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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
A nice looking ship!
So, if it gets 175 nm "per day", that would likely be 5-6 round trips between Mill Cove and the downtown ferry terminal. How many ferries do you think they will put on this service? I would think you would need a minimum of two ferries to make the service viable (in terms of both frequency and capacity).
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According to google Earth it's about 10KM in a straight line to the ferry terminal.
175NM = 318KM
Lets say with headwinds, route etc 1 way = 12KM
We're looking at 26 one way trips with the ferry or 13 round trips.
2 ferries could make it so that they could leave every half hour.
Big unknown about these ferries though is what the capacity on a single charge is. The whole "Day range of..." Sounds like marketing speak for that it will need to be charged throughout the day to achieve that number. The wait for it to be charged to a good level is the unknown.
Also price, I mean if these are 3-4x as expensive as a comparable conventional ferry then it wouldn't make sense.