Sunday sailing saves fogbound passengers

The Sunday sailing of the Scillonian is a saviour for Saturday’s fogbound visitors to the islands.

Thick fog on Friday and Saturday caused massive delays to flights to and from the islands. It resulted in two sailings on the Scillonian on Saturday. Unfortunately there were too many passengers for the boat. So 15 passengers volunteered to get off the vessel and spend the night in Penzance.

Luckily for them Sunday had a Pirate FM Scillonian Sunday sailing to Scilly scheduled.

Some fog bound passengers were lucky enough to get seats on the jet propelled boats “The Cyclone”, “The Wizard” and “Lightening” which did trips to and from the mainland for desperate passengers.