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Only one car ferry company running
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:42 pm
by Pia
Just a heads up that the Roanoak is in dry dock and will be out of service for some time so that leaves us only with Bosyen - now dba Breeze Shipping - so one ferry per hour.
Pia
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:08 pm
by stjohnjulie
PI$$!!! Thanks Pia for letting us know. Just in time for STT xmas shopping time. Darn it!
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:19 pm
by Lovermont
Can you locals tell me if this reduced service could mean that you might drive up to the car barge and find out that it's full and you end up waiting a full hour? If that is a possibility, we'll have to plan ahead for our departure. I wouldn't want to get to the port with the anxiety of going back to the airport, and then end up cooling our heals for an extra hour.
Lovermont
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:44 pm
by Gromit
Ouch! I think this will be my first visit where I won't be taking the ferry! How weird is THAT?!!?
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:48 pm
by Lovermont
Gromit wrote:Ouch! I think this will be my first visit where I won't be taking the ferry! How weird is THAT?!!?
Oh, you'll be on a ferry alright. Your ferry is called a private sailboat!
Lovermont
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:19 pm
by Pia
Yes Lovermont that is exactly what was happening yesterday on both sides. We were so lucky - next to last car on on the way over to STT and we left about 6 cars waiting for the next ferry an hour later, and on the way back we were about 2nd to the last getting on and when we pulled away there were probably 12 or so cars waiting
The good news (if you can call it that) is that they had, and hopefully will continue to have, a VI Police Officer controlling the cars on STT - no line pushing going on yesterday
The funniest thing that happened was when the jeep full of "newbies" pulled up and I guess figured we were all there waiting in a line just for the fun of it as he pulled to the front of the line, so he was politely
directed to the correct line, then politely told to turn the car around, and then when he got out to go talk to the officer I heard the officer tell him to go wait in the car and he will be given directions at the correct time - he then walked back to the officer and asked, after watching the ferry load about 6 cars, "so do we have to back on"
Pia
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:19 pm
by Gromit
Sounds like Vicki's rental car line experience last time... hopefully it was just an honest mistake.
It's good to have the officers there to keep an eye on things as long as they, too, aren't playing favorites