{"id":36670,"date":"2023-05-02T03:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T03:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/05\/02\/over-the-sea-to-skye-on-the-worlds-last-turntable-ferry\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T03:49:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T03:49:36","slug":"over-the-sea-to-skye-on-the-worlds-last-turntable-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=36670","title":{"rendered":"Over the sea to Skye on the world\u2019s last turntable ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The MV Glenachulish is the world\u2019s last manually-operated turntable ferry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Its unique design allows it to navigate the challenging tidal conditions of the Kylerhea Narrows between the Scottish mainland and the Isle of Skye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Up to six cars can be transported on the Glenachulish&#8217;s deck, which the crew rotate by hand when it reaches its slipway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The vessel &#8211; which is more than 50 years old &#8211; was saved in 2007 when it was bought by the local community after its long-term skipper retired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Morgan Spence<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Drone footage: Cameron McMurdo<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-65429882?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The MV Glenachulish is the world\u2019s last manually-operated turntable ferry. Its unique design allows it to navigate the challenging tidal conditions of the Kylerhea Narrows between the Scottish mainland &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}