Kam
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Post by Kam on Jul 28, 2009 14:42:00 GMT -8
I was just looking up some information on the Lasqueti Island Ferry on the site: www.lasqueti.ca/island-info/lasqueti_ferryOn that page is says: •The ferry service is run by Western Pacific Marine for BC Ferries Is this a route that is actually run by BCF but contracted out to Western Pacific Marine? Anyone have more info on this? |
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Post by Dane on Jul 28, 2009 15:20:01 GMT -8
It is an unregulated BC Ferries route. I don't have a lot of info off hand, but there's a few of them sprinkled throughout BC's west coast. Lady Rose (the Company) services were unregulated routes for quite some time, not sure on their current status. Passenger only services provided on the same Rte as 25 is unregulated as well (Route 25u) as well as some Northern barge/pax services.
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Post by Scott on Jul 28, 2009 16:55:15 GMT -8
Coastal Ferry Services Contract lists the following "unregulated routes" that are contracted out by BC Ferries:
Dodge Cove - Prince Rupert
Lasqueti Island - French Creek (Centurion VII)
Kyuquot - Tahsis - Gold River (Uchuck III)
Bamfield - Barkley Sound - Port Alberni (Lady Rose / Frances Barkley)
Ahousat - Hot Springs Cove - Tofino
Alert Bay - Sointula - Port McNeill (is this an additional passenger service?)
Prince Rupert - Tuck Inlet
Hartley Bay - Prince Rupert
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Post by Dane on Jul 28, 2009 18:56:28 GMT -8
Alert Bay - Sointula - Port McNeill (is this an additional passenger Yes - it operates like a water taxi & school bus. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2009 21:28:50 GMT -8
In 2006 when I worked on it, the " Spirit of Yalis" was based in Sointula and operated as a School Boat for the High School students who would ride from Alert Bay to Port McNeill in the morning and home in the afternoon. ( The ferry schedule made for a long day for the students ) The Spirit would occasionally be called out for emergency ambulance runs if the ferry wasn't operating or available when needed. The boat would return to work in Vancouver harbour for the summer and remain up north during the school year.
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Post by DENelson83 on Dec 11, 2009 12:57:25 GMT -8
Picture source The Centurion VII sails passengers between French Creek, near Parksville, and Lasqueti Island.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 27, 2010 16:57:23 GMT -8
On Dec.27th 2010, I visited French Creek Marina so that I could see the MV Centurion VII. - I didn't have time for a ride to the island; that will have to wait until next summer maybe. - here is the schedule, posted at the marina, near the boat-ramp:  Company website: www.westernpacificmarine.com/================== - here she comes from False Bay, Lasqueti Island. The ship is in the middle of the frame:  She's nearing French Creek marina. The islands behind her are Lasqueti near and Texada far.    As she approaches the corner-entrance to the protected marina at French Creek:     |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 27, 2010 17:18:11 GMT -8
More Centurion VII photos from Dec.27, 2010 at French Creek Marina. (photos taken with my 2-year-old Canon SuX-10-IS  ) ----------- Here's the ship inside the marina compound, headed for her float:   ----------------------- Views from different angles, of her at French Creek float: - notice the passengers disembarking from the stern       |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 27, 2010 17:26:38 GMT -8
Centurion VII at French Creek marina: - her stern is the passenger entrance to the cabin, but also has covered and uncovered freight space. The covered area has shelves.  - a peek inside the passenger cabin. Of course, there's a bulletin-board....  |
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Post by Scott on Dec 24, 2011 14:01:46 GMT -8
Went out to French Creek this morning. The wind was blowing and the waves were high. There were even windsurfers and kite surfers just north of French Creek (Columbia Beach?). We got there just before the Centurion VII left at 9:45. They're expanding the marina right now and you can walk quite a ways out from the marina and get a good view of boats coming and going. Only the Centurion VII was out today though. Here she is heading out of the marina and out across the strait:     They appeared to do a zigzag course across to Lasqueti. |
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Post by mybidness459 on May 27, 2017 14:11:59 GMT -8
Okay, the name of this tread should be renamed Lasquitea Island Ferries since more than one vessel does operated this run.
Here is a video of mv Hollyburn leaving French Creek at 2:30 this afternoon bound for Lasquitea Island while replacing the Centurion 7 again.
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Post by Neil on May 27, 2017 22:03:45 GMT -8
Okay, the name of this tread should be renamed Lasquitea Island Ferries since more than one vessel does operated this run. Here is a video of mv Hollyburn leaving French Creek at 2:30 this afternoon bound for Lasquitea Island while replacing the Centurion 7 again. If it's to be renamed, it would have to be Lasqueti... |
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Post by mybidness459 on May 28, 2017 16:36:16 GMT -8
Well, shoot me! I made a spelling error.
LoL!
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Post by mybidness459 on Jun 15, 2017 16:23:40 GMT -8
Centurion VII back in service after refit.
I talked to a crew member today who works on the vessel and the ship had new engines installed this spring and is now back in service between French Creek and False Bay. Also the vessel was built in 1985 according to him.
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