Long day at sea for Condor passengers

Tuesday 14 June 2016

Ferry passengers are in for a long trip and delays while Condor sorts out more technical problems with its £50M ferry.

Sailings on the Liberation have been cancelled again because of engine problems and passengers who were booked on it will have to go on slower sailings if they want to get away or back to the Island today.

People travelling to and from Guernsey or Poole have been offered tickets on board either the Commodore Clipper or the Condor Rapide while those booked on a day trip have been offered a refund or the option of booking another trip on another day.

The company has apologised to customers for the disruption to people's journeys and say engineers are working round the clock to repair the fault to the Starboard side of the engine. Passengers travelling from Guernsey were over an hour late arriving into Poole last night because of the engine problems that meant it had to sail on reduced power.

Just last week, passengers were delayed when the ferry's engine on the Port side broke down on its way to Guernsey but the problems were fixed overnight.

The company will be issuing an update at lunchtime today to let people know whether the ferry will be back in action tomorrow.

Here are the changes to today's sailings:

• Passengers due to travel from Poole to Guernsey on Condor Liberation (departing 0915 arriving 1215) have been offered travel on Commodore Clipper (departing Portsmouth 0900, arriving Guernsey 1600);
• Passengers due to travel from Poole to Jersey on Condor Liberation (departing 0915 arriving 1345) have been offered travel on Commodore Clipper (departing Portsmouth 0900, arriving Jersey 1920);
• Passengers due to travel from Guernsey to Jersey on Condor Liberation (departing 1245 arriving 1345) have been offered travel on Condor Rapide (departing 1550 arriving 1650);
• Passengers due to travel from Jersey to Guernsey on Condor Liberation (departing 1445 arriving 1545) have been offered travel on Condor Rapide (departing 1000 arriving 1100);
• Passengers due to travel from Jersey to Poole on Condor Liberation (departing 1445 arriving 1925) have been offered travel on Commodore Clipper (departing 1720 arriving Portsmouth 0630);
• Passengers due to travel from Guernsey to Poole on Condor Liberation (departing 1625 arriving 1925) have been offered travel on Commodore Clipper (departing 21.20 arriving Portsmouth 0630).