Ferry Access

[slick rick]

Im off to the Isle of Wight soon.....After previous splitter scraping incidents, anyone had any problems gettign an S2 exige on the ferry from Portsmouth???

Cheers

Rick

[Stephanie Plum]

No - I ran a seloc trip over there last summer and everything went on fine, inluding at least two Exiges iirc.

[Cino]

I'm off there in the summer - any good roads/route you'd recommend? I heard that the condition of the roads is not that great over there. The ferry from Lymington is quite a lot cheaper and much quicker - 30 mins as opposed to 1 hour from Portsmouth/Southampton

[Stephanie Plum]

Some of the roads have potholes you could lose a wheel in - so much like most of the UK really. In fairness the minor roads are the worst and you won't be travelling fast down them.

The military road is pretty good - but watch out for scamera vans - they haunt it at weekends especially. Apart from that there a few twisty bits inland but nothing to write home about.

It's a small island, you can cover it quickly - we just enjoyed the views, had a good lunch, went to the beach and pottered about - it's not ever going to be the Isle of Man!

[wetny]

Had no problems with ferry last year. Was on lower deck of Red Funnel, very smooth and flat getting on and off. Give the cable cars near the needles a wide berth unless you are brave or stupd.

[S2john]

Did someone mention the Isle of Man

Join the fun if you dare
http://forums.seloc.org/e/1973

[SimonK]

Ive had a fairly low exige on and off numerous ferries. Theres things they can do if it wont clear. They sometimes put ramps across, other times reversing on can do the trick. They even asked one of us to get out once so as not to weigh it down so much!!

HTH

[island s2]

I've used the ferry coming from the Isle of Man a couple of times. No problems usually (exige s2 btw)but sometimes if the sea is a bit rough the ramps can be steeper.

I had to reverse on but I'm sure the ferry guys can give you a heads up if you are going to ground it. The other method is to go on at an angle.

I don't use SELOC but if fellow loti owners are coming over to the Isle of Man I'd love to join in

[S2john]

island s2 said:

I've used the ferry coming from the Isle of Man a couple of times. No problems usually (exige s2 btw)but sometimes if the sea is a bit rough the ramps can be steeper.

I had to reverse on but I'm sure the ferry guys can give you a heads up if you are going to ground it. The other method is to go on at an angle.

I don't use SELOC but if fellow loti owners are coming over to the Isle of Man I'd love to join in

Oh yes, there are plenty of fellow Lotus owners coming over & you are more than welcome to join us.
Have a look on the link for the dates