Navy Responsibilities Cause Clipper to Cancel Island Route
June 9th, 2009 by ed friedrichClipper Navigation officials were in Olympia today to ask the state Utilities and Transportation Commission to discontinue their Seattle-San Juan passenger ferry route for a year.
The boat that normally runs the route, the Victoria
Clipper III, is being used to ferry USS Abraham Lincoln sailors
from their base in Everett to Bremerton’s Puget Sound Naval
Shipyard, where the aircraft carrier is being worked
on.
Clipper says it doesn’t have any other boats that would be adequate for the route — large and fast with outdoor viewing. It hopes to resume the service in 2010.
The UTC will decide whether
to temporarily discontinue Clippers’ permit to operate the route,
cancel the permit permanently or ask the business to voluntarily
relinquish it so another vendor can use it.
Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group
June 9th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
wonder how fast Clipper will “find” a suitable vessel when UTC decides to cancel the permit to allow another vendor.
Clipper, don’t pull a WSF on us, we will gladly support another vendor if you can’t do the job.
June 9th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Victoria Clipper III and two other fast passenger ferries are racing past our beachfront property twice a day. The waves they put out are bigger than the car ferries. This will go on all summer-who knows what damage they will do to the beaches.