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6th December 2018

Isle of Man Sees Significant Response to Sea Services Survey

#Ferry - In response to an Isle of Man services survey of ferry operations this was the largest the department has seen.

That's according to the Infrastructure Minister Ray Harmer, reports Manx Radio

The results of the survey are set to help form the new Sea Services agreement between the department and the Isle of Man Steam Packet company.

Mr Harmer says the response has been encouraging and to listen for more of his comments click the radio station's link here.

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago