The Steamship Authority ferry Woods Hole went out of service Saturday due to a leak associated with a keel cooler. The Governor, the oldest ferry in the fleet, was brought into service to replace the Woods Hole. No alert was sent out about the Woods Hole because no service interruptions occurred, SSA spokesman Sean Driscoll […]
On March 2, the Dukes County Commission heard a report from its appointee to the Steamship Authority board, Jim Malkin, about legislation filed by state Sen. Julian Cyr D-Truro and state Rep. Dylan Fernandes D-Falmouth. The legislation aims to impose term limits on the ferry line’s board and to establish a chief operating officer (COO) […]
Proposed changes to the Steamship Authority’s enabling act that were announced earlier this month by State Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, and State Rep. Dylan Fernandes, D-Falmouth has left Oak Bluffs’ port council member Joe Sollitto concerned. Sollitto told the Oak Bluffs select board Tuesday night that he was at a loss as to why Cyr […]
The Steamship Authority board learned on Tuesday that the freight ferry Katama was forced to go into what was described as “emergency drydocking” due to a hull crack. The vessel also suffered a hull crack last winter, however, SSA director of marine operations Mark Amundsen said the only real similarity between the two failures is […]
Ice from a rapid deep freeze was identified as the cause of a cable break at the Slip 2 transfer bridge in Vineyard Haven on Saturday morning, Steamship Authority director of marine operations, Mark Amundsen, told the board. The cable break left the ferry Martha’s Vineyard stuck in the slip for about three hours and […]