{"id":227547,"date":"2026-01-11T01:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/227547\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T01:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:37:09","slug":"bluebridge-cancels-all-connemara-sailings-through-to-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/227547\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluebridge cancels all Connemara sailings through to Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JV2X42_611769270_10231778873110195_5698152172274813014_n_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"485\" alt=\"A broken ramp on the Bluebridge Connemara left hundreds of passengers stuck  on the ferry overnight.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nMore sailings cancelled after mechanical issues.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\n<\/p>\n<p>Bluebridge has cancelled all of the Connemara sailings through to Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A problem with the winch that controls the stern door led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/575086\/mechanical-fault-forces-cancellation-of-cook-strait-sailings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">200 passengers being stuck<\/a> for 15 hours on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It said it has been working hard to establish a timeframe to fix the problem, but that is not yet clear.<\/p>\n<p>Further cancellations were possible for next week, and Bluebridge would be contacting affected customers directly.<\/p>\n<p>Bluebridge had apologised expressing disappointment for having a mechanical issue during peak travel period.<\/p>\n<p>Some passengers had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/583633\/ferry-troubles-continue-with-cancellations-following-ramp-problem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expressed frustration at the delays<\/a>, but many praised the work of the crew to keep them comfortable and up to date with the situation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More sailings cancelled after mechanical issues. Photo: Supplied Bluebridge has cancelled all of the Connemara sailings through to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-227547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}