New vessel and the old enemy

The forecast for the day was spot on, the afternoon was brought in with stronger winds up to a gale by the end of the afternoon and then back to normal this evening.  Tomorrow is another depression, how well named, that is promising up to a Force 10 in the inshore forecast so we, along with most of the fleet are on amber alert.  This means that there is a good chance that sailings will be disrupted or cancelled.

The latest edition to the fleet M/V Finlaggan, arrived in the UK today and berthed at the North Pier here in Oban.  I didn't go on board but I gather it is quite luxurious inside.  Apologies for the rather poor photos, my iPhone does lots of good things but taking pictures isn't one of them.  Can't say the new ship has much in the way of character but then what do we expect?  I'm sure that it will be very pragmatic and carry lots of vehicles easily with good facilities for the passengers.  

We had a few complaining yesterday about the lack of room when they are parked on the vehicle deck.  I agree with them there is very little room between cars when we have a full load on board, to the extent we have to get all the passengers out first before parking the car with only the driver still in.  When the ship was built 24 years ago the lane widths were more than adequate for the size of car, nowadays, as anyone who has parked in a older car park will know, cars are far bigger.  It brings it home to you when you see something like a Morris Minor that was on yesterday, just how small cars used to be.

Only 2 and a bit days to go and I'll be heading off home. The time flies by, well sometimes it does.