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Post by Starsteward on Oct 9, 2019 9:55:00 GMT -8
Was there ever a Captain on the Mayne Queen nicknamed captain crunch in the 60-70s? The answer is yes. My brother (Mr DOT) used to refer to one of the Swartz Bay based skippers by that nickname. I will comment more about this later. I await your further comment with baited breath. Is there a prize awarded for guessing the correct answer?
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 9, 2019 18:59:39 GMT -8
Way back in the 1960's there was this new kids breakfast cereal named Capt'n Crunch. I am guessing that some people thought it was amusing to apply that name to any ferry skipper who had had a hard landing or some other such occurrence on his watch. I am willing to bet that more than one skipper may have been labelled with the nickname back in the day. Whether the names were deserved was a whole other matter.
The skipper that I believe had this name worked V-class vessels out of Swartz Bay. He may have also been the master of the Mayne Queen, perhaps a little earlier in his career. My brother David told me that said skipper had charge of the newly lengthened Queen of Esquimalt in 1969, when, immediately after stretching, it was re-positioned from Esquimalt back to Swartz Bay. While docking it at Swartz Bay, and being obviously unfamiliar with the handling characteristics of a stretch ferry, he had somewhat of a hard landing. I don't know if there were other incidents. I would think that the skipper in question is probably no longer around to defend his reputation.
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Post by Kahn_C on Oct 9, 2019 19:08:24 GMT -8
Way back in the 1960's there was this new kids breakfast cereal named Capt'n Crunch. I am guessing that some people thought it was amusing to apply that name to any ferry skipper who had had a hard landing or some other such occurrence on his watch. I am willing to bet that more than one skipper may have been labelled with the nickname back in the day. Whether the names were deserved was a whole other matter.
The skipper that I believe had this name worked V-class vessels out of Swartz Bay. He may have also been the master of the Mayne Queen, perhaps a little earlier in his career. My brother David told me that said skipper had charge of the newly lengthened Queen of Esquimalt in 1969, when, immediately after stretching, it was re-positioned from Esquimalt back to Swartz Bay. While docking it at Swartz Bay, and being obviously unfamiliar with the handling characteristics of a stretch ferry, he had somewhat of a hard landing. I don't know if there were other incidents. I would think that the skipper in question is probably no longer around to defend his reputation. There was a "Captain Crunch" working the Texada - Powell River route on the NIP in the 80's, so I think you're right on it being a popular nickname.
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Post by Neil on Oct 9, 2019 20:26:10 GMT -8
Way back in the 1960's there was this new kids breakfast cereal named Capt'n Crunch. I am guessing that some people thought it was amusing to apply that name to any ferry skipper who had had a hard landing or some other such occurrence on his watch. I am willing to bet that more than one skipper may have been labelled with the nickname back in the day. Whether the names were deserved was a whole other matter.
The skipper that I believe had this name worked V-class vessels out of Swartz Bay. He may have also been the master of the Mayne Queen, perhaps a little earlier in his career. My brother David told me that said skipper had charge of the newly lengthened Queen of Esquimalt in 1969, when, immediately after stretching, it was re-positioned from Esquimalt back to Swartz Bay. While docking it at Swartz Bay, and being obviously unfamiliar with the handling characteristics of a stretch ferry, he had somewhat of a hard landing. I don't know if there were other incidents. I would think that the skipper in question is probably no longer around to defend his reputation. There was a "Captain Crunch" working the Texada - Powell River route on the NIP in the 80's, so I think you're right on it being a popular nickname. Agreed. I've heard that term lots of times. Couple of hard landings and ferry users have a new folklore character. I remember the cereal from my youth. Still rated as one of the unhealthiest cereals you can eat. Much more hazardous than a skipper with an energetic affection for wing walls.
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Post by WettCoast on Nov 18, 2019 9:36:55 GMT -8
BC Ferries' Mayne Queen, smoking it up as it runs north through Active Pass, en route to Sturdies Bay, Galiano, Island - 17 May 2019 IMHO, it will be a sad day when the Mayne & Bowen Queens are gone in a couple of years. I've always had a bit of a soft spot for that wedding cake superstructure. Ah, but time doth march on ...
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Post by WettCoast on Nov 25, 2019 17:17:27 GMT -8
A drawing that my brother, Mr DOT, did in 1981. It depicts the MQ as it appeared when first built ...
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Post by Neil on Nov 25, 2019 22:47:59 GMT -8
A drawing that my brother, Mr DOT, did in 1981. It depicts the MQ as it appeared when first built ...
This has probably been answered before... Does Mr DOT recall where those ramps were used? I know that Port Washington was a port of call on North Pender, I think before Otter Bay. Was it there, or elsewhere?
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Post by WettCoast on Nov 25, 2019 23:07:09 GMT -8
This has probably been answered before... Does Mr DOT recall where those ramps were used? I know that Port Washington was a port of call on North Pender, I think before Otter Bay. Was it there, or elsewhere? I believe it was at both Port Washington & at Saturna. When the new Mayne Queen came on line it took over for the Pender Queen (ex Motor Princess). This was only about five years after BC Premier WAC Bennett had bought out the Gulf Islands Ferry Co including its motley fleet & quaint berths at the various islands.
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Post by Thor's Echo on Nov 26, 2019 15:00:11 GMT -8
This has probably been answered before... Does Mr DOT recall where those ramps were used? I know that Port Washington was a port of call on North Pender, I think before Otter Bay. Was it there, or elsewhere? I believe it was at both Port Washington & at Saturna. When the new Mayne Queen came on line it took over for the Pender Queen (ex Motor Princess). This was only about five years after BC Premier WAC Bennett had bought out the Gulf Islands Ferry Co including its motley fleet & quaint berths at the various islands. What about Ganges on Salt Spring Island before Long Harbour?
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Post by WettCoast on Nov 26, 2019 19:42:37 GMT -8
What about Ganges on Salt Spring Island before Long Harbour? The Long Harbour to Tsawwassen run (with stops at other Gulf Islands) did not exist before BC Ferries. Further, I do not believe BC Ferries, since they took over in 1961, ever ran into Ganges Harbour. It is possible, however, that the Gulf Islands Ferry Co did run into there using the Motor Princess or Cy Peck (or some other boat) and did do side loading, but that was well before the Mayne Queen came along.
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Post by Thor's Echo on Nov 26, 2019 19:54:05 GMT -8
Thanks, I wasn't sure because there's a picture of the Queen of The Islands in a book I read. The ship was at Ganges just before going into service, which is why I mentioned it. It was in the Ships of BC book.
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Post by Dane on Nov 26, 2019 20:40:34 GMT -8
Just a promotion thing for entering service. And as the book describes, an eventful trip there!
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Post by Koastal Karl on Apr 12, 2020 10:32:50 GMT -8
Does anyone know what the Mayne Queen is doing?? She's not on the schedule but she was at Village Bay earlier now shes at Sturdies Bay and now she is heading back again. This seems a bit odd.
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Post by Ferryman on Apr 12, 2020 13:46:41 GMT -8
Does anyone know what the Mayne Queen is doing?? She's not on the schedule but she was at Village Bay earlier now shes at Sturdies Bay and now she is heading back again. This seems a bit odd. The Mayne Queen is still being used for Dangerous cargo runs
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Post by Neil on Apr 12, 2020 20:01:21 GMT -8
Does anyone know what the Mayne Queen is doing?? She's not on the schedule but she was at Village Bay earlier now shes at Sturdies Bay and now she is heading back again. This seems a bit odd. The Mayne Queen is still being used for Dangerous cargo runs Dangerous cargo, on an Easter Sunday?
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Post by Ferryman on Apr 12, 2020 23:10:14 GMT -8
The Mayne Queen is still being used for Dangerous cargo runs Dangerous cargo, on an Easter Sunday? Yes indeed! Traditionally every Sunday morning the Mayne Queen will do Dangerous Cargo runs to the Gulf Islands. It’s the only day in the week that Pender, Mayne, Saturna, and Galiano have the opportunity to receive their Dangerous Cargo. The schedule is actually flexible enough that there are no scheduled runs, and that she only stops at the Ports of Call that are expecting a delivery. Some weeks there are only one or two deliveries so the Mayne Queen will actually tie up and shut down for a while at Village Bay. Normally there’d be a scheduled run to Lyall Harbour and back to Village Bay at some point for general traffic to connect with the Cumbie or Route 9 until it’s time to make the rounds to pick everyone up again for the trip home. It’s kind of a neat/old skool way of doing things that still remains as a continued practice.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 21:54:02 GMT -8
Seeing there has not been much been talked about my favorite intermediate sized ferry the MV Mayne Queen I thought it would be interesting to note that while flipping through videos of the Mayne Queen on YouTube I found a song about her, just look up Mayne Queen by Earthmen, it's a really classic rock song but it came out 3 years ago,Cheers Jimmy Carlos
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Post by cbachmeier on Dec 19, 2020 0:17:41 GMT -8
Film negative of BC Ferries MV Mayne Queen Docked at a southern gulf Islands Terminal sometime in 1978 My grandma took this photo. Image60001 by Chase Bachmeier, on Flickr Can someone please help me identify this Terminal?
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Post by cbachmeier on Dec 19, 2020 1:09:52 GMT -8
Was there ever a Captain on the Mayne Queen nicknamed captain crunch in the 60-70s? Oh Yes the marvelous captain Crunch, my Grandpa told me a story about a time in the 60s back when there were not many rules regarding crew behavior, he was doing 360 degree spins in plumper sound near Lyall Harbor, it was pitch black night, so it was even more dangerous, while captain Crunch was doing these "stunts" he hit the rocks and busted the pressure in the gears trapping the ship on the rocks. When the gear pressure busted it also caused the archime horn to blast, the cable that controlled the ships whistle was jammed from the grounding and as a result the horn blasted for a few minutes. People on the island heard this sound and rushed down to Lyall Harbor to see what the noise was and by the time to horn finally stopped there was a large crowd at the terminal. Anyways very interesting but true story.
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Post by cbachmeier on Dec 20, 2020 15:43:09 GMT -8
WARNING: PHOTO HEAVY POST BC Ferries MV Mayne Queens commonwealth seal sometime in 2002, this photo was taken by my grandparents image60009 by Chase Bachmeier, on Flickr
BC Ferries MV Mayne Queen docked at Lyall Harbor Ferry Terminal sometime in 2002, this photo was taken by my grandparents image60007 by Chase Bachmeier, on Flickr
BC Ferries MV Mayne Queens commemorative plaque for the inaugural voyage of November 2nd, 1965, this photo was taken shortly after being reinstalled onboard the MV Mayne Queen, on November 22nd, 2019. The plaque is back onboard the MV Mayne Queen by Chase Bachmeier, on Flickr
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 20, 2020 19:31:29 GMT -8
BC Ferries MV Mayne Queen docked at Lyall Harbor Ferry Terminal sometime in 2002, this photo was taken by my grandparents image60007 by Chase Bachmeier, on Flickr
This photo is an interesting view, because it is an inverse image. The pub building should be on the right, same with the cove. This was a fun think. My view in 2018: . by Mike Bonkowski, on Flickr
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Post by cbachmeier on Dec 21, 2020 0:00:28 GMT -8
BC Ferries MV Mayne Queen docked at Lyall Harbor Ferry Terminal sometime in 2002, this photo was taken by my grandparents image60007 by Chase Bachmeier, on Flickr
This photo is an interesting view, because it is an inverse image. The pub building should be on the right, same with the cove. This was a fun think. My view in 2018: . by Mike Bonkowski, on Flickr Thank you for pointing that out, I did not realize that completely at first I thought there was something else going on, these were film negatives so it may have been scanned in a weird way, and I also noticed in the picture below of the commonwealth seal the words are backwards, and I scanned these photos at the same time so. image60009 by Chase Bachmeier, on Flickr
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jul 2, 2021 18:19:09 GMT -8
Is the Mayne Queen the longest vessel serving her original route in the fleet?
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Post by Neil on Jul 2, 2021 21:18:10 GMT -8
Is the Mayne Queen the longest vessel serving her original route in the fleet? Depends on your criteria. Mayne Queen started route 5 in 1965, and she's still there, 56 years later. Her tenure hasn't been unbroken, though. I know she wasn't on the route in the Expo summer of '86, and I believe that some other period, late '80s- early '90s found her elsewhere, at least briefly. The ' Chilliwack and the ' Cumberland both came online '91-'92, and I think the ' Chilliwack's first assignment was route 5... somehow I doubt both her and the ' Cumberland would have been on route 5 at the same time, but I guess it's possible. For unbroken service on only one route, Kwuna would be the current title holder, at 46 years.
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Post by articulated on Jul 3, 2021 3:12:16 GMT -8
Is the Mayne Queen the longest vessel serving her original route in the fleet? The ' Chilliwack and the ' Cumberland both came online '91-'92, and I think the ' Chilliwack's first assignment was route 5... somehow I doubt both her and the ' Cumberland would have been on route 5 at the same time, but I guess it's possible. Chilliwack did start on route 5 in early 1991, but it was moved over to route 7 in 1992 to replace Capilano. I believe Cumberland would have directly replaced Chilliwack, but it's theoretically possible that the latter would have been kept around while the former was in its break-in period, as a new vessel. This is me getting into pure speculation at this point, but one possibility is that if both Cumberland and Chilliwack were on route 5, BCF could've used the opportunity to send Bowen and/or Mayne Queen into refit; however, from everything I've read, it seems the priority at that time would've been getting the troubled Capilano off of route 7 as quickly as possible, limiting the time both Cumberland and Chilliwack would be together.
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