
1345 Anchored in the bay on the W side of Scarba (to climb up the hill on Scarba to see the Corryvrechan from above).
1815 Weighed anchor. Back through the Grey Dogs against the flood.
1850 Anchored Poll nan Corran, Lunga.
(note, the shallow patches, marked on our chart 2326, at the bay W of Cruach Scarba, are wrong. The shoal nearer the bay has much less water over it than shown, and the swell was breaking on it. Couldn't see the outer, supposedly shallower one).

Has anyone here been in that bay, and can shed any light on my note to myself?

 

[JumbleDuck]

When you say thre passage north of Lunga, do you mean immediately north, ie south of Fiola Meadhonach? Or do you mean north of Rubha Fiola?
I've been north of Rubha Fiola (between there and Ormsa) plenty of times.

The south one, I think, but I'd have to check against an old CCC book and I don't have a sufficiently late one here ... it isn't mentioned in the 1936 edition I normally use.

I anchored north of Eilean Mhic Chiarain this year, to wait for the tide to change. Nice little spot to stop there with a rip roaring current both easy and west of it, but sheltered just there. Room for 2 yachts.

is that Poll Gorm? I think that's in the old books too (but not 1936) and I see that Bob B has done an Antares chart for it. Looks fun, so thanks for the tip.

 

[bikedaft]

I happen to have an old log book from 1990 with me, and have found the following:

HW Oban 0845, 2108. 0.7 - 4.0m.
1235 Weighed anchor Bagh nam Glen Muc. (Pig Bay, Jura)
E through the Corryvrechan with the last of the ebb, then W through the Grey Dogs at about slack water.
1345 Anchored in the bay on the W side of Scarba (to climb up the hill on Scarba to see the Corryvrechan from above).
1815 Weighed anchor. Back through the Grey Dogs against the flood.
1850 Anchored Poll nan Corran, Lunga.
(note, the shallow patches, marked on our chart 2326, at the bay W of Cruach Scarba, are wrong. The shoal nearer the bay has much less water over it than shown, and the swell was breaking on it. Couldn't see the outer, supposedly shallower one).

Has anyone here been in that bay, and can shed any light on my note to myself?

we were in there last jan - Port nan Urrachan (bay W of Cruach Scarba)

near flat calm, never saw any sign of either shallow patch

we came in from the SW, went between scarba, and the southernmost shallow patch, then left by heading N, keeping both to port

I wonder if the waves were bigger somehow at the southernmost one? closer to corryvreckon/SW etc?

navionics also have this rock as being slightly deeper. tho we didn't check it http://www.navionics.com/en/webapp

sat pic on bing.com/maps shows both reefs as brown weedy patches

not sure if this helps any tho... see you there in the summer with a lead line?

edit not sure why I can't get pic to come up;

https://www.flickr.com/photos/eddiecrawford/8405557981/in/set-72157632576554457/

 

[NormanS]

Pleased to see that someone else has anchored there. I've never spent a night there. In the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s, our boating was mostly weekends based from L Creran, so we spent loads of time in that vicinity, and around Mull. Now having more freedom, we tend to be away for much longer, and go further afield, which is a pity in some ways.
I see you were there in January. We sailed all year round for a few years, but now happily lay up in the winter, with increasing enthusiasm as the better weather and longer daylight comes.