01-27-2008, 12:39 PM
---------------------------------------------------------------------[quote]Originally posted by gtill
"But at least they got to Sea test their ship, she's now a proven commodity."
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What are they proving tommorrow and Tuesday with cancelations due to rough seas?
I don't feel the HSF was ever intended to survive here. Even running consistently at full capacity are they making the $650,000 a month or whatever they say they need to break even? Do the math.
I do agree that we are being ripped off by existing freight and passenger carriers.
The only way we as an Island community are going to rid ourselves of transportation and shipping pirates is to become more self sufficient.
How can this be done?
Look to the past. three hundred years ago there was a sustainable society here. Even without today's fabulous scientific and energy technologies, half a million people lived happily without "Young Brothers".
"But at least they got to Sea test their ship, she's now a proven commodity."
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What are they proving tommorrow and Tuesday with cancelations due to rough seas?
I don't feel the HSF was ever intended to survive here. Even running consistently at full capacity are they making the $650,000 a month or whatever they say they need to break even? Do the math.
I do agree that we are being ripped off by existing freight and passenger carriers.
The only way we as an Island community are going to rid ourselves of transportation and shipping pirates is to become more self sufficient.
How can this be done?
Look to the past. three hundred years ago there was a sustainable society here. Even without today's fabulous scientific and energy technologies, half a million people lived happily without "Young Brothers".