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Post by Ferryman on Jan 20, 2008 20:36:14 GMT -8
Sorry Mac, I got held up in the washroom for a bit, and had assumed you had got in line by them time I got out... I'm listening to AM News 1130 live on the internet. On their segment for the new BC Ferry they have going, you hear me say "It's a great ship, and has lots of access compared to all of the other ships I've been on". Click on the link below, and you'll hear it again around 9:05pm, and every :05 and :35 or so on the hour. www.news1130.com/mediaplayer/
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Post by Quatchi on Jan 20, 2008 20:47:18 GMT -8
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Post by Ferryman on Jan 20, 2008 20:52:19 GMT -8
Haha! Well done, Scott! I'll look forward to seeing tomorrows paper. I doubt anything I said will make it in there, seeming it was the usual "Great ship" speech.
I love the title though. "Ferry Fans give the Coastal Renaissance the thumbs up".
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Post by Balfour on Jan 20, 2008 20:53:06 GMT -8
And so is our Forum's URL... This is good, now everyone will know about the forum.
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Post by Dane on Jan 20, 2008 20:56:39 GMT -8
And so is our Forum's URL... This is good, now everyone will know about the forum. Thank Scott for that, great idea on his part. The reprter was very receptive to us! It was great.
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Post by Scott on Jan 20, 2008 21:21:34 GMT -8
Wow, that's really cool:) I'll have to buy the Province tomorrow to see what they print:) I'm really looking forward to Feb. 2!
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Post by WettCoast on Jan 20, 2008 22:00:09 GMT -8
Quote from The Province website link above...
These must be the largest ferries on the planet!
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Post by herrbrinkmann on Jan 20, 2008 22:02:23 GMT -8
[...] Markus' photos were on a slideshow, on all the LCD screen TVs. [...] ? What? When? Why? My Photos? Which ones? All? Please clarify!
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jan 20, 2008 22:02:30 GMT -8
Quote from The Province website link above... These must be the largest ferries on the planet! That's 5-times the tonne-size of the Queen of Alberni. Wow, it's like they've taken " awesome", and then super-sized it. What's the actual tonne-size? Something like 8,000 tonnes?
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Post by Curtis on Jan 20, 2008 22:03:24 GMT -8
Sounded Like the Greatest Time. I hope I can somehow get down to the Nanaimo Open Ship on February 2nd. And Scott Being Interviewed, That's Great! And Free Advertizing to Boot, Gotta like what that might have in store.
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Post by Ferryman on Jan 20, 2008 22:11:07 GMT -8
[...] Markus' photos were on a slideshow, on all the LCD screen TVs. [...] ? What? When? Why? My Photos? Which ones? All? Please clarify! Uh oh. Well, not all of them were yours. I didn't spend much time watching the screens, seeming I had seen the photos before. But I remember more specifically seeing the aerial photos from your friend, at the beginning of this gallery. picasaweb.google.de/markus.brinkmann/CoastalRenaissanceAlso, I saw alot of your photos of the unveiling ceremony, with the black sheet coming off the side. picasaweb.google.de/markus.brinkmann/2192007BCBBQFSG
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Post by DENelson83 on Jan 20, 2008 22:16:39 GMT -8
Quote from The Province website link above... These must be the largest ferries on the planet! Remember, those tonnes are volume, not mass.
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Post by herrbrinkmann on Jan 20, 2008 22:18:02 GMT -8
Ah, okay thank you. I also saw that they used some of my pictures in the Friday special in the Vancouver Sun, e.g. the pic in the dock... I should charge them ;D
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Jan 20, 2008 23:45:57 GMT -8
Should've copyrighted em Markus, otherwise, they're free. At least ask people to give credit to your pics and then they'd be fine and tell em to ask permission.
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Post by herrbrinkmann on Jan 21, 2008 0:06:08 GMT -8
Ah- no need for copyrights. I am proud, they used my pics
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Jan 21, 2008 0:30:09 GMT -8
Then there shall be no need to hit the good ol red PANIC button. Unless that was the inject sarcasm button you pressed. But who knows.
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Post by herrbrinkmann on Jan 21, 2008 6:40:24 GMT -8
Uh- ah, I found my photo credit. Anybody who joined the open ship should have received a nice blue booklet. On the last page a special thanks goes to myself...
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Post by NMcKay on Jan 21, 2008 8:45:46 GMT -8
i hope theres still some left for nanaimo..
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Post by BreannaF on Jan 21, 2008 9:56:04 GMT -8
This is from page A4 of the print version of this morning's Province: (The forum's URL stayed in the print version!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thumbs up from ferry fans FERRY DEBUT: Coastal Renaissance wows visitors at Canada Place BY IAN AUSTIN STAFF REPORTER More than 4,000 eager visitors hopped aboard the Coastal Renaissance yesterday to get a first-hand look at the newest addition to the B.C. Ferries fleet. The 22,000-tonne vessel, which can carry 1,650 passengers and crew, was a hit with most of the ferry fanciers who showed up at Canada Place for the first of three open houses. It’s the first of three Super C-class ferries that will be added to the fleet at a cost of $542 million. “It’s huge — it’s amazing,” said Ursula Bohn of Delta. “I like the colour of the interior. “They have nice photos of B.C., and nature. but I think they should have built it here.” The German-built vessel won the approval of Scott Arkell, who made the trip from Nanaimo for the viewing and is a member of the ferries-devoted website forum ferriesbc.proboards20.com.
“The fit and finish is pretty spectacular, compared to a lot of the older vessels,” said Arkell, whose parents both work for B.C. Ferries. “The views from the decks are going to be pretty spectacular. There’s a lot of room to move about.”While, generally, the captain gets the best seat in the house on the Coastal Renaissance, the upper deck is given over to the cafeteria and the Sitka Coffee Place, arguably the spot that the early boarders will flock to for the Horseshoe Bay-Departure Bay run starting in early March. “I have a feeling this is going to be a busy spot, and the spot to be,” said Cheryl O’Connell, a catering attendant handing out cookies and pop to an appreciative audience. “It’s just so open. It’s going to be a lot quieter than the cafeteria — it’s quiet, it’s laid back, it’s relaxing.” Wood-veneer walls, comfy leatherette seats and spectacular photos lend an upscale atmosphere, and nowhere is there the rusty, salty aroma that plagues some of the fleet’s older ships. Floor-to-ceiling windows are featured in some of the lounges, and fans of White Spot and the Bread Garden will see some familiar menu items — breakfasts ranging from cold cereal at $2.39 to the allaboard breakfast with two eggs for $9.29, burgers from $4.99 to $8.79, and full meals ranging from chicken strips and Caesar salad at $8.09 to baked wild salmon with dill sauce at $11.99. Capt. Harald Stokke welcomed the visitors to his new office, a huge, well-appointed bridge. “It’s great that we can open the bridge and the engine room, so [yesterday’s visitors] can see the area that they can’t usually see,” said Stokke. “She’s a huge, complicated ship, so we want to make sure everyone’s up to speed. It’ll be a really great day when we get her running between Horseshoe Bay and Departure Bay.” Rosalba Buffat and her family lined up for a souvenir photo that will be e-mailed to every visitor who took an extra minute to pose for a photographer. “It was great — we had a lot of fun,” said Buffat. “They did a great job. We’re trying to book a trip so we can get on the ship.”
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Post by Northern Exploration on Jan 21, 2008 15:32:51 GMT -8
Chris or anyone did you get a recording of your interview on the all new radio station?
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Post by Ferryman on Jan 23, 2008 17:47:59 GMT -8
Sorry pnw, I didn't get a recording of the interview on the radio. Oh well, wasn't really anything too spectacular, as it was pretty fast. Scott has just emailed me the group photo, that BC Ferries took for us. Once you walk through the ship, you get a complimentary photo taken, behind a backdrop. We're in front of the photo of the Renaissance arriving in Vancouver. The other backdrop was the photo of it leaving Flensburg, which is what is shown on the BC Ferries homepage now. Anyways, here's the pic. In order from left to right, we have: Dane, Myself, Scott, and Karl. Now this is good advertising! We should send this to all of the big newspapers for advertising, and say "Be cool and tough like these guys. They're part of the Ferries of BC Forum. Join today."
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Post by DENelson83 on Jan 23, 2008 17:54:56 GMT -8
Wow! That is so neat! It seems like an unofficial endorsement of ferry geeks from BC Ferries.
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Post by Curtis on Jan 23, 2008 18:07:51 GMT -8
Nice! That's a Great Photo. Would be funny seeing that in an ad box of a Newspaper.
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Post by Mike C on Jan 23, 2008 18:50:55 GMT -8
"Be cool and tough like these guys. They're part of the Ferries of BC Forum. Join today." THERE'S STRONG.... AND THEN THERE'S FERRY-GEEK STRONG. hopefully we can get a real group pic (yeah, a real group pic requires ME to be in it....) but ya know, good work guys, looks great - pretty intimidating group of folk there, eh
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Post by Balfour on Jan 23, 2008 19:00:39 GMT -8
I hope they do that at the Nanaimo open house, which I might attend depending on if I can get someone to take my Classes on Feb 2nd.
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