Sir,
Mr Yates from Catacol, in his letter in last week’s Banner, questions the ability of a ferry to manoeuvre and dock stern onto the linkspan in the inner berth at Ardrossan, the ‘Irish berth’ as we knew it in the 1970s.
In those days the MV Lion (the Belfast ferry) managed to reverse in on a daily basis, so it is clear that the new Arran ferry could mange the same act, although one ferry front loading at the outer dock and the other rear loading in the inner dock would surely complicate matters when the weather, or other things go wrong and berths need to be changed.