The delayed Stornoway ferry, MV Loch Seaforth, is expected back in service on Friday after an extended first drydock.
The vessel has been held up by a week for extra work on a generator at the Cammell Laird year in Birkenhead near Liverpool.
Stormy conditions apparently prevented her departure today.
Weather permitting, she should be back on the Ullapool route by the weekend.
The new £42 million ship has undergone upgrade work during her first drydock since she was delivered a few months ago.
The German-
She is having work undertaken on nagging faults, technical issues and any necessary adjustments to her propeller shaft and engines.
She was also to have her stern ramp widened as well as "general service to systems and engines."
A new monitoring systems aims to save on the amount of fuel she burns.
The MV Isle of Lewis has operated the Stornoway -
Northlink vessel MV Hildesay was due to return to Shetland last weekend but will continue to operate the overnight freight service until the Seaforth returns.
This will be a reciprocal arrangement with the MV Isle of Lewis covering one of Northlink's dry dock periods on the Orkney or Shetland routes in early 2016.
Loch Seaforth stuck in Liverpool
18 November 2015