It was all hands on deck at Wightlink as many thousands of music lovers boarded ferries to cross the Solent and enjoy 3 days of live music at the Isle of Wight Festival.
The much-loved annual event was cancelled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and then postponed from its usual June date this year until September.
Wightlink laid on extra sailings on its 3 routes between Portsmouth – Fishbourne, Lymington – Yarmouth and Portsmouth Harbour – Ryde Pier Head.
Across all its services, Wightlink carried more than 14,000 revellers to and from the Island.
Keith Greenfield, CEO of Wightlink, says:
“Throughout the Festival, all our ferries were busy carrying people to the iconic event and the atmosphere was brilliant.
“We always get involved at an early stage by shipping essential infrastructure such as lights and fencing to the Island. In addition, Wightlink is delighted to host some of the stars. This year we welcomed Sir Tom Jones, All Saints, Fleur East and Martin Kemp, Maisie Peters, DJ Example and the Tuba Libres, among many others.”
Work will begin soon to make preparations for the next Isle of Wight Festival, which will take place on 16th-19th June 2022.
Funny how they didn’t have any mechanical or staffing issues etc when there’s money to be made?????
Social distancing was well out the window when it comes to making money, must have been 150 people crammed together on sun deck of the Cat Monday morning
The cat can only carry 260 at maximum, I doubt the captain would allow 150 on the sun deck
So you have to where a mask outside, unless you playing a trumpet?