The West Seattle High Bridge is open, but why get back behind the wheel when you can continue to use the floating alternative to avoid traffic this fall and winter, the West Seattle Water Taxi! After a weekend (Oct. 15-16) when the Water Taxi will not sail to conduct vessel maintenance, the winter sailing schedule,…
This fall and winter, the King County Water Taxi will continue to be a transportation option for riders going to and from West Seattle. On Monday, Oct. 17, the West Seattle Water Taxi will continue providing midday and weekend sailings between downtown Seattle’s Pier 50 and Seacrest Dock in West Seattle. The seven-day-a-week service will run…
The weather is hot, the Mariners are hot and it’s time for the return of Metro’s hottest hit: “Water Taxi Summer!” The Water Taxi is a cool way to beat the heat. It’s operating on its summer sailing season, with seven-days-a-week service to and from West Seattle, including midday sailings, and Friday and Saturday night…
Scheduled repairs to the Seacrest Dock in West Seattle will close the dock during the mid-day sailing hours between 9:30 am and 3:30 pm from through Thursday May 19. The 9:10 departure from West Seattle will be the last run of the morning and the 3:25 Seattle departure will be the first of the afternoon.…
When the crew of the Water Taxi Doc Maynard saw people in the water just off Duwamish Head on August 11, they acted quickly, placing a crewman in a safety suit and in the water to rescue the two people whose sailboat had capsized. Today, King County Executive Dow Constantine and the King County Council…
The crew of the West Seattle Water Taxi Doc Maynard rescued two boaters whose sailboat capsized off Duwamish Head shortly after 12:00 p.m. The Doc Maynard had just left West Seattle’s Seacrest Dock on its 12:00 p.m. sailing to downtown Seattle when the crew spotted two people in the water next to a capsized sailboat.…
Replacing the damaged pin at Seacrest Dock in means canceling Water Taxi service to West Seattle for the rest of the week
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