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Post by Curtis on May 19, 2005 17:29:15 GMT -8
Okay this topic is more than a vote topic It's what we've been talking about in terminal announcements so I say just Build a double ramped berth and build a bridge across to Downtown Nanaimo if I could pick twice I would pick to build a new Terminal like Tsawwassen to access all routes
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Post by Curtis on May 19, 2005 17:30:52 GMT -8
Plus this is the first poll to use over 8 answers you can do that now
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Post by Koastal Karl on May 19, 2005 17:56:11 GMT -8
Well I would have to say leave it the way it is now unless they can build a bridge to downtown Naniamo. Gabriola residents dont want to go to Duke Point cause it is too far out of the way. Also right now I dont think Duke Point has bus service to Naniamo. Better to just leave it the way it is. It's only a 20 min sailing to downtown Naniamo!
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Post by Quinsam on May 19, 2005 18:08:16 GMT -8
Actually, mine was the first; Mill bay route wonder.
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Post by YZFNick on May 19, 2005 18:20:27 GMT -8
I'm sure the Gabriola residents would prefer to have a ferry running right downtown near work and shopping.
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Post by Quinsam on May 19, 2005 18:23:32 GMT -8
sure, especially as Quinsam is my favourite, What ferry is running it when Quinsam goes in for a refit, Bowen Queen?
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Post by Balfour on May 19, 2005 18:37:49 GMT -8
I think it's best to build a tsawassen like terminal (not quite as big) with at least 3 berths, 1 being single ramped for the Quinsam. It should also have the capacity to hold the amount of vehicles for all 3 routes from Nanaimo.
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Post by Political Incorrectness on May 19, 2005 19:02:26 GMT -8
no at least four so then if there is a third vessel for Duke Point which they will need there will be room.
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Post by Doug on May 19, 2005 20:18:34 GMT -8
Keep 'em the same. BC Ferries built that Nanaimo Harbour Terminal (I believe) after the Gabriola Island traffic came into Departure Bay.
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Post by Curtis on May 19, 2005 21:23:50 GMT -8
Make a Tsawwassen type terminal with 4 berths one for backup aka the Esquimalt and the other three for the Vancouver and Gabriola routes. Or just a three way service if you want to go to Vancouver go to Duke Point if you want Nanaimo take the regular route to Nanaimo harbour
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Post by Quinsam on May 19, 2005 21:28:04 GMT -8
The problem is, where is it going to go? on the current Duke Point Terminal?
We just had a thunderstorm here, quite spectacular, although I shut down my PC just in case a surge got in
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Post by Ferryman on May 19, 2005 21:30:00 GMT -8
I've always thought Departure Bay was such a cool terminal. You could see it from so many angles. You could go by the foot passenger booths and watch the ferries come in, or you could go to that beach beside berth one. Or you could drive down Departure Bay Rd and go to another beach that looked straight at the whole terminal. But if you felt like hiking up a few stairs up Sugarloaf mountain just above that beach and have clear view of the Strait and watch the ferries come in and out of the Bay and watch them get smaller and smaller as they got closser to Vancouver. I remember watching the Coquitlam leave once with a load of people to take them to watch the HMCS Cape Breton sink at Snake Island from up there. They probably could of Kept route 30 on there if the mall and the cement plant wasn't there. It would be even cool if the Quinsam docked in berth 1 to go to Gabriola instead also.
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Post by Political Incorrectness on May 20, 2005 15:51:44 GMT -8
lightning you mean? thunder doesn't do anything lightning will create a surge
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Post by Quinsam on May 20, 2005 16:35:01 GMT -8
about this topic, You could have used my topic called Quinsam instead of creating this.
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Post by Scott on May 20, 2005 18:32:05 GMT -8
I like the idea of the terminal staying downtown. The last thing Nanaimo needs is something else moving out of downtown. The area has suffered quite a bit with all the commercial development taking place at the north end of town. Nanaimo actually has one of the highest ratios of commercial space:population in North America. I'm not saying the terminal is a huge economic boost to downtown Nanaimo, but it's sure better than nothing.
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Post by Quinsam on May 20, 2005 19:55:26 GMT -8
I like to see the Quinsam coming into Nanaimo Harbour, I have heard that the Quinsam has these special things on her hull and stern, two for bow and stern, that help the Quinsam do very tight corners.
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Post by Ferryman on May 20, 2005 21:31:41 GMT -8
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Post by Curtis on May 20, 2005 21:35:33 GMT -8
This page cannot be found!
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Post by Ferryman on May 20, 2005 21:54:46 GMT -8
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Post by Curtis on May 20, 2005 21:56:39 GMT -8
Nice
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Post by Quinsam on May 21, 2005 14:12:15 GMT -8
I see now, but Quinsam looks good, they have been very creative to ake these vessels I think, I have never seen minor vessels before I came to Canada. What are the ''Guns'' for on the Quinsam?  |
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Post by YZFNick on May 21, 2005 15:17:35 GMT -8
They're cranes to lower the emergency boats into the water. Almost all large boats on the coast have booms to move heavy objects onboard.
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Post by NMcKay on May 21, 2005 19:41:13 GMT -8
even the Klitsa and them (all K Class) have a boom to lower emergency boats over the side. the lynx uses hers to push her into the berth, when the ship sucks a log into the intake and can only come in on one engine.
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Post by Ferryman on May 21, 2005 21:35:12 GMT -8
Yeah pretty much ever ferry has that type of davit system on them
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Post by Curtis on May 21, 2005 21:50:34 GMT -8
What are the ''Guns'' for on the Quinsam? I once thought that there was guns the old Quinsam photo on BCF's website at first to almost did look like guns just it almost looked like there was smoke coming out kinda funny |
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