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03-31-2013, 08:36 AM #1
Your Money at uh work
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An unwanted, $80 million ice-breaking ferry owned by an Alaska borough has only one bid to buy it, and it's for $751,000.
The bid was the only entered by Friday's deadline set up by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, which has been trying to get rid of the 200-foot ferry. The borough doesn't have to accept the offer, The Anchorage Daily News reported (http://bit.ly/Zuh2SN).
The vessel was completed in 2011 and born out of a partnership between the borough, which wanted a ferry, and the Navy, which wanted a fast military landing craft.
Named the Susitna, the ferry was built as a Navy prototype that would be owned and operated by the borough. The project was funded mainly with Department of Defense earmarks wedged into the federal budget by then-U.S. Sen. Ted Stevensseeya
dan
I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.
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03-31-2013, 10:35 AM #2
Re: Your Money at uh work
Would have liked some more detail in there about why the Navy doesn't take it, if it was built to be a landing craft. Sounds like it's not suitable for such purposes either. Just a weird way to get the money allocated to build the thing.
People keep asking if I'm back and I haven't really had an answer. But now, yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm back.
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03-31-2013, 08:13 PM #3
Re: Your Money at uh work
I think the Navy does not want it because it is a freaking ferry not a fast landing craft
Last edited by dan_bgblue; 03-31-2013 at 08:31 PM.
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dan
I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.
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03-31-2013, 08:23 PM #4
Re: Your Money at uh work
From the same people who brought you the $800
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03-31-2013, 11:21 PM #5
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I would assume so, but I wonder what non-ferry aspects it has given it has horrid mileage and limited capacity. I wonder if it really was some messed up hybrid that didn't work or just a pure dodge to get them a ferry.
Maybe they can use this ferry to replace the road to nowhere.People keep asking if I'm back and I haven't really had an answer. But now, yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm back.
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04-01-2013, 07:07 PM #6
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If they would close the door on the aft end it would probably be more fuel efficient
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dan
I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.
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04-01-2013, 08:44 PM #7
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hereAging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.--David Bowie.
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04-01-2013, 09:15 PM #8
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Thanks Doc. That's one funky ship. Does remind me of an amphibious assault craft where they released the boats out the back. A "Catamaran ice breaker". Um, OK.
People keep asking if I'm back and I haven't really had an answer. But now, yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm back.
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04-03-2013, 09:06 PM #9
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Must be like an iceberg, 2/3rds of it are under water. No wonder the fuel mileage is so poor. The freaking propulsion units are 3 feet out of the water.
Doc, is that really an image of the craft we are bemoaning?seeya
dan
I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.
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04-04-2013, 02:05 PM #10
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Yep, that she be.
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.--David Bowie.
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