Service
Today Waverley makes passenger excursions from various British ports. She regularly sails from Glasgow and other towns on the Firth of Clyde, the Thames, the South Coast of England and the Bristol Channel. She also undertakes private charters and provides a period setting for television documentaries and movies such as Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011).
Primarily during the summer she is based on the Clyde, operating excursions from Glasgow, Greenock, Largs or Ayr. Her main timetable is:
| Mondays | Glasgow - Largs - Ayr - Girvan - Round Ailsa Craig - Ayr. |
| Tuesdays | Ayr - Brodick - Millport - Largs - Dunoon - Blairmore - Cruise Loch Long and Loch Goil and return. |
| Wednesdays | Largs - Rothesay - Tighnabruaich - Tarbert - Cruise Loch Fyne, Arran Coast and return. |
| Thursdays | Greenock - Helensburgh - Dunoon - Rothesay - Largs - Millport - Brodick - Cruise Holy Isle, Pladda and return. |
| Fridays | Glasgow - Kilcreggan - Dunoon - Rothesay and return. |
| Saturdays | Glasgow - Greenock - Helensburgh - Dunoon - Rothesay - Tighnabruiach and return. |
| Sundays | Different cruises to places such as Lochranza, Campbeltown etc., from Glasgow. |
Her Clyde timetable ends at the end of August and Waverley spends 6 weeks between September and October cruising the Bristol Channel, the Solent and the Thames before returning to the Clyde for two sailings in October.
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