#ferry — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ferry, aggregated by home.social.
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A petition to save the #Glenelg to #Skye #ferry from the #rapacious #greed of one landowner.
I've just signed this. Will you add your name and share too?
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-glenelg-skye-ferry -
For #SchiffsSamstag here's the Brittany Ferries vessel, Mont St Michel, which sails a regular service between our home city of Portsmouth and Caen in the north of France. This was taken as she was heading to the UK while we were on our way out aboard a Virgin cruise ship in 2021.
#Photography #SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday #Ferry #BrittanyFerries #MontStMichel #Portsmouth #Caen #Travel #Cruise
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Good morning. We had wildfire smoke again this morning giving the air a light reddish hue which was reflected in the sparkling water.
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Some San Juan island history: for a while in the 1800s both the US and British Canada laid claim to the island (the border treaty was unclear on which side of the island the border was to be drawn) and militaries of both nations established camps to support their claims. The British did so in part with a formal garden, parterres and all, for the enjoyment of their officers. It's still there, maintained as part of the historic site. #gardening #VancouverIsland
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Some photos from my recent trip to San Juan island, in Puget Sound, about two hours' drive plus an hour long ferry ride North of Seattle. Here's the picturesque town of Friday Harbor, with its attendant ferries. It has lots of cute little shops and restaurants (which I didn't photograph) and also this quirky storefront elm tree, which I did. #PNW #Island #ferry #Trees
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There's something especially romantic about an island you can only reach from another island rather than from the Scottish mainland. This is the Isle of Raasay ferry, MV Hallaig, unloading at Sconser on the Isle of Skye. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/ferry/index.html
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One last thing!
The word on the water is that the first of the “Island” class small hybrid ferries will be going all-electric on the Gabriola route! There are two ships on that route, twins, they are rebuilding the docks now to get them ready for charging!
The ferries themselves are already VERY quiet. Will I take a trip to Gabriola Island just to ride the first fully electric, non-cable, ferries in B.C.! Absolutely!
Project updates for Gabriola/Nanaimo docks: https://www.bcferriesprojects.ca/db-nh-tp
#BCFerries #bcferries #ev #electric #transportation #bcpoli #ferry #boats #ships #battery
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Corvus is a Norwegian company.
They do big marine batteries!#BCFerries #bcferries #ev #electric #transportation #bcpoli #ferry #boats #ships #battery
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Here is the B.C. Ferries web page about the “New Major Vessels” project. (There was stupid controversy because “omg not China” but that has died down now thankfully)
They want up to 7 (which makes sense… to be able to retire all the Queens and add one for new capacity), they asked for 5, they got 4 approved to be built by 2031. The most interesting graphic is this age graphic showing the age of ships on the major routes. Eventually, these ships WILL have to be replaced, regardless of political footballs…
https://www.bcferries.com/in-the-community/projects/new-major-vessels
#BCFerries #bcferries #ev #electric #transportation #bcpoli #ferry #boats #ships #battery
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Some really interesting electric power math here for #BCFerries upcoming large transitional hybrid-to-full electric ferries. They will be known as the “Summit” class. 2100 passengers and crew, almost 400 cars. These are big ships.
Equivalent to the biggest Spirit Class between Victoria and Tsawwassen. So would be replacing the last of the 1970s Queens and possibly one of the Spirit or Coastal ships? We’ll see.
Anyway: They will initially have 10Megawatt Hours (MWh) of battery capacity as hybrid diesel/electric which is interesting, not natural gas like some of the other recent hybrids. (Which always felt like a stupid political decision to show off LNG, not a sound engineering decision)
They will then, once docks are upgraded for electric charging, be refit with 60MWh of batteries (total 70MWh) to “enable 2 hours of emissions free sailing”. In distance terms, that’s the one-way sailing time between Duke Point Terminal in Nanaimo and Tsawwassen in Vancouver, about 40 nautical miles (74km).
For comparison, my Kona EV car has a 65kilowatt hour battery… 1000x less capacity!.. giving a range of 450km.
That’s a very heavy ship!!🛳️
It’s a pretty tight capacity window considering the major routes are all between 1.5hrs and 2hrs. But they could be being conservative in the press release, indicating they would comfortably fit those timelines, or they will be still using hybrid power and shore docking ports to augment and ensure they have adequate power. They will always need lots of reserve and backup for safety.
I also imagine in the 30-60 year lifetime of the ships, we could see the energy density of batteries in general increase, so a refit in 2040 or 2050 could replace 70MWh with 100 or 140MWh in the same physical space.
What seems sure though is that B.C. Ferries is going to have some, if not the, largest fully electric capable ferries in the world. That’s a good thing.
First ship of 4 will arrive from China in 2029. Last of the class arrives in 2031. So hopefully we get our first ride in 2030! Looking forward to it!
#bcferries #ev #electric #transportation #bcpoli #ferry #boats #ships #battery
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felt artsy, might delete later
A sign on the William G. Ernst, the passenger ferry that serves the Tancook Islands in Nova Scotia.
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Ferry?
Are we going back home?
I don't wat to go!
Pleeeeeaaaassse?????
