{"id":228005,"date":"2026-01-11T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/228005\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:25:08","slug":"bluebridge-cancels-all-connemara-sailings-through-to-tuesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/228005\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluebridge cancels all Connemara sailings through to Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>11 Jan, 2026 03:45 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">MV Connemara, the Bluebridge Cook Strait Ferry. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bluebridge has cancelled all of the Connemara sailings through to Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A problem with the winch that controls the stern door led to 200 passengers being stuck for 15 hours on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         It said it has been working hard to establish a timeframe to<br \/>\n         fix the problem, but that is not yet clear.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Further cancellations were possible for next week, and Bluebridge would be contacting affected customers directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 11 Jan, 2026 03:45 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5263,135010,28721,135973,111,43,139,69,135011,210,61,14578],"class_list":["post-228005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-all","tag-bluebridge","tag-cancels","tag-connemara","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sailings","tag-through","tag-to","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228005","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=228005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}