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MV Sealth
May 11, 2018 20:54:55 GMT -8
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Post by rwbsparks on May 11, 2018 20:54:55 GMT -8
Sealth is supposed to become the inter-island ferry when Tillikum is retired, so the likelihood of it getting a second auto deck is not very high. That and it also has the lowest Auto Deck Clearance: 15' 2" of the Class, and from my understanding, it was felt that adding the second deck, would be to tight feeling and they WSF didn't want it to be like the supers with needing more dwell time. The Book advertised on Evergreenfleet.com does a wonderful job illustrating this. When comparing an empty Kitsap gallery deck to a Sealth side tunnel, one can tell that there just isn’t quite enough room to pull it off. They could technically but it’d be super tight and they’d likely limit it to sedans. The 7’6” standard would not be met. My question: why does the difference exist? Why don’t all of the Issaquahs have the same clearance? Was it MP&E just being a crappy contractor? Or was it something else? |
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Post by Barnacle on May 14, 2018 5:25:10 GMT -8
That and it also has the lowest Auto Deck Clearance: 15' 2" of the Class, and from my understanding, it was felt that adding the second deck, would be to tight feeling and they WSF didn't want it to be like the supers with needing more dwell time. The Book advertised on Evergreenfleet.com does a wonderful job illustrating this. When comparing an empty Kitsap gallery deck to a Sealth side tunnel, one can tell that there just isn’t quite enough room to pull it off. They could technically but it’d be super tight and they’d likely limit it to sedans. The 7’6” standard would not be met. My question: why does the difference exist? Why don’t all of the Issaquahs have the same clearance? Was it MP&E just being a crappy contractor? Or was it something else? Various items have been added to the overhead through the years; that being said, there were inconsistencies from boat to boat right from the get-go. (No two boats had the same number of stairs in the stairwells; some varied within themselves.)
That being said, the Supers all had 16' clearance for years and the best of them is down to 15'6" on the labels.
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Post by northwesterner on May 14, 2018 18:49:22 GMT -8
Various items have been added to the overhead through the years; that being said, there were inconsistencies from boat to boat right from the get-go. (No two boats had the same number of stairs in the stairwells; some varied within themselves.)
Yikes. That's quite the quality control when the number of stairs don't match. Please tell me you get together for trivia night with your co-workers and "how many steps are there in the No 1 stairwell on Kitsap" is the final round question... |
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