This was the first time I got a good look at it. It’s huge compared the one that’s running now.
My wife and I spent a few days ebiking around the island as a kind of staycation I guess? Finally got to swim around at Big Sandy Bay. But I’m super looking forward to riding the new ferry. Last I heard it should be ready around September?
I’m wondering now though whether it’s really the first electric ferry in the region? Like I was on the Howe Island Ferry at one point and it’s a cable ferry. It gets pulled along on a cable by a winch on the shore and has no motor of its own for propulsion. So whether it is electric would depend on how the winch is powered, and for the life me, I can’t remember if it was an electric motor?
But this new Wolfe Islander is a self-propelled electric ferry, so that’s definitely something new. I guess it has some really heavy-duty batteries and gets recharged while it’s docked.
This was the first time I got a good look at it. It’s huge compared the one that’s running now.
My wife and I spent a few days ebiking around the island as a kind of staycation I guess? Finally got to swim around at Big Sandy Bay. But I’m super looking forward to riding the new ferry. Last I heard it should be ready around September?
I’m wondering now though whether it’s really the first electric ferry in the region? Like I was on the Howe Island Ferry at one point and it’s a cable ferry. It gets pulled along on a cable by a winch on the shore and has no motor of its own for propulsion. So whether it is electric would depend on how the winch is powered, and for the life me, I can’t remember if it was an electric motor?
But this new Wolfe Islander is a self-propelled electric ferry, so that’s definitely something new. I guess it has some really heavy-duty batteries and gets recharged while it’s docked.