Mandatory life jackets the obvious next step

[viago]

why would anyone want to stay in their car? its a great crossing with plenty to observe.
the only ferry i have ever stayed in my car is the foye ferry which is a raft welded to the side of a fishing boat.

 

[prv]

why would anyone want to stay in their car? its a great crossing with plenty to observe.

Because they do it twice a day, like a number of people at my workplace? Yes, there's a lot to see if you're a visitor, but if you're a commuter then I'm sure you just want to get home to your tea after a long day at work like everybody else.

Pete

 

[[70521]]

I assume if you live or work on the Isle of Widget then the view is very old news and you just want to slump in your car until you can drive off at the other end.

Perhaps, but I still get a thrill out of my daily commute.

Last year I drove home to Fort William and having done the A82 run from Glasgow about 500 times before I still get a huge thrill out of it. Sadly, the Ballachulish ferry was replaced by the bridge years ago.

 

[chanelyacht]

Serious rant actually. Some of us use the ferry several times a week.

The muppets at Wightlink have already introduced new ferries that nobody wanted. The design is such that when you arrive with your bags you can no longer leave them near where you board. Instead you have to lug them across the car deck and up three flights of stairs. So, many people take the single lift (which of course is on the opposite side of the ferry so you have to cross the car deck to get to it).

Now they are forcing the old and unfirm to get out of their cars and go upstairs.

Nett result is we now have people queueing to get in the lift, and the queue stretches on to the open car deck which is really dangerous.

The issue is about how much we allow others to tell us how to live our lives.

Oh please

Wightlink introduced new boats because they felt the fleet needed updating. If "nobody wanted them", nobody would be on them.

Why not write a reasoned letter to Wightlink and ask for their reasoning, putting the points you make to them.

At the end of the day, as much as it is "your life", it's also their ferry.

If you seriously think the elderly and infirm would be better off in a car on a sinking ferry, then you're bonkers.

 

[DJE]

Serious rant actually............ No apologies for the rant............... but I would argue for the right for someone to have one about those topics.

No seriously I'm with you on that one. Some of mine have been almost incoherent in the past.

(And the resulting flaming equally spectactular.)

 

[l'escargot]

...The design is such that when you arrive with your bags you can no longer leave them near where you board. Instead you have to lug them across the car deck and up three flights of stairs. So, many people take the single lift (which of course is on the opposite side of the ferry so you have to cross the car deck to get to it).

Now they are forcing the old and unfirm to get out of their cars and go upstairs.

Nett result is we now have people queueing to get in the lift...

So your actual complaint is that you as a foot passenger with bags now has to queue behind aging car drivers for the lift? Inconsiderate feckers!!!

That's not much of a rant is it?

 

[Blue5]

Get them out of the cars and make them use the stairs, a bit of exercise to keep them fit, and while were at it all passengers on ferries should wear lifejackets.........

 

[chanelyacht]

Get them out of the cars and make them use the stairs, a bit of exercise to keep them fit, and while were at it all passengers on ferries should wear lifejackets.........

and know the colregs, whilst having the right burgees and anchors on their cars...

 

[ffiill]

NOT SAILING BUT-if you want to connected a standpipe to a Scottish Water hydrant and turn the water on or off you have to be a speciallly authorised and trained operator!
This afternoon in Glenmoriston where a new main is being laid a work man had to stop working and go with a work man sub contracting to Scottish water and do just that.
It was he that told me how rediculous and time wasting it was.
He was also telling me that before a new main is switched on any house that may have a connection to it new or old has to be turned off before the pipe is filled just in case a bit of dirt gets into the system!
Mind you he was suprised when I told him that our local Scottish Water water tester confided in me that local private untreated supplies are far cleaner than the stuff they pump out of Loch Ness for us to drink!

 

[viago]

Because they do it twice a day, like a number of people at my workplace? Yes, there's a lot to see if you're a visitor, but if you're a commuter then I'm sure you just want to get home to your tea after a long day at work like everybody else.

Pete

oh, i see. do you get home quicker by staying in your car then?

i guess, if you've had a long day, then the crossing's long enough to have a decent nap, -much easier in your car.

thinking about it, i agree with the op, its an outrage!

perhaps if they had some competition on that route they might be encouraged to have a more reasonable pricing structure and a better attitude towards their customers.

 

[Beadle]

Life jackets are already mandatory - at least they are on my boat.

 

[prv]

Life jackets are already mandatory - at least they are on my boat.

What's that got to do with commercial ferries?

Pete

 

[Blueboatman]

Tis all a blatant plan to get yer to buy an overpriced cuppa on the upper deck. As if the ferries mile per mile were not expensive enough

I have known people 'commute' to lymington years agp by sail and RIB. Leaving a car on the mainland 'somewhere'

 

[prv]

I have known people 'commute' to lymington years agp by sail and RIB. Leaving a car on the mainland 'somewhere'

I know someone who commutes by ferry but has an "island" car and a "mainland" car and travels as a foot passenger.

Pete