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Post by WettCoast on Jan 24, 2008 21:17:04 GMT -8
On another thread we have been discussing passenger only ferries running parallel to BCF's main car ferry routes to Vancouver Island. While looking around in my collection this evening I came accross this 1991 brochure on the Royal Sealink Express, and thought I would share it. For a service like this to survive I believe that subsidization is required.  Front & Back cover  brochure inside JST collection |
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Post by Kahloke on Jan 27, 2008 11:01:42 GMT -8
Wow, Royal Sealink Express looks an awful lot like Victoria Clipper IV. How long did Royal Sealink operate? I wonder if Clipper Navigation bought that vessel from Royal Sealink, and maybe that vessel is Clipper IV today.
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Post by Retrovision on Feb 13, 2008 5:57:32 GMT -8
Great contributions, all. I'm especially brought back to my youth by official images from Royal Sealink Express, let alone how much this makes me wonder to this day the fate of the berth adjacent to Translink's Seabus that both she and the more recent encarnation Harbourlynx used near Canada Place. Thanks for the reminder, Jim.  Some of us are more certain, however, that one project in particular, in fact one specefic party leader, had the sole ambition to take down an entire left leaning party. Rhetoric aside, here's first - thanks to my hand-me-down scanner - an upload to the 'net of mine, the front and back pannel, of a brochure touting the supposed eventual bennefits of what we now know as the FastCat fiasco, so some consider the undermining of the NDP and prominent left-leaning politics in our province...  ...However I'm informed by the utmost reliable source that, especially considering how good of a Mayor of Vancouver he was, Campbell has until now simply been forced to follow his party line. ...Necessity or not, King Clark, many will agree, was the demise of modern leftist hopes for our great province. |
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Post by Neil on Feb 24, 2012 15:26:59 GMT -8
I know that there's not likely to be a lot of follow up or interest in this, but we don't have a general 'defunct fast ferries' thread, so I'll start this one. I have a couple more articles on this company which I'll get around to adding. This may have been posted elsewhere. Some people on this forum like to include stern warnings to deter others from poaching; I prefer to include my trademark signature- a camera strap. Probably serves the same purpose. And just think of the fuzzy scan as a good eyesight test.   |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Feb 24, 2012 15:34:03 GMT -8
I know that there's not likely to be a lot of follow up or interest in this, but we don't have a general 'defunct fast ferries' thread, so I'll start this one. I have a couple more articles on this company which I'll get around to adding. This may have been posted elsewhere. Some people on this forum like to include stern warnings to deter others from poaching; I prefer to include my trademark signature- a camera strap. Probably serves the same purpose. And just think of the fuzzy scan as a good eyesight test. Great idea. I'm interested in this stuff. And I wanna be the first of many people to say this: "Nice carpet, Neil". |
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Post by lmtengs on Feb 24, 2012 18:08:05 GMT -8
I know that there's not likely to be a lot of follow up or interest in this, but we don't have a general 'defunct fast ferries' thread, so I'll start this one. I have a couple more articles on this company which I'll get around to adding. This may have been posted elsewhere. Some people on this forum like to include stern warnings to deter others from poaching; I prefer to include my trademark signature- a camera strap. Probably serves the same purpose. And just think of the fuzzy scan as a good eyesight test. Great idea. I'm interested in this stuff. And I wanna be the first of many people to say this: "Nice carpet, Neil". Or is it a granite countertop? ;D |
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Post by piglet on Feb 24, 2012 20:51:39 GMT -8
Me thinks its a counter.
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Post by Neil on Feb 24, 2012 22:30:55 GMT -8
I want to strongly object to the moderator's unprofessional conduct in instantly digressing from the topic I posted and speculating on the absolutely irrelevant topic of surfaces, and I object as well to the members who followed him in this unwanted and unwarranted diversion, and I want to state that you should all take your discussion of surfaces to another thread, and if you don't agree, I will make a very dramatic exit from this forum and BOY will you be sorry. Oh. It's a carpet. Now. Some time after they began their Victoria service, Royal Sealink Express expanded to Nanaimo, or at least this short announcement in Harbour & Shipping said they did; I don't have a date. As I mentioned, I have a couple more pieces on this company, but I'm hoping that some members might have some recollection of what went on, because I'm rather unfamiliar with it.  |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Feb 25, 2012 7:22:34 GMT -8
Oh. It's a carpet. Now. Some time after they began their Victoria service, Royal Sealink Express expanded to Nanaimo, or at least this short announcement in Harbour & Shipping said they did; I don't have a date. As I mentioned, I have a couple more pieces on this company, but I'm hoping that some members might have some recollection of what went on, because I'm rather unfamiliar with it. I knew it was a carpet, I feel vindicated now by the truth. As to "Nanaimo Express", according to one of my Nanaimo history books, the Nanaimo Express started service on July 19, 1992. It lasted until June 1993. So a 10 month operation. - the ship was named "Orca Spirit". |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2012 10:10:25 GMT -8
As a 'defunct fast ferries' could-have-been Master, I'm interested in this topic. It's a shame that Royal Sealink didn't survive because they had nice boats and a good potential market. They weren't competing with BCF but trying to fill a need for passenger only service from downtown to downtown. They had excellent terminal locations but the boats were very expensive to operate.
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Post by Neil on Mar 21, 2012 15:10:46 GMT -8
Boy, this forum has been about as lively as the Canucks recently. I know I'm as guilty as anyone... my ferries interest has been somewhat low. Anyway... a couple more articles on the Royal Sealink start up. The first is dated January 10, 1992, from the Vancouver Sun. The headline was Vancouver-Victoria fast ferry set to sail.  Second story dated January 18, 1992, also from the Sun.  |
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Post by lmtengs on Mar 21, 2012 18:08:32 GMT -8
Boy, this forum has been about as lively as the Canucks recently. I know I'm as guilty as anyone... my ferries interest has been somewhat low. Nice find, Neil. And the forum low? It's because I was gone. That's about 4 daily posts nixed for the last 8 days. ;D |
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Post by hullnumbers on Apr 21, 2017 17:00:53 GMT -8
What was the name of the Victoria - Vancouver Royal Sealink passenger boat? Also, Royal Sealink had a boat on the Nanaimo - Vancouver route, what was the name of that passenger boat?
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Post by Neil on Apr 21, 2017 17:53:02 GMT -8
What was the name of the Victoria - Vancouver Royal Sealink passenger boat? Also, Royal Sealink had a boat on the Nanaimo - Vancouver route, what was the name of that passenger boat? The names you're looking for are in previous posts in this thread. |
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Post by hullnumbers on Apr 21, 2017 20:35:52 GMT -8
What was the name of the Victoria - Vancouver Royal Sealink passenger boat? Also, Royal Sealink had a boat on the Nanaimo - Vancouver route, what was the name of that passenger boat? The names you're looking for are in previous posts in this thread. Ah, Royal Victoria and Royal Vancouver which did the Victoria - Vancouver service. The third would have been the Orca Spirit which did the Nanaimo - Vancouver service. That's interesting, I presumed two boats but it was three. |
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Post by burned on May 16, 2018 21:17:32 GMT -8
I remember riding the Royal Sealink Express in the 90s. We used it twice to get to Victoria on our trip to the West Coast Trail.
Those boats used to leave from the Sea Bus terminal downtown and arrive in the Victoria harbor in around 30 min. I still have the ticket stashed away some where.
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Post by Low Light Mike on May 17, 2018 5:40:45 GMT -8
Those boats used to leave from the Sea Bus terminal downtown and arrive in the Victoria harbor in around 30 min. I still have the ticket stashed away some where. 2 hours and 30 minutes, per the brochure at the start of this thread. |
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Post by WettCoast on May 17, 2018 8:03:13 GMT -8
I remember riding the Royal Sealink Express in the 90s. We used it twice to get to Victoria on our trip to the West Coast Trail. Those boats used to leave from the Sea Bus terminal downtown and arrive in the Victoria harbor in around 30 min. I still have the ticket stashed away some where. Yes, I travelled on it back in the early 1990's and the trip time was a little more than two hours.
They would have had to travel at an insane average speed to make that journey in just 30 minutes.
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Post by Dane on May 17, 2018 21:01:09 GMT -8
Even 2 hours and 30 minutes is impressive! V2V is 3 hours.
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Post by paranoidaltoid on Apr 22, 2019 5:22:52 GMT -8
Hi, I bought an "Inaugural Sailing" mug last year for a dollar at a garage sale. I figured some guy had mugs made for the inaugural sailing of his yacht or something silly. But I thought it'd be funny to own a mug older than myself, so I got it. But I decided to google it just now and was brought here. Thought I'd share:  Not sure how this thing came to be in a garage sale 26 years later in Alberta, but here it is. |
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Post by burned on Jun 26, 2023 11:52:56 GMT -8
As promised many years ago: Attachments:
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Post by paulvanb on Jun 27, 2023 20:24:56 GMT -8
Even 2 hours and 30 minutes is impressive! V2V is 3 hours. Just reading this now, but 2.5 hours downtown to downtown is a pretty good time. |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 24, 2023 20:43:14 GMT -8
The link below is to the final report done by the Transportation Safety Board into the collision between the Royal Sealink vessel Royal Vancouver and BC Ferries' Queen of Saanich at the north entrance to Active Pass on 6 February 1992. Twenty-three persons aboard the Royal Sealink vessel were injured while the Queen of Saanich's main car deck bow doors were badly damaged.
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