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Post by rwbsparks on Jan 23, 2016 16:18:24 GMT -8
What would have caused the vessel to stop so suddenly mid crossing? I didn't see a boat cross the ferry's bow. Great timelapse!
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Post by Barnacle on Jan 23, 2016 17:42:12 GMT -8
What would have caused the vessel to stop so suddenly mid crossing? I didn't see a boat cross the ferry's bow. Great timelapse! Possibly some sort of safety drill? I spotted that as well, and didn't see any immediate clues either.
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Post by SS San Mateo on Jan 27, 2016 13:04:21 GMT -8
So this showed up while looking through my Twitter feed.
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Post by rwbsparks on Feb 5, 2016 16:51:03 GMT -8
I need to get to Vashon HS from Seattle by 8AM, is my only option the 5:10 AM? Would it make more sense to drive around to PD and take the 7:10 to Vashon? Why doesn't boat three operate on the weekends?
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Post by SS San Mateo on Feb 18, 2016 8:48:10 GMT -8
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Post by umi_ryuzuki on Mar 9, 2016 9:13:15 GMT -8
Extreme low tide exposes sunken superclass ferry.
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Post by lifc on Mar 9, 2016 9:47:41 GMT -8
Now we know what happened to the fabled Elyaktan. It supposedly left San Diego and never arrived, the delivery crew was rumored to have been found aimlessly wandering around Forks incoherently speaking of being abducted by a UFO. Of course every agency involved denied the boat ever existed and the crew was immediately and secretly retired to Sequim. Now that it's been found, the topic will likely become the object of several Coast to Coast AM shows.
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Post by tom98250 on Mar 9, 2016 10:45:15 GMT -8
Near sister to the Queen of Richmond...?
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Post by Barnacle on Mar 9, 2016 13:06:14 GMT -8
Extreme low tide exposes sunken superclass ferry.
Oh no! What happened to your beautiful model?
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Post by westernflyer on Mar 13, 2016 23:36:48 GMT -8
Youtube video taken aboard a Washington State ferry, presumably on Mar 13. 'Large waves hit San Juan ferry'Pretty epic stuff. Not sure what vessel this is, maybe someone more educated about the WSF fleet will be able to ID it.
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Post by Barnacle on Mar 14, 2016 4:24:07 GMT -8
Youtube video taken aboard a Washington State ferry, presumably on Mar 13. 'Large waves hit San Juan ferry'Pretty epic stuff. Not sure what vessel this is, maybe someone more educated about the WSF fleet will be able to ID it. If it was yesterday, then either Chelan or Kitsap.
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Post by Kahloke on Mar 14, 2016 4:33:17 GMT -8
Youtube video taken aboard a Washington State ferry, presumably on Mar 13. 'Large waves hit San Juan ferry'Pretty epic stuff. Not sure what vessel this is, maybe someone more educated about the WSF fleet will be able to ID it. If it was yesterday, then either Chelan or Kitsap. I was on Chelan's 14:10 sailing from Orcas to Anacortes yesterday, and I don't think this video is from that crossing. We hit some pretty good swells, but none of them broke high enough to slosh water back down the tunnel the way this video shows. This might be Kitsap's all-stops sailing from Friday Harbor, which would have been later than ours, and most likely during the height of the winds.
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Post by FNS on Mar 14, 2016 6:47:00 GMT -8
If it was yesterday, then either Chelan or Kitsap. I was on Chelan's 14:10 sailing from Orcas to Anacortes yesterday, and I don't think this video is from that crossing. We hit some pretty good swells, but none of them broke high enough to slosh water back down the tunnel the way this video shows. This might be Kitsap's all-stops sailing from Friday Harbor, which would have been later than ours, and most likely during the height of the winds. No, that video was taken on a westbound sailing. You see up Rosario Strait and Mount Constitution. This is why you see old photos of the SAN MATEO Class, KLAMATH class, Wooden Electrics, Steel Electrics, and the long distance ferries running from San Francisco to the north Bay destinations having roller doors on their car decks. To protect machines and passengers from what you see on this video. Haven't read anything on how the roller doors fared during rough crossings. I guess they did their work, nevertheless. Evergreenfleet.com shows a photo of roller doors "unboxed": evergreenfleet.com/sitebuilder/images/1952-1004x488.jpgevergreenfleet.com/mvklahanie.htmlKLAHANIE being reworked in Seattle. Her roller doors were likely being removed at that time.
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Post by SS San Mateo on Mar 14, 2016 6:59:03 GMT -8
The ferry in the video is most likely the Chelan. I noticed the railing on the ramp appeared to be grayish in color. The railing on the Kitsap is yellow (unless they were repainted within the last few months). On the Chelan, they aren't yellow (going by pictures taken from 2013 and later).
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Post by Cascadian Transport on Mar 14, 2016 7:12:37 GMT -8
Youtube video taken aboard a Washington State ferry, presumably on Mar 13. 'Large waves hit San Juan ferry'Pretty epic stuff. Not sure what vessel this is, maybe someone more educated about the WSF fleet will be able to ID it. That was Chelan. Not sure which sailing.
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Post by Kahloke on Mar 14, 2016 7:24:15 GMT -8
Obviously, I don't know my ferries as well as I should - pretty pathetic when you consider I was just ON the darn thing. Oh well. If it's Chelan, then it could have been the return sailing (return from the one I was on) back to Orcas and Friday Harbor, departing Anacortes at 15:20.
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Post by chokai on Mar 14, 2016 13:56:43 GMT -8
Great video indeed, and yes I concur it's Chelan. I know they usually short load if they anticipate things like that. Wonder if they didn't think it would be that bad yet and then got out and got surprised. In Rosario Strait it seems depending on where you are you can get exposed pretty fast in middle there when the fetch to the south opens up. We got knocked around bad in mid-September during a sailing trip in 40kts there, it was breezy and choppy (1-2ft) and then within a thousand feet it was 4 - 5ft waves.
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Post by SS San Mateo on Apr 1, 2016 7:55:54 GMT -8
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Post by FNS on Apr 1, 2016 8:31:30 GMT -8
Naturally "photo shopped". Now, would they have turned the ferries around this morning as they did in the past (having the "galley end" touch the western docks instead of the usual eastern docks) to confuse the commuters? Happy April Fools Day!
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Post by SS San Mateo on Apr 1, 2016 9:01:13 GMT -8
Now, would they have turned the ferries around this morning as they did in the past (having the "galley end" touch the western docks instead of the usual eastern docks) to confuse the commuters? Happy April Fools Day! This has been happening on the Vashon route just before the Vashon terminal retrofit/partial replacement project began last Summer. On the sailing I usually take in the morning (the 5:45 AM to Fauntleroy), the galley has been on the Vashon end most of the time.
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Post by mrdot on Apr 1, 2016 14:48:24 GMT -8
unforftunatly our BC ferries pressentday livery is not an April fools joke! mr.dot.
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Post by Steve Rosenow on Apr 9, 2016 23:26:25 GMT -8
Extreme low tide exposes sunken superclass ferry.
Oh no! What happened to your beautiful model? Oh no! Tell me that Kaleetan model didn't get destroyed!
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Post by Low Light Mike on Apr 19, 2016 17:19:33 GMT -8
Charges to the moron who used a laser beam as a weapon against WSF crew. - I hope he gets the maximum, because according to his record, he's a risk to use that weapon again. from HERE---------------
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Post by WettCoast on Apr 19, 2016 18:20:40 GMT -8
Charges to the moron who used a laser beam as a weapon against WSF crew. - I hope he gets the maximum, because according to his record, he's a risk to use that weapon again. from HERE--------------- Generally use of words such as 'moron' need to be discouraged on this forum. In this case, however, the use is justified.
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Post by Neil on Apr 19, 2016 22:48:18 GMT -8
Charges to the moron who used a laser beam as a weapon against WSF crew. - I hope he gets the maximum, because according to his record, he's a risk to use that weapon again. from HERE--------------- Generally use of words such as 'moron' need to be discouraged on this forum. In this case, however, the use is justified. When directed at people who use laser toys to blind navigators on airplanes or seagoing vessels carrying hundreds of people, 'moron' is a milder term than I would use.
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