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Post by northwesterner on May 30, 2006 22:49:53 GMT -8
In a handful of recent photos posted to this forum, the Queen of Alberni appears to have had most of her side passenger cabin windows covered up. Same with some of the central car deck port holes.
Why?
And...
Doesn't this make an already uncomfortable passenger cabin even worse?
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Post by Airchime on May 30, 2006 23:16:34 GMT -8
All the C-class ships have had most of their car deck port holes covered up because of the new escape chutes the ships have received. The Alberni doesn't have these chutes yet.....I guess they've prepped her for the mid-life rebuild she will get this winter.
As for the passenger area windows....not sure why. Back in '86, they installed the very first newstand with "three large windows". After a few sailings in the hot sun, all the chocolate bars had melted (they were placed near the windows)!! So, the newstand doesn't have windows anymore!
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Post by Ferryman on May 31, 2006 7:02:54 GMT -8
After a few sailings in the hot sun, all the chocolate bars had melted (they were placed near the windows)!! So, the newstand doesn't have windows anymore! Really? I never knew they covered up the gift shop windows. It's been a while since I've been on her.... The Alberni had more windows covered up about two years ago, when she finally had her davits fixed on one side, (with them broken, the capacity on the ship had to be lower). But I remember someone saying "you have to imagine the ship on fire" to understand why they would cover certain windows up. So what they do is, cover the windows that would be in the launch way of the lifeboat being lowered along the side of the ship. I'm hoping in her mid life refit that, they'll change most of those covered up passenger deck windows, into the new fire windows they've been using on the other C-Class lately. |
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Post by Retrovision on May 31, 2006 7:52:04 GMT -8
Here's a good example of how they've blocked out the car deck windows for the MECs (Marine Evacuation Chutes) during the C-Class mid-life refits. Here you can see the Queen of Surrey, the last of the four original-C-Class-design ships to recieve a mid-life refit (and currently in the process of being repainted), and the windows they've blocked out:  ferrypicsbygraham.fotopic.net/p29286152.htmlHere is her only side lounge (on the south side when on routes 1 or 2), showing how the combination of this awkward passenger-elbow-room to vehicles-carried ratio and blocked windows create a cavernous space that was described to me by a fellow traveller as "like a movie theatre," and I don't disagree.  |
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Post by Balfour on May 31, 2006 10:48:24 GMT -8
I actually saw the Queen of Surrey yesterday when I was at Lonsdale Quay. She's back in the water and fully painted. Surprisingly, not very many car-deck port-holes are covered up.
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Post by Airchime on Jun 1, 2006 1:36:19 GMT -8
But I remember someone saying "you have to imagine the ship on fire" to understand why they would cover certain windows up. So what they do is, cover the windows that would be in the launch way of the lifeboat being lowered along the side of the ship.
That's exactly what I remember a deckhand telling me. That's why all the older ships have had the small portholes removed from their cardecks. The glass could explode just as the lifeboat is being lowered past it!
So that theory would work for the new chutes as well. You don't want to be sliding down with flames warming your backside!!
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Post by Curtis on Jun 1, 2006 7:01:20 GMT -8
I actually saw the Queen of Surrey yesterday when I was at Lonsdale Quay. She's back in the water and fully painted. Surprisingly, not very many car-deck port-holes are covered up. She's Painted! Someone get down there and see what looks different |
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Post by Ferryman on Jun 1, 2006 7:13:13 GMT -8
I'll see what I can do to skip work sometime this weekend...No guarantees though.
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