March 09 Theme: Members' Choice

[Low Light Mike]

The poll is now open. It will stay open until 9:22 am on Sunday Feb.1st, and will then automatically lock.

Results will be shown at end of voting on Feb.1st.

The winning choice will be the theme for March 09....which means that nominations will be submitted during month of February 09.

Keep in mind that for the actual picture nominations, we have copyright concerns. So a nominated picture needs to be one of your own shots, or one that's part of your collection (where permission for use in your collection has been obtained by you). See www.Evergreenfleet.com for plenty of examples of this. This won't be allowed to be a Google-harvest, re old pics of old ships. So be prepared for restrictions on picture sources for the old-ship categories.

There are 10 nominated themes. These are questions 1-10 on the ballot. Ignore the "na" not-applicable choices on the bottom portion of the ballot.


Thanks to all those who nominated the ideas.

Here are the choices, corresponding to the # choices in the above poll:
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1) a Spirit vessel

2) "New beginnings," Maybe the flagship topic can involve the beginnings of our ferry systems. Either first ships, or launchings of ships, or even the latest and greatest ships in the fleet.

3) SeaBus

4) Bow Waves and Wakes

5) Ships that are gone, such as the steamers, or early BC & WSF ferries, vessels that have been gone for say 20 years or more. Examples: the Queen of the Islands, the Princess of Vancouver, the Suzie Q, the Anscomb.... (these are pics of the ship during service for the company which she was most famous)

6) Minor Terminals

7) Spaulding designed vessels (Art Of Spaulding)

8) Vessel interiors (Inner Beauty)

9) Vessels under construction/undergoing MLU or other major upgrade (Ferry (Re)Birth)

10) Vessels in use after retirement (The Afterlife) - this would be restricted to pictures that show how the vessel was used after retirement and not showing the vessel in decrepit condition

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[D'Elete BC in NJ]

Question: does the vessel in question for 10 have to be a former BCF, or could it be a ferry in the BCF fleet that had a life in another fleet (hint hint)?

[Low Light Mike]

Jan 25, 2009 16:40:13 GMT -8 D'Elete BC in NJ said:

Question: does the vessel in question for 10 have to be a former BCF, or could it be a ferry in the BCF fleet that had a life in another fleet (hint hint)?

That idea was submitted by moderator San Mateo, and it doesn't say "BCF", so I assume that it's open to any North West Coast ferry.

(This question is an example of what will happen when one of these ideas is declared the winner, next weekend. The nominator and/or moderators can further clarify the category to satisfy the various what-if's that arise. The days of Retro's participation in these flagship contests has helped some of us in developing iron-clad specifics to cover every possible interpretation. PS: caution, contents of beverage are hot ;D)

[Low Light Mike]

If this members'-choice ballot ends in a tie, I'll just excercise my own choice and choose a winner from among the tied-leaders.

....if it ends as a tie.

[Low Light Mike]

Item #1 wins, and it was very spooky.