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13 November 2024
Following the news that MV Caledonian Isles - one of our major vessels - requires further repairs, we have planned for the vessel being unavailable for the duration for the winter timetable period. And with this being the case, we have published a new vessel deployment plan for the period 16 November 2024 - 27 March 2025. Below, we've shared information for customers on how this will affect services between Uig-Tarbert / Lochmaddy.
Given the vessels available to us, we have to reduce direct services to Lochboisdale from Saturday 16 November up to and including Saturday 30 November. To mitigate against the reduced service to South Uist, the Uig-Tarbert/Lochmaddy service will be amended with additional Lochmaddy services and fewer Tarbert services, while traffic to Tarbert will be accommodated on the Ullapool-Stornoway service. Full details will be available on our timetable pages shortly for this route.
Work is now underway to update the booking system - and while this is ongoing amendments and new bookings for some sailings are unavailable. This is temporary, so please do check back later.
If you have a reservation in the system that is affected by any of these changes, we will be in contact with you in date order of sailings.
As always, to stay up to date with the latest information on the service status of each route, please continue to check our service status and information page for these routes, check the X (formerly Twitter) feed - @CalMac_Updates, and sign up for SMS text subscription services.
Again, we apologise for the inconvenience caused by having one of the large vessels on the fleet out of service for this period. It has been a challenging period for customers who have been affected.
The revised plans outlined above takes on board the feedback from customers and communities on how we manage this situation - and reflects our commitment to meeting demand and maintaining a lifeline service across the network. We will continue to look at ways to further support services across the network.