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A full repair of the faulty hinge took place on Saturday, allowing the bridge to go back into operation on Sunday, but it requires a workboat to travel alongside it during the ebb tide.
Cowes Floating bridge: All you need to know
The Floating Bridge links Cowes and East Cowes, running regularly through the day and much of the evening. It’s sometimes called the Chain Ferry because it pulls itself both sides of the river on a chain.
Below are articles charting the history of the Cowes Floating Bridge.
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The Floating Bridge went out of service just after 12.30pm today due to "mechanical problems". A passenger launch is in operation.
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The Isle of Wight council has simply said the "Floating Bridge is out of service temporarily" and not given any explanation of how it became grounded on a neap tide. Is this the ‘good floating bridge service during Cowes Week’ Cllr Ian Ward wanted?
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Ian Ward wants ‘a good floating bridge service during Cowes Week’ – What about the rest of the year?
Cllr Ian Ward has just stated he wants to provide Cowes Week visitors "a good floating bridge service during the period of Cowes Week" - Somehow not realising this is somewhat of a snub to Islanders who live here all year round who dream of the same.
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The council choose to describe this new work to the Floating Bridge as 'improvements'. Shouldn't all of these things have been delivered when the then-new Floating bridge was received a year and two months ago?
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The Isle of Wight council say that a passenger launch will be in operation on each day during the essential maintenance.
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A contingent from the Floating Bridge Stakeholders Group gave a deputation to the funders of the Cowes Floating Bridge - the Solent LEP - today. They report back here.
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OK, the council is bringing back floating bridge crossings between 5am and 1.25am - but have they fixed the long-running noise pollution issues. OnTheWight gets answers from the Isle of Wight council. Read on ...
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With the Isle of Wight Festival opening its gates on Thursday 21st June, the council are getting the Floating Bridge to run at the times the old service used to - 5am, then into the wee hours.
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To address the issues with the chain height of Floating Bridge 6, the service will be suspended for a few hours over approximately ten days a month at different times.
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The revised timetable will be in place over the next four nights but no reason for the change has been given as yet.
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Another previously-profitable business in East Cowes is citing the unreliability of the Cowes Floating Bridge over the last year as the reason for having to close his doors on Saturday.
