||| FROM BOB DISTLER |||
It turns out that Washington State Ferries has no plans to send the 90-car Sealth to the San Juans, confirming its position stated in the June public meeting. As I had found, the reservations system was incorrectly showing a series of vessel changes and service reductions beginning next Monday.
After two unanswered emails, I contacted a member of WSF’s planning staff who confirmed that two 144-car Super/Olympic Class boats plus one 124-car Issaquah Class ferry will remain here through the end of the current peak season. I advised him of the discrepancy in the reservations system and he promised it would be updated, which it now has been.
So, for those islanders who may have had difficulties getting a booking, my suggestion is to try again.
And thanks to Justin Paulsen, Orcas Island’s member of our county Ferry Advisory Committee, for his help with this effort.
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Many thanks, Bob! Your sharp eyes and persistence in following up on this discrepancy did indeed make more reservations available; I managed to get a spot on the 8:50 for a doctor’s appointment in Anacortes next week, without having to go through the log-on-at-7:AM-and-hope system! Good work!
Wow, Justin and Bob…who says the Orcasonian isn’t the go-to news media!!
I have tried to get an 8/16 reservation for a week or so now, as I had to change a medical appointment. I remarked that every slot on the 16th for leaving Orcas was booked. I’d never seen that before, especially on a Monday leaving Orcas. Just now, having read the article Wed/11th, I went on, and got my 8:50.
THANK YOU!!! Shame on you, WSF. I hadn’t seen that same blunder happen in my 20 years living here.
By the Way……With the Canadian border open now, will we see the WSF route to Canada return?
AND….with the by-land route asking us to be tested within 72 hours of crossing, where do you suggest we get that testing?? The IPC( Orcas clinic) says it will not test for travel needs. Ray’s??
I am anxious to visit friends across the border.