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A friend and I recently decided to take a day trip to P-town from Boston via a 90-minute ferry ride on Boston's Provincetown/Cape Cod fast ferry through Boston Harbor City Cruises. Including taxes ...
A ferry on the F4 route in 2006. Boat service between Boston and Charlestown ended in 1786 after the completion of the Charles River Bridge. [6] The Winnisimmet Ferry to Chelsea ran until January 1917, with a brief revival starting on May 15, 1990 during early Big Dig construction.
The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, doing business as The Steamship Authority (SSA), is the statutory regulatory body for all ferry operations between mainland Massachusetts and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, as well an operator of ferry services between the mainland and the islands.
The MBTA operates commuter boats between Long Wharf and Rowes Wharf on the downtown Boston waterfront to Hingham, Hull, Quincy, and Logan Airport as well as inner harbor ferries between downtown Boston, Charlestown, and South Boston. Other fast passenger ferries operate to Provincetown and Salem.
Here's the headline from a page one story in the Sept. 10, 1936 edition of the Provincetown Advocate newspaper: "Steamer Romance Rammed By New York-Bound Boat In Lower Boston Harbor."
MBTA boat services link the wharf to the Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown, Logan International Airport, Hull, and Quincy. Other passenger ferry services operate to the islands of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, and to the cities of Salem and Provincetown. Cruise boats operate various cruises around the harbour.
According to Chace, "We will suspend our Boston to Provincetown route on Monday, November 4, 2024, and resume operations on Friday, May 16, 2025."
All of Hy-Line Cruises ferry services are passenger only (although bicycles are carried for a small fee) due to the legal monopoly held on vehicle ferry service that is held by the Steamship Authority. [8] Any new Hy-Line services must be approved by the authority, which serves as a regulatory body for service to and from the Islands.