"Fanafjord 1" sold to Canada as "Northumberland"

Det ser ikke ut til at Saaremaa har vært tilgjengelig for denne ruten på slutten av sesongen


Northumberland Ferries Ltd. general manager Jeff Joyce said in a news release that MV Confederation is on track to resume crossings on Dec. 6, provided repairs to the vessel are completed on schedule.

The boat collided with the wharf in Wood Islands, P.E.I., on Sept. 15, leaving a hole in one of its raisable doors, or bow visors.
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A week after MV Confederation hit the wharf, MV Saaremaa was sidelined with two of its four engines out of commission.


The MV Saaremaa had to return to its owner in Quebec in October before repairs to its engines were completed. (Victoria Walton/CBC)
NFL was leasing that boat and repairs weren't finished before the arrangement expired, so the Saaremaa had to return to its Quebec owners on Oct. 26.
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"Northumberland", ex "Fanafjord" har kurs mot Bermuda etter å ha kryssa vest for den karibiske øya Saint Kitts nokre døgn. Nokon som kjenner årsaka til pausen??
 
opingebr said:
I det minste har de ikke montert sånne digre ramper i begge endene på henne (enda...)
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På den ruten bruker de vanlige ramper på landsiden, som i Norge. Forskjellen er at de bruker vinsjer og wire i stedet for hydraulikksylindere. Og at bommene beveges horisontalt. Det er sjelden mer enn 2m tidevannsvariasjon. Det står igjen noen ramper som ser ut til å ha vært brukt til å kjøre ombord på to nivå. Men de er sperret av på google bildene.

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All you ever wanted to know about Prince Edward Island is here:
PS> M/F Northhumberland will serve as a link for the population of Prince Edward Island.
 
Strange that this seasonal ferry-route seems to be relative popular in summer-season.

The schedule says a ride takes 75min - but including the big check-in-time, boarding-time, loading, unloading etc. car-traveller must calculate with around 2 hours (!) time for a one-way crossing.
Not really far away is a 13km long toll-bridge to this Island - every year more and more cheaper compared with the ticket-prices of the ferry.
This year
91 Dollar for 90 - 100min (including waiting-time onboard up to the departure) onboard the former FANAFJORD (or the not better 2nd ferry)
OR
50 Dollar for a few minutes on the big Confederation-bridge... .

A few ship-lovers maybe would choose the ferry whatever it costs - but the Islanders and "normal" tourists ?
And i was really happy onboard these relative fast ferry-series during their former use on the E39 - but around 100min onboard in summer without any attractive things there ?
The small and poor sundecks with 3 uncomfortable picnic-benches- maybe still acceptable for 30 min on the rainy windy Norwegian West-coast where 99% of the people are anywhere inside - but for the much longer trip now in Canada ?

On all other "ferry against bridge/tunnel" travel-corridors worldwide the ferries must offer cheaper ticket-prices than the fee for bridges or tunnels normally for to get a number of traveller.

My speculation:
One-Way from Mainland to Prince-Edward-Island both ways - via the bridge or via the ferry on standby without reservation - are FREE OF ANY COSTS !
So a lot of tourists choose the ferry in this direction instead of the bridge - and choose then later to pay 50 (for the bridge) or 91 Dollar (for the ferry) for the trip back to the Mainland.
 
ropax said:
Strange that this seasonal ferry-route seems to be relative popular in summer-season.

The schedule says a ride takes 75min - but including the big check-in-time, boarding-time, loading, unloading etc. car-traveller must calculate with around 2 hours (!) time for a one-way crossing.
Not really far away is a 13km long toll-bridge to this Island - every year more and more cheaper compared with the ticket-prices of the ferry.
This year
91 Dollar for 90 - 100min (including waiting-time onboard up to the departure) onboard the former FANAFJORD (or the not better 2nd ferry)
OR
50 Dollar for a few minutes on the big Confederation-bridge... .

A few ship-lovers maybe would choose the ferry whatever it costs - but the Islanders and "normal" tourists ?
And i was really happy onboard these relative fast ferry-series during their former use on the E39 - but around 100min onboard in summer without any attractive things there ?
The small and poor sundecks with 3 uncomfortable picnic-benches- maybe still acceptable for 30 min on the rainy windy Norwegian West-coast where 99% of the people are anywhere inside - but for the much longer trip now in Canada ?

On all other "ferry against bridge/tunnel" travel-corridors worldwide the ferries must offer cheaper ticket-prices than the fee for bridges or tunnels normally for to get a number of traveller.

My speculation:
One-Way from Mainland to Prince-Edward-Island both ways - via the bridge or via the ferry on standby without reservation - are FREE OF ANY COSTS !
So a lot of tourists choose the ferry in this direction instead of the bridge - and choose then later to pay 50 (for the bridge) or 91 Dollar (for the ferry) for the trip back to the Mainland.
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So you are pondering, thousands of kilometres away from the ferry crossing, concluding that the people travelling on it must be stupid?

For your information, it is a two-hour drive between the ferry and the bridge.
Your musings on these matters are getting rather tedious.
 
Nobody is driving directly from the ferry-port to the bridge normally.
The only bigger city Charlottetown (52.000) on the Island is in the middle between - ca. 40 - 45 min driving to the bridge and to the ferry-port.
2nd biggest city Summerside (14.000) is in the west = nearby the bridge, all other villages / small-towns are smaller than ca. 1500 people.
Especially the east of the Island (= nearby the ferry) is very empty, so i guess that the ferry is mainly taken only by people coming from/to the Halifax-area from the mainland.
From/to other parts of Canada the bridge is a shorter drive and much faster also to any point of the Island. And also the 3 top-sights (Green Gables, Cavendish beach and the National park) are more nearby the bridge than nearby the ferry.

But we are coming to far away from the topic here - i was there many years ago and when i am next time anytime in future in East-Canada i will "test" the ferry on standby-basis for free.
 
Just now the Canadian Government has cut down the ticket-prices on most ferries in the East-part of the country for all vehicles and passengers by 50% permanently !

The Confederation-bridge is down now from 50 Canadian Dollar to 20 only and these ferries are down by 50%:
- Northumberland-Ferries (say "hello" again to the Fanafjord)
- Bay Ferries (f.ex. with the interesting modern ferry Fundy Rose, a 24 knots-ferry ((another thinkable ferry-type if built with 100% electric for Bodö-Moskesnes also)))
- Marine Atlantic (f.ex. with one of the most modern E-Flexer from Stena-RoRo)
- CTMA (with the modern really nice spanish-built ferry Madeleine II)

So an interesting "ferry-safari" holiday-round-trip by car or motorhome is now much more attractive now than in the past !

Sadly "The Cat" ALAKAI international Highspeed-Catamaran to Maine has still the high ticket-prices.
Also no changes on the ferries in Quebec (f.ex. the very attractive spectacular wintergarden-ferry F.A. Gauthier or the Saaremaa I), Labrador (the other Saaremaa) or in British Columbia.
 
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