What a crazy world. I love the Polish ship building industry is rebuilding and doing awesome things. I hope this ship will serve well. I can't tell about the quality or stuff, but video shows it looks amazing. Pozdrowienia dla wszystkich stoczniowcow.
I’m an engineer aboard her and brought her part of the way home, (Atlantic side, through the canal and up to Vancouver)... She’s a lovely build and a technical wonder with her Wärtsilä DF20 duel fuel engines...
I’ve been on the Tachek one too many times because my uncle and his wife both work on the ferry and specifically the one that goes between Quadra and Cortes which is the Tachek
It's interesting that they built a 2nd car deck below the main one. I've seen European vessels have that, but not in North America. The button pressed doors slowly opening while the beeping goes on would get annoying though. Great video! Glad to see she's finally in service.
Raging Potato not what I meant. I mean the way that it's built on this vessel. Where you have the "main vehicle deck" but can open up to another vehicle deck below it. Instead of having a second vehicle deck that requires the terminals to build a second ramp to get access to it.
I think the two Spirit class ships had a secondary deck that hanged from the ceiling of the lower vehicle deck. There are doors to that deck which are out of service.
The vehicle deck design is probably the most oddball thing I've seen in quite a long time. Yeah it's kinda cool how there's a low height deck below the main vehicle deck, but if those ramp doors open as slowly as the regular fireproof doors to get outside and into other corridors (and with all the beeping noises), I don't think it'll be as efficient as BC Ferries thought it would be, plus, what if one of those ramp doors wouldn't open or close? It seems like a malfunction waiting to happen :/
My only complaint about the ship, is that it was built in Gdansk Poland. Canada used to have a very viable and profitable boat building industry with ships considered masterpieces on the seas! Too bad!
The Salish Orca is a big Pos. There is so many corners cut and cheaply built. The stairs are way to steep, the annoying alarms and a closed kitchen. The kitchen has almost Zero air movement and no AC. It was deemed unsafe and closed till it can be fixed. Great new vessel..
The Burnaby and Nanaimo lasted in service for over 50 yrs. The Nanaimo is actually still going strong in Fiji. I wonder what this foreign built piece of crap will look like in 50 yrs?
This ferry was make by Ukrainian and Polish hands in the northern Poland. I was take a part in that building as a ship painter. and i proud of it
Iван Старун That's great. We are glad to have it on our coast.
What a crazy world. I love the Polish ship building industry is rebuilding and doing awesome things. I hope this ship will serve well. I can't tell about the quality or stuff, but video shows it looks amazing.
Pozdrowienia dla wszystkich stoczniowcow.
I’m an engineer aboard her and brought her part of the way home, (Atlantic side, through the canal and up to Vancouver)... She’s a lovely build and a technical wonder with her Wärtsilä DF20 duel fuel engines...
@ Canadian shipbuilders literally didn't even bid because they didn't have room or time.
I’ve been on the Tachek one too many times because my uncle and his wife both work on the ferry and specifically the one that goes between Quadra and Cortes which is the Tachek
Salish Orca now sometimes work from Tsawassen to Gulf Islands.
Great video my friend.
It's interesting that they built a 2nd car deck below the main one. I've seen European vessels have that, but not in North America. The button pressed doors slowly opening while the beeping goes on would get annoying though. Great video! Glad to see she's finally in service.
canucky76 almost every major BCF vessel has a second car deck if that is what you mean
Raging Potato not what I meant. I mean the way that it's built on this vessel. Where you have the "main vehicle deck" but can open up to another vehicle deck below it. Instead of having a second vehicle deck that requires the terminals to build a second ramp to get access to it.
canucky76 yes I've seen it in ships such as MV Ulysses
I think the two Spirit class ships had a secondary deck that hanged from the ceiling of the lower vehicle deck. There are doors to that deck which are out of service.
That is because the Salish Orca was built in Poland whereas most other vessels were made here in BC.
The vehicle deck design is probably the most oddball thing I've seen in quite a long time. Yeah it's kinda cool how there's a low height deck below the main vehicle deck, but if those ramp doors open as slowly as the regular fireproof doors to get outside and into other corridors (and with all the beeping noises), I don't think it'll be as efficient as BC Ferries thought it would be, plus, what if one of those ramp doors wouldn't open or close? It seems like a malfunction waiting to happen :/
That a loud door sound like a car alarm
Should have been built here in BC!
Do we have a ship building place here? I don't think so.
looks like a military ship
My only complaint about the ship, is that it was built in Gdansk Poland. Canada used to have a very viable and profitable boat building industry with ships considered masterpieces on the seas! Too bad!
The Salish Orca is a big Pos. There is so many corners cut and cheaply built. The stairs are way to steep, the annoying alarms and a closed kitchen. The kitchen has almost Zero air movement and no AC. It was deemed unsafe and closed till it can be fixed. Great new vessel..
Yeah i was a bit disappointed. But those stairs are good exercise!
Good grief all the alarms for every moving part - I can’t imagine an entire trip on that vessel, with all those annoying sounds!!!
The Burnaby and Nanaimo lasted in service for over 50 yrs. The Nanaimo is actually still going strong in Fiji. I wonder what this foreign built piece of crap will look like in 50 yrs?