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Low tides will cancel one or more sailings from Port Townsend and Coupeville in April. Please see our Tidal Cancellations table for a complete list of affected dates and departures.

On Tuesday, April 1, the 9:30 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. sailings from Port Townsend and 10:15 a.m. & 11:45 a.m. from Coupeville are cancelled due to tidal conditions.

Your alternate routes are Edmonds/Kingston and/or Mukilteo/Clinton

Edmonds / Kingston Schedule 

Mukilteo / Clinton Schedule 

To make sure you get on your preferred sailing, we strongly recommend booking a reservation. With the new winter schedule, we’ve noticed vehicle capacity can be limited on westbound sailings out of Anacortes in the afternoons and evenings, Monday through Friday.

Reservations are also now available for 90% of the vessel’s capacity, up from 75% for the past year. This means that there are fewer vehicle spaces available for customers without reservations. 

Our spring sailing schedule started Sunday, March. 23 and lasts through June 14. 

We’ll begin a new spring schedule for the Anacortes/San Juan Islands route this year, following a collaborative schedule update process with the community. The first round of schedule updates was implemented with the winter schedule that started on Dec. 29.  

All other routes will operate on their regular spring schedule, available online now:  

• Anacortes / San Juan Islands 

• Edmonds / Kingston 

• Mukilteo / Clinton 

• Port Townsend / Coupeville 

• Pt Defiance / Tahlequah 

• Seattle / Bainbridge Island 

• Seattle / Bremerton Alternate Service 

• 2-Boat Fauntleroy / Southworth 

• 2-Boat Fauntleroy / Vashon 

• 2-Boat Southworth / Vashon 

Beginning Sunday, March 30, the 87-vehicle Tillikum replaced the 90-vehicle Sealth for about one week as the third, unscheduled boat on the route. We will send additional rider alerts when we finalize which vessel will run as the third boat after the Tillikum goes out of service the week of April 7.  

Thank you for your patience as we maintain, repair, and inspect our vessels. 

Construction crews are working at the Shaw Island terminal to make repairs on the dock’s wooden structures. This work will take several weeks to complete.  

 What to expect during construction  

• No impact to ferry service. 

• Night work for two weeks, starting Monday, Jan. 27.  This will include some noise from drilling and generators.  

• Construction vehicles, materials, and workers in the area.  

 Thank you for your patience while we make these repairs

 

The City of Port Townsend has begun construction on its Water Street Sewer Replacement Project near the Port Townsend terminal. Our terminal staff has been coordinating with the city, and we are expecting minimal impacts to ferry traffic entering and exiting the terminal. However, customers should expect delays west of the terminal on Water Street. For more information about the project, visit the City of Port Townsend’s project webpage.