West Seattle Blog… | FERRY ALERT: Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth’s “ghost boat” disappears for a few days

(WSB photo – Fauntleroy dock and ferry at noon today)

Washington State Ferries has yet another boat that needs repairing and this will have a domino effect on the Triangle Route and elsewhere – here is the WSF statement:

Due to urgent repairs, the Walla Walla, the only vessel operating on the Bremerton/Seattle route, will be out of service for approximately 1-2 days next week. Failure to complete this work could result in a catastrophic failure that could put the vessel out of service for an extended period of time.

In order to carry out these urgent repairs, we will need to redistribute ships based on capacity and passenger volume. We will make these changes on Wednesday 10 July and expect them to take 1-2 days.

The 144-car Chimacum will be moved from the Bainbridge route to the Bremerton route, replacing the 188-car Walla Walla.

The 90-vehicle Sealth vessel will be moved from the Fauntleroy/Southworth/Vashon Triangle route to the Bainbridge route. This means that we will not have the third, unscheduled boat on the Triangle route during this repair.

We will return the Chimacum to Bainbridge and the Sealth to the Triangle route once we have completed the repairs. This is expected to take 1-2 days.