CALMAC Ferries 'new boat' service starts
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Drago
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I'd heard the plywood was sold and the cash raised used to buy a motorhome.
wiggydiggy
Guru
Good grief lol
> But the new ferry won't be sailing from Ardrossan - the main port of choice for the island. The design of the new ship means it can't berth at the North Ayrshire port until a major redevelopment is carried out. and Instead, the Glen Sannox - and sister ship MV Glen Rosa, which has yet to enter service - will set sail from Troon, with a longer crossing time for island residents and visitors.
https://www.ayradvertiser.com/news/...v-glen-sannox-set-take-passengers-first-time/
> But the new ferry won't be sailing from Ardrossan - the main port of choice for the island. The design of the new ship means it can't berth at the North Ayrshire port until a major redevelopment is carried out. and Instead, the Glen Sannox - and sister ship MV Glen Rosa, which has yet to enter service - will set sail from Troon, with a longer crossing time for island residents and visitors.
https://www.ayradvertiser.com/news/...v-glen-sannox-set-take-passengers-first-time/
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
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How much over budget
wiggydiggy
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I'd have to read back on it to compare and be sure but I'm sure the Isle of Man ferry replacements didn't have the same issues this one seems to have had.
Regular.Cyclist
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It’s not just the us that get such things wrong. The Spirit of Tasmania IV is currently mothballed in Leith for up to three years due to infrastructure issues in its home port of Devonport, Tasmania.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnv3d9z2n30o
Brandane
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They have just made the 5 ferries cycle route 15 miles longer too. And more time lost on the ferry. Plus a less frequent service. The logistics were difficult enough previously!
Time Waster
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So who is getting custody of the motorhome? It could be a vicious divorce but my money is on The fella being taken to the cleaners, I would not cross that lady, not if I want it to end well. I might wake up with a head of a haggis on my pillow next to me if I did!! LOL!!
Time Waster
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If you like the ferry port cockup then did you hear about the French train cockup about 10 years ago ? SNCF bought a lot of new trains but they made them wider than the existing trains so that they had to change the stations to allow it to stop. €19 billion of trains and a lot more to rebuild the platforms to take them. A right cockup that makes theScottish ferry mess small fry.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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How about US engineers cocking up the Mars Climate Orbiter project because some worked in imperial units and some in metric and assumptions were made about who was using what?!
Drago
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This has inspired a new thread...
rualexander
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7 years late and a massive £300M over budget (should have cost £100M but cost over £400M).
Oldwheels will be turning in his grave
Topic title is wrong, it was launched years ago, that's part of the problem.
Today was its first day of service with passengers.
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Time Waster
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IIRC it was a European organisation that did the navigation calcs for NASA using metric then the Yanks rounded up to insufficient decimal points for accuracy. Or something like that I heard. I used to find that the Yanks I dealt with on kit for power stations back in the day could not accurately convert from metric to imperial or vice versa. I ended up giving them both with a fairly accurate converstion, well as accurate as our products needed, but when they converted it was wildly out at times. Their drawing office had asthma too.
