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Post by Ferryman on Dec 30, 2004 21:56:23 GMT -8
I was down in Horseshoe Bay today to drop off one of my friends off so he could hop on the Queen of Coquitlam to Nanaimo and i was looking at her and she looks exactly like Cowichan now with the new fireproof windows, but the one thing she was different from Cowichan was that she was really rusty. She was rusty around her bottom car deck doors along the edges. I thought they would give her a bit of touch ups on her refit in september. Although we have been getting alot of rain lately, it still seems weird that shes all rusty on the outside seeming she was completley redone and reintroduced only..hmm new years is tomorrow...still technically have to say last year.
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Post by kylefossett on Dec 30, 2004 22:20:05 GMT -8
noticed rust on the mayne queen, spirit of bc, and on the vancouver today. on the two bigger ferries the rust was mainly around the car deck doors and on the side where the foot passenger ramps contact the boat. also noticed on the vancouver that where she was lifted in the late 70's you could see the different steel. it was almost a different shade of white.
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Post by Dane on Dec 31, 2004 18:06:23 GMT -8
Ferries have always been rusty since they switched to repaints every 2 years (which, incidently, was the year I was born I think). The new white that private BCF uses is also considerably purer white, and I notice the rust seems to show up particularly well. The Super C video shows the whole bottum cardeck, up to the upper car deck painted dark bluie, perhaps that would be a good idea to mask the rust, as it is meerly an aesthetic scar as long as it's taken care of eventually.
Touch ups are much more costly, andd difficult to do than they're worth.
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