Width of New locks

[babs135]

We've done a transit through the old locks and marvelled at how tight it is. Would we get anything similar going through the new locks?  I'm looking at a partial transit on the Ruby Princess and it states the ship will be using the new ones. As our daughter will be joining us I really would have liked her to experience the old locks.

[BillB48]

If you are wishing to stay with Princess the only ships they have that can use the original locks are the Island Princess and the Coral Princess.  The rest of the fleet must use the new locks.  The answer to your question is, the new locks are 180' wide and presently they allow ships with a beam of 167' to transit.

 

By comparison the original locks are 110' wide and ships with a beam of 106' to transit.

 

Afterthought... If you do a partial transit on a ship using the new locks, usually there is an excursion that is a partial transit on the Pacific side where the excursion vessel would use the original locks as well as transit the Gaillard Cut.

Edited November 21, 2022 by BillB48