Three and a half thousand bookings have been made for next year's TT festival.
The Steam Packet says it handled a 'record breaking' number of bookings when reservations opened on Monday.
In 10 hours it recorded a seven per cent increase on the same day in 2015 - the previous record high.
9,700 passengers, and 4,775 bikes, are now booked to travel to the Island in 2017.
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