{"id":549379,"date":"2026-03-20T16:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549379\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:58:14","slug":"update-victoria-vancouver-sailings-face-delays-as-ferries-fixes-gearbox-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549379\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Victoria-Vancouver sailings face delays as ferries fixes gearbox issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              UPDATE: Victoria-Vancouver sailings face delays as ferries fixes gearbox issue<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 7:30 am Friday, March 20, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By Peninsula News Review Staff\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>The aging Queen of New Westminster suffered a gearbox issue putting two sailings between Tsawwassen on the Lower Mainland and Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island at risk to start Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Crews managed to stave off cancellation; instead, the 8 a.m. leaving Tsawwassen left an hour late after a gearbox issue. The delay impacts the rest of the sailings on the 60-year-old vessel for March 20. <\/p>\n<p>It will mpact the 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. sailings out of Swartz Bay and the noon boat from Tsawwassen. <\/p>\n<p>For more news delivered daily into your inbox, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnews.com\/newsletters\/#\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Victoria-Vancouver sailings face delays as ferries fixes gearbox issue Published 7:30 am Friday, March 20, 2026 By&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[213705,879,49,48,55],"class_list":["post-549379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-bc-ferry","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}