{"id":557871,"date":"2026-08-03T16:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557871\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:39:21","slug":"all-interislander-sailings-cancelled-tomorrow-due-to-expected-bad-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557871\/","title":{"rendered":"All Interislander sailings cancelled tomorrow due to expected bad weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">All Interislander sailings have been cancelled tomorrow, due to forecast high winds and large swells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Four Interislander sailings between Wellington and Picton were cancelled due to a forecast southerly weather system in the Cook Strait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Interislander said the safety of passengers and crew was its top priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">&#8220;All affected passengers are being moved to alternative sailings and are being contacted directly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Bluebridge has cancelled all services but its 2am Wellington to Picton sailing and 2.30am Picton to Wellington sailing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">&#8220;All affected customers have been contacted by email and\/or text and moved to the next available sailing once it is safe to resume passenger services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">It has also cancelled its 2am Wellington to Picton service, and its 2:30am Picton to Wellington service on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Interislander sailings have been cancelled tomorrow, due to forecast high winds and large swells. Four Interislander sailings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-557871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}