Many years ago, if my memory is correct, a letter published in The Oban Times suggested a yacht marina for Oban Bay which, by all accounts, is now a success.
It could be even more so if extended with certain safety features and lanes created in the bay for the increase in boat traffic.
But the future town parking and flooding can both be partially alleviated by the building of a new two or three-storey car park and connected water pumping station at the car park now virtually empty at Lochavullin. It should be built with a basement lower catchment tank area, which would fill at times of flooding and prolonged rainfall, thence being pumped automatically out by this allied pump house, perhaps situated beside Lochavullin bus stop on council land.