Scotland’s ferry crisis has left a rugby club thousands of pounds out of pocket after bookings were cancelled.
Clubs from across Scotland had booked travel from Oban to Mull for the annual sevens tournament yesterday. But after forking out £12,000 on its main fundraising event of the year, Mull Rugby Club began receiving calls saying CalMac had cancelled their bookings.
The turmoil is a result of this month’s deployment of the main Isle of Mull ferry to help out in South Uist and Barra. That left smaller boats, Coruisk and Loch Frisa, unable to cope with demand on the busy Oban to Mull route.
