New cowes floating bridge

[adicat]

Hythe Ferry could bye her. :-)

[adicat]

Looks like this tug is the old Carol James Butcher Boat tug.

[eagleeye]

She was put on the chains today .can be viewed on the webcam on trials .quite funny watching as they get used to controlling her    https://www.camsecure.co.uk/river_medina_webcam.html 

Edited May 3, 2017 by eagleeye

[eagleeye]

New bridge starts her life in service sat 13 th at 2 pm

[GeoffHamer]

1300 on 13 May, according to the Isle of Wight Council:

https://www.iwfloatingbridge.co.uk/new-floating-bridge-start-date/

[eagleeye]

Looks like they changed it to 1400 😂😂and it did start then and is now 🏃 running ⛴

[smith85]

Well  the   floating bridge it  broke down this morning  http://www.islandecho.co.uk/news/break-hits-cowes-floating-bridge

[Solo]

Looks like they have major problems with cars scrapping when coming off, someone got the design wrong.

[Chef]

Looks like they need to adjust  some more for tidal conditions .

[eagleeye]

She has broken down and been suspended ..lost power ..people stuck on it for about 90 mins

[Khaines]

Out of interest did the company who made the Cowes floating bridge also make the Bramble Bush Bay in Poole?  There are a lot of similarities.

[G4rth]

I think Bramble Bush Bay was built at Hessle on the Humber.

[The Ferry Man]

Still appears to be suspended. Not the greatest of starts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-39999651

[Cabin-boy]

At least it's still floating! Perhaps a longer shake down period  would have been advisable and to not have inaugurated the service in the 13th of the month. The approach angles do look wrong in the photos but I've seen worse. I remember watching a Jaguar towing a caravan try to disembark from a CalMac ferry on the west coast of Scotland (Tarbet on Loch Fyne) and the entire under-chassis structure being ripped off.  They had to being in a tractor to unload the caravan and even then used wooden blocks to reduce the angles. Ed. 

[PSUPete]

Cabin-boy, you spoke too soon! Floating Bridge high and dry as efforts continue to relaunch

[Cabin-boy]

How on earth did it get into that position? Is it on rollers? All they need to do now is get another couple just like it, park them end to end and let people drive straight across. Ed.  

[The Ferry Man]

That must have been some high tide for it to get up that far!

[Millsy]

Come on it's all funded by the public service and/or a quango and managed by a council. What more can one expect?

[Cabin-boy]

I think one can expect someone to lose either their job or at very least their council seat next time the elections come around. I doubt the locals will forget this fiasco in a hurry. Ed.  

[Solo]

2 hours ago, Cabin-boy said:

I think one can expect someone to lose either their job or at very least their council seat next time the elections come around. I doubt the locals will forget this fiasco in a hurry. Ed.  

You are joking, someone lose their job?  Only if they have pay off.

[DGodVSP]

It isn't going well for the new floating bridge is it! 

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/Floating-bridge-and-boat-collide-315286.aspx

In their defense it may have been a surprise for the yacht skipper that the bridge was actually there based on recent events 

[Cabin-boy]

Crashing into something that is not moving and hasn't done so for over a week seems like carelessness. Ed 

[KeynshamKid]

How can you not notice something that big

[Jim]

1 hour ago, Cabin-boy said:

Crashing into something that is not moving and hasn't done so for over a week seems like carelessness. Ed 

It has been under test I believe - it was certainly moving yesterday at 17.30, both Andy and myself saw it with our own eyes.

(We also had a much longer drive from West to East Cowes due to it not being in place)

[Cabin-boy]

Well that is positive news for the locals as well as visitors. Let's hope they can get everything sorted before Cowes Week.  Ed.