Club Arnage

I've been wondering, is 'Speed Ferries One' the same vessel that as 'Hoverspeed Great Britain' won the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic back in the early nineties?  I know that vessel was made in Aus as was the Speedferries vessel.

Bit of an anorak Q I know, just curious.

different acyual boat i think as i watched a documentary on speed ferries trouble atthe to p i think and they bought the boat second hand from somewhere else like the med as i remember, but i think it is the same sort of boat. Portacabin loo's, huge duty free shop and all.

According to the anoraks guide to ships (http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/).....

SpeedOne was built in 1997 by International Catamarans (InCat) without an order having been placed. She has had various charters under the names HMAS Jervis Bay, Winner, etc before charter to Speed Ferries for their Dover-Boulogne service, which began in May 2004.

SpeedOne in her earlier role as HMAS Jervis Bay...

(http://de.geocities.com/glupscherle/hmas-jervis-bay.jpg)

Wow, thanks for that.  Yup it would appear that the Blue Riband vessel is Incat 25 and is now plying her trade for Sea Containers in the Med as
Speedrunner 1.  Between you lot and Wikipedia I am satisfied, thanks.

Just used that site to look at the new Transmance Ferry operating out of Newhaven, looks like the speedboat version of ferries!

Just read on another site that speed ferries have withdrawn one of there vesels on (or from) 12/06/06  ??? :-[

Cheak to see if this would effect you!

I thought they only had one vessel!!!

Me too


If in doubt check out the true bible of ferries....

http://www.ferry-site.dk/

it just makes me larffffff
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http://tinyurl.com/3udw2

Info from here...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=274864&f=25&h=0

Looks like they have just cancelled the one crossing. I'm travelling out on 11th and back on 18th, and haven't recveived any notification from them.


Why does it not surprise me that they have no reciprocal agreements with the other carriers???

"Speed one has been withdrawn from service on the 12/06/06 at 21.10 for
technical maintenance. "

What other sort of maintenance is there?

I've checked with Speed Ferries. It's just that one sailing.

obviously not from a maintenance background, you can have a field day,  in this case as it should have been working it is "unscheduled" or unforeseen.  because if it was scheduled maint' it wouldn't be occurring on a working day.

some industrial complexes, specifically in the far east have never had an unscheduled outage, impressive eh ???

And who's going to throw the first stone? Not me, that's for sure.
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Oh sh*t! Guess who's on the first crossing of the 13th...

I best check out my water wings and snorkel, I can't imagine there being many alternatives if it's still down.

Can you still just turn up at the tunnel, or do you need to book in advance?

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Can you not put your car on the large tray in your avatar and float across on that? That beer might need drinking first mind, if you need a hand......... ;D

I would have thought that the fact they have given advanced notice with the date and time of the maintenance - it must be considered scheduled.

I am going out on it on the 3rd (two days time) lets hope it managers to limp across!

Aaaaah, you see this is the dark secrets of maintenance speak.  if it had been scheduled maint' then there wouldn't have been a sailing!  as there was a sailing there couldn't have been scheduled maint'. 

its like the space time continuum, can't have two similar bodies from separate universe's occupying the same space 8)

Therefore, as the sailing has been cancelled and maint' carried out the maint' was "unscheduled" but is now scheduled.  Hope this makes sense ;D

Ex' maintenance engineer.

aka Poet Lauriate of Bull***t!!

Just as long as it sails on July 15th and July 22th, its all fine with me.... :P