Planning an island visit in March?

If so, you may need to know this...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: Feb. 23, 2011
CONTACT: Lucy Wallace, (252) 473-3461

OCRACOKE-CEDAR ISLAND ROUTE WILL HAVE ABBREVIATED SCHEDULE FOR MONTH OF MARCH
Two Sound Class boats will be at shipyard for Certificate of Inspection

MANNS HARBOR — The N.C. Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division
will be running an abbreviated schedule on its Ocracoke-Cedar Island
route beginning Tuesday, March 1.

The Motor Vessel Silver Lake is currently at the shipyard undergoing
extensive work during its dry dock period. The MV Pamlico is scheduled
to come in for its U. S. Coast Guard Certificate of Inspection March
1. Since both boats will be temporarily out of service, the route will
go to a two-boat schedule.

The route will include the following runs:

Departing from Cedar Island at 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.; and
Departing from Ocracoke at 7:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.


This schedule will remain in place until the required work on the
ferries is completed and they are inspected. The Swan Quarter-Ocracoke
route will not experience any changes during this time period.

NCDOT awarded contracts to build two new Sound Class vessels to serve
this route to Orange Shipbuilding Co. The new ferries are currently
under construction and are expected to be delivered later this year
and in 2012.

For updated information about ferry schedules, call 1-800-293-3779
(BY-FERRY) and press 1 or sign-up to receive messages on Twitter by
going to www.twitter.com/ncdot_ferry.


***NCDOT***

Lucy M. Wallace
Communications Officer
NCDOT - Ferry Division
252-473-3461
252-473-1490 (Fax)