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Flotta: ferry departures & arrivals today

58°50′N 3°08′W · GBFLH

4 departures today · 4 arrivals · 1 operator · 3 routes

Today at Flotta

  1. 2 earlier departures today not shown
  2. HoutonArrived, estimatedvia Lyness · Orkney Ferries
  3. LonghopeArrived, estimatedOrkney Ferries
  4. Now ·
  5. No more departures today.

Ferries from Flotta

Ships near Flotta

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Flotta
  • Herston Lass · declared destination: FLOT HOUTlive · position from 1 min ago
  • Flotta Lass · declared destination: FLOTTAlive · position from 1 min ago

Ferry operators at Flotta

Departures from Flotta in the next 14 days, by operator (published timetables) · 25 Oct – 7 Nov
OperatorSun25Mon26Tue27Wed28Thu29Fri30Sat31Sun1Mon2Tue3Wed4Thu5Fri6Sat7
Orkney Ferries45555544555554

Weather at sea

TodaySun 25 OctTomorrowMon 26 Oct
Wind from NW 35–38 knBeaufort 8 · galegusts 62 knwaves 1.8–2.0 m8–9 °Cprecipitation up to 1.2 mm/hvisibility down to 3.8 kmWind from W 13–34 knBeaufort 4–8 · galegusts 55 knwaves 0.6–1.8 m9–13 °Cprecipitation up to 4.2 mm/hvisibility down to 1.8 km

Forecast issued 25 Oct, 12:08. It doesn’t tell whether a sailing will run: that is up to the operator.

Data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0). Licence: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Wind converted from m/s to knots and the Beaufort scale. Waves come from the nearest sea point of MET’s ocean model, which covers north-west Europe only; gusts only where MET forecasts them (the Nordic area).Weather data by Open-Meteo.com. Licence: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Models ECMWF IFS and ECMWF WAM (© ECMWF, CC BY 4.0), 9 km grid: wind in knots converted to the Beaufort scale, temperature at sea level, precipitation (rain, showers and snow) as the hourly total shown for the hour it falls in, waves and mean wave period from the model’s nearest sea point, visibility shown only below 5 km; nearby places in the same grid cell share the same figures.Daily lows and highs, and the hour with the most precipitation, worked out by ferrywhere. Each figure comes from MET Norway where MET forecasts it, otherwise from Open-Meteo.

About the port of Flotta

From Flotta, ferries sail to 3 destinations: Houton, Lyness and Longhope. All departures listed here are operated by Orkney Ferries.

Today’s first departure is at 08:55 for Houton, the last at 17:35 for Longhope. Over the next seven days 33 departures are scheduled, between 4 and 5 a day.

Crossings from Flotta take from 20 min (to Lyness) to 55 min (to Houton). The nearest other ferry port on ferrywhere is Lyness, 4 km away as the crow flies.

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