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Post by landlubber on Jan 13, 2018 14:02:39 GMT -8
Anyone happen to know why the Queen of Coquitlam is currently being used in place of the Queen of Oak Bay on Route 2, and when the Oak Bay might be returning to service?
I kinda miss the Oakey. My favorite ship.
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Post by landlubber on Aug 2, 2016 6:07:03 GMT -8
Maybe it's just a glitch in the data being received from the Coastal Inspiration this morning.. but it otherwise appears that the CI has diverted off course on it's first run of the day to Tsawwassen and is now nearly at a dead stop not far off of Valdes Island.
Edit 48 minutes later. Wasn't a glitch. CI now appears to be proceeding directly to Tsawwassen after it's diversion. Going to be about 50 minutes late in arrival.
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Post by landlubber on Jul 28, 2016 15:10:06 GMT -8
At 1600 local, The Queen of Burnaby appears to be leaving Van on her way back to L. River-W. View.
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Post by landlubber on Mar 17, 2012 10:43:40 GMT -8
On the contrary Flugel Horn.. I enjoyed your suggestion that they might be Orca-class instead. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. But after studying pictures of both classes, I am 99% certain they were Frigates. I only wished I had taken a picture of one to be sure.
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Post by landlubber on Mar 17, 2012 8:59:19 GMT -8
Although it is perhaps a bit off-subject to be discussing Royal Canadian Navy ships on a website devoted to West Coast Ferries.. I would nevertheless like to say for the record that the 4 Navy ships that I observed (and that we made such a large deviation around) were in fact Frigates and not Orca-Class vessels. There is no doubt in my mind about that. Also.. our Rt 30 deviation that day took us all the way to approx the half-way point of Rt 2 before turning towards Departure Bay. Prior to that turn, we had enjoyed a great view of downtown Vancouver and Stanley Park that one does not normally see when travelling between Tsawwassen and Nanaimo. I wonder if today's article in the Times-Colonist about the test-firing of a MK48 torpedo off the east coast of Van Island this week might explain the presence of the Frigates. www.timescolonist.com/Submarine+HMCS+Victoria+fires+first+exercise+torpedo/6316138/story.html
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Post by landlubber on Mar 14, 2012 15:37:56 GMT -8
Do'h! Of course.. it was surely the Queen of Alberni. A bit behind schedule, and itself detouring around the same frigates, just to the other side of them. On the other hand, if indeed it was the Alberni, it was certainly traveling very very slowly. I watched it for a very long time, and the ship in my photo really did seem almost stationary.
Thanks for the replies.
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Post by landlubber on Mar 14, 2012 14:55:02 GMT -8
While traveling onboard the Coastal Inspiration yesterday (Mar 13) on the 5:45pm sailing to Nanaimo, I noticed that we made a considerable detour (towards the mainland) to go around 4 Canadian Navy frigates that were loosely shadowing a large ship that was very close to the shoreline of Vancouver Island. This was approx 3/4 of the way to Departure Bay. As we were passing abeam the mystery ship, I noticed that it appeared to be one of BC Ferries' own ships that was under observation. Since this all seemed so out of the ordinary, I went outside to photograph the mystery ship as best I could given the fading light of evening and with my camera set to it's maximum focal length. Anyone care to guess which ship this may be? And does BC Ferries lend (or rent) it's ships out to the Navy for "exercises".. as I'm guessing this was? Attachments:
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Post by landlubber on Aug 19, 2011 6:30:39 GMT -8
Why do so many want to shoot the messenger? Mr Hahn is merely stating what should be obvious to all. Commodity prices (and 0% interest rates in the US) have strengthened the Canadian dollar beyond all reason, causing a sharp fall-off in tourism to BC. At the same time, those same sharply higher commodity prices make it quite a bit more expensive to run a ferry service that is dependent on crude oil to operate. Couple all that with the sharpest world-wide economic slowdown that any of us have seen in our lifetime, and you have a ferry service that cannot break-even, even with it's large taxpayer subsidy.
Hahn isn't making any of this up. These are facts of life that he has to deal with every day, just as hoteliers and other businesses in BC have to.
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Post by landlubber on Jun 9, 2011 16:51:42 GMT -8
The Queen of Esquimalt in Active Pass enroute to Swartz Bay in August 1966. (Pre-stretch and pre-lift.) Photo taken by my Father from the deck of the Queen of Vancouver. I'm the 13 yr old kid in the tan jacket. i182.photobucket.com/albums/x78/fordguy_54/QueenofEsquimaltAug66.jpg========= moderator edit: to change oversized picture to a link. width limit is 800px. nice pic !
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Post by landlubber on Mar 21, 2011 19:59:14 GMT -8
Can anyone please estimate for me when the Queen of Oak Bay will be back in operation on Rt.2. I've sailed onboard her many times over the past winter, and I kind of miss her.
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Post by landlubber on Mar 8, 2009 12:22:26 GMT -8
C'mon already.. the people of BC should be proud of their new ships and where they were built. Any other approach to this is childish and immature.
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Post by landlubber on Mar 2, 2009 11:06:13 GMT -8
Ok.. you got me. What does MD stand for? Is that some kind of "use only if necessary" status? These dates are exactly when I would be in BC. This is to be my window of opportunity.
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Post by landlubber on Feb 27, 2009 12:31:17 GMT -8
Could someone plz summarize for me just how long the Queen of Vancouver is likely to still be in operation. I've riden her just once in my life (in 1966) and would love to sail on her again before her curtain call. I'm planning a trip to BC sometime in mid to late March. Is there a good chance I will be in time?
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Post by landlubber on Feb 21, 2009 6:23:38 GMT -8
Comparing a "one-time build" passenger ferry to a mass-production automobile is a bit unfair I think. The very first pre-production Yaris probably had an awful lot wrong with it's fit & finish.
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Post by landlubber on Feb 12, 2009 15:56:53 GMT -8
RBI still shows the New Westminster starting service on Rt. 1 Monday morning. Does this mean the Queen of Vancouver's last service on the BC coastline is likely to be this Sunday?
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Post by landlubber on Feb 8, 2009 20:34:34 GMT -8
Getting back to the original subject.. how much longer does the Vancouver have? Is it the general consensus of everyone that she will be gone as soon as the New Westminster is put back in service?
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Post by landlubber on Feb 2, 2009 15:29:04 GMT -8
Smaller Vessel?
Vancouver? New Westminster?
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Post by landlubber on Jan 9, 2009 21:54:29 GMT -8
Bravo Maestro Brinkmann!
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Post by landlubber on Dec 23, 2008 22:19:15 GMT -8
It seems to me (an outsider, I admit) that the BCFS is still very much under the control of polititians anyway. Until it is fully privitised, it will never be able to react on it's own to market conditions as they exist and fully adjust to the marketplace it serves. Above all else, what it needs is competition across the Georgia Strait and elsewhere. Unfortunately, government subsidization is the very thing that will keep this from happening.
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Post by landlubber on Dec 16, 2008 12:22:06 GMT -8
i would love to know what the pretty aspects of thsi ship are.. Her "pretty aspects" are... that she will deliver her passengers, crew, and cargo safely, efficiently, and comfortably to their destination over and over again for the next 40 years or so. That by itself is a beautiful thing, is it not?
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Post by landlubber on Dec 9, 2008 7:52:35 GMT -8
And on what run is she likely to be on?
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Post by landlubber on Nov 28, 2007 18:59:45 GMT -8
Thank you Chris for posting this photo of the Princess Marguerite II on my behalf. I would only like to add, for those who are interested, that the photo was taken on July 30th, 1966.
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Post by landlubber on Jan 5, 2008 17:36:14 GMT -8
To put my thoughts more clearly then.. If these ferries were built more quickly, at less expense, will be put into service sooner, and are equal to or greater in quality, compared to what would have been built locally, then it has been a good decision to have them built overseas with FSG. The region's economy is better served in the long run for it because it was all acheived at considerably lower cost than would have occurred otherwise. Having said that.. I completely understand why some would not agree with this if their livelyhood is directly tied in with the local shipbuilding industry. Unfortunately, they are too "close" to see the bigger picture. Just my 2 cents.
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Post by landlubber on Jan 5, 2008 11:54:37 GMT -8
Given the importance to the BC economy of quick, reliable, and efficient ferry service to and from Vancouver Island, I would say that the economic benefits to the area as a whole, as will occur from the speedy addition of these three new ferries, and especially considering the cost, and efficiency with which they were built and delivered, is more an overriding consideration than having them built at home. Instead of second guessing whatever government made the decision to go with FSG, I would instead be praising them for their wise decision.
The only possible "real" issue would be.. could they have been built better, or to a higher standard, in BC. I doubt seriously if that's the case.
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Post by landlubber on Mar 26, 2008 14:07:05 GMT -8
The CI has now been in port for over 24hrs... and nobody in the Nanaimo area can get a picture up for us?
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