Sound of Soay: where the ship is now and the routes she runs
Western Ferries · Passenger ship · Flag: United Kingdom
In port at Hunters Quay.
Position on the map
55°58′N 4°55′W
Weather at Hunters Quay
| TodaySun 25 Oct | TomorrowMon 26 Oct |
|---|---|
| Wind from W 14–15 knBeaufort 4gusts 32 knwaves 0.4–0.5 m8–9 °Cprecipitation up to 0.2 mm/h | Wind from S 8–25 knBeaufort 3–6 · strong breezegusts 47 knwaves 0.2–1.2 m8–15 °Cprecipitation up to 6.3 mm/hvisibility down to 0.9 km |
Forecast issued 25 Oct, 15:08. 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.
Routes served
Punctuality of this ship
420 sailings · 30 days · average delay 2 min
- On time
- 96%
- 404
- Late
- 4%
- 16
- On time (up to 5 min): 404 (96%)
- 5–15 min late: 15 (4%)
- 15–30 min late: 1 (1%)
- Half of the departures leave within 2 min of the scheduled time.
- When a departure is late, the typical delay is 7 min.
- Last 7 days: 94% on time, out of 185 sailings.
Particulars
- IMO number
- 9665229
- MMSI
- 235101063
- Call sign
- 2GWI3
- Length
- 50 m
- Beam
- 15 m
- Flag
- United Kingdom
- Ship type
- Passenger ship
Western Ferries fleet
- Sound of SeilIn port at Hunters Quay
- Sound of ScarbaNo recent position
- Sound of ShunaNo recent position
About Sound of Soay
Sound of Soay is a passenger ship in the Western Ferries fleet. She is 50 metres long and registered in the United Kingdom. Her IMO number is 9665229 and her MMSI 235101063.
In the last 30 days we linked her to sailings on 2 routes: Hunters Quay → McInroy's Point and McInroy's Point → Hunters Quay. Western Ferries runs 2 routes in the timetables we follow, with ports in the United Kingdom.
The other Western Ferries ships we know are Sound of Scarba, Sound of Seil and Sound of Shuna. Over the last 30 days we measured 420 of her departures; 96% were on time.