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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Mar 23, 2023 17:30:14 GMT -8
Why is Coastal Renaissance just hanging off of Tsawwassen.
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Mar 23, 2023 20:18:23 GMT -8
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Post by WettCoast on Apr 13, 2023 22:14:06 GMT -8
Coastal Renaissance with a busy Easter Monday sailing outbound from Duke Point Terminal near Nanaimo
10 April 2023
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Post by harrysbird on Apr 20, 2023 22:32:30 GMT -8
Coastal Renaissance is now at Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal for Route 1
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Post by Dane on Apr 21, 2023 18:56:05 GMT -8
Coastal Renaissance is now at Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal for Route 1 I was on the CR today; from a customer experience point of view probably the worst sailing I've ever been on? Almost all the washrooms were closed. The open two, one for each genders, had no paper towel. This also meant Deck 5 had no washrooms available, despite being fully open. Cafeteria opened late, ran out of cutlery, and my first tray was visibly dirty. The turkey bacon on my partner's sandwich was the size of a quarter, it would have been amusing had it not been $10. They forgot to make that sandwich, twice, so I was in the cafeteria loitering for quite some time. Paper plates were used. The Deck 7 stairs got closed, for unknown reasons, why we were still up there, and nothing was said to us. We had to take down stanchions and set them back up. Nothing catastrophic, and the crew we interacted with were wonderful. I'm assuming the ship was running with minimum crew, and likely new crew to many areas (or I'm getting old and everyone seems really young, also possible).
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Post by WettCoast on Apr 28, 2023 7:18:02 GMT -8
Coastal Renaissance, with a busy Easter Monday afternoon load, is about to depart Nanaimo's Duke Point Terminal for the mainland.
10 April 2023
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Post by harrysbird on Jun 25, 2023 20:36:38 GMT -8
Coastal Renaissance is now on Route 30 for summer service. All of Deck 5 will be remain closed for the sailing.
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Post by Departure Bay on Jul 28, 2023 15:54:35 GMT -8
Coastal Renaissance is having engine issues and is cancelling at least one round trip today. Yikes!! The following Coastal Renaissance sailings have been cancelled for today, Friday, July 28, due to a mechanical difficulty with the ship's main engine. Cancelled Sailings: 3:15 pm departing Tsawwassen (Vancouver) 5:45 pm departing Duke Point (Nanaimo) While our team works hard to investigate the problem with the ship's main engine, the following sailings are also at risk of cancellation: 8:15 pm departing Tsawwassen (Vancouver) 10:45 pm departing Duke Point (Nanaimo) www.bcferries.com/current-conditions/service-notices?serviceNoticeCode=8801500671752&subscriptionRoute=TSA-DUK
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Post by arrrrmatey on Jul 30, 2023 9:13:43 GMT -8
Coastal Renaissance is having engine issues and is cancelling at least one round trip today. Yikes!! The following Coastal Renaissance sailings have been cancelled for today, Friday, July 28, due to a mechanical difficulty with the ship's main engine. Cancelled Sailings: 3:15 pm departing Tsawwassen (Vancouver) 5:45 pm departing Duke Point (Nanaimo) While our team works hard to investigate the problem with the ship's main engine, the following sailings are also at risk of cancellation: 8:15 pm departing Tsawwassen (Vancouver) 10:45 pm departing Duke Point (Nanaimo) www.bcferries.com/current-conditions/service-notices?serviceNoticeCode=8801500671752&subscriptionRoute=TSA-DUKDoes anyone know if the Coastals have some resiliency to engine-related cancellations due to being diesel-electric? They typically only run 3 of the 4 main engines (you can easily see this if you are on one, or on another ferry in an adjacent berth, only 3 main exhaust stacks have exhaust coming out). I’m curious to know if they are allowed to sail with one engine completely out of service for repairs. I see to recall reading about this somewhere, though I can’t find it on the forum or otherwise. I seem to remember reading that they need 3 engines online for safe docking or safe transit of active pass, but can otherwise sail with 2 unless they need extra speed, which makes sense. Don’t take my word on this though, as I can’t remember if I heard the is somewhere or I’m just recalling my own speculations! This may not, however, be related to last week’s cancellations. Perhaps it was a drive motor issue instead. The service notices don’t give (enough) detail on the mechanical issues and usually seem to be written by someone who has little or no understanding of the mechanical workings of a ship.
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Post by Charles on Jul 30, 2023 10:43:12 GMT -8
Coastal Renaissance is having engine issues and is cancelling at least one round trip today. Yikes!! The following Coastal Renaissance sailings have been cancelled for today, Friday, July 28, due to a mechanical difficulty with the ship's main engine. Cancelled Sailings: 3:15 pm departing Tsawwassen (Vancouver) 5:45 pm departing Duke Point (Nanaimo) While our team works hard to investigate the problem with the ship's main engine, the following sailings are also at risk of cancellation: 8:15 pm departing Tsawwassen (Vancouver) 10:45 pm departing Duke Point (Nanaimo) www.bcferries.com/current-conditions/service-notices?serviceNoticeCode=8801500671752&subscriptionRoute=TSA-DUKDoes anyone know if the Coastals have some resiliency to engine-related cancellations due to being diesel-electric? They typically only run 3 of the 4 main engines (you can easily see this if you are on one, or on another ferry in an adjacent berth, only 3 main exhaust stacks have exhaust coming out). I’m curious to know if they are allowed to sail with one engine completely out of service for repairs. I see to recall reading about this somewhere, though I can’t find it on the forum or otherwise. I seem to remember reading that they need 3 engines online for safe docking or safe transit of active pass, but can otherwise sail with 2 unless they need extra speed, which makes sense. Don’t take my word on this though, as I can’t remember if I heard the is somewhere or I’m just recalling my own speculations! This may not, however, be related to last week’s cancellations. Perhaps it was a drive motor issue instead. The service notices don’t give (enough) detail on the mechanical issues and usually seem to be written by someone who has little or no understanding of the mechanical workings of a ship. Ferryman commented on this in the Celebration's thread, I believe the answer is no as they need at least 3 "prime movers" working at anytime. If they don't have their reserve engine then they put the entire vessel at risk in the unlikely scenario one engine fails...
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Aug 16, 2023 17:36:58 GMT -8
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Post by WettCoast on Aug 16, 2023 18:58:16 GMT -8
"due to mechanical issue with the ship's main engine".
I hope its not something serious. Seems like the newest of the major vessels serving routes 1, 2, 3 & 30 are giving BCF the majority of their problems at the moment.
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Post by Alec on Aug 16, 2023 19:39:21 GMT -8
Man, the Super Cs sure have been falling apart as of late. Is BCF just not taking care of them, or could it be an engineering problem?
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Post by WettCoast on Aug 16, 2023 21:09:53 GMT -8
The Renaissance will not sail tomorrow, either. The Alberni will take her place and route 30 will loose the two extra sailings each way.
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Post by Dane on Aug 16, 2023 21:17:58 GMT -8
The Renaissance will not sail tomorrow, either. The Alberni will take her place and route 30 will loose the two extra sailings each way. Good timing, the Alberni was just back from repair isn't it?
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Post by WettCoast on Aug 16, 2023 22:06:37 GMT -8
The Renaissance will not sail tomorrow, either. The Alberni will take her place and route 30 will loose the two extra sailings each way. Good timing, the Alberni was just back from repair isn't it? Pretty sure the answer is 'yes'.
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Post by Departure Bay on Aug 17, 2023 13:35:32 GMT -8
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Aug 17, 2023 17:10:44 GMT -8
I wonder what they mean by late sailing, an additional round trip for both vessels or the Queen of New Westminster adding sailing on route 30. If both vessels get additional round trip it would make up for the four loss sailing so no net loss in capacity for fleet.
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Post by Neil on Aug 17, 2023 17:29:26 GMT -8
I wonder what they mean by late sailing, an additional round trip for both vessels or the Queen of New Westminster adding sailing on route 30. If both vessels get additional round trip it would make up for the four loss sailing so no net loss in capacity for fleet. They have no vessels available to do sailings when it matters. Are they talking about sailings at midnight and 2:30 am by a route one vessel? Not likely, and not very helpful. So much for expanded service on route thirty... at least we got it for seven weeks or so. Now there will be even more pressure on route two.
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Post by Dane on Aug 17, 2023 17:32:00 GMT -8
Coquitlam to route 2 for a round trip at the expense of route 3?
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Post by Alec on Aug 17, 2023 17:44:46 GMT -8
Coquitlam to route 2 for a round trip at the expense of route 3? Poor Coquitlam, she's been hauled all over the region today
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Aug 17, 2023 17:53:52 GMT -8
I wonder what they mean by late sailing, an additional round trip for both vessels or the Queen of New Westminster adding sailing on route 30. If both vessels get additional round trip it would make up for the four loss sailing so no net loss in capacity for fleet. They have no vessels available to do sailings when it matters. Are they talking about sailings at midnight and 2:30 am by a route one vessel? Not likely, and not very helpful. So much for expanded service on route thirty... at least we got it for seven weeks or so. Now there will be even more pressure on route two. BC Ferries has done it before with the Spirits and route 1, so I don’t why they couldn’t do with route 30.
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Post by arrrrmatey on Aug 17, 2023 17:55:34 GMT -8
Coquitlam to route 2 for a round trip at the expense of route 3? As a semi-regular user of route 3, I hope not! In past years, route 3 usually is the one to lose its extra summer sailings in these cases, but this summer has been largely spared. With that being said, though, the Coquitlam is definitely under-utilized on route 3. I don’t think it would be too unreasonable if she did 2 round trips on route 3 and one on route 2 as an emergency measure… this would would still fit more or less into the working day of the existing Langdale-based crew. They could probably do 4- and 2- round trips if they could temporarily house the now-idle Nanaimo-based crew in Langdale until the Renaissance is back in action. Or the Langdale-based crew in Nanaimo.
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Aug 17, 2023 18:00:50 GMT -8
Coquitlam to route 2 for a round trip at the expense of route 3? As a semi-regular user of route 3, I hope not! In past years, route 3 usually is the one to lose its extra summer sailings in these cases, but this summer has been largely spared. With that being said, though, the Coquitlam is definitely under-utilized on route 3. I don’t think it would be too unreasonable if she did 2 round trips on route 3 and one on route 2 as an emergency measure… this would would still fit more or less into the working day of the existing Langdale-based crew. They could probably do 4- and 2- round trips if they could temporarily house the now-idle Nanaimo-based crew in Langdale until the Renaissance is back in action. Or the Langdale-based crew in Nanaimo. I think Queen of Coquitlam and Queen of Alberni are due crewing availability which also happened before COVID 19 became a thing.
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Post by QoNW Fan on Aug 17, 2023 20:29:56 GMT -8
Did the V class generally have as many issues as the Coastal class has been having recently? I'm genuinely curious, I wasn't a ferry enthusiast back when the Queen of Vancouver, Saanich, and Esquimalt were in active service. Seems like it's been one issue after another recently.
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