Steamship expects Gay Head service on Thursday - The Martha's Veyard Tim

Contents:

• GAY-HEAD
• GAY HEAD CLIFFS
• GAY HEAD
• STEAMSHIP EXPECTS GAY HEAD SERVICE ON THURSDAY
• MOTORIST ON MV GAY HEAD GO OVERBOARD
• THROTTLE ISSUE SILED EIGHT FERRY GAY HEAD
• TI TIM FOR GAY HEAD, MARTHA'S VEYARD
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE MOVE IS PLETE — MV TIM
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE, THEN AND NOW – MV GAZETTE

GAY-HEAD

The M/V Gay Head.

GAY HEAD CLIFFS

The M/V Gay Head, named after brightly lored clay cliffs loted on northwt Martha’s Veyard, is a sister vsel to the M/V Katama. The M/V Gay Head performs the same eight vsel service as her sister, servg the Hyannis – Nantucket route most of the year. The M/V Gay Head is not accsible for passengers wh disabili who require assistance, as you mt climb a set of stairs to reach the terr passenger partment.

Fast Facts About The M/V Gay Head. Siar size and style to the M/V Katama and M/V Gay Head, she was the third former offshore supply vsel to jo the Steamship Authory’s current fleet as a eight vsel. The current posn of GAY-HEAD is.

The vsel GAY-HEAD (IMO: 8123418, MMSI 367327120) is a Passenger/Ro-Ro Cargo Ship built 1981 (42 years old) and. Vsel NameGAY HEAD.

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STEAMSHIP EXPECTS GAY HEAD SERVICE ON THURSDAY

The data is for rmatnal purpos only and VselFr is not rponsible for the accuracy and reliabily of GAY-HEAD data. Gay Head Cliffs. The Gay Head Cliffs are a natnal landmark.

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It was nice to see the Gay Head Lighthoe too. Aqunah is the center of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aqunah. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aqunah beme a ferally acknowledged tribe on April 10, 1987 through the Bure of Indian Affairs.

MOTORIST ON MV GAY HEAD GO OVERBOARD

The town was lled Gay Head until 1997 when the Tribe won the right to change the name of the town back to the origal Wampanoag name. Atop the cliffs is the Gay Head Light. The Gay Head is expected to rume service on Thursday Aug 4.

The Steamship Authory expects the eight ferry Gay Head to return to service on Thursday after repairs Connecticut. In a Tuday statement, Drisll wrote, “Repairs are unr way on the MV Gay Head at Tham Shipyard New London, Conn. The MV Gay Head will rume service on the Nantucket route Thursday, startg wh s schled 5:30 am parture om Hyannis.

THROTTLE ISSUE SILED EIGHT FERRY GAY HEAD

The repair of the Gay Head took some effort, Drisll told The Tim. Another SSA eight ferry, the Katama, was drydock at Tham Shipyard for schled work when the Gay Head was sent there for emergency repairs.

The Katama had to be refloated and moved out of the way so the Gay Head uld e the dry dock, Drisll said. The MV Sankaty will be helpg to fill a gap ed by an emergency repair to the MV Gay Head. A problem wh the MV Gay Head is forcg the Steamship Authory to play mil ferri jt ahead of a by summer weekend.

“Followg the disvery of a small amount of water the steerg gear void of the MV Gay Head, a survey of the vsel’s hull disvered a 4-ch crack the hull on the vsel’s aft, ” Sean Drisll, a spokman for the SSA, wrote an email. While the Gay Head servic the Hyannis to Nantucket crossg, s absence will have an impact on the Veyard route, as well. The MV Sankaty will service the MV Gay Head’s trips on the Nantucket route on Saturday and Sunday.

TI TIM FOR GAY HEAD, MARTHA'S VEYARD

Sunday eveng, the MV Sankaty will make the MV Gay Head’s last schled parture om Nantucket at 6:45 p. M., the MV Sankaty will load the traffic schled to take the MV Gay Head’s 10:45 a.

Decisns on future service will be ma when more rmatn is obtaed about the timg of the necsary repairs to the MV Gay Head. The Wampanoag were the first people of anctors of Wampanoag people have lived for at least 10, 000 years at Aqunah (Gay Head) and throughout the island of Noepe (Martha's Veyard), pursug a tradnal enomy based on fishg and agriculture. In 1870, over the unanimo objectns of the Wampanoag Indian rints, the Town of Gay Head was rporated.

From the Wampanoag pot of view, the prcipal effect of the rporatn of Gay Head was the alienatn of Wampanoag Indian District Lands (rervatn), which was vlatn of the Feral Non-Interurse Act of 1790. Bee the Tribe ntrolled the Gay Head town ernment for more than a century sce 1870, the effects of this alienatn were largely obscured, and the tegry of the Tribal Common Lands seemed to be aquately protected.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE MOVE IS PLETE — MV TIM

In 1972, however, rponse to the growg potentialy for encroachment on Tribal Common Lands, the Wampanoag Tribal Council of Gay Head, Inc. The mon lands clu the Gay Head Cliffs, Herrg Creek, and Lobsterville.

The Master Plan followed several years of vtigative efforts and illtrat the prent visn of the future tribal muny Gay Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aqunah) and the Town of Gay Head entered to agreement June of 1995 to jotly provi for the health, safety and welfare of persons on Tribal Lands by providg for the e of police, fire, and medil personnel and rourc the event of disaster, disorr, fire or other emergenci arisg on Tribal Lands.

The Tribe's Aqunah Rangers are EMT certified and provi servic for both Tribal Lands and the up-island 1998, the name of the town was officially changed om Gay Head back to s former Wampanoag name of Aqunah by the state legislature, reprentg regnn of Wampanoag history the regn. A motorist travelg om Nantucket to Hyannis aboard the Steamship Authory ferry Gay Head on Saturday somehow went overboard, and was rcued by the crew of the Hy-Le ferry Grey Lady IV. The Gay Head had pleted the trip at approximately 9 pm when crewmembers noticed a driver was missg om a vehicle, SSA spokman Sean Drisll noted an email.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE, THEN AND NOW – MV GAZETTE

The person was later nfirmed to be the driver of the vehicle left on the M/V Gay Head. “The pta of the Gay Head has been ntact wh the Coast Guard, and is filg the necsary reports.