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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Oct 10, 2022 9:54:21 GMT -8
What is the next role for the Queen of Alberni? What is BC Ferries future plans for her?
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Post by Ferryman on Oct 10, 2022 17:09:05 GMT -8
What is the next role for the Queen of Alberni? What is BC Ferries future plans for her? Tomorrow afternoon she'll return home to Tsawwassen on Route 30 until her refit starts next month. The Renaissance will then head on to refit in Departure Bay |
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Oct 10, 2022 17:14:21 GMT -8
What is the next role for the Queen of Alberni? What is BC Ferries future plans for her? Tomorrow afternoon she'll return home to Tsawwassen on Route 30 until her refit starts next month. The Renaissance will then head on to refit in Departure Bay I am guessing the Queen of Alberni is taking over spare major vessel duty because I am both Renaissance and Inspiration in December |
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Oct 11, 2022 14:27:02 GMT -8
Queen of Alberni has taken over for Coastal Renaissance as 3:15 pm to Duke Point from Tsawwassen on October 10.
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Post by harrysbird on Oct 11, 2022 20:21:44 GMT -8
Queen of Alberni has now back to regular route.
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Oct 18, 2022 7:02:31 GMT -8
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Oct 18, 2022 12:42:31 GMT -8
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Oct 18, 2022 20:28:10 GMT -8
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Post by harrysbird on Nov 17, 2022 10:48:27 GMT -8
Queen of Alberni is on the way to BC Ferries Maintenance Deas Dock for Refit
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Post by harrysbird on Dec 21, 2022 14:44:33 GMT -8
Refit Completed, Now heading for long sea trials then Tsawwassen terminal
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Dec 21, 2022 21:17:18 GMT -8
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Post by Departure Bay on Dec 26, 2022 10:46:41 GMT -8
The Queen of Alberni has cancelled a round trip and is at Departure Bay for repair.
Service notice - Sailing Cancellations - Queen of Alberni
Posted: Monday, December 26, 2022
Issued at: 7:16 am
The following Queen of Alberni sailings have been cancelled today, Monday, December 26 due to mechanical difficulty with the ship's anchor.
Cancelled Sailings today, December 26 date:
7:45 am departing Duke Point
10:15 am departing Tsawwassen
Service notice - Service Resumes - Queen of Alberni
Posted: Monday, December 26, 2022
Issued at: 8:59 am
The mechanical problem with the anchor on the Queen of Alberni has successfully been resolved. Service will resume with the 12:45 pm sailing from Duke Point to Tsawwassen.
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Post by Dane on Dec 26, 2022 13:17:37 GMT -8
I wonder what the Alberni costs BC Ferries every year in maintenance above and beyond what may be anticipated? There was a ton of cancellations throughout 2022, and that's not new for this ship. Perhaps the poster child ferry of why sustained and timely investment in capital infrastructure replacement is important.
I'm far too lazy to read back on the all service notice type posts, but I am pretty confident, excluding crew issues, that more than 5% of Alberni sailings were cancelled this year.
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Post by elwharust on Dec 28, 2022 20:59:29 GMT -8
I wonder what the Alberni costs BC Ferries every year in maintenance above and beyond what may be anticipated? There was a ton of cancellations throughout 2022, and that's not new for this ship. Perhaps the poster child ferry of why sustained and timely investment in capital infrastructure replacement is important. I'm far too lazy to read back on the all service notice type posts, but I am pretty confident, excluding crew issues, that more than 5% of Alberni sailings were cancelled this year. well lets be fair I'm sure at least 1% of those were from shortage of crew, if you didn't already take that in to account |
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Post by paulvanb on Dec 28, 2022 21:51:07 GMT -8
I wonder what the Alberni costs BC Ferries every year in maintenance above and beyond what may be anticipated? There was a ton of cancellations throughout 2022, and that's not new for this ship. Perhaps the poster child ferry of why sustained and timely investment in capital infrastructure replacement is important. I'm far too lazy to read back on the all service notice type posts, but I am pretty confident, excluding crew issues, that more than 5% of Alberni sailings were cancelled this year. well lets be fair I'm sure at least 1% of those were from shortage of crew, if you didn't already take that in to account Only 1%? |
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jan 19, 2023 17:37:11 GMT -8
What route will Queen of Alberni server in summer season?
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Post by ferryfanyvr on Jan 19, 2023 22:16:14 GMT -8
What route will Queen of Alberni server in summer season? Good question. My friend who up until last week worked for the ferries (he retired) told me there's quite a bit of discussion about that right now. They apparently would like some extra sailings on route 30 so the Alberni might do those, but it would have to be based out of Departure Bay and moved empty between there and Duke Point at the start and end of service since there's no extra berth at Duke. But then what about extra sailings on route 2? One might say the Coquitlam as the extra ship at Langdale is underutilized in the summer, being in service only part days 5 days per week. Could it do Langdale-HSB-DB-HSB-Langdale trips of some kind? Or might the Alberni do extra sailings on both routes 2 and 30? And of course they need enough crew to operate the extra sailings no matter where the ships are deployed. There's lots for us to speculate about in the upcoming months while the crewing and schedule planning departments are hard at work. It'll be interesting to see what transpires. |
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Post by lightningwolf206 on Jan 19, 2023 23:59:44 GMT -8
What route will Queen of Alberni server in summer season? I heard that Route 2 is mostly likely only gonna be having 8 sailings per day this summer, using only the Oak Bay and Cowichan. Langdale (Route 3) would still be the same kind of situation as previous summer years. Surrey and Coquitlam (8-12 Sailings) Essentially Route 30 (Duke Point-Tsawwassen) will be getting the extra boat and 3 extra sailings. While Route 2 (Horseshoe Bay-Departure Bay) won't have the extra 3 round trips it gets in the summer. No 07:20 DEP 12:25 DEP 17:00 DEP 21:30 DEP (Sunday) 10:00 HSB 14:45 HSB 19:20 HSB 23:40 HSB (Sunday) |
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jan 20, 2023 8:25:02 GMT -8
What route will Queen of Alberni server in summer season? I heard that Route 2 is mostly likely only gonna be having 8 sailings per day this summer, using only the Oak Bay and Cowichan. Langdale (Route 3) would still be the same kind of situation as previous summer years. Surrey and Coquitlam (8-12 Sailings) Essentially Route 30 (Duke Point-Tsawwassen) will be getting the extra boat and 3 extra sailings. While Route 2 (Horseshoe Bay-Departure Bay) won't have the extra 3 round trips it gets in the summer. No 07:20 DEP 12:25 DEP 17:00 DEP 21:30 DEP (Sunday) 10:00 HSB 14:45 HSB 19:20 HSB 23:40 HSB (Sunday) That is going to fail in terms of walk on passenger because Duke Point has no bus service. Is BC Ferries trying to make route 30 main route to Nanaimo? If this case they need to work with BC Transit to establish transit service to Duke Point. |
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Post by gordon on Jan 20, 2023 8:33:17 GMT -8
How will the scheduling work with Duke point only having 1 berth? I would hope B.C. ferries will get some bus service to downtown Nanaimo.
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jan 20, 2023 10:06:21 GMT -8
How will the scheduling work with Duke point only having 1 berth? I would hope B.C. ferries will get some bus service to downtown Nanaimo. could possibly be a hour after one of main vessels. |
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Post by Olympic Ferries on Jan 20, 2023 10:45:05 GMT -8
What route will Queen of Alberni server in summer season? Good question. My friend who up until last week worked for the ferries (he retired) told me there's quite a bit of discussion about that right now. They apparently would like some extra sailings on route 30 so the Alberni might do those, but it would have to be based out of Departure Bay and moved empty between there and Duke Point at the start and end of service since there's no extra berth at Duke. But then what about extra sailings on route 2? One might say the Coquitlam as the extra ship at Langdale is underutilized in the summer, being in service only part days 5 days per week. Could it do Langdale-HSB-DB-HSB-Langdale trips of some kind? Or might the Alberni do extra sailings on both routes 2 and 30? And of course they need enough crew to operate the extra sailings no matter where the ships are deployed. There's lots for us to speculate about in the upcoming months while the crewing and schedule planning departments are hard at work. It'll be interesting to see what transpires. I was under the impression that the 5-day per week extra Langdale sailings would be converted into full time sailings this coming summer - not sure how that factors in which vessel will be available to supplement that though. |
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Mar 2, 2023 0:41:04 GMT -8
BC Ferries hasn’t decided what Nanaimo to Metro Vancouver will get additional sailings from Queen of Alberni due neither route 2 or route 30 having additional sailings added to summer schedule yet.
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Post by gordon on Mar 27, 2023 13:04:25 GMT -8
The B.C. ferries website says the Q of A has a top sped of 22 knots but never seems to go faster that 20.5 knots wy not run her at top speed when needed?
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Post by paulvanb on Mar 27, 2023 14:46:53 GMT -8
The B.C. ferries website says the Q of A has a top sped of 22 knots but never seems to go faster that 20.5 knots wy not run her at top speed when needed My guess - $$$$ |
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