B.C. Ferries has cancelled about half of Tuesday’s sailings between Nanaimo’s Departure Bay and Vancouver’s Horseshoe Bay, citing mechanical issues with one of its vessels.<\/p>\n
The ferry service said the cancellations began on Monday evening, after the Queen of Cowichan began experiencing issues, and that Wednesday’s sailings are at risk of cancellation too.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s cancellations include the 6:15 a.m., 10:55 a.m., 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. sailings departing from Nanaimo and the 8:35 a.m., 1:25 p.m., 6:20 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. sailings from Vancouver.<\/p>\n
B.C. Ferries cited problems with the Queen of Cowichan’s main engine turbocharger, and said its engineering teams are working to determine what repairs are needed and how long they will take.<\/p>\n
The cancellations caused tensions to rise at the Departure Bay terminal Monday afternoon, according to Nanaimo RCMP.<\/p>\n
The detachment said officers were called to the scene to support B.C. Ferries staff after several passengers became irate over the 4 p.m. sailing being cancelled.<\/p>\n
The Queen of Oak Bay will continue to run as usual, servicing the other half of sailings between Departure Bay and Horseshoe Bay on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
B.C. Ferries says alternate service is available between Duke Point and Tsawwassen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It says limited space will be available on the sailings that do run and is encouraging people to consider travelling as foot passengers or take alternate routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"B.C. Ferries has cancelled about half of Tuesday’s sailings between Nanaimo’s Departure Bay and Vancouver’s Horseshoe Bay, citing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[6999,60300,280,60299,95],"class_list":["post-191563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-b-c-ferries","tag-departure-bay","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-rcmp","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}