Website kept freezing up. Phone constantly engaged.

Miraculously got website booking page to load at about 0915.

Slow process, very nerve racking, but by about 0925 I'd managed to book for the bike plus me and the wife, out from Heysham on the fast ferry at noon on Saturday 2nd June (all the Liverpool outbound options on that day had vanished by the time I got into the booking process) and back into Liverpool on the same fast ferry (departing Douglas at 1500) on Saturday 9th June.

Missed out in previous years, when I could've only gone via Ireland mid way through race week and got back via Ireland almost one week after the racing ends.

To get the exact dates I wanted, Saturday to Saturday, really is the icing on the cake.
As long as the Senior TT takes place on the Friday, and not the Saturday, as it did a few years back, due to lousy weather, I'll be the perfect trip.

Got the sailings I wanted      

Got the bookings I wanted without drama from the good offices of Marty Nutt, Nutt Travel.