Which old Ferry?

[Quinsam]

Vote which ferry you think should be retired first, tell me if there is any others to be sold between now and 2014 if I have missed any.

I vote for NIP, because she is old, but reliable, so they will make good of selling her by reliability.

[Doug Ubell]

Mill Bay bar none.

[Political Incorrectness]

yeah she is the oldest in the fleet and the NIP was rebuilt and cost less to maintain right?

[Curtis]

Nimpkish Mill Bay can probably go till almost 2010 on her run I almost can't think why I chose the Nimpkish though she's due for retirement

[NMcKay]

do we have to do this again

[Fenklebaum]

Agreed! Harbourlynx Teen, you're absolutely right. The board does not need YET ANOTHER poll where people stamp their feet and demand that the Mill Bay should be retired.

*screams something about the Mill Bay being a fabulous and perfectly reliable ship incoherently at the sky and then wanders off*

[Balfour]

Fenklebaum is officially the master of ranting on this board, and is also insane.

[NMcKay]

this is the 4th bloody time someone has started a post saying we should retire this ship, or that ship, so lets just give it a rest.

[Fenklebaum]

*grins* StrongSkier, I graciously accept the title. As the board's official ranter, I'll be tough but fair. My reign will live on through the ages... yada yada yada.

Y'know, it's not that I'm insane, society just feels that I should be heavily medicated

Generally, I have little to contribute towards the conversation, as anything that I would've said has already been said by at least three other people.

I'm not insane. I'm actually quite mellow. It's my writing style, more than anything else. I'm not insane. I work in a restaurant, I'm a musician, I have all my MEDs etc. etc. I'm not insane.

When it comes to my rants... eh. I can't help but feel a sense of nostalgia for an era that I was never part of (I'm only 19, for cryin' out loud). I hate how things of value are too quickly thrown away. When something has no value, then noone ever treasured it, and there are no stories to be told about it. If that's the case, then throw it away. If a vessel touched someone's life in any way, it should be spared, in some small way.

Still insane?

[cascade]

Are you sure your still sane?

"no one is normal - everyone is ab-normal"

[Quinsam]

Ok then, I was wondering which one should go first because of it's age, BCFerries might not be able to sell the mill bay, but they probably will with the north island princess because she can carry more cars and has more reliabilty in her.
I am on the Saanich tommorrow to Vancouver and on the SOVI coming back, I am going on a field trip with North Saanich Middle school.

[Dane]

I think there's quite the market for scrap steel right now Bye, Mill Bay... The Queen of Tsawwassen might actually just fall apart, though.

[cascade]

Dane,

You know the old saying about the wrong type of snow been sold to the Eskimo - well the Mill Bay has the wrong type of steel - hence her scrap value - is crap - worth nothing.

[Engineer]

wrong type of steel???
The only ship in the fleet that makes money
180 litres a day in fuel compaired to 40 to 50 thousand a day hmmmmmmmm

[cascade]

Engineer - I what I mean is that the world wide scrap market is becoming very selective on the type of vessel they cut up for scrap these days - as the requirement for steel in India & China is also on the increase - hence they need good steel of a certain type.

As for the vessel per say - MV Mill Bay - I am one of the few people on the forum that would like to see her retired after the service she has put in - and be turned into a museum - to show what was built in the past. There is a total lack of maritime history - been retain on the BC Coast - shame - as when we wake up - it will be gone.

[Dane]

engineer said:

wrong type of steel???
The only ship in the fleet that makes money
180 litres a day in fuel compaired to 40 to 50 thousand a day hmmmmmmmm

Even with high fuel costs every major Vancouver-Vancouver Island route still has a profit, even barring federal subsidies for Route 2.

[Doug]

Doug said:

Mill Bay bar none.

What he said.

[Quinsam]

On 17th June 2005 at 12:00 pmferriesbc.proboards20.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=cascade wrote:

be turned into a museum

Why not have the Mill Bay float near where the Aquabus terminal is at the Maritime Museum in Vancouver, and she can become a new area of the Museum for History.

[Curtis]

Something for when the Tsawwassen retires came up awhile ago like that

[cascade]

Bloody hell - how long have I been beaten the drums about turning some of our historical vessel on the coast into museums. How even Harry is starting to agree - there's hope yet..... I dream on

[Curtis]

Remember when we were thinking on this board about Nasa of BC Ferries taking the ships apart and rebuilding them in a different spot

[Quinsam]

I would like to See Mill bay floating in false creek

[Shane]

me too
she would be a perfect edition to the maritime museum

[Shane]

there is something that im wondering and im not sure about it.
why was the sidney retired
and were is the sidney?

[NMcKay]

The Sydney, as ive said before is floating on the fraser river right now @ Silvermere (5 mins west of mission) and she seems to have been retired because she was past her 35 year or w/e lifespan that BCF uses.