A difficulty with the MV Gay Head is forcing the Steamship Authority to play musical ferries just in advance of a busy summer months weekend. 

“Following the discovery of a modest amount of money of drinking water in the steering equipment void of the MV Gay Head, a survey of the vessel’s hull discovered a 4-inch crack in the hull on the vessel’s aft,” Sean Driscoll, a spokesman for the SSA, wrote in an e-mail. “Although the crack is earlier mentioned the waterline, the mend will need the vessel to be dry docked at Thames Shipyard in New London, Connecticut, for substitute of the structural metal. The vessel is now at the Authority’s Fairhaven restore facility and will sail to Thames on Monday early morning.”

Even though the Homosexual Head solutions the Hyannis to Nantucket crossing, its absence will have an affect on the Vineyard route, as perfectly.
In this article are the changes that the SSA is generating to its plan: 

• Following the past scheduled spherical vacation of the MV Sankaty Friday afternoon, the vessel will leave Woods Hole and arrive in Hyannis in advance of finishing a single spherical trip to Nantucket.
• The MV Sankaty will support the MV Homosexual Head’s journeys on the Nantucket route on Saturday and Sunday. The vessel is not scheduled to operate on the weekends on the Winery route, so no trips will be missed.
• Sunday night, the MV Sankaty will make the MV Homosexual Head’s last scheduled departure from Nantucket at 6:45 p.m. but will sail to Woods Gap as a substitute of Hyannis. The vessel will berth in Woods Gap overnight.
• The MV Sankaty will operate its first two scheduled spherical outings on the Winery route on Monday early morning. The 3rd spherical vacation, leaving Woods Hole at 11:30 a.m. and leaving Winery Haven at 12:45 p.m., will be canceled.
• Following its scheduled arrival in Woods Hole at 11 a.m., the MV Sankaty will load the traffic scheduled to get the MV Gay Head’s 10:45 a.m. trip from Hyannis and depart to Nantucket, leaving at 11:15 a.m. The Reservation Office will get hold of those people prospects scheduled on the 10:45 a.m. journey, which is scheduled as a dangerous resources trip, and inform…