Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.</p><p>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.</p><p>At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fastcat-ferries-facebook-marketplace-1.7080937" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col</span><span class="invisible">umbia/fastcat-ferries-facebook-marketplace-1.7080937</span></a></p><p>They still show up on vessel trackers so perhaps they're not scrapped yet!</p><p>Pacificat Explorer is IMO: 9146429<br>Pacificat Discovery is IMO: 9146431<br>Pacificat Voyager is IMO: 9146443</p><p>If you want to find out the owner, you can pay $CAD 15 for 24hr of vesselfinder access here: <a href="https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9146429" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vesselfinder.com/vessels/detai</span><span class="invisible">ls/9146429</span></a></p><p>As tempting as it is, I think I'll get a couple icedCaps instead. :)</p><p> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCNDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BCNDP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/FastFerry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FastFerry</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Shipbuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shipbuilding</span></a></p>