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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>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>The small Island Class vessels (2019-2021) were built in Romania by Dutch firm Damen Shipbuilding: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island-class_ferry" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island-c</span><span class="invisible">lass_ferry</span></a></p><p>The slightly larger Salish Class vessels (2016-2020) were built in Poland by Remontowa SA: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish-class_ferry" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish-c</span><span class="invisible">lass_ferry</span></a></p><p>Now these large "NWS” vessels will be built by Weihai which built boats for Marine Atlantic ferry, Corsica Linea, and Brittany Ferries: <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bc-ferries-to-buy-new-vessels-from-china/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theglobeandmail.com/canada/art</span><span class="invisible">icle-bc-ferries-to-buy-new-vessels-from-china/</span></a></p><p>It's hard to argue from a business decision that China is not one of the top manufacturers of high quality vessels. </p><p>But building big ships will always be political.</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>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>On the new BC Ferries being built in China.</p><p>Do we all remember the last time the BC NDP went down the road of “building a shipbuilding industry to build ferries”?</p><p>It has its own Wiki, of course.</p><p>"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.”</p><p>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).</p><p>I don't blame the NDP for not repeating the same mistake 30 years later.</p><p>And the ferries will still be refit and maintained for their full service life within BC.</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>.<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_ferry_scandal" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_fer</span><span class="invisible">ry_scandal</span></a></p>