Coastal Renaissence Launched - Apr 19, 2007

[officedweller]

Coastal Renaissence has been launched:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brinkmann/



Hmmm, that propellor symbol looks a bit like a swastika.








Here's the deckhouse waiting to be welded onto the structure:

[G-Man]

Cool pics! Seems smaller than I thought it would. Perhaps once all the superstructure is together it will seem big. It is smaller than the 'Spirit' Class vessels right?

[SpongeG]

i thouhgt the news said it was the largest of the fleet

[Holden West]

Originally Posted by officedweller

What's with this guy? Looks like he's waiting for his Pizza Pop to microwave. Show some enthusiasm, Hans!

This is how it's done!

[aastra]

If I understand it correctly, the C-Class ships will have a greater tonnage but their capacities will be considerably lower and they'll also be a bit shorter than the S-Class:

Spirit Class:
470 vehicles
2100 passengers
167.5 metres
18,750 gross tonnage

Coastal Class:
370 vehicles
1650 passengers
160 metres
22,000 gross tonnage

[officedweller]

It looks like the new ones will have more passenger lounges (isn't there supposed to be a VIP lounge?) - two enclosed passenger decks, plus outdoor deck space - including outdoor covered decks:

[raggedy13]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Hmmm, that propellor symbol looks a bit like a swastika.

It took me awhile to find what you were talking about, but yes it does look eerily like a swastika... funny stuff.

[Stingray2004]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Hmmm, that propellor symbol looks a bit like a swastika.

I saw the video on last night's news and had to do a double take... I thought the exact same thing... it is the same shipyard that launched many of the infamous WW2 U-boats, isn't it?

[Holden West]

Flensburger Shiffbau built two U-Boats during WWI and 28 more during WWII. So, yeah, I'd say BC Ferries was right when they said they have plenty of shipbuilding experience!

It's funny--their website jumps from this:



directly to this:



Hmm...those awkward "middle years"... :/

[Canadian Mind]

it looks smaller then the vessels it is replacing. what are the comparative capacities?

[Galvanized]

^V-Class, 3 of 4 still remaining and we be retired when these new ships are ready.

V-Class, Queen of Saanich

Length: 129.9 m
Speed: 18.5 knots
Passengers: 1,360
Car capacity: 376

Super C-Class

Length: 160 m
Speed: 21 knots
Passengers: 1,650
Car capacity: 370

[Canadian Mind]

21 knots eh? so will they reduce sail times by 10 minutes?

[Stingray2004]

Shipyard to modify propeller symbols on new B.C. ferry

Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
Published: Saturday, April 21, 2007

The media pictures of B.C. Ferries' new Super-C-class vessel, the Coastal Renaissance, certainly turned heads.

But not in the way B.C. Ferries was hoping.

So the international propeller symbols painted at both ends of the ship will be replaced with a softer, rounder version in hopes no one mistakes them for swastikas.

B.C. Ferries is asking that they be modified because some people think they look like swastikas.

"The last thing we want to do is alienate anyone, so we have asked the shipyard to make modifications," B.C. Ferries spokesman Mark Stefanson said yesterday.

B.C. Ferries received about 10 calls from people who thought the symbols looked like swastikas, he said.

"We didn't see it that way.

"To us, it's an international prop symbol, but, if people are concerned about it, obviously we are concerned about it, so we will make sure it's changed before she leaves Germany."

Maritime rules demand that ships have symbols showing the location of propellers, but those used on other B.C. Ferries vessels are more rounded and have three blades, he said.

Stefanson said he has no idea whether the fact the new ferries are being built in Germany played a role in the swastika perception.

"I couldn't even speculate about that," he said.

The Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft shipyard, where the ferries are being built, constructed U-boats during the Second World War.

Stefanson said there will be no problem replacing the symbols.

"The [shipyard] is excellent in terms of response to our needs."

The new ferry will leave Germany for Canada in late October and is expected to be on the Horseshoe Bay-Departure Bay run before Christmas.

Two other new ferries from the same shipyard will arrive in B.C. next year.


© Times Colonist (Victoria) 2007

[agrant]

I want to lagh, but I know I shouldn't.

[officedweller]

Moving along quickly - April 20th pics. More pics from Brinkmann:











I think that must be a mast in the foreground:


Final Funnel

[G-Man]

Originally Posted by Galvanized

^V-Class, 3 of 4 still remaining and we be retired when these new ships are ready.

V-Class, Queen of Saanich

Length: 129.9 m
Speed: 18.5 knots
Passengers: 1,360
Car capacity: 376

Super C-Class

Length: 160 m
Speed: 21 knots
Passengers: 1,650
Car capacity: 370

I thought these boats were replacing the C-Class ferries on the Horseshoe Bay run not the V-Class boats

[Galvanized]

^Nope, 2 will run the Horseshoe Bay route and the 3rd will replace the Queen of Saanich as the 3rd vessel on Swartz Bay. The C-Class will be back up on both routes. The V-Class are the worst fuel guzzlers in the fleet.

[Mike K.]

So these new ones take six fewer vehicles than the v-class vessels? At a time when record auto backups are at the terminals, is this a prudent move? (perhaps BCF is making a killing on that reservation system )

[G-Man]

I wonder if they will be sold as scrap or put up for sale?

[Galvanized]

This what happened to the first V-Class ferry that was retired. The Queen of Victoria was sold to the Dominion Republic in 2000 for 550k and was converted into a cargo ship, she was last spotted on the beach of Alang in India. This is where they run the ship into the beach at high tide and then at low tide workers rip the ship apart and are paid by how many cuts they make. This photo was along side an article about how these workers are lowest paid of their kind and many get sick and die of such things like asbestosis.