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Post by suburbanite on Dec 8, 2012 10:30:43 GMT -8
Kahloke How would you define desperate? Would that the the return of the Hiyu or Rhody to Pt. Defiance or do we have to wait until a Pierce County boat is leased to reach total desperation?
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Post by SS San Mateo on Jan 30, 2013 12:44:06 GMT -8
Rhododendron might be given away, state officials sayMore here
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Post by Barnacle on Jan 30, 2013 15:44:33 GMT -8
I say offer it to the Baltimore group that wanted the Olympic.
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Post by EGfleet on Feb 27, 2013 18:21:21 GMT -8
Rhody sold and heading to B.C: SEATTLE — The ferry Rhododendron will become an operations support vessel for a scallop-growing company in British Columbia. Washington State Ferries sold the 66-year-old boat and spare parts to Atlantic Capes Fisheries of Cape May, N.J., for $275,000 Tuesday.
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Post by SolDuc on Feb 27, 2013 18:45:59 GMT -8
Rhody sold and heading to B.C: SEATTLE — The ferry Rhododendron will become an operations support vessel for a scallop-growing company in British Columbia. Washington State Ferries sold the 66-year-old boat and spare parts to Atlantic Capes Fisheries of Cape May, N.J., for $275,000 Tuesday. To go up next week. I won't be able to make it but if we knew where it was heading we could have our Northern friends look for it! Happy to know that it will stay in the northwest and that future Rhody sightings will stay possible. Too bad I did not get a chance to ride it.
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Post by Steve Rosenow on Feb 27, 2013 19:01:09 GMT -8
Lovely. Kalakala Pt II... May have well scrapped 'er. There goes a piece of history down the crapper.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Feb 27, 2013 19:52:36 GMT -8
Rhody sold and heading to B.C: SEATTLE — The ferry Rhododendron will become an operations support vessel for a scallop-growing company in British Columbia. Washington State Ferries sold the 66-year-old boat and spare parts to Atlantic Capes Fisheries of Cape May, N.J., for $275,000 Tuesday. Y E S !!!!! I'm looking forward to seeing her next week sometime, when she arrives at Nanaimo. ps: Baynes Sound is not a toilet.... (in reference to Steve R's comment, haha) But I really think BC Ferries is planning to use her for the Denman ferry route, for whenever the Cable-Queen breaks down (no, I'm just kidding about that, although they will be neighbours likely).
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Post by SolDuc on Feb 27, 2013 20:02:58 GMT -8
600 posts! ps: Baynes Sound is not a toilet.... (in reference to Steve R's comment, haha) What? Fishes have to travel to some other place to do their natural needs...how well organized!
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Post by Mirrlees on Feb 27, 2013 20:08:41 GMT -8
Hopefully, we will get to see her bombing around and she is kept in running order. Chilkat certainly does so there is hope!
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Post by Steve Rosenow on Feb 28, 2013 13:58:21 GMT -8
Hopefully, we will get to see her bombing around and she is kept in running order. Chilkat certainly does so there is hope! I wish I could say that were true masoncountydailynews.com/news/news-page/51052-regional-stories-feb-28It's the Kalakala all over again. Another historic and cherished vessel to fall into a state of disrepair. I can see it now.
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Post by Mike C on Feb 28, 2013 14:25:29 GMT -8
I am so stoked on this. Get out your cameras British Columbians! This will definitely be motivation for me to start making stops while heading up the north island again.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Mar 1, 2013 8:57:00 GMT -8
Regarding Rhody's new job. Here's a cut/paste from an article that Steve linked to:
ok, so she will be a barge. That is sad, but at least she's still being used in an active business.
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I am keeping my AIS eyes open, regarding any signs of Rhody sailing north to my Georgia Strait waters. - Whoever sees the movement first, please post here.
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Post by rusty on Mar 1, 2013 17:15:07 GMT -8
The Rhody goes to meet her fate. I wish her well.
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Post by FNS on Mar 5, 2013 12:49:59 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Mar 5, 2013 21:30:31 GMT -8
Information on Rhody's new role, and trip. - from an email exchange that I had with someone from Island Scallops:
I'm hoping for Saturday rather than Friday. I'm guessing that she'd be arriving to Nanaimo assembley wharf (next to Seaspan) or to the Duke Point industrial wharves.
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Post by SolDuc on Mar 5, 2013 21:44:20 GMT -8
Information on Rhody's new role, and trip. - from an email exchange that I had with someone from Island Scallops: I'm hoping for Saturday rather than Friday. I'm guessing that she'd be arriving to Nanaimo assembley wharf (next to Seaspan) or to the Duke Point industrial wharves. Well, that will be another opportunity for a WSF in BC, except that unlike the Puyallup it is there to stay. I'm happy that she stays close to home and should have a useful second life (if something goes wrong, I count on you Canadian ferry geeks to protect the Rhody). I look forward your pictures (and Scott's too, probably ) of the Nanaimo arrival.
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Post by rusty on Mar 6, 2013 0:12:36 GMT -8
....as long as this doesn't end up like the Vashon.....
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Post by FNS on Mar 6, 2013 10:40:45 GMT -8
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Post by Steve Rosenow on Mar 6, 2013 10:54:14 GMT -8
Farewell, old friend.
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Post by SolDuc on Mar 6, 2013 12:49:07 GMT -8
Farewell, old friend. Yup. While I've jever ridden on her I'm sure I will miss her. I'll sure look for her next time I'm aroubd fanny bay. It will sure look weird to have another ferry in her place at EH.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Mar 6, 2013 13:20:37 GMT -8
I will try to express what I'm feeling about the Rhododendron, and perhaps this is similar to what other Vancouver Islanders (and Coastal BCers) are feeling too.
I realize that the Rhody will always be seen as a Puget Sound ferry. After her Maryland purchase, she did the bulk of her life in Puget Sound. - And I realize that from her recent retirement, many Puget Sounders are sad to see her retired and are now sad to see her leaving her home area.
So I realize that my happiness of hopefully seeing the Rhody arrive in my own home waters, with the opportunity to see her here regularly over the next number of years in the Fanny Bay area, that this is not the same as seeing a working ferry in her home waters.
But I still am happy with the upcoming and hopefully ongoing opportunity for me and other BCers to see Rhody close-up and to keep track of how she's doing in her new role.
So for all the Puget Sounders who will miss their Rhody, I'll do my best to provide you with photographic and news updates over the next few years. And in the sense that we are "one forum" for the West Coast, I suggest that Puget Sounders try to look on her as still being located somewhere in their neighbourhood. Relatively speaking, she's still close to home, part of the same overall Salish Sea. A good opportunity to see things from a regional persepective, without international boundaries.
ps: A few housekeeping things: - Even though she's still going to be somewhat of a working vessel, and in BC waters, her thread will stay right here; in the "Retired WSF vessels" section of our forum. That's where she belongs to us all. - And if and when she receives a new name "Scallop Dish" or whatever, she will always still be the RHODODENDRON to us. No renaming of threads necessary. To me, Rhody will always be her main name.
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Post by Neil on Mar 6, 2013 13:53:29 GMT -8
- Even though she's still going to be somewhat of a working vessel, and in BC waters, her thread will stay right here; in the "Retired WSF vessels" section of our forum. That's where she belongs to us all. - And if and when she receives a new name "Scallop Dish" or whatever, she will always still be the RHODODENDRON to us. No renaming of threads necessary. To me, Rhody will always be her main name. With regard to her possibly being given a horrible scallopy name... do we know for sure that the Chilkat was actually renamed the Scallop Producer ? Is that name visible on her? There is no Scallop Producer in the TC ship registry, but she can't still be the Chilkat, because that name is registered to a different vessel.
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Post by SolDuc on Mar 6, 2013 18:15:52 GMT -8
This is an image plate of the Rhondodendron's Vessel Page:This is a single self contained version of the Vessel page [ WSDOT Rhododendron Vessel Page ] These have been sent to Scott for storage purposes. That just reminds me of the old fleet poster on the Spokane. It still goes as far back to have the Steel-Es and all of the POFs that WSF ever had. I have a picture of it in the Spokane's thread. I also spotted the same one on the Kitsap back in June, but it was gone by the end of August.
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Post by Steve Rosenow on Mar 6, 2013 18:21:10 GMT -8
This is an image plate of the Rhondodendron's Vessel Page:This is a single self contained version of the Vessel page [ WSDOT Rhododendron Vessel Page ] These have been sent to Scott for storage purposes. That just reminds me of the old fleet poster on the Spokane. It still goes as far back to have the Steel-Es and all of the POFs that WSF ever had. I have a picture of it in the Spokane's thread. I also spotted the same one on the Kitsap back in June, but it was gone by the end of August. I think I saw it up again yesterday on the Kitsap.
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Post by SolDuc on Mar 6, 2013 18:23:02 GMT -8
That just reminds me of the old fleet poster on the Spokane. It still goes as far back to have the Steel-Es and all of the POFs that WSF ever had. I have a picture of it in the Spokane's thread. I also spotted the same one on the Kitsap back in June, but it was gone by the end of August. I think I saw it up again yesterday on the Kitsap. Whaat? I've been on the Kitsap twice since June and never saw it...perhaps I should look again!
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