Ferry Cancelled.

Just got off the phone with Brittany Ferries, the inaugural sailing from Cork to Santander has been cancelled, #&%king wampers. I wanted to be on the maiden voyage which they are hoping to proceed with on the 9th. We are now heading from Rosslare to Fishguard driving to Portsmouth and sailing from there on the 1st.Brittany Ferries will be looking after the Stenna booking from Rosslare. Does anyone know of a safe overnight stop within an hour or two of Portsmouth? Any suggestions welcome. Thanks.

That is a horrible drive Liam, I would prefer to drive down through France than do that, especially if it is costing €1000 extra. You would want more than a voucher for that hassle. These New Boats are very like the Ld line saga a few years ago.

Brittany Ferries organised the Stenna crossing to Fishguard at no cost to myself, I picked the sailing that suited me. The only extra expense involved will be the cost of diesel to drive through England. Extra sea time is a bonus as far as I'm concerned, yea I know I'm nuts. I was lucky enough to get a six week temporary job on Irish Ferries, just before they got rid of all the Irish workers, unfortunately it only lasted six months. The best job I ever had, two weeks holiday every month. As Mrs Dipper wont be joining me for a couple of weeks a fishing buddy is taking advantage of the free trip and coming for the first week. He's as crazy as I am and happy to be at sea or driving. It just means that we have an extra day away. What really annoys me is the fact that I'll miss the maiden voyage from Cork to Santander. I'm going to pop off an email to customer services to see if we can get free meals on the Pont Avon from Portsmouth

I got a recommendation from another forum for the car park at the D-Day museum at Southsea. They say it's an official motorhome facility and the police drop in regularly during the night. The big plus is that we'll get to see the Mary Rose exhibition and HMS Warrior before boarding the Pont Avon on Tuesday. A bit of a downer today, I got a crack in my windscreen from a stone and the earliest Autoglass can get to me is towards the end of next week. I'll just have to chance it and hope it stays on the passenger side. At the moment it's about 25cm and with a bit of luck it will stay that size.

Liam. Have you time to get it done in the UK , or you could ask the insurance if they can arrange it to have it done when you land . If it goes bad you'll have to get it done anyway.

You can try and stop the crack from spreading by touching up the inside of the glass with a tiny drop of super glue along the lenght of the crack.
As others have mentioned turn the cab heater to cold.
Malcolm

Thanks for all the input, windscreen now sorted. I rang Wexford Windscreen Centre Limited (053 9142011) yesterday mid day to find out what it would cost to buy one and have it fitted and would it be possible to get it done before the weekend. I told him about leaving Rosslare at 8 AM Monday morning and he said to drop the van into him first thing this morning and he'd do his best to get me sorted. When he found out that I was insured with Aviva he said they did work for Aviva and he'd clear it with the company. Dropped the van in at 8:30 this morning and got a call at 12:30 informing me that it was ready for collection. Happy days. Now I can put my Craic sticker top and center where it belongs. Happy days indeed.

I use the lads always myself Liam. Great bunch. Have a ball. Maybe we will happen on you if we make it that far south.