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After Bay State Cruises, the Cape Cod SSCo was the longest operating steamship company between Boston and Provincetown. This picture, and the one immediately following, are fascinating for how they show the dramatic change in fashion that took place in the 26 years separating the photos. This, the first image, taken in 1911, shows ladies with hats, parasols, and long dresses.
Is there public transportation from the airport to the dock in Boston?
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. It’s a great way to start exploring America’s first destination. The tour includes driving through parts of Commercial Street and Bradford Street, as well as Herring Cove Beach, Race Point, The Provincelands, the sand dunes and more. Boston Harbor's largest cruise ship with room for groups of 100 to 1100 passengers.
LOCATED AT THEBOSTON SEAPORT
Upon docking in Ptown in 1973, the PROVINCETOWN ties up and prepares to disembark its passengers. Apart from the dramatic differences in fashion, this photo depicts a nearly identical scene as the ones from earlier in this album, from the 1920s and 30s. 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. This lapse in service remained in effect until Bay State Cruise Company started its service in 1973.
years in pictures
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.
Celebrating our 51st year of sailing to Provincetown
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.
SEAPORT FERRY
We look forward to the chance of including you in the great pastime. Operators of the Provincetown Ferry between Boston and Provincetown for over 50 years. Our Provincetown Fast Ferry fleet has the most daily departures, the most modern vessels on the route, and our Boston dock is easy to get to in the Seaport District. Driving from the West – Take the Mass Pike, I-90, East. 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.
Directions to Boston Terminal, 200 SEAPORT BLVD
Let us make your event even more memorable with the stress-free, fun, and safe travel aboard our first-rate trolleys. 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. Further underscoring our commitment to this historic ferry route, Bay State launches the even faster/stronger/better PROVINCETOWN IV in July 2013.
Boston-Provincetown Fast Ferry
In all of the 180 years of there being a ferry running between Boston and Provincetown, NO steamship company, before us, has been fortunate enough to have provided service longer than 26 years. 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.
Fast Ferries to Provincetown
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Once in the tunnel, follow the signs to the South Boston exit. At the end of the South Boston exit ramp, head straight one block to Seaport Boulevard. Once purchased, TenPasses have no expiration date, and may be used with any ferry reservation involving two or fewer passengers. Each of a TenPass's ten trips covers one ferry ride for one passenger. So, for example, two passengers using a new TenPass with a round-trip reservation would have four trips deducted from the pass's initial ten trips, leaving six trips to use later.
Our dock, World Trade Center, is .6 miles down the road on the left. We are on the right (East) side of the World Trade Center Pier as you face the harbor. 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. Seen together with the previous photo, this picture is fascinating for how it shows the dramatic change in fashion that took place in the 26 years separating the photos.
Check fares, departure and arrival times for both Fast Ferry and Traditional Ferry services. 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. The two met and danced together the entire trip-long. These vessels were, in large part, floating dance halls.
A Bay State Cruise Company Tenpass lets you pay for reservations ahead of time at a significant discount. Bay State Cruise Company has served the route the longest of all the Companies that have served Provincetown since the 1800s.
With the most sophisticated engines and ride control available, the PIV is the greenest ferry on Massachusetts Bay, and among the most comfortable. A photo from 1980, the first year we operated the MV PROVINCETOWN II between Boston and Ptown. 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. 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.
Our ships depart from the EAST side of the World Trade Center (the right side of the World Trade Center as you face the harbor). Total time from your airport terminal curb to our dock, once aboard the bus, is approximately 14 minutes. These are triple water jet boats, powered by three engines of 800hp each. The vessels are highly maneuverable and are operating well below their service capabilities.
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. 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. Our Provincetown Fast Ferry fleet has the most daily departures, are the most modern vessels, and our Boston dock is easy to get to in the Seaport District. Parking lots and garages are not owned or run by Bay State Cruises and we have no control over the rates and policies of the owners or managers of the lots and garages. We offer this price information in hopes of aiding passengers with their travel plans but have no influence over the parking businesses’ rates, policies, or the frequency with which either may change.
