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Check fares, departure and arrival times for both Fast Ferry and Traditional Ferry services. On Friday and Saturday nights throughout the summer, join us on Boston Harbor to dance and party the night away with Boston's most entertaining live acts, DJs, and comedy. 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.
Is there any automobile ferry service to Provincetown?
At points where our staff interact with our passengers, both parties will be afforded the benefit of lexan barriers, to put a layer of protection between crew member and guest. Boston Harbor's largest cruise ship with room for groups of 100 to 1100 passengers. Please specify the number and type of passengers below.
Provincetown III
MacMillan Pier still had the fish processing structures at the end and the Wydah Museum was still a coffee shop and bait shop. Traffic in the form of Ford Pintos, El Caminos, and the good old VW beetle further date the picture. 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.
Is there public transportation from the airport to the dock in Boston?
The previous image, taken in 1911, shows ladies with hats, parasols, and long dresses. By 1937, the date of this photo, above, women are wearing sleeveless dresses, men are in shirt sleeves, completely gone are the parasols and half the group is without hats. 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.
Pride Journey: Provincetown, Massachusetts - Lavender Magazine
Pride Journey: Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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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. 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.
Bay State Cruises’ North Station to Seaport District
Take a left across the crosswalk, one short block to our pier at the World Trade Center (the Seaport Hotel blocks one’s view of our vessels, just across the street from the Silver Line Station). Simply ask the taxi driver who picks you up at your terminal to take you to World Trade Center, lower level, on Seaport Blvd. Our ships depart from the EAST side (the right side as you face the harbor) of the pier. Bay State Cruise's third ferry dedicated to Provincetown, was the very first fast ferry to ply the route. We ran only two trips per day back then and the price was $75 round trip. Despite a gallon of diesel only costing $.80 per gallon back then, we lost our shirts in these early years of fast ferry transport.
Are dogs allowed aboard?
Taking it slow for whales. NOAA eyes more restrictions to protect right whales, but it could be costly for PTown, ferries - Cape Cod Times
Taking it slow for whales. NOAA eyes more restrictions to protect right whales, but it could be costly for PTown, ferries.
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Our pier is conveniently located at the World Trade Center on Seaport Blvd. OUR VESSELS TIE UP TO THE EAST SIDE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER; that’s the side not facing the City Skyline, but, rather Boston’s Fish Pier. Our entertainment cruises are limited to Adults 21 or more years of age.
SEAPORT FERRY
Roundtrip returns may be on a later day, but must be this season. These very well equipped and maintained high speed ferries operate up to three round trips daily between Boston and Provincetown, May through to the first weekend in December. In general, Friends, it’s going to be another awkward start to the season, but Bay State Cruises will be working hard to make things as nice as possible for everyone. There’s a lot to be thankful for and, being able to get out onto the ocean, is pretty high up there on the list. Bay State Cruises has adopted these rules and standards from the State and CDC, and, we want to make sure all our passengers are aware of these standards prior to sailing with us.
Directions to Boston Terminal, 200 SEAPORT BLVD
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. A Bay State Cruise Company Tenpass lets you pay for reservations ahead of time at a significant discount. On certain vessels in our fleet, where it’s been possible, we have added clear barriers between seating sections in order to provide more atmospheric privacy.
The fourth ferry that we dedicated to the storied Boston to Provincetown run is the still current fast ferry PROVINCETOWN III. We launched this wonderfully quick and comfortable boat in 2004. We are so proud to be continuing this 170 year tradition of ferrying passengers between Boston and Provincetown and are honored to be the longest operating ferry company of all those that have come before us. These are triple water jet boats, powered by three engines of 800hp each.
All entertainment cruises begin and end at our Boston Docks.
Economic twists and turns and over-competition made service between Boston and Provincetown a revolving door of steamship operators since 1842. 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.
The first Bay State Cruises vessel with the name PROVINCETOWN ran from 1973 to 1980. Bay Line's steamer CAPE COD conducted service from Boston to Provincetown between 1902 and 1911. 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.
This will take you through a new tunnel to the South Boston waterfront, where we are located. Once you are at the corner of Seaport Blvd, you will be looking at the West side of the World Trade Center. Our ships are tied up to the EAST side of that same building (the right side of the World Trade Center as you face the harbor). The Silver Line stop is less than 100 yards from our pier. To get to us from the station, please take the New Congress Street street-level exit. Proceed to the crosswalk to the right of the station’s exit doors.
The two met and danced together the entire trip-long. These vessels were, in large part, floating dance halls. In 1883, the first vessel built specifically for the Boston-Provincetown route was introduced.
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.
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