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So, for example, two passengers using a new TenPass with a round-trip reservation would have four trips deducted from the pass's initial ten trips, leaving six trips to use later. If you're a frequent Fast Ferry traveler, then a Bay State Cruise Company TenPass can save you a lot of money. It allows you to buy ten trips ahead of time, at a significant discount from regular adult fares. The service is seasonal starting up in mid-May Thursday-Sunday only, expanding to a full daily schedule around the first week of June, and continuing through the peak season until the middle of October.
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(WPRI) — Sarah Martin was prepared to make French toast for her two children Tuesday morning while hearing about the cruise they went on with their grandparents. They do offer a nice narrated tour of historic Plymouth Harbor as the trip gets under way, though. The Fast Ferry Salacia is one of the largest and fastest catamarans in the country, and can carry up to 600 passengers, but no cars (though you can take a bike aboard for an additional $6 each way).
Celebrating our 51st year of sailing to Provincetown
Apart from the dramatic differences in fashion, this photo depicts a nearly identical scene as the ones from earlier in this album, from the 1920s and 30s. In all of the 180 years of there being a ferry running between Boston and Provincetown, NO steamship company, before us, has been fortunate enough to have provided service longer than 26 years. Economic twists and turns and over-competition made service between Boston and Provincetown a revolving door of steamship operators since 1842.
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The two met and danced together the entire trip-long. These vessels were, in large part, floating dance halls. Reservations are not required but we strongly recommend them, particularly during the peak tourist season. You might also want to consider purchasing tickets for both the outward and the return leg of your journey right from the outset. That, of course, is assuming you know exactly when you'll be returning, which isn't always the case.
Roundtrip returns may be on a later day, but must be this season. Our Provincetown Fast Ferry fleet has the most daily departures, are the most modern vessels, and our Boston dock is easy to get to in the Seaport District. Once purchased, TenPasses have no expiration date, and may be used with any ferry reservation involving two or fewer passengers. Each of a TenPass's ten trips covers one ferry ride for one passenger.
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Embassy in Mexico, which told her the only way her kids could return was either on the cruise or with emergency passports. Martin told 12 News their grandmother suffered a heart attack while on the cruise. She said the ship was supposed to return to Miami, Florida, but instead brought them to Mexico. Bay State Cruise Company is performing a site update.We will be live again shortly. However, our ticketing page is live while we update the home page, see below to purchase tickets.
All ferries begin the day in Boston so these are not a good option for travelling to Boston from P-Town if you need to be in the city early. If you're already in staying in P-Town and want to get into Boston, the earliest you'll be able to get there is lunchtime (although the return ticket could certainly be used the next day). Tickets for cruises must be picked up on the evening of the cruise from our ticket office.
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With an eye toward economy of construction, ships began being built with less and less compound curvature. The companies pictured above were also the last to call on Provincetown prior to bludgeoning one another into insolvency and ending ferry service from Boston altogether in 1965. This lapse in service remained in effect until Bay State Cruise Company started its service in 1973. Tickets that are purchased in advance and then unused will not be refunded, just exchanged for other tickets, subject to availability. And while you can certainly book tickets online or by telephone, you can only exchange those tickets if you show up in person at either the Boston Harbor Cruise ticket office or The Whale Watch Store in Provincetown. Silver Line – Take the subway to South Station and transfer to the Silver Line (the Silver Line also travels through the Back Bay).
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In 1973, Bay State Cruise Company steps in to put an end to the only eight year period, in over 100, that there had been no ferry service of any kind between Boston and Provincetown. The first Bay State Cruises vessel with the name PROVINCETOWN ran from 1973 to 1980. From 1937 to roughly 1945, Bay State Steamship Company operated the SS GOVERNOR COBB between Boston and Provincetown. This is the vessel that our very own Provincetown Ticket Office Manager, Erin Thomas Lawrence, tells us that her grandmother and grandfather met and fell in love aboard.
We are extraordinarily grateful to have found a way to make it to our 51st year of providing service to the great community of Provincetown.Thank you for helping make it possible to get to this milestone. We've assembled this special section of our website to help commemorate our 50th year, last year. Sailing between Boston and Provincetown is a great American tradition. In sailing with us, you are participating in a storied New England summer activity even older than that of baseball. We look forward to the chance of including you in the great pastime.
This photo shows the "Boston Boat" (as the ferry has long been named by Provincetowners) landing at Railroad Wharf. Later reconstructed and renamed MacMIllan Pier, the Boston Boats have been landing at nearly the identical location for 170 years. In 1883, the first vessel built specifically for the Boston-Provincetown route was introduced. The LONGFELLOW, pictured here in 1890, operated until 1902. In the background is Provincetown and two of the hundreds of fishing schooners that called on Provincetown regularly during its heyday as a fishing port. The obvious drawback to all of these services is their inability to transport cars.
If you're staying in Boston and checking out other attractions there in addition to your trip to P-Town, you should definitely check out a Go Boston Card. The Bay State Cruise Company is the onlt Boston to Provincetown ferry operator that participates in this program and offers free passage on their traditional ferry or an upgrade to the fast ferry. Check out our Boston travel deals page, which explains exactly how the card works and how much you might be able to save. This postcard, post marked 1952, shows the dramatic change that took place in vessel design as steamer made way for new diesel powered motor vessels.
The DOROTHY BRADFORD was operated by the Cape Cod Steamship Company from 1911 to 1937. After Bay State Cruises, the Cape Cod SSCo was the longest operating steamship company between Boston and Provincetown. This picture, and the one immediately following, are fascinating for how they show the dramatic change in fashion that took place in the 26 years separating the photos. This, the first image, taken in 1911, shows ladies with hats, parasols, and long dresses. By the time the following photograph was taken, in 1937, women are wearing sleeveless dresses, men are in shirt sleeves, completely gone are the parasols and half the group is without hats. The Bay State Cruise Company's Boston Provincetown ferry service leaves from Long Wharf in Boston, just a short walk from Faneuil Hall and the Silver Line, and takes you to MacMillan Wharf in Provincetown.
Operators of the Provincetown Ferry between Boston and Provincetown for over 50 years. Our Provincetown Fast Ferry fleet has the most daily departures, the most modern vessels on the route, and our Boston dock is easy to get to in the Seaport District. 50% discount tickets for all Womxn of Color participants.
This photo is taken from the breezeway just aft of the staterooms on our first ferry, M/V PROVINCETOWN. It's a marvelous depiction of Ptown in the 70s, not just for the hairstyles of our passengers, but, for the fishing activity and shoreline of Provincetown. The inbound fishing vessel is none other than the F/V Michael Anne, one of the last Eastern Rig Draggers to call on Provincetown. Long Point Lighthouse is seen with the no longer existent overhead power lines. The sailboat on the shoreline is the venerable AMF Sunfish, the everyman boat of the 70s before Lasers and kayaks became all the rage.
