CALMAC Ferries 'new boat' service starts

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13 rider

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Apparently it cost £1500000 to remove the painted on windows and wooden funnels when it was launched 😁 to make it look good

Edit cost is an estimate by me but about as good as every other estimate on this project
 

wiggydiggy

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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/
 
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/

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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Costa Clyde
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/

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!
 
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.
 
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?!

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.
 
Topic title is wrong, it was launched years ago, that's part of the problem.
Today was its first day of service with passengers.

If he had put service in there he would have had the label right, as in new boat service launched.

Mod Note: Thread Title amended. ;)
 
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