Ha Ha, just missed that one Gordon. I was booked on Pentland ferries for Wed the 6th July, when I got to my room in the Purple Palace, Tues evening I had a text from Pentland ferries saying 'my sailing was cancelled, sorry but there was an incident with the boat'.
So I rang North link ferries at 20.30 that night and managed to get on their boat at 09.40 next morning.
Later on Wed afternoon while speaking to a couple of crew members I found out that the boat had been grounded ,the passengers transferred and all the cars ,lorries, motorcycles had been left on board because they expected it to sink. Really glad I missed that bit of excitement!!
stay safe
Bob