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Keel laying at Cammell Laird for Dunoon’s Western Ferries
In an exciting ritual moment today, 18th October 2012, a major physical and formal start was made to the two new and larger boats Western Ferries have contracted Cammell Laird to build for them.The...
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New Western Ferries boat takes to the water at Cammel Laird
The Ferry at the end of the slip waiting for high water is the first of the two new Western Ferries boats, Sound of Soay.At high water this morning, 22 July 2013, she was floated off and then towed by...
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The encore: Sound of Seil on her way back from the bar
Off the Perch Rock Lighthouse on the return part of her sea trials yesterday, Western Ferriess’ new Sound of Seil came back into the River Mersey from the Liverpool bar. As she came in past the...
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Andy Mahon: Sound of Soay stars in stunning sea trials performance
Western Ferries’ Sound of Soay came out of Cammell Laird’s about 12:10 today and passed the RFA Orangeleaf waiting to dock in Lairds.She has spent the day in the river but did not not go to the bar.She...
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Andy Mahon: Western’s two new ferries get touch up paint job at Cammell Laird
The two new boats for Western Ferries, Sound of Seil and Sound of Soay, were getting touched up with a paint brush or three today.There was a lot of clutter in the way for photos, but I managed to pick...
View ArticleThey’re on the way: Western Ferries’ red twins are on the move on the Mersey
[Updated below 06.30 4th October] Western Ferries’ two new boats for the Dunoon-Gourock route, Sound of Soay and Sound of Seil came out of the Cammell Laird wetbasin at Birkenhead minutes ago and are...
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Andy Mahon: The Leaving of Liverpool for Western Ferries’ Seil and Soay
At 10:35 this morning 3rd October 2o13, to the sound of ships whistles, Sound of Soay nosed her way out of Cammell Laird’s wetbasin, followed a few minutes later by Sound of Seil.Staff from both...
View ArticleWestern Ferries forty years on: youngest fleet in the Clyde, 1.3m passengers...
As Argyll’s Western Ferries prepares today to welcome its two new ferries to the fleet for its Dunoon-Gourock vehicle and passenger service, it is looking at running the youngest fleet on the Clyde,...
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Western Ferries family welcomes the new kids
At first it was all about waiting. Then it was about learning. We’d expected today to be about the two new boats – and it was – but it was really about family, the extended family that is Western...
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Andy Mahon: a taste of the Port of Liverpool and a memory for ‘the girls’
He noticed our interest in his photographs of the Western Ferries boats passing the Museum of Liverpool, on the Mersey in the Port of Liverpool – and an immediately fascinating building – as you can...
View ArticleWestern Ferries Sound of Soay in service
As of the 3pm sailing yesterday, 10th October, one of Western Ferries’ two new boats, Sound of Soay, has entered service on the Dunoon-Gourock route.Here sister ship, Sound of Seil, will go into...
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Argyll at the 2013 Scottish Boat Show: presence, impact and the future
There was something appropriate about getting to the 2013 Scottish Boat Show at Inverkip literally on the back of the newest ferry in service on the Clyde, from an Argyll business.Western Ferries’...
View ArticleWestern Ferries boats leaving 14.00 today for new life at Fort William
[Update - 00.525 17th October below] Sound of Scalpay and Sound of Sanda, the two Western Ferries boats recently replaced by the new Cammell Laird built ferries, Sound of Soay and Sound of Seil [the...
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Andy Mahon: Cammell Laird – and the mystery visit of damaged new superyacht,...
Cammell Lairds has moved from SOS [Sound of Soay & Seil] to SOS [Super Ostentatious Solandge].Since the departure of Western Ferries’ Sound of Seil & Soay on the 30th November2013, Cammell...
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Andy Mahon: Seil’s and Soay’s wetbasin mate leaves as Hamnavoe comes in to...
It’s a busy time at Cammell Lairds at Birkenhead now that the ferry maintenance period is here. We’ve borrowed the Hamnavoe so that we have something different to photograph.The Northtlink Ferries...
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Martin Briscoe: Sounds to Lochs: meet Sunart and Scavaig
Look familiar? Remember Sound of Sanda and Sound of Scalpay? Sound of Soay and Sound of Seil, their replacements in the Western Ferries vehicle and passenger ferry fleet are busy crunching the numbers...
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