She certainly has the largest bow visor in the Calmac fleet, which is down to her breadth. She is the widest vessel in the calmac fleet, with a breadth of 18.52 metres at the widest point (0.12 Metres wider than Loch Seaforth). Most other major vessels are roughly 15 metres wide, which is why the Isle of Lewis' visor appears a lot larger than the others.
Only CalMac execs with their infinite wisdom would waste such a ship on such a route. Her bigger size makes it difficult for her to service other parts of the network (a temporary timetable having to be drawn up for her when she covered on the Uig triangle back in 2015 so she could berth at high tides) and there was overwhelming calls from the people of Lewis for her to stay where she was and relieve the pressure on the heavily congested route by doubling the number of sailings. But of course, CalMac knows best.
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Why is her blumin bow visor so big it must be a speacial calmac ship for that bug bow
Yeah, I know that the visor on the MV Isle Of Mull is 30 odd tons so there's gonna be a lot of weight in this one
She certainly has the largest bow visor in the Calmac fleet, which is down to her breadth. She is the widest vessel in the calmac fleet, with a breadth of 18.52 metres at the widest point (0.12 Metres wider than Loch Seaforth). Most other major vessels are roughly 15 metres wide, which is why the Isle of Lewis' visor appears a lot larger than the others.
She was the largest Calmac ferry at 101m until the Loch Seaforth took the crown at 115m.
Only CalMac execs with their infinite wisdom would waste such a ship on such a route.
Her bigger size makes it difficult for her to service other parts of the network (a temporary timetable having to be drawn up for her when she covered on the Uig triangle back in 2015 so she could berth at high tides) and there was overwhelming calls from the people of Lewis for her to stay where she was and relieve the pressure on the heavily congested route by doubling the number of sailings.
But of course, CalMac knows best.