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West Lamma Channel, 西博寮海峽, Hong Kong
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #HongKong #China #SouthChinaSea #Ferry #FastFerry #Ferries #HydroFoil #Sunrise #Dawn #TurboJet #Jetfoil #Macau
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West Lamma Channel, 西博寮海峽, Hong Kong
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #HongKong #China #SouthChinaSea #Ferry #FastFerry #Ferries #HydroFoil #Sunrise #Dawn #TurboJet #Jetfoil #Macau
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West Lamma Channel, 西博寮海峽, Hong Kong
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #HongKong #China #SouthChinaSea #Ferry #FastFerry #Ferries #HydroFoil #Sunrise #Dawn #TurboJet #Jetfoil #Macau
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West Lamma Channel, 西博寮海峽, Hong Kong
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #HongKong #China #SouthChinaSea #Ferry #FastFerry #Ferries #HydroFoil #Sunrise #Dawn #TurboJet #Jetfoil #Macau
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West Lamma Channel, 西博寮海峽, Hong Kong
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #HongKong #China #SouthChinaSea #Ferry #FastFerry #Ferries #HydroFoil #Sunrise #Dawn #TurboJet #Jetfoil #Macau
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The San Pedro Channel
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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photo #Photography #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #Sea #Ocean #TravelPhotography #Water #California #SoCal #US #USA #Pacific #LeftCoast #PacificOcean #CamelCase #Boat #Boats #Ferry #Ferries #SantaCatalina #Catalina #CatalinaExpress #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Nautical #Maritime #CatalinaIsland #FastFerry #SeaCat
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The San Pedro Channel
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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photo #Photography #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #Sea #Ocean #TravelPhotography #Water #California #SoCal #US #USA #Pacific #LeftCoast #PacificOcean #CamelCase #Boat #Boats #Ferry #Ferries #SantaCatalina #Catalina #CatalinaExpress #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Nautical #Maritime #CatalinaIsland #FastFerry #SeaCat
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The San Pedro Channel
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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photo #Photography #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #Sea #Ocean #TravelPhotography #Water #California #SoCal #US #USA #Pacific #LeftCoast #PacificOcean #CamelCase #Boat #Boats #Ferry #Ferries #SantaCatalina #Catalina #CatalinaExpress #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Nautical #Maritime #CatalinaIsland #FastFerry #SeaCat
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The San Pedro Channel
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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photo #Photography #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #Sea #Ocean #TravelPhotography #Water #California #SoCal #US #USA #Pacific #LeftCoast #PacificOcean #CamelCase #Boat #Boats #Ferry #Ferries #SantaCatalina #Catalina #CatalinaExpress #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Nautical #Maritime #CatalinaIsland #FastFerry #SeaCat
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The San Pedro Channel
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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photo #Photography #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #Sea #Ocean #TravelPhotography #Water #California #SoCal #US #USA #Pacific #LeftCoast #PacificOcean #CamelCase #Boat #Boats #Ferry #Ferries #SantaCatalina #Catalina #CatalinaExpress #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Nautical #Maritime #CatalinaIsland #FastFerry #SeaCat
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Hype for the Future 65C: Martha’s Vineyard, the Island of Dukes County
Introduction While the Elizabeth Islands that separate the Buzzards Bay from the Vineyard Sound are located off the coast of the Woods Hole area and contain the Town of Gosnold, the vast majority of the approximately seventy (70) permanent residents are exclusively within the area of the village of Cuttyhunk on Cuttyhunk Island specifically, as the remaining islands are largely identified as privately owned by the Boston Brahmin Forbes family. The vast majority of Dukes County, […] -
Hype for the Future 65C: Martha’s Vineyard, the Island of Dukes County
Introduction While the Elizabeth Islands that separate the Buzzards Bay from the Vineyard Sound are located off the coast of the Woods Hole area and contain the Town of Gosnold, the vast majority of the approximately seventy (70) permanent residents are exclusively within the area of the village of Cuttyhunk on Cuttyhunk Island specifically, as the remaining islands are largely identified as privately owned by the Boston Brahmin Forbes family. The vast majority of Dukes County, […] -
Hype for the Future 65C: Martha’s Vineyard, the Island of Dukes County
Introduction While the Elizabeth Islands that separate the Buzzards Bay from the Vineyard Sound are located off the coast of the Woods Hole area and contain the Town of Gosnold, the vast majority of the approximately seventy (70) permanent residents are exclusively within the area of the village of Cuttyhunk on Cuttyhunk Island specifically, as the remaining islands are largely identified as privately owned by the Boston Brahmin Forbes family. The vast majority of Dukes County, […] -
Hype for the Future 65C: Martha’s Vineyard, the Island of Dukes County
Introduction While the Elizabeth Islands that separate the Buzzards Bay from the Vineyard Sound are located off the coast of the Woods Hole area and contain the Town of Gosnold, the vast majority of the approximately seventy (70) permanent residents are exclusively within the area of the village of Cuttyhunk on Cuttyhunk Island specifically, as the remaining islands are largely identified as privately owned by the Boston Brahmin Forbes family. The vast majority of Dukes County, […] -
Hype for the Future 65C: Martha’s Vineyard, the Island of Dukes County
Introduction While the Elizabeth Islands that separate the Buzzards Bay from the Vineyard Sound are located off the coast of the Woods Hole area and contain the Town of Gosnold, the vast majority of the approximately seventy (70) permanent residents are exclusively within the area of the village of Cuttyhunk on Cuttyhunk Island specifically, as the remaining islands are largely identified as privately owned by the Boston Brahmin Forbes family. The vast majority of Dukes County, […] -
And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fastcat-ferries-facebook-marketplace-1.7080937
They still show up on vessel trackers so perhaps they're not scrapped yet!
Pacificat Explorer is IMO: 9146429
Pacificat Discovery is IMO: 9146431
Pacificat Voyager is IMO: 9146443If you want to find out the owner, you can pay $CAD 15 for 24hr of vesselfinder access here: https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9146429
As tempting as it is, I think I'll get a couple icedCaps instead. :)
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And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fastcat-ferries-facebook-marketplace-1.7080937
They still show up on vessel trackers so perhaps they're not scrapped yet!
Pacificat Explorer is IMO: 9146429
Pacificat Discovery is IMO: 9146431
Pacificat Voyager is IMO: 9146443If you want to find out the owner, you can pay $CAD 15 for 24hr of vesselfinder access here: https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9146429
As tempting as it is, I think I'll get a couple icedCaps instead. :)
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And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fastcat-ferries-facebook-marketplace-1.7080937
They still show up on vessel trackers so perhaps they're not scrapped yet!
Pacificat Explorer is IMO: 9146429
Pacificat Discovery is IMO: 9146431
Pacificat Voyager is IMO: 9146443If you want to find out the owner, you can pay $CAD 15 for 24hr of vesselfinder access here: https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9146429
As tempting as it is, I think I'll get a couple icedCaps instead. :)
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And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fastcat-ferries-facebook-marketplace-1.7080937
They still show up on vessel trackers so perhaps they're not scrapped yet!
Pacificat Explorer is IMO: 9146429
Pacificat Discovery is IMO: 9146431
Pacificat Voyager is IMO: 9146443If you want to find out the owner, you can pay $CAD 15 for 24hr of vesselfinder access here: https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9146429
As tempting as it is, I think I'll get a couple icedCaps instead. :)
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And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fastcat-ferries-facebook-marketplace-1.7080937
They still show up on vessel trackers so perhaps they're not scrapped yet!
Pacificat Explorer is IMO: 9146429
Pacificat Discovery is IMO: 9146431
Pacificat Voyager is IMO: 9146443If you want to find out the owner, you can pay $CAD 15 for 24hr of vesselfinder access here: https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9146429
As tempting as it is, I think I'll get a couple icedCaps instead. :)
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The small Island Class vessels (2019-2021) were built in Romania by Dutch firm Damen Shipbuilding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island-class_ferry
The slightly larger Salish Class vessels (2016-2020) were built in Poland by Remontowa SA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish-class_ferry
Now these large "NWS” vessels will be built by Weihai which built boats for Marine Atlantic ferry, Corsica Linea, and Brittany Ferries: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bc-ferries-to-buy-new-vessels-from-china/
It's hard to argue from a business decision that China is not one of the top manufacturers of high quality vessels.
But building big ships will always be political.
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The small Island Class vessels (2019-2021) were built in Romania by Dutch firm Damen Shipbuilding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island-class_ferry
The slightly larger Salish Class vessels (2016-2020) were built in Poland by Remontowa SA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish-class_ferry
Now these large "NWS” vessels will be built by Weihai which built boats for Marine Atlantic ferry, Corsica Linea, and Brittany Ferries: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bc-ferries-to-buy-new-vessels-from-china/
It's hard to argue from a business decision that China is not one of the top manufacturers of high quality vessels.
But building big ships will always be political.
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The small Island Class vessels (2019-2021) were built in Romania by Dutch firm Damen Shipbuilding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island-class_ferry
The slightly larger Salish Class vessels (2016-2020) were built in Poland by Remontowa SA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish-class_ferry
Now these large "NWS” vessels will be built by Weihai which built boats for Marine Atlantic ferry, Corsica Linea, and Brittany Ferries: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bc-ferries-to-buy-new-vessels-from-china/
It's hard to argue from a business decision that China is not one of the top manufacturers of high quality vessels.
But building big ships will always be political.
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The small Island Class vessels (2019-2021) were built in Romania by Dutch firm Damen Shipbuilding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island-class_ferry
The slightly larger Salish Class vessels (2016-2020) were built in Poland by Remontowa SA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish-class_ferry
Now these large "NWS” vessels will be built by Weihai which built boats for Marine Atlantic ferry, Corsica Linea, and Brittany Ferries: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bc-ferries-to-buy-new-vessels-from-china/
It's hard to argue from a business decision that China is not one of the top manufacturers of high quality vessels.
But building big ships will always be political.
-
The small Island Class vessels (2019-2021) were built in Romania by Dutch firm Damen Shipbuilding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island-class_ferry
The slightly larger Salish Class vessels (2016-2020) were built in Poland by Remontowa SA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish-class_ferry
Now these large "NWS” vessels will be built by Weihai which built boats for Marine Atlantic ferry, Corsica Linea, and Brittany Ferries: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bc-ferries-to-buy-new-vessels-from-china/
It's hard to argue from a business decision that China is not one of the top manufacturers of high quality vessels.
But building big ships will always be political.
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On the new BC Ferries being built in China.
Do we all remember the last time the BC NDP went down the road of “building a shipbuilding industry to build ferries”?
It has its own Wiki, of course.
"In addition to major delays and cost overruns, the ferries never fully met their original specifications, and only operated briefly in a reduced capacity, before being auctioned off at a substantial loss by the subsequently elected BC Liberal Party government.”
No, I'm not thrilled that China, an authoritarian state, is going to be building these ferries. But no BC or Canadian firms bid on the contract. And right now, the expertise in ship building is in China and Europe (the Island and Salish class vessels were built in Europe).
I don't blame the NDP for not repeating the same mistake 30 years later.
And the ferries will still be refit and maintained for their full service life within BC.
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_ferry_scandal -
On the new BC Ferries being built in China.
Do we all remember the last time the BC NDP went down the road of “building a shipbuilding industry to build ferries”?
It has its own Wiki, of course.
"In addition to major delays and cost overruns, the ferries never fully met their original specifications, and only operated briefly in a reduced capacity, before being auctioned off at a substantial loss by the subsequently elected BC Liberal Party government.”
No, I'm not thrilled that China, an authoritarian state, is going to be building these ferries. But no BC or Canadian firms bid on the contract. And right now, the expertise in ship building is in China and Europe (the Island and Salish class vessels were built in Europe).
I don't blame the NDP for not repeating the same mistake 30 years later.
And the ferries will still be refit and maintained for their full service life within BC.
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_ferry_scandal -
On the new BC Ferries being built in China.
Do we all remember the last time the BC NDP went down the road of “building a shipbuilding industry to build ferries”?
It has its own Wiki, of course.
"In addition to major delays and cost overruns, the ferries never fully met their original specifications, and only operated briefly in a reduced capacity, before being auctioned off at a substantial loss by the subsequently elected BC Liberal Party government.”
No, I'm not thrilled that China, an authoritarian state, is going to be building these ferries. But no BC or Canadian firms bid on the contract. And right now, the expertise in ship building is in China and Europe (the Island and Salish class vessels were built in Europe).
I don't blame the NDP for not repeating the same mistake 30 years later.
And the ferries will still be refit and maintained for their full service life within BC.
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_ferry_scandal -
On the new BC Ferries being built in China.
Do we all remember the last time the BC NDP went down the road of “building a shipbuilding industry to build ferries”?
It has its own Wiki, of course.
"In addition to major delays and cost overruns, the ferries never fully met their original specifications, and only operated briefly in a reduced capacity, before being auctioned off at a substantial loss by the subsequently elected BC Liberal Party government.”
No, I'm not thrilled that China, an authoritarian state, is going to be building these ferries. But no BC or Canadian firms bid on the contract. And right now, the expertise in ship building is in China and Europe (the Island and Salish class vessels were built in Europe).
I don't blame the NDP for not repeating the same mistake 30 years later.
And the ferries will still be refit and maintained for their full service life within BC.
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_ferry_scandal -
On the new BC Ferries being built in China.
Do we all remember the last time the BC NDP went down the road of “building a shipbuilding industry to build ferries”?
It has its own Wiki, of course.
"In addition to major delays and cost overruns, the ferries never fully met their original specifications, and only operated briefly in a reduced capacity, before being auctioned off at a substantial loss by the subsequently elected BC Liberal Party government.”
No, I'm not thrilled that China, an authoritarian state, is going to be building these ferries. But no BC or Canadian firms bid on the contract. And right now, the expertise in ship building is in China and Europe (the Island and Salish class vessels were built in Europe).
I don't blame the NDP for not repeating the same mistake 30 years later.
And the ferries will still be refit and maintained for their full service life within BC.
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_ferry_scandal