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Post by EGfleet on Jan 22, 2009 9:05:08 GMT -8
Heck, why not have the Skagit or Kalama come to our side of the line to provide passenger ferry service between Nanaimo and Vancouver once WSF disposes of them? Having commuted on those boats...TRUST ME. You do NOT want them. ;D |
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Post by whidbeyislandguy on Jan 23, 2009 1:13:18 GMT -8
Ok so this was a request that took a while to get around to doing but none the less here she is. ;D  10,255 |
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Post by whidbeyislandguy on Jan 25, 2009 17:32:35 GMT -8
Ok so this is another request. Needless to say she was a early double ender.    10,289 |
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Post by DENelson83 on Jan 26, 2009 0:00:31 GMT -8
Heck, why not have the Skagit or Kalama come to our side of the line to provide passenger ferry service between Nanaimo and Vancouver once WSF disposes of them? Having commuted on those boats...TRUST ME. You do NOT want them. ;D Why? 'Cuz they're fixer-uppers?  |
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Post by SS San Mateo on Jan 26, 2009 8:00:54 GMT -8
Having commuted on those boats...TRUST ME. You do NOT want them. ;D Why? 'Cuz they're fixer-uppers? Probably more like they would be quite unpleasant to ride in fairly rough seas. |
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Post by EGfleet on Jan 26, 2009 8:03:58 GMT -8
Having commuted on those boats...TRUST ME. You do NOT want them. ;D Why? 'Cuz they're fixer-uppers? They are the most uncomfortable, gawd awful vessels to ride. They roll, dip and sway in even moderate seas...having never experienced sea sickness on any ferry before in my life, even fighting 10 foot waves on the Chelan I very nearly did on the Skagit. Also, they're freezing in the winter and sweltering in the summer. There's a reason commuters call them the "tuna boats" and why they refer to it as the "Kalamity." There's a derogatory name for the Skagit too, but I won't post it.  |
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Post by Barnacle on Jan 26, 2009 14:59:29 GMT -8
To say nothing of the corrosion problems... the stability problems can be attributed to the fact that the uppder deck was an afterthought, both the pilothouse and the passenger area. The pilothouse was originally the raised area accesible from the lower deck. D'oh!
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Post by whidbeyislandguy on Jan 26, 2009 15:57:56 GMT -8
Well thanks to EGFleet for the pic here is the Skagit as she was went she first came to WSF.  10,355 |
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Post by whidbeyislandguy on Jan 29, 2009 22:43:44 GMT -8
Ok so she isn't from the West Coast But she is Old and still going.. Now this is one heck of an Old Girl.. Adirondack  Built as the “South Jacksonville” in 1913 at the Merrill-Stevens shipyard in Jacksonville Florida for the Jacksonville Ferry and Land Company. The 130-foot double-ended ferryboat had a 40-foot beam and was powered by a coal-fired steam engine. She was put into service on the Saint Johns River between downtown Jacksonville and South Jacksonville. A bridge (a ferryboats worst enemy) was built in 1921 and the boat was no longer needed. She was sold to the Tocony-Palmyra Ferry Company of Philadelphia and put into service on the Delaware River under the new name “Mount Holly” In 1927 the “Mount Holly” went further north, to New York Harbor. Her new owners, the 34th Street Vehicular Ferry Company kept the name “Mount Holly” and put her into service on the East River between Long Island City and the foot of East 34th Street in Manhattan. The company failed in 1936 when the “Mount Holly” was a quarter of a century old. The national economy was in the midst of the Great Depression. New bridges and tunnels were eliminating the need for ferryboats up and down the east coast, making her future gloomy indeed. Yet the “Mount Holly” survived. On May 5, 1938, the expanding Chesapeake Bay Ferry Company purchased her. Major rebuilding of the superstructure was done at this time, giving her, to a large extent, the appearance that she has today. She was renamed the “Governor Emerson C Harrington II” and ran on Eastern Bay on the Chesapeake, connecting the communities of Clairborne and Romancoke. The company was taken over by the State of Maryland in the early forties. In 1945, The “Governor Emerson C. Harrington II” was sent to the Baltimore Marine Repair Shops where her original steam and coal fired boilers where removed and replaced with a pair of 6- cylinder Atlas Imperial diesel engines. The first span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened in the summer of 1952 and the State of Maryland ceased its ferryboat operations. The “Governor Emerson C. Harrington II” was for sale again. The Lake Champlain Transportation Company, of Burlington Vermont, purchased the “Governor Emerson C. Harrington II” in 1954. The ferryboat that was about become the “Adirondack” (named for the mountain range in Upper New York State) entered a shipyard in Troy New York where her upper deck was disassembled and lowered to the car deck. This was done so she could be brought up the Champlain Canal with its low bridge clearances (13 feet) to Lake Champlain. The “Adirondack’s” second deck was restored to its original position in Burlington, where she began the current phase of her extraordinary and colorful career. The “Adirondack” has sailed every summer between Burlington and Port Kent since 1954. Her only major modification during this time was the replacement of the Atlas Imperial engines with two- 12V71 Detroit Diesel in 1970. The “Adirondack” is the oldest, in service, double-ended American ferryboat of all time! On January 15, 2013 the “Adi” will celebrate her 100th birthday. 10,388 |
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Post by whidbeyislandguy on Feb 4, 2009 22:56:55 GMT -8
So this a drawing of the so called (Island Class) AKA never-happen boats.  10,455 |
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Post by Barnacle on Feb 5, 2009 9:06:44 GMT -8
Which is a good thing, because it's my understanding that they had several design flaws, not the least of which being they had no means of passenger-ramp access. (The house slopes away too far, too quickly.)
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Post by whidbeyislandguy on Feb 5, 2009 11:25:49 GMT -8
Which is a good thing, because it's my understanding that they had several design flaws, not the least of which being they had no means of passenger-ramp access. (The house slopes away too far, too quickly.) Oh I know. I am very very glad they won't happen. I cheered when Martinac lost in court. ;D |
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Post by Barnacle on Feb 5, 2009 12:59:36 GMT -8
As did many of us. ;D
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Post by whidbeyislandguy on Feb 5, 2009 19:32:15 GMT -8
So being as how I think I am doing some passager boats now I thought I would work on the Victoria Clippers. more for come latter.  10,510 |
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Post by whidbeyislandguy on Feb 10, 2009 0:43:42 GMT -8
So here a few few more. I will post the others as I am finished with them..   10,579 |
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Post by Nick on Feb 10, 2009 9:05:23 GMT -8
Wow, I forgot how ugly the Burnaby was in that paint scheme. I definitely prefer the "Royal Victorian" livery to that one.
Nice drawing though, as usual. Thanks!
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Post by Mill Bay on Feb 10, 2009 11:15:04 GMT -8
Wow, I forgot how ugly the Burnaby was in that paint scheme. I definitely prefer the "Royal Victorian" livery to that one. Nice drawing though, as usual. Thanks! Ha-ha... Oh, come on Nick! It didn't look that bad. And this is only a computer graphic. I don't think that scheme looked unattractive. It was actually quite creative, and it's nice to see a ship painted with a little color (besides that paint scheme would hide the rust streaks). |
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Post by whidbeyislandguy on Feb 10, 2009 12:23:06 GMT -8
So the first Victoria Clipper, Being as how there was 2 VC II's and I don't have pics of either one of them I am unable to draw her/them as I don't know what she/they looks like.  Now after looking at the Banner for this month, I would guess most of the people on here are to young to remember. Does this mean I am getting old??   10,637 |
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Post by whidbeyislandguy on Mar 19, 2009 18:21:42 GMT -8
So it has been a while since I posed anything new. Here are a few requests. The Washington.  The Leschi As she first looked when she took to the Lake.   10,765 |
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Post by whidbeyislandguy on Mar 24, 2009 20:50:06 GMT -8
Ok this I did just for fun as last I knew she was for-sale. So she isn't from the West coast but none the less still a ferry, Albeit a strange ferry but none the less..  10,845 |
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Post by EGfleet on Mar 25, 2009 8:04:30 GMT -8
Ok this I did just for fun as last I knew she was for-sale. So she isn't from the West coast but none the less still a ferry, Albeit a strange ferry but none the less.. 10,845 Incidentally, it was this particular vessel that was recommended to the state to buy for Port Townsend-Keystone. WSF passed... |
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Post by Barnacle on Mar 25, 2009 8:07:28 GMT -8
I suspect the challenge of backing out of Keystone would be a factor...
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Post by D'Elete BC in NJ on Mar 25, 2009 9:48:27 GMT -8
I suspect the challenge of backing out of Keystone would be a factor... Actually, they back her out of a fairly tight, shallow berth right now. There's a photo of her in the Cape May - Lewes thread and I have some more on my computer at home which illustrate this. I'll try to post some more pics there when I get a chance. |
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Post by whidbeyislandguy on Apr 4, 2009 22:00:51 GMT -8
So I got a couple of pvts about this one drawing so I thought I'd post pic of the real thing with it to show that yeah it really was painted that way.. And Damn it was fast.  10,911 |
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Post by Freeland on Apr 5, 2009 12:36:27 GMT -8
Whidbey Island guy you might have to do a drawing of the King County passenger ferry the new Sightseer. westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=15491Maybe you have already done one ? Emory at Freeland |
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