Isle of Wight Ferry

"Whats brown and steaming and comes out of Cowes?"

The Isle of Wight Ferry

Clearly theyve changed the paint scheme since that joke was first told.

The Isle of Wight Ferry is something of an English institution linking the holiday island with points on the mainland. In fact there are several this one is the Lymington-Yarmouth ferry at the western end of the Solent.



To the east Wight Link ferries from Portsmouth land Ryde and Fishbourne, plus theres still a hovercraft service from Southsea to Ryde. In the central Solent Red Funnel connects Southampton and Cowes with a car ferry and a fast cat service

One urban myth suggests that its the most expensive ferry journey on a mile per mile basis, who knows