A mechanical issue aboard St Clare has resulted in delays of up to 2 hours on Wightlink’s Fishbourne to Portsmouth vehicle ferry service this afternoon (Thursday).
It is unclear as to the exact nature of the issue at this time, but the breakdown has meant that only St Faith is in service on the cross-Solent route.
Wightlink has apologised for the inconvenience caused.
UPDATE @ 12:55 – Red Funnel is now experiencing delays of up to 30 minutes on its vehicle ferry.
UPDATE @ 15:00 – Wightlink have now confirmed that delays of up to 180 minutes are being experienced.
UPDATE @ 15:15 – Red Funnel is now experiencing delays of up to 40 minutes on its East Cowes to Southampton service.
More like 3 hour delays!! The irony, 3 boats on the route, 1 old, 2 relatively new, 1 small, 2 much bigger & which one is the only one still running, the smaller old one… absolute carnage at Portsmouth. But don’t worry, Wightlink are sorry???
Update. The floating bridge is buggered, neither ferry works and the directors of all three are in their counting house rubbing their hands with glee. Did I mention their counting houses are in the Bahamas/Isle of Man/Jersey/Cayman Islands? Re-nationalisation, anyone?
Now more like 5 hours, very little info. All in the boat (ha) but some people think their a little more important and entitled than others
It’s about time a bridge or Tunnel was built.
The Ferry Companies are taking the p*ss.
Any news from Quigley, it’s been over 100 days
Useless *******
Lol
Dinghy’s from France are more reliable, they don’t
break down and run 24hrs a day in all weather conditions
Lol
No good for tourism, quicker to fly to Tenerife
and it’s much warmer and cheaper fares.