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    Just checked the interislander site and saw the Stena Alegra was taking bookings ,has anyone traveled on her yet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldman_rider2013 View Post
    Just checked the interislander site and saw the Stena Alegra was taking bookings ,has anyone traveled on her yet?
    She has only been here a couple of days they have to do stuff to comply with nz maritime law,train crew and have an evacuation drill/ test

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    whats the story on the Stena Alegra broken down.Quote by Labour's Darien Fenton "it looks like we've got another floating dunger".Another tough break for interislander.

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    i need a ferry next friday or saturday, wgtn to picton...any advice? many say take my own tie downs so ill do that, some say take the strait freight ship........i guess id better do some googling
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    They are very similar,blue bridge more laid back,the straits man is slower than the others,book on the web,slightly cheaper and in my experience you can rock up to the terminal and change your ticket,one time I even got a 10 credit.be worth it to book at this time,school holidays ending

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldman_rider2013 View Post
    whats the story on the Stena Alegra broken down.Quote by Labour's Darien Fenton "it looks like we've got another floating dunger".Another tough break for interislander.
    It's a machine these things happen,though this "shut down" phenomena is a bit disturbing

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    Im booked on the Bluebridge ferries in a couple of weeks. The megathread seems to suggest there arent that many tie down points on either of their 2 ferries. How have others tied down their bikes if there arent any spare tie down points?

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    Quote Originally Posted by strumpet View Post
    Im booked on the Bluebridge ferries in a couple of weeks. The megathread seems to suggest there arent that many tie down points on either of their 2 ferries. How have others tied down their bikes if there arent any spare tie down points?
    The straightsman only had 3 of 4 tie down points for me and te other ferry was fine. If you take your own longer tie downs then you can stretch them to another tie down point if one is missing!

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    Both of the blue bridge ferries have enough tie down points but they are quite widely spaced meaning if there are lots of bikes you will have to share and this is where your own (long) tie downs are good

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    ok, im booked on a bluebridge ferry tmw at 1.30pm and my old pile of tie downs leaves a lot to be desired (shabby greasy and not particularly long camlock style dirt bike ones) im taking my gs1100 and my brother is riding my dr650 so if i go and buy some now ill need to buy 8 of the bastards to nail bith bikes down....is it imperitive to have ones own tie downs or do they have some onboard we can use? otherwise itd be about $200 for four pairs of decent tie downs eek!
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    Quote Originally Posted by fridayflash View Post
    ok, im booked on a bluebridge ferry tmw at 1.30pm and my old pile of tie downs leaves a lot to be desired (shabby greasy and not particularly long camlock style dirt bike ones) im taking my gs1100 and my brother is riding my dr650 so if i go and buy some now ill need to buy 8 of the bastards to nail bith bikes down....is it imperitive to have ones own tie downs or do they have some onboard we can use? otherwise itd be about $200 for four pairs of decent tie downs eek!
    they will have some, use your ones for the front of ya bikes & use their die downs/ropes for the back as you only need to stop the bike going side to side, once the front is secure
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    thanks shrek, just been to bunnings and got a 4pack for $20.00!! which consisted of two ratchet tiedowns and two camlocks which, whilst cheapish dont look like complete rubbish so that combined with my old dogs we should be sweet, we can cadge off them if need be

    btw, whats bike travel time between picton and chch? 4 to 5 hours? will be travelling around speed limit to avoid tickets lol...fist time on the mainland for me
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    You should be able to run it in 3.5 hrs, non-stop and maintaining the speed limit. Add more if your pace is a little cruisy. Remember a 1 hour check-in applies for ferries.

    I use 3 tie downs per bike. One on each side on the front, one looped through the rear wheel and tied both ends, as said, to stop it sliding sideways.
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    East bound and down

    yeehaa, thanks gremlin, time wise sounds good.we get in at picton at 5pm and will truck on straight to chch, with a bit of luck get in about dark
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    Booked to go Feb 10th on the Arahura paid $201 on the 22nd Jan , week later the price was $156 WTF? , so you can guess what i did.

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