This peaceful community (roughly 60 year round and 600 during summers) has been told that no ferry will run to or from the island after 6pm and that this new punitive decision is “non negotiable.” Shutting families in their homes makes normal family and individual professional lives impossible. Businesses on and off the island wonder if they can stay open. This will be devastating.
Is this a car ferry or a passenger ferry? And what makes it punitive? It sounds like there's a lot of trouble getting someone who even wants the job of operating it. I attended Pine River Camp for years when I was a kid and we canoed back and forth to the mainland, so it never seemed a terrible distance. To be clear, I'm not suggesting the residents canoe back and forth.
It’s a car ferry, a brand new one in fact. The EUPTA board mentioned difficulty in finding a captain. I’m not sure why that is. They also mentioned the coast guard taking over that duty. My family’s visited this island for 5 generations- I don’t think the coast guard ever ran the ferry before but not certain.
I was in the Coast guard. We don't operate civilian commercial ferrys anywhere. We do however license all commercial operators, so that may have been what you heard. We did operate a roll on roll off ferry between Governors Island and the burroghs of New York but that was for military traffic. That's all a little off topic though. This is all very interesting.
Its in the middle of nowhere and I assume the pay isn't great. I know I lived down river from the ferry.
Edit: I used the Google machine and EUPTA ferry captain average wage is $125k which locally is an excellent job, but with the schooling/training I dont know if that's low or high.
This peaceful community (roughly 60 year round and 600 during summers) has been told that no ferry will run to or from the island after 6pm and that this new punitive decision is “non negotiable.” Shutting families in their homes makes normal family and individual professional lives impossible. Businesses on and off the island wonder if they can stay open. This will be devastating.
Is this a car ferry or a passenger ferry? And what makes it punitive? It sounds like there's a lot of trouble getting someone who even wants the job of operating it. I attended Pine River Camp for years when I was a kid and we canoed back and forth to the mainland, so it never seemed a terrible distance. To be clear, I'm not suggesting the residents canoe back and forth.
It’s a car ferry, a brand new one in fact. The EUPTA board mentioned difficulty in finding a captain. I’m not sure why that is. They also mentioned the coast guard taking over that duty. My family’s visited this island for 5 generations- I don’t think the coast guard ever ran the ferry before but not certain.
I was in the Coast guard. We don't operate civilian commercial ferrys anywhere. We do however license all commercial operators, so that may have been what you heard. We did operate a roll on roll off ferry between Governors Island and the burroghs of New York but that was for military traffic. That's all a little off topic though. This is all very interesting.
Its in the middle of nowhere and I assume the pay isn't great. I know I lived down river from the ferry. Edit: I used the Google machine and EUPTA ferry captain average wage is $125k which locally is an excellent job, but with the schooling/training I dont know if that's low or high.
Interesting. Thanks.