Rgds
Martin Cleaver
Fair enough if the crew is tired, but how can you run a passenger
service without the ability to replenish stocks at both ends?
>Of course since the HSS came and the British crews were sacked there is no
>way of supplying the ship from the British end and everything is run from
>Holland, with a consequent lack of communication.
>It's all very frustrating
>and ridiculous that Stena has no contingency plans. After the week out in
>the Spring after the Discovery was put out of action by a wave, and the
>scares on Felixstowe beach (huge waves washing away holidaymakers), one
>wonders whether the HSS was such a wonderful idea.
Not just at Felixstowe, the Belfast to Stranrar HSS has been restricted
for the run through the lochs at both ends as it was causing costal
damage, swamping small boats and knocking bathers over with the tidal
wave that struch as much as 20 mins after the craft had passed.
The HSS is a wonderful idea, it just depends on the crew. The same way
as a car is only as good as the driver.
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Gordon Brown
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