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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 24, 2019 7:09:16 GMT -8
Do you remember your first ferry crush? That ship that caught your eye and made you realize that you were a ferry-fan or ship enthusiast? Or maybe there were 2 or 3 ships that got you keen on things nautical. The November-December 2019 Forum Flagship theme is you original favourite ferry(ies). Maybe it was Powell River Queen for Curtis, or SoVI for Sam, or North Vancouver Ferry No.1 for Neil. So you get to do nominations of your photos of your first favourite ferries. Car ferry or passenger ferry. Location doesn't matter; if it was your first crush, that's what matters. 3 photo limit per member. Photos don't have to be from that era or livery that you first saw. They can be a current photo of a ship that captured your heart 50 years ago. And it can be just one ship, or 2, or 3. Nominations will end near the end of October 2019. PS: I'm setting this up while on vacation, as an old person using a smartphone. So I will fine tune the deadline and submission format stuff when I get back to a real computer and keyboard. ...but this is the theme. PPS: this flagship theme is kinda my swansong for setting up a flagship. I'm "Retiring" as a Moderator, later this Autumn. It's part of a 50-something life plan to slowly move away from responsibility, but still be a participant in things. Cheers! --------------------- EDIT for Deadline: - Please submit your nominations in this thread, by 7:00pm PDT on Tuesday, October 29, 2019,followed by a 2 day voting period - Preferred banner size is 1200 x 340 (pixel size), however we will accept banners down to 1080 x 300. But 1200x340 looks best. Anything outside these dimensions will not be eligible. - Please post your entries no wider than 1024 pixels, with a link to the larger image. - Please ensure all of your links work, and your thumbnail displays properly For the complete Forum Flagship Rules, including the new text regulations: ferriesbc.proboards.com/thread/3510/forum-flagship-rules-information |
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Post by WettCoast on Sept 24, 2019 18:59:33 GMT -8
This is a good theme, but just one thing to clear up for me.
I will be submitting one, perhaps more images of one of the Seven Sisters, or Sidney class, dating from the pastel blue era from about 1970 give or take. I don't have a lot of photos from back then, but there will be a few to choose from. That is when I was a kid and first took an interest in our ferries.
In any case I may end up submitting a photo that I have used in the past, perhaps one that has won in the past. If it will be rejected on that basis then maybe its not worth my while to participate. I won't be submitting anything from the mating slug era, or even the Expo era. I was not a 'kid' then.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 24, 2019 19:05:24 GMT -8
There will be no restrictions based on whether a photo has won or appeared as a banner in previous years.
So it's open to any old or new photos, regardless of past contest winnings.
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Post by Kahloke on Sept 25, 2019 6:16:24 GMT -8
This is a great theme. Growing up in the San Juan Islands, the ferries that served up there were really the only ferries I knew - Evergreen, Kaleetan, Klickitat, and Vashon, too, although I don't remember riding on Vashon. Later, Elwha joined the fray, but of all of those vessels, Kaleetan was my favorite. Before Elwha came up to the islands, Kaleetan was the big boat, and the newest boat up there at that time. As a kid, it made a big impression on me. To this day, I still have a soft spot for Kaleetan, so my first submission is my first ferry crush: Kaleetan  full size: live.staticflickr.com/65535/48793310201_845041dd2c_o.jpg |
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Post by WettCoast on Sept 25, 2019 20:08:13 GMT -8
In the summer of 1960, when I was six years old, I am pretty much sure that my father (Mom too) packed up the family and took us to visit his mother (my grand mother) in North Delta, which meant a ride on BC's brand new ferries between Swartz Bay & Tsawwassen. At that time I did not pay much attention to the fact that we would have been aboard the first of many Spaulding designed vessels that would sail for BC Ferries.
Throughout the 1960's and 70's I was on these ferries dozens of times and I did develop a bit of a fondness. To represent the stretched V class I have chosen this shot of the Queen of Vancouver which shows her stretched, but unlifted, wearing her original pastel blue livery, and operating her original & pretty much only route. It was then that these vessels looked their best.
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Post by Neil on Sept 25, 2019 20:58:07 GMT -8
Our esteemed moderator assigned me much more age than appropriate when he suggested I might have had a 'crush' on the North Vancouver ferries. I'm actually of similar vintage to 'WettCoast' Jim, two years or so younger.
My family wasn't big on photography, so I have nothing of the Bainbridge's prime years, but that's the vessel that hooked me, at the age of five or six, from our summer holidays on Bowen. I've posted a shot of her rotting away on the Fraser, but that doesn't seem very nice.
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Post by WettCoast on Sept 25, 2019 22:01:10 GMT -8
Our esteemed moderator assigned me much more age than appropriate when he suggested I might have had a 'crush' on the North Vancouver ferries. I'm actually of similar vintage to 'WettCoast' Jim, two years or so younger. My family wasn't big on photography, so I have nothing of the Bainbridge's prime years, but that's the vessel that hooked me, at the age of five or six, from our summer holidays on Bowen. I've posted a shot of her rotting away on the Fraser, but that doesn't seem very nice. And here I thought that your 'crush' boat might be the Princess Maquinna ... |
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Post by Kahloke on Sept 26, 2019 5:11:11 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 26, 2019 7:59:11 GMT -8
I've got to search my ferry-feelings to figure out what my first-ferry-crush might be. ...and then the issue of determining if I have suitable photos for a banner.
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Post by WettCoast on Sept 30, 2019 20:39:52 GMT -8
Way back in the day I did have a fondness for more than just the 'Seven Sisters'. There was their cousins, the BCF originals from 1960. Here is the Queen of Tsawwassen from 1971 while serving on route 2. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 1, 2019 6:20:16 GMT -8
A clarification and an offer:
1) A reminder that any era of photograph is ok for your nomination, even if you first liked the ship in pastel-blue, and now you have a mating-slugs photo that you would like to use. That's ok, if you're ok with that.
The intention wasn't to limit the actual photographs to the era that you first noticed the ship. The ship itself if the important link.
However...
2) If you do don't have a suitable banner photograph from an earlier-era, and you would prefer an earlier-era photograph for your nomination, then Mr. Wett Coast has offered to lend you a nomination banner, if he has something that better exemplifies your first-crush.
- If you would like to ask Wett Coast about this, please send him a personal-message.
Cheers !
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Post by Starsteward on Oct 2, 2019 9:12:09 GMT -8
Just wondering if anyone has a photo of either the 'Sechelt Queen' or the 'Queen of Sidney' showing them flying the pre-Maple Leaf Canadian Flag?
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 2, 2019 11:34:51 GMT -8
Just wondering if anyone has a photo of either the 'Sechelt Queen' or the 'Queen of Sidney' showing them flying the pre-Maple Leaf Canadian Flag? I don't have any photos of my own going back that far, nor is there any in my brother's collection. There are some post cards floating around, however. I would think it would be okay to use such, but I will defer to the moderators. See the Q of Sidney image below, which originates from a post card in my brother's collection.  |
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Post by Starsteward on Oct 2, 2019 14:31:48 GMT -8
Just wondering if anyone has a photo of either the 'Sechelt Queen' or the 'Queen of Sidney' showing them flying the pre-Maple Leaf Canadian Flag? I don't have any photos of my own going back that far, nor is there any in my brother's collection. There are some post cards floating around, however. I would think it would be okay to use such, but I will defer to the moderators. See the Q of Sidney image below, which originates from a post card in my brother's collection. Thank-you kind Sir.  Much appreciated. That photo goes Waaay back as the Dogwood isn't on the funnel yet. It IS however flying the pre-Maple Leaf flag. Where have all those years fled to?? |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 2, 2019 16:45:58 GMT -8
Thank-you kind Sir. Much appreciated. That photo goes Waaay back as the Dogwood isn't on the funnel yet. It IS however flying the pre-Maple Leaf flag. Where have all those years fled to?? Before using that photo I would wait for the moderators to say yes or no. I would also like to be able to credit the source, which I think I can track down. I do have a higher res version of that photo available. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 2, 2019 17:02:17 GMT -8
Thank-you kind Sir. Much appreciated. That photo goes Waaay back as the Dogwood isn't on the funnel yet. It IS however flying the pre-Maple Leaf flag. Where have all those years fled to?? Before using that photo I would wait for the moderators to say yes or no. I would also like to be able to credit the source, which I think I can track down. I do have a higher res version of that photo available. I'm not sure StarSteward is asking for this photo to be a nomination, or if he just wanted to see a photo. I'll wait for him to be Star-Specific about that. |
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Post by Starsteward on Oct 3, 2019 18:36:03 GMT -8
Before using that photo I would wait for the moderators to say yes or no. I would also like to be able to credit the source, which I think I can track down. I do have a higher res version of that photo available. I'm not sure StarSteward is asking for this photo to be a nomination, or if he just wanted to see a photo. I'll wait for him to be Star-Specific about that. If credit for the photo could be obtained I would be delighted if it was placed in the nominations. It is one of the rarest photos of the early 'twins' that I have ever seen and members might be intrigued with its foray into the flagship banner competition. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 3, 2019 19:24:18 GMT -8
I'm not sure StarSteward is asking for this photo to be a nomination, or if he just wanted to see a photo. I'll wait for him to be Star-Specific about that. If credit for the photo could be obtained I would be delighted if it was placed in the nominations. It is one of the rarest photos of the early 'twins' that I have ever seen and members might be intrigued with its foray into the flagship banner competition. Let's keep this to photographs that various members have taken, and not use postcards. |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 3, 2019 19:54:01 GMT -8
If credit for the photo could be obtained I would be delighted if it was placed in the nominations. It is one of the rarest photos of the early 'twins' that I have ever seen and members might be intrigued with its foray into the flagship banner competition. Let's keep this to photographs that various members have taken, and not use postcards. I have found the 'original' post card from which that image was scanned. Its a large format post card (at least 8x5 inches). My brother trimmed it to fit in his album. It is marked as "published & distributed by Stan V Wright & Co, Victoria, BC". There is no info on the photographer (though that might have been on the portion of the post card trimmed off). I do have a suitable Sidney photo of my own, but it is a little more recent & shows the maple leaf flag. |
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Post by Starsteward on Oct 4, 2019 14:46:46 GMT -8
Perhaps we could agree to publish whatever old photos of the 'Sidney' that are available but put them in a thread that is NOT part of the flagship banner
competition.
My apologies for making this 'Sidney'-thing a tad messy.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 4, 2019 15:48:55 GMT -8
Perhaps we could agree to publish whatever old photos of the 'Sidney' that are available but put them in a thread that is NOT part of the flagship banner competition. My apologies for making this 'Sidney'-thing a tad messy. Here's our existing "Queen of Sidney" thread: CLICK HERE |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 5, 2019 8:45:53 GMT -8
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Post by Starsteward on Oct 5, 2019 10:56:52 GMT -8
Back in the day I used to think she was the biggest most beautiful ship I'd ever seen. Like Cher's song of long ago: "If I could turn back time"...  |
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Post by Mike on Oct 20, 2019 20:54:03 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 24, 2019 17:48:18 GMT -8
Here are my 3 nominations, which include 2 ships: 2 of Tenaka: When she was on the Cortes Route, and we were vacationing on Quadra Island's east side, she captured my attention. On the Hornby Route:  DSC04796bnr by Mike Bonkowski, on Flickr Full Size HEREOn the Cortes Route:  IMG_2468bnr by Mike Bonkowski, on Flickr Full Size HERE-------------------- Uchuck III is a passenger ferry that also carries freight. It's partly funded by the Province (through BC Ferries) as a ferry route. - here she is at Friendly Cove on Nootka Island.  IMG_9614bnr by Mike Bonkowski, on Flickr Full Size HERE |
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Much appreciated.
