Adverse weather conditions are already causing travel disruption this morning (Monday) with the cancellation of a number of Red Jet sailings, with further cross-Solent delays and cancellations expected throughout the day.
Red Funnel has confirmed that the 06:05, 07:15 and 08:25 hi-speed sailings from Southampton have been cancelled alongside the 06:40, 07:50 and 09:00 sailings from West Cowes.
The operator warned of the potential for cancellations to both its Red Jet and vehicle ferry services yesterday.
Hovertravel services have also been suspended this morning with an update expected at 08:45.
Wightlink says that due to high winds and a mechanical issue with 1 of its Wight Class vessels, a number of sailings on its Yarmouth-Lymington service have been cancelled.
The 06:15 and 08:40 from Lymington and the 07:30 and 09:45 from Yarmouth are off.
UPDATE @ 12:54 – Hovertravel services remain suspended with an update next due at 14:45. In the meantime tickets are being accepted on Wightlink’s Fastcat service.
In Yarmouth, Wightlink have cancelled the 13:00 from Lymington and the 14:05 from Yarmouth.
Fixed Link is needed. Shutter Island. God help us if there’s a major incident.
If you don’t want to live on an Island, then move to the mainland. Problem solved.
If you want a fixed link, then you have to work out where the tunnel will go to and from (a bridge would be closed due to the high winds) – who is going to fund it (it won’t be the Government) – and how much it will cost to use it.
Just move to the mainland? Ignoring family-ties, work, schooling etc. Also for people on lower income its not as easy just to up and leave …number one being the ferry prices for a moving van – you wolly!
People move towns all the time. It is normal life.
please stop this nonsence half a billion it would cost if not more and take a decade to to put into place..more chance of winning the lottery..
Agree totally, well said!
See the same old excuses for not having one appearing (must be the zombies).
Major incident like what? An invasion by zombies perhaps? No because that already happened hundreds of years ago. They call themselves the Caulkheads.
Typical IOW mentality who doesn’t like the idea of any change. Stuck in your ways. The island has so much potential but you just refuse to go with the times.
I’m a born and bred islander and I would welcome a fixed link (tunnel). I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of people that don’t want it are ‘overners’. If we could just get a feasibility study done then at least alot of questions might be answered.
It’s mainly islanders that don’t want it hence they can’t get anywhere near the money required for your study get your facts right.
Actually a lot of islanders over 65 don’t want it, ask anyone still working or with young family and they’ll tell you different. Also stop being so rude in your name title, maybe it is you who should get a life?
Grow up, I will use whatever name I like numbnuts.
So why don’t you answer the points I made – or do you believe in magic and the fairies?
Magic fairies obviously
Channel Tunnel cost £21 billion to construct. A Solent tunnel would be about a third to a quarter of that length, so based on out of date costs, that would be about £5 billion. The rest of the country will not pay for it, so every man, woman, and child on the island will have to cough up a minimum of £35,000 each. Does that sound feasible to anyone on here?
Did islanders have to pay for the current ferries for their initial purchase? Or did the private companies operating them obtain business mortgages and capital investment?
I bet you could start a private limited company that say, constructs and operates a fixed link. Direct investment, grants and mortgages – hey presto, you’ve saved every islander £35k as you claim it would otherwise cost!
You must be nuts if you think it is worth spending over £5 billion to build a 7-mile tunnel to the IOW! There is no possible justification for that expenditure and no way of making that investment back in many hundreds of years, unless you are happy to pay a toll of hundreds of pounds every time you use it. Stop being silly. Sam- the Skye bridge is small (only 250 m) and cost £24 million, which is a totally different ball park . The Skye bridge toll was about £5 and it took nine years to pay off. You can see that the toll for a Wight Tunnel would have to be far far greater.
Thats not how funding for these sorts of contracts work, and you do know that. Did they charge all of Skye’s residents for their bridge?