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New Year's Eve - Sunday 31st December | ||
| MPV Italie and MPV Vevey operated an evening Dinner Cruises from Geneva and the Upper Lake respectively on Sunday 31st December | |||
| PS Uri operated an evening Gala Dinner Cruise from Luzern at 1930 on Sunday 31st December | |||
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In additional to the regular timetabled
sailings | |||
| Christmas Day - Monday 25th December | |||
| MPV Vevey and MPV Italie operated Christmas Lunch Cruises from Geneva and Lausanne respectively on Monday 25th December | |||
| PS Uri operated a Christmas Lunch Cruise from Luzern at 1130 on Christmas Day - Monday 25th December | |||
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| Christmas Eve - Sunday 24th December | |||
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MPV Italie and MPV Vevey operated the timetabled Christmas Eve Lunch Cruises from Geneva and Lausanne respectively on Sunday 24th December | ||
| PS Uri operated an evening Gala Dinner Cruise from Luzern at 1930 on Sunday 24th December | |||
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Owing to a very bad weather forecast for the week,
MPV Vevey was pressed into service to cover the
Storms prevented her sailing in the morning on Thursday 14th December | |||
| PS Uri operated two rare winter evening "Candlelight Dinner Cruises" from Luzern at 2000 on Friday 10th November and Saturday 11th November | |||
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PS La Suisse
operated winter timetabled
sailings 1107-1108-1109-1110-930-931 to Evian-les-Bains and
the Upper lake on Sunday
29th October - something normally restricted to the
motor paddle vessels | |||
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PS Piemonte operated a
special International Charter
Cruise from Arona (Italy) to Locarno at the Swiss end of the lake on
Saturday 21st October This sailing is open to the public | |||
| PS Stadt Rapperswil operated an evening "Fondue Cruise" from Zurich at 2000 on Saturday 7th October | |||
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PS Stadt Zürich set off
from Zurich as planned at 1130 for Schmerikon on
Saturday 16th September operating sailing
107 but had rudder
problems off-Schmerikon - it then took over 40 minutes before the passengers were able
to get ashore following use of the emergency rudder The return sailing 108 was cancelled, but after further repairs, the paddle steamer later made her own way 'light' back to dock Despite sister PS Stadt Raperswil being spare, the ZSG rostered mv Wädenswil to cover the same sailings on the Sunday The paddle steamer was back in service again on the Monday | |||
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Owing to insufficient operational motor vessels - compounded by
the breakdown of mv Schwyz
for several days, PS Stadt Luzern
had to be rostered to operate the lightly loaded 1000 ferry
sailing 504 connection
off the recently re-opened Bürgenstock funicular on
Sunday 3rd September
before operating her regular "Gotthard Panorama Express"
sailings 13-24 to Flüelen This released the small regular ferry mv Titlis to cover another motor vessel | |||
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| PS Rhône operated a special ABVL Charter Cruise from Lausanne and Morges to Amphion and Evian-les-Bains as part of her "90th Birthday celebrations" | |||
| MPV G Zanardelli operated an evening Fireworks Cruise from Riva at 2115 on Saturday 26th August | |||
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PS Stadt Rapperswil set off
from Zurich as planned at 0930 for Rapperswil on
Saturday 26th August operating sailing
103 but 'appanently' failed
to return Later sister PS Stadt Zürich arrived light from the dock at 1415 and covered the 1430 sailing 113 to Rapperswil | |||
| Owing to PS La Suisse having to go into dock for urgent pre-planned repairs PS Rhône operated the Lausanne based Upper Lake sailings 200-201-202-203-204-205 from Sunday 13th August to Thursday 17th August inclusive | |||
| PS Montreux
brokedown at Lausanne with
minor "technical problems" and her evening
sailings 487-488 to and from Yvoire had to be covered by
the much smaller mv Morges She returned to service at 1415 the following day | |||
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PS Stadt Luzern remained at the
dock for the second time in less than a week with further "technical problems" PS Schiller "stepped-up" to cover the 1110 "Gotthard Panorama Express" sailings 13-24 and mv Europa was again pressed into covering advertised paddle steamer sailings on Saturday 12th August | |||
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PS Schiller remained at the
dock for the second time this year with "technical problems" Onced again mv Europa was pressed into covering advertised paddle steamer sailings on Thursday 10th August | |||
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PS Stadt Luzern remained at the dock all day with some form
of "technical problem" Unusually, rather than "stepping-up" one of the other paddle steamers, the 1110 "Gotthard Panorama Express" sailings 13-24 had to be covered by mv Europa on Sunday 6th August | |||
| Swiss National Day - Tuesday 1st August | |||
| PS La Suisse operated an evening Fireworks Cruise from Lausanne at 2015 on Tuesday 1st August | |||
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Fireworks at Brunnen All five paddle steamers paraded in convoy followed by some of the motor vessels from Luzern at 1945 to Brunnen for the annual fireworks display on Tuesday 1st August | |||
| PS Neuchâtel operated an evening Fireworks Cruise from Neuchâtel at 2000 on Tuesday 1st August instead of her regular timetabled sailings | |||
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In additional to the regular afternoon
timetabled sailings | |||
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MPV Vevey operated
an evening Fireworks
cruise from the Upper Lake piers to Le Bouveret on
Monday
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Following operating her normal timetabled sailings the previous day,
PS Stadt Rapperswil
remained in dock from
Wednesday 19th July
whilst repairs were made to her port paddle wheel It is understood this involved re-welding part of her new paddle wheel which had been built to replace the one which was damaged when she grounded in strong winds on Friday 17th July 2015 She ran a public "test" day as far as Rapperswil only on Thursday 17th August.......... ..........and subsequently re-started her regualar timetabled sailings alternating with sister PS Stadt Zürich the following Wednesday | |||
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PS La Suisse
operated an evening
Fireworks cruise from Lausanne at 1950 to the display at
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Despite PS Schiller originally
being rostered to operate her usual sailings, she
visited the dock on Tuesday
4th July for two days of repairs Fortunately only four paddle steamers were advertised in service at that time of the year, so her sister PS Gallia coverrd her sailings 21-30 for the two days | |||
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Despite PS Uri
originally being planned to operate her normal
sailings 7-18 from Luzern to Flüelen on
Monday 13th June
she made a visit to dock Fortunately only four paddle steamers are advertised in service at this time of the year, so her sisters were able to "step-up" to cover She returned to service on Wednesday 14th June before returning to dock for two more days on Friday 16th June and Saturday 17th June | |||
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PS Rhône operated
three special "Creux de Sciez" circuits serving
the piers at Margencel, Sciez and Excenevex which
are no longer served by regular timetabled sailings on
Sunday 11th June | |||
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PS Rhône operated
the mid-morning sailing from Lausanne to Yvoire/Nyon over the 3-Day Whit weekend commencing
Saturday 3rd June | |||
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PS Simplon
suffered a lubrification problem in the low pressure cylinder whilst operating
sailing 102
from Geneva on
Ascension Thursday 25th May and was taken was
taken out of service at Lausanne for quick repairs In consequence return sailing 105 was covered by the much smaller ferry mv Ville-de-Genève - a rare occasion for her to visit Geneva The paddle steamer was quickly repaired and returned light to Geneva the following day allowing her to cover the weekend sailings 102-105 as originally planned | |||
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Swiss Navigation Day - Sunday 7th
May Instead of the usual "last Sunday in April" it was held slightly later in 2017 | |||
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To celebrate 25 years back in service PS
Blümlisalp opened her anniversary year with a special 3 hour pre-season
family "sailing day" including special offers and surprises for Adults and Children at 1114
from Thun on Sunday 7th May | |||
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PS Stadt Rapperswil
operated an evening "Dinner
Cruise" from Zurich at 2000 on
Saturday 6th May This special sailing was originally advertised for Saturday 29th April | |||
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PS Simplon
operated a pre-season afternoon "
Charter Cruise" for the 'ABVL' AGM from Montreux on
Saturday 29th April | |||
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PS Savoie
suffered a failure just before operating the 1140
sailing 920 from Lausanne to Château-de-Chillon
(it turned out to be a minor technical problem with an engine pump that occurred
just before sailing) which was quickly repaired to enable the
paddle steamer to return to service with the afternoon
sailings 922-923 The CGN turned out the much smaller | |||
| Easter Monday 17th April | |||
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| Easter Sunday 16th April | |||
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| PS Unterwalden operated an Easter Lunch Cruise from Luzern at 1130 on Easter Sunday 16th April resulting in her advertised morning timetabled sailings 7-18 having to be replaced by mv Gotthard | |||
| PS Stadt Rapperswil operated the lunchtime timetabled sailings 109-110 from Zurich to Rapperswil and return on Easter Sunday 16th April | |||
| Good Friday 14th April | |||
| As a result of a very good weather forecast PS La Suisse was rostered to operate the Upper Lake sailings 920-921-922-923 from Lausanne in order to provide additional capacity on Good Friday 14th April | |||
| PS Stadt Rapperswil operated the lunchtime timetabled sailings 109-110 from Zurich to Rapperswil and return on Good Friday 14th April and all over the Easter weekend | |||
| As a result of a major overhaul of the regular ferry mv Léman PS La Suisse operated most of the weekday Evian-les-Bains ferry sailings for several weeks commencing Monday 10th April | |||
| PS La Suisse operated a rare winter afternoon ABVL "Charter Cruise" from Lausanne dock in conjunction with a special Steam-Hauled train from Le Bouveret to Rivaz/St-Saphorin (hauled by Pacific loco 01 202) on Sunday 9th April | |||
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PS Stadt Rapperswil
operated a pre-season evening "Charter
Cruise" for the 'Aktion pro Raddampfer' AGM from Zurich Wollishofen on
Tuesday 28th March This "confirmed" all the repair work following her breakdown on Sunday 8th May 2016 had been successfully completed | |||
| PS Unterwalden operated a rare winter evening "Candlelight Dinner Cruise" from Luzern at 2000 on Saturday 18th March | |||
| MPV Italie and MPV Vevey operated special Evening Valentines Dinner Cruises from Geneva and Lausnne respectively on Tuesday 14th February | |||
| MPV Italie and MPV Vevey re-started the weekly winter-Friday Fondue Cruises from Geneva and Lausanne respectively on Friday 3rd February | |||
| New Year's Day - Sunday 1st January | |||
| MPV Vevey and MPV Italie operated New Year's Day Lunch Cruises from Geneva and Lausanne respectively on Sunday 1st January | |||
| PS Uri operated a New Year's Day Lunch Cruise from Luzern at 1130 on Sunday 1st January | |||
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30th October 2020
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