{"id":12705,"date":"2016-09-22T08:01:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ferry-repairs-to-impact-southeast-service\/"},"modified":"2016-09-22T08:01:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:01:46","slug":"ferry-repairs-to-impact-southeast-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ferry-repairs-to-impact-southeast-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry repairs to impact Southeast service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNEAU<\/strong> \u2014 Ferry service in Southeast Alaska will soon be reduced as the Alaska Marine Highway System\u2019s largest ferry gets sent away for repair work.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Woodrow, a spokesman for the agency, said the state\u2019s budget cuts have not allowed for other ferries to fill in while the Columbia gets repaired. The 500-passenger ferry is heading to Portland, Oregon to have work done on one of its propellers, CoastAlaska News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sitka won\u2019t have ferry service for two weeks because of the repair work. Other communities affected include Haines, Skagway, Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan and Bellingham, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbia has been operating on a delayed schedule and at a slower pace due to the damaged propeller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re running shorter distances, maybe Haines to Skagway and back every day, you wouldn\u2019t really notice that difference. But if you\u2019re doing 18-hour, longer hauls, say Juneau to Ketchikan and Ketchikan to Bellingham, that two-knot difference really adds up,\u201d Woodrow said.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were alerted to the faulty propeller last week after noticing a vibration when the ferry ran at full speed, Woodrow said. Divers then inspected the ship, which is more than 40 years old, during a stop in Wrangell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey noticed that one of the blades had a noticeable bend to it, where it looked like it had been hit by something,\u201d Woodrow said. \u201cThe assumption is maybe a submerged log or something along those lines that can do some damage to a large propeller like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Columbia will continue running through Sunday before heading to Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Woodrow said the ferry could be back in service by Oct. 7 \u201cif repairs go as planned in Portland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 Ferry service in Southeast Alaska will soon be reduced as the Alaska Marine Highway System\u2019s largest ferry gets sent away for repair work. Jeremy Woodrow, a spokesman for the agency, said the state\u2019s budget cuts have not allowed for other ferries to fill in while the Columbia gets repaired. The 500-passenger ferry is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12705"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}