Location

Location

Rhu Marina is located on the north side of the Clyde Estuary, at the entrance to the Gareloch.

• Only marina on the north side of Clyde Estuary
• 30 mins from Glasgow Airport
• 25 mins from M8 motorway
• 5 mins from Scotrail services at Helensburgh
• 2 hours from Craobh Haven and 1.5 hours from Oban on the West Coast by car

Link to map: Map of Rhu Marina location

Rhu Marina is in the conservation village of Rhu, just west of Helensburgh. The area is surrounded by the hills of Argyll, one of the most beautiful locations for a marina in Britain. For details of travelling to Rhu, other than by boat, please see Travelling to Rhu page

Layout

Rhu Marina has a substantial stone breakwater to the South and East with floating breakwaters to the West and North West. The entrance is between two low lying floating breakwaters. Please see sketch below.

Visitors berthing is on the western side of J pontoon. Call the Marina on channel M for instructions.

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Pilotage

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Rhu Marina entrance. Note the two low triangular structures marking the entrance to the marina. These are lit at night, (fl 4 sec) however due to local regulations the lights are not bright and they are lower than you might think!

Approx 30 m from the entrance is a green channel marker. (leave to stbd approaching marina entrance). This lit buoy - G. fl 5 sec - marks the end of a sunken rock causeway on the extension of the breakwater. Yachts must leave this buoy on the correct hand to avoid the rocks.