Overview
- A steering-panel fault on the Queen of Surrey forced new cancellations on the busy Horseshoe Bay–Langdale route minutes after the ship returned to service.
- BC Ferries later assigned a replacement ferry on that run and sent water taxis to carry foot passengers waiting at the terminals.
- The company also scrubbed supplemental trips on the Tsawwassen–Duke Point corridor because of ongoing mechanical troubles.
- On the Texada–Powell River link, a propulsion failure on the Island Discovery halted sailings as small water taxis shuttled passengers between docks.
- BC Ferries and local leaders said the repeated failures point to an aging fleet with little backup capacity after regulators approved four new ships but declined a fifth.