Scholarship transporting students in the Gulf Islands
Scholarship is a water taxi that that transports high school students from Sturdies Bay on Galiano, and Miners Bay on Mayne Island, to Ganges Harbour on Salt Spring.
The water taxi currently transports over a hundred students from the Outer Gulf Islands to the high school on Salt Spring Island. Typically students begin commuting in the 9th grade and continue until graduation, travelling for about 90 minutes per day, about 200 days each year.
- Built: 1987, Argo Marine Builders Ltd., Port Coquitlam
- Gross Tonnage (t): 28.29
- Net Tonnage (t): 23.15
- Construction Material: Aluminum
- Vessel Length (m): 12.04
- Vessel Breadth (m): 4.27
- Vessel Depth (m): 1.71
- Engine: 1 x 350 HP Diesel
- Speed (knots): 16.0
- Propulsion Method: Single Screw