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Post by Ferryman on Jun 21, 2017 22:36:28 GMT -8
I spent a bit of time tonight trying to track down and assemble the new Route 9 and Route 9a schedule onto an excel sheet, based entirely by what's posted online at bcferries.com. So, in case someone wants to figure out exactly which vessel is sailing when and where for this run, here's where you might have a better idea. Please feel free to put all of it to the test, as I'm sure there's bound to be an error or two to be found. It wasn't the easiest task since some of the departure times are pretty close to each other at Tsawwassen for instance Enjoy! Route9schedule.pdf (402.15 KB) Personal observation: I'm actually quite pleased with how generous this new schedule is for the amount of sailings to/from Long Harbour. The other islands will of course see a huge bump up of service as well. But for me, I travel to Salt Spring quite often from Vancouver, and more often than not, I'll travel via Route 2. This schedule might just sway me to use Route 9/9a more often to take advantage of the direct runs.
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Post by Olympic Ferries on Jun 22, 2017 5:45:45 GMT -8
I spent a bit of time tonight trying to track down and assemble the new Route 9 and Route 9a schedule onto an excel sheet, based entirely by what's posted online at bcferries.com. So, in case someone wants to figure out exactly which vessel is sailing when and where for this run, here's where you might have a better idea. Please feel free to put all of it to the test, as I'm sure there's bound to be an error or two to be found. It wasn't the easiest task since some of the departure times are pretty close to each other at Tsawwassen for instance Enjoy! Personal observation: I'm actually quite pleased with how generous this new schedule is for the amount of sailings to/from Long Harbour. The other islands will of course see a huge bump up of service as well. But for me, I travel to Salt Spring quite often from Vancouver, and more often than not, I'll travel via Route 2. This schedule might just sway me to use Route 9/9a more often to take advantage of the direct runs. I have been working on a color-coded schedule of Route 9/9a as well since it was released recently and I was able to finish it this morning. I hope this helps you understand it more as well! SGI - Route 9
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Post by WettCoast on Jun 22, 2017 11:23:49 GMT -8
Please feel free to put all of it to the test, as I'm sure there's bound to be an error or two to be found. Chris, the usage of the S Eagle seems lighter than I would have expected for the 'Holiday Monday' category. Maybe that is mis-titled and is just the schedule for 'regular' Mondays?. I believe in the past that holiday Mondays had the same schedule as for Sundays.
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Post by Kahloke on Jun 22, 2017 12:01:23 GMT -8
I spent a bit of time tonight trying to track down and assemble the new Route 9 and Route 9a schedule onto an excel sheet, based entirely by what's posted online at bcferries.com. So, in case someone wants to figure out exactly which vessel is sailing when and where for this run, here's where you might have a better idea. Please feel free to put all of it to the test, as I'm sure there's bound to be an error or two to be found. It wasn't the easiest task since some of the departure times are pretty close to each other at Tsawwassen for instance Enjoy! Personal observation: I'm actually quite pleased with how generous this new schedule is for the amount of sailings to/from Long Harbour. The other islands will of course see a huge bump up of service as well. But for me, I travel to Salt Spring quite often from Vancouver, and more often than not, I'll travel via Route 2. This schedule might just sway me to use Route 9/9a more often to take advantage of the direct runs. That's really cool. Thanks for putting this together. I really want to get up there this summer and take a ride on Eagle, and maybe even a final ride on Queen of Nanaimo, but my summer schedule is already getting pretty full. Not sure I will have the time - perhaps in August. I'm kind of bummed they did not do an open house for Eagle or Orca. I guess the time frame was pretty crunched for getting training completed and these vessels into service, so I understand the reasoning.
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Post by yak on Jun 22, 2017 12:10:24 GMT -8
Please feel free to put all of it to the test, as I'm sure there's bound to be an error or two to be found. Chris, the usage of the S Eagle seems lighter than I would have expected for the 'Holiday Monday' category. Maybe that is mis-titled and is just the schedule for 'regular' Mondays?. I believe in the past that holiday Mondays had the same schedule as for Sundays. I am not sure what the strategy is regarding Holiday Mondays but it looks like both runs will be doing heavy point-to-point lifts from one or two islands to the mainland rather than hitting four stops each. Anyway, Chris has it labelled right. Scanning through Chris's schedule it is essentially correct for all the days- he's got the right boats heading to the right places at pretty much the right times. My older schedule has a few slightly different arrival times and the missing departure time from Otter Bay on Sunday for Route 9 is 1130. Also, for whatever reason, on Saturday night Chris has the Nanny going back in time after tie up to redo the Eagle's afternoon run.
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Post by Ferryman on Jun 22, 2017 12:37:43 GMT -8
Scanning through Chris's schedule it is essentially correct for all the days- he's got the right boats heading to the right places at pretty much the right times. My older schedule has a few slightly different arrival times and the missing departure time from Otter Bay on Sunday for Route 9 is 1130. Also, for whatever reason, on Saturday night Chris has the Nanny going back in time after tie up to redo the Eagle's afternoon run. Woops, just goes to show you how tired I was becoming by the end of putting all of that together! Good eye to see where I had copied and pasted while shuffling things around... The theory behind the Holiday Monday schedule actually just has the Nanaimo and Eagle running the Sunday PM schedule instead of the Monday-Wed PM schedule. This was always the case with previous schedules usually anyways. I'll try and amend the Saturday night schedule in the necy little while.. EDIT: here's the updated version. Previous post also amended. Route9schedule.pdf (402.15 KB)
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 18, 2017 10:48:27 GMT -8
New schedule announced for Langdale, Bowen and Jervis Inlet: from HERE
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Post by bigcountry on Sept 18, 2017 16:22:32 GMT -8
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Post by mybidness459 on Sept 18, 2017 16:52:30 GMT -8
Are they resurrecting the Pacificats?
Okay the Queen of đichan leaves Departure Bay at 8:45pm and Leaves Horseshoe Bay at 10:10pm? Pretty fast considering the ship will not get in untill at least 10:20-25pm. Does not compute, it should be leaving at 10:45 pm, unless we get the Pacificats back.đ
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Post by bigcountry on Sept 18, 2017 17:32:41 GMT -8
Are they resurrecting the Pacificats? Okay the Queen of đichan leaves Departure Bay at 8:45pm and Leaves Horseshoe Bay at 10:10pm? Pretty fast considering the ship will not get in untill at least 10:20-25pm. Does not compute, it should be leaving at 10:45 pm, unless we get the Pacificats back.đ I believe the Cowichan and Surrey are switching routes for a couple hours
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Post by hwy19man on Sept 19, 2017 2:51:41 GMT -8
The first half of the service day (four trips) has the same schedule times at both terminals. The next three trips have different departure times at each terminal with the final trips leaving at the same time. The major improvement is that all eight trips are daily unlike the 1900h sailing from Dep. Bay and 2100h from HSB that sails Friday to Sunday only during the low season.
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Post by hwy19man on Sept 19, 2017 2:57:32 GMT -8
Are they resurrecting the Pacificats?
Okay the Queen of đichan leaves Departure Bay at 8:45pm and Leaves Horseshoe Bay at 10:10pm? Pretty fast considering the ship will not get in untill at least 10:20-25pm. Does not compute, it should be leaving at 10:45 pm, unless we get the Pacificats back.đ I believe the Cowichan and Surrey are switching routes for a couple hours That is correct about the vessels changing routes. The Surrey will do a round trip on route 2 leaving HSB at 1835h and Dep. Bay at 2045h. The Cowichan will do two round trips on route 3 leaving HSB at 1730h and 1950h and from Langdale at 1840h and 2055h.
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Post by hwy19man on Sept 19, 2017 3:16:11 GMT -8
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Post by mybidness459 on Sept 19, 2017 11:46:39 GMT -8
Strange but so TRUE, Queen of Surrey and Cowichan WILL switch places for several hours, Check it out at the RBI at BC Ferries. www.bcferries.com/bcferries/faces/reservation/booking.jsp?pcode=GUESTCheck out Jan 4, 2018 Departure Bay to HB. Historical note: The Queen of Surrey Did in fact used to be based out of Departure Bay, I used to ride the Surrey and Oak Bay so much as a kid that I got sick and tired of them.
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Post by hwy19man on Oct 6, 2017 3:34:05 GMT -8
Route 1 has the most convenient schedule for the Thanksgiving Day long weekend. Friday and Monday will have hourly sailings from 600h to 2200h with a final sailing at 0000h, that is midnight! I think I may be on that Monday night. The Celebration and NW are doing five round trips. I wonder if this hourly schedule will be utilized on Fridays in the summer?
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Post by Nick on Oct 6, 2017 5:06:58 GMT -8
Route 1 has the most convenient schedule for the Thanksgiving Day long weekend. Friday and Monday will have hourly sailings from 600h to 2200h with a final sailing at 0000h, that is midnight! I think I may be on that Monday night. The Celebration and NW are doing five round trips. I wonder if this hourly schedule will be utilized on Fridays in the summer? This schedule is because the Thanksgiving weekend has the heaviest foot passenger traffic of the year. With the SoBC out of service they are down 400+ passenger spaces per trip in comparison to the Coastal Renaissance. You may see this schedule again over the Christmas break, but bear in mind this is for extraordinary circumstances.
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 6, 2017 7:58:13 GMT -8
Route 1 has the most convenient schedule for the Thanksgiving Day long weekend. Friday and Monday will have hourly sailings from 600h to 2200h with a final sailing at 0000h, that is midnight! I think I may be on that Monday night. The Celebration and NW are doing five round trips. I wonder if this hourly schedule will be utilized on Fridays in the summer? This schedule is because the Thanksgiving weekend has the heaviest foot passenger traffic of the year. With the SoBC out of service they are down 400+ passenger spaces per trip in comparison to the Coastal Renaissance. You may see this schedule again over the Christmas break, but bear in mind this is for extraordinary circumstances. It also the Victoria Marathon this weekend which brings thousands of additional 'customers' to Route 1.
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Post by Neil on Nov 2, 2017 11:47:34 GMT -8
BC Ferries has announced that it is reinstating the afternoon sailing for Hornby that was cancelled a few years back, starting the beginning of December. Good news for residents and business people/contractors. Hopefully the Texada and Moresby FACs can convince BC Ferries to return their lost service as well.
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Post by bainbridgeguy on Dec 13, 2017 15:56:22 GMT -8
It looks as if BCF is finally bringing back the early evening round trip on route 17 on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Definitely long overdue, but kudos to them for realizing they are having record traffic again, and not traffic declines. Definitely good news for both communities here. Added Sailings/Schedule Change Comox (Little River) â Powell River (Westview) December 20, 2017 Effective December 20, BC Ferries is adding a round-trip sailing to the Wednesday and Saturday afternoon schedule for the Comox-Powell River route. The new sailings will depart Comox at 3:15 pm and Powell River at 5:15 pm. The current 6:50 pm sailing from Comox on those days will subsequently be moved to 7:15 pm. In order to include these new sailings, the Wednesday and Saturday afternoon sailing times had to be adjusted both for schedules effective December 20, 2017 and January 13, 2018. The new schedules can be viewed at www.bcferries.com. For traffic updates or more information, please follow @bcferries on Twitter, visit our website at www.bcferries.com, or call us toll free at 1-888-BCFERRY (223-3779).
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 14, 2017 11:58:15 GMT -8
It looks as if BCF is finally bringing back the early evening round trip on route 17 on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Definitely long overdue, but kudos to them for realizing they are having record traffic again, and not traffic declines. Definitely good news for both communities here. The wording of the media release for this is indicative of a new era both action and tone, regarding the communities:
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Post by Neil on Dec 27, 2017 22:06:05 GMT -8
Since BC Ferries is often taken to task for skimping on service in peak periods, in fairness, I don't think anyone can criticize them for the holiday season schedule this year, particularly on route one, and even more so since they're down a vessel. Tonight, they've got sailings from both Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay at 10pm and midnight, with both very lightly patronized, according to their website.
Overall, a pretty decent level of service around Christmas, and an apparent openness to consider further improvements system wide.
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Post by Dane on Jan 2, 2018 23:10:57 GMT -8
For Route 2 / 3 - I was thinking tonight - even with the âsimplified two-scheduleâ system theyâve brought in - wonât we see a chance of the Coastal Renaissance ending up on Route 3?
Maybe less so in the immediate future with the loss of the individual Spirit class ships to Europe for MLU but thereâs been some off peak periods where the CR has been #1 out of Deparure Bay.
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Post by Neil on Jan 2, 2018 23:27:07 GMT -8
For Route 2 / 3 - I was thinking tonight - even with the âsimplified two-scheduleâ system theyâve brought in - wonât we see a chance of the Coastal Renaissance ending up on Route 3? Maybe less so in the immediate future with the loss of the individual Spirit class ships to Europe for MLU but thereâs been some off peak periods where the CR has been #1 out of Deparure Bay. I might get into it more when I give it more thought, but I was also wondering, given the traffic figures tonight, if maybe the expanded service day could use some tweaking. Two sailings from the mainland to the Nanaimo area at 10:10 and 10:45pm, pretty much every day, and the same in the other direction? And how many Sunshine Coasters are going to be using that 10:55pm sailing from Horseshoe Bay? BC Ferries may have simply added some deadhead sailings... or perhaps residents will make use of the opportunities, and traffic will grow. Or maybe drop trailer patronage will expand. Food for thought, and apparently, a different mindset from those who really direct our ferry system.
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Post by bigcountry on Jan 2, 2018 23:47:33 GMT -8
What I wouldnât be surprised to see in the future is the Queen of Oak Bayâs afternoon schedule gets moved up 20 minutes so both her and the Queen of Cowichan are at Horseshoe Bay at 7:20 and have the Queen of Oak Bay do the 7:50 sailing to Langdale and back then tie up while the Queen of Cowichan heads to Departure Bay at 8 and the 10:10 sailings on Route 2 are scrapped
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jan 3, 2018 11:28:07 GMT -8
What I wouldnât be surprised to see in the future is the Queen of Oak Bayâs afternoon schedule gets moved up 20 minutes so both her and the Queen of Cowichan are at Horseshoe Bay at 7:20 and have the Queen of Oak Bay do the 7:50 sailing to Langdale and back then tie up while the Queen of Cowichan heads to Departure Bay at 8 and the 10:10 sailings on Route 2 are scrapped I doubt that BC Ferries would do this because of public outrage and the provincial or even federal governments would over BC Ferries plan to get rid of both of 10:10 sailing on route 2.
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