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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.
From South Station (Arriving Via Bus, Amtrak or Commuter Train):
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.
Is there any automobile ferry service to Provincetown?
Our ships are tied up to the EAST side of that same building (the right side of the World Trade Center as you face the harbor). The Silver Line stop is less than 100 yards from our pier. To get to us from the station, please take the New Congress Street street-level exit. Proceed to the crosswalk to the right of the station’s exit doors.
LOCATED AT THEBOSTON SEAPORT
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.
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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.
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This photo is taken from the breezeway just aft of the staterooms on our first ferry, M/V PROVINCETOWN. It's a marvelous depiction of Ptown in the 70s, not just for the hairstyles of our passengers, but, for the fishing activity and shoreline of Provincetown. The inbound fishing vessel is none other than the F/V Michael Anne, one of the last Eastern Rig Draggers to call on Provincetown.
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.
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MINUTES FROMBOSTON TO PTOWN
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.
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.
These very well equipped and maintained high speed ferries operate up to three round trips daily between Boston and Provincetown, May through to the first weekend in December. Bay State Cruises is proud to have provided passenger vessel service on Boston Harbor since the 1960s. We are a tightly knit group of hard working folks who care a great deal about what we do on the water and how we do it.
Our entertainment cruises are limited to Adults 21 or more years of age. All entertainment cruises begin and end at our Boston Docks. Of all the Provincetown Ferry Companies that have served Provincetown since the 1800s, Bay State Cruise Company has served the route the longest. We are proud of this commitment and dedication to the Provincetown community.
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.
Parking – Seaport Parking Lots $27 – $36 per car per day with overnight rates costing more (sometimes more, sometimes a little less). Underground parking is available at the Seaport Hotel, directly across the street from our docks and ticket office with rates of $35 for any car parking there between 12 and 24 hours. One block inland is the the new and very large South Boston Waterfront Parking Center for slightly less money. The DOROTHY BRADFORD was operated by the Cape Cod Steamship Company from 1911 to 1937.
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.
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.
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