Star Ferry piers, boats and timetable

The Star Ferry now crosses Victoria Harbour the way it did in 1998: green-and-white boats, three piers and a timetable. The Kowloon clock tower stands beside the Tsim Sha Tsui terminal.

What is new

The boat. A double-ended ferry with a dark green hull, black tyre fenders, a white saloon with a window band, a smaller saloon above with a white roof edged in green, a wheelhouse and a mast at each end, a black funnel with a white band and a row of lifebuoys. The windows glow at night.
The piers. Central (Edinburgh Place), Tsim Sha Tsui and Wan Chai each have a hall with a STAR FERRY sign in English and Chinese, and finger piers with canopies and the pier name at the tip. Central also has its own clock tower.
The Kowloon clock tower. The old Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower now stands next to the Tsim Sha Tsui terminal: red brick and granite, four clock faces, a lantern and a pyramid roof. Its clocks, and the one at Central, show the sim's time of day.
The timetable. Central to Tsim Sha Tsui runs from 06:30 to 23:30, with a sailing about every 6 to 12 minutes each way and a crossing of about 9 minutes. Wan Chai to Tsim Sha Tsui runs from 07:30 to 23:00, about every 10 minutes, with a crossing of about 8 minutes. The boats leave on the minute, berth at each pier, and lie at their berths before the first sailing and after the last.
The crossing. Each boat leaves its berth straight out, crosses the harbour keeping to starboard so the two directions pass each other, and slows into its berth.

The Tsim Sha Tsui Star Ferry pier from the harbour: a hall with a STAR FERRY sign, two finger piers with green canopies, two ferries alongside and the red brick clock tower behind. — The Tsim Sha Tsui pier, with the clock tower behind it.

The red brick Kowloon clock tower with a clock face and a pyramid roof, beside the Star Ferry hall and a ferry alongside a finger pier. — The clock tower beside the terminal.

The Central Star Ferry pier with its clock tower and two finger piers, a ferry at one berth and another crossing towards Tsim Sha Tsui, with the Central towers behind. — The Central pier, with the crossing under way.

Seen from above the harbour: Star Ferries crossing from Tsim Sha Tsui to Central with wakes behind them, and a container ship in the foreground. — Ferries crossing mid-harbour.

The Tsim Sha Tsui pier at night: lit saloon windows on the ferries, the lit hall and the clock faces glowing. — Tsim Sha Tsui at night.

What is made up

The sailing pattern follows the Star Ferry's published weekday timetable for Central to Tsim Sha Tsui. The Wan Chai figures (every 10 minutes, 8 minutes across) are our own, between the published peak and off-peak intervals.
The boat and the piers are built by eye from photographs. The pier signs are plain text, with no logo.
The old Hung Hom routes are gone: they ended in open water, so the sim now runs the two routes above.

What did not change

The autopilot still lands in every weather preset, and flying with no input still ends in a crash.
The ferries follow the time of day you pick on the home screen, and the sim clock after that, so time speed and the day, dusk and night presets all work.

天星小輪而家好似一九九八年咁橫渡維多利亞港：綠白色嘅船、三個碼頭同埋時間表。九龍鐘樓企喺尖沙咀碼頭隔離。

有咩新嘢

船。兩頭都可以行嘅渡輪，深綠色船身、黑色輪胎碰墊、有一排窗嘅白色艙、上面有細啲嘅白頂艙，頂邊係綠色；兩端各有駕駛室同桅桿，中間有黑色煙囪連白帶，仲有一排救生圈。夜晚窗口會發光。
碼頭。中環（愛丁堡廣場）、尖沙咀同灣仔各有一座大堂，掛住中英文「STAR FERRY 天星小輪」招牌，仲有兩條有上蓋嘅棧橋，橋頭有碼頭名。中環碼頭仲有自己嘅鐘樓。
九龍鐘樓。前九廣鐵路鐘樓而家企喺尖沙咀碼頭隔離：紅磚同花崗石、四面鐘、一個燈籠亭同尖頂。呢座鐘同中環碼頭嘅鐘，都顯示模擬嘅時間。
時間表。中環往尖沙咀由 06:30 行到 23:30，每個方向大約每 6 至 12 分鐘一班，航程大約 9 分鐘。灣仔往尖沙咀由 07:30 行到 23:00，大約每 10 分鐘一班，航程大約 8 分鐘。船準時開出，喺每個碼頭泊岸，頭班之前同尾班之後都停喺泊位。
橫渡。每艘船由泊位直出，過海時靠右行，兩個方向嘅船可以錯開，到碼頭先減速泊岸。