SEATTLE — Crew shortages forced the cancellation of numerous ferry sailings this morning across Puget Sound including, Clinton-Mukilteo, Edmonds-Kingston and the San Juan Islands in the North Sound.
Washington State Ferries updated the cancellations this morning after warning of possible cancellations yesterday.
The Mukilteo/Clinton route will be on one-boat service to start the service day on Monday, October 5 beginning with the 5:05 a.m. sailing from Mukilteo. This will cancel the 5:05 a.m. and 6 a.m. from Clinton, and the 5:35a.m. and 6:30 a.m. from Mukilteo. The route is expected to return to two boat service with the 7:00 a.m. sailings. Updates will occur when more information is available
Edmonds-Kingston route, WSF cancelled sailings due to a shortage of crew Monday morning saying, due to a shortage of crew, the Spokane will sail the first 2 roundtrips and then tie up. The Walla Walla is out of service for the start of the day. The route will be out of service following the 7:10 a.m. from Edmonds.
The following sailings will sail:
5:35 a.m. and 7:10 a.m. from Edmonds
6:25 a.m. from Kingston
No specific reason has been provided from Washington State Ferries at this point as to the wide-spread inability to schedule qualified crew.
On the Anacortest-San Juan Island crossing, sailings are cancelled for Monday due to the lack of crew includingthe #2 Yakima will be out of service to start the day. This cancels the following vessel #2 sailings:
4:05 a.m. Anacortes to Friday Harbor
5:40 a.m. Friday Harbor to Lopez and Anacortes
6:25 a.m. Lopez to Anacortes and other vessel #2 sailings.
The #1 Chelan may be out of service to start the day, cancelling:
5:30 a.m. Anacortes to Orcas
6:50 a.m. Orcas to Shaw
7:05 a.m. Shaw to Lopez
7:35 a.m. Lopez to Anacortes and other vessel #1 sailings.
The #3 Samish will sail all-stops for the 6:15 a.m. from Anacortes to Lopez, Shaw, Orcas, and Friday Harbor, to transport students and take Interisland crew to Friday Harbor.
This cancels the following #4 Tillikum interisland sailings:
6:05 a.m. Friday Harbor to Lopez
6:50 a.m. Lopez to Shaw
7:20 a.m. Shaw to Orcas
7:40 p.m. Orcas to Friday Harbor
The Interisland vessel is expected to return to service with the:
8:45 a.m. Friday Harbor to Orcas
#4 Tillikum will assist with Anacortes-Friday Harbor traffic.
New reservations and changes are blocked for Monday and no-show fees are waived. Reservation holders on cancelled sailings will be accommodated on other departures on a first come, first serve basis.
Service updates will follow as more information becomes available. Anacortes / San Juan Islands Schedule
For the Seattle-Bremerton route, due to the lack of qualified crew, the #2 Chimacum is out of service on Monday. Dispatch efforts continue. All #1 sailings will sail as scheduled. Customers may experience loading delays.
This will cancel the following sailings:
- 6:20 a.m. Bremerton to Seattle
- 7:35 a.m. Seattle to Bremerton
- 8:45 a.m. Bremerton to Seattle
- 10:00 a.m. Seattle to Bremerton
- 11:10 a.m. Bremerton to Seattle
- 12:20 p.m. Seattle to Bremerton
We will continue to send updated travel information as it becomes available. Customers can check the online schedule for more information on scheduled upcoming sailings and also view the real-time travel map for live boat location information.
Customers can check the online schedule for the vessel #1 sailings. We’ll provide updates as more information becomes available.