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Shapinsay: ferry departures & arrivals today

59°02′N 2°55′W · GBSPY

3 departures today · 3 arrivals · 1 operator · 1 route

Today at Shapinsay

  1. 1 earlier departure today not shown
  2. KirkwallArrived, estimatedOrkney Ferries
  3. KirkwallArrived, estimatedOrkney Ferries
  4. Now ·
  5. No more departures today.

Ferry operators at Shapinsay

Departures from Shapinsay in the next 14 days, by operator (published timetables) · 25 Oct – 7 Nov
OperatorSun25Mon26Tue27Wed28Thu29Fri30Sat31Sun1Mon2Tue3Wed4Thu5Fri6Sat7
Orkney Ferries36666653666665

Weather at sea

TodaySun 25 OctTomorrowMon 26 Oct
Wind from NW 32–40 knBeaufort 7–8 · galegusts 49 knwaves 1.7–1.9 m9–10 °Cprecipitation up to 1.3 mm/hvisibility down to 3.5 kmWind from W 16–39 knBeaufort 4–8 · galegusts 47 knwaves 0.4–2.0 m10–13 °Cprecipitation up to 3.2 mm/hvisibility down to 1.8 km

Forecast issued 25 Oct, 12:13. 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 Shapinsay

From Shapinsay, ferries sail to Kirkwall. All departures listed here are operated by Orkney Ferries.

Today’s first departure is at 10:30, the last at 15:15. Over the next seven days 38 departures are scheduled, between 3 and 6 a day.

The crossing to Kirkwall takes 25 min. The nearest other ferry port on ferrywhere is Kirkwall, 6 km away as the crow flies.

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