SEATTLE — One of Washington state’s iconic ferries squeezed through the Ballard locks in Seattle on Monday.
Tugboats guided the 144-car Super class ferry Elwha from the Eagle Harbor Maintenance facility on Bainbridge Island through the Lake Washington Ship Canal to the Lake Union Drydock to undergo maintenance on its steel deck.
“It’s not every day a vessel as wide as a six-lane highway squeezes through the 80-foot wide locks in Ballard. That’s not much wiggle room!” a spokesperson for WSDOT Ferries Division wrote in a news release.
The ferry is 73 feet, 2 inches wide and the Ballard Locks are 80 feet wide.
Watch raw video of the ferry squeezing through the locks in the video player below:
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