small ferries of europe

[Shane]

heres a link to a great website on the small ferries of europe.
it is updated regularly with new pictures and info.

www.fjordfaehren.de/

its either in swedish or norweigen language.
here are the translations.
This website contains informations about the norwegian fjordferries. All of them will carry all kinds of vehicles and are for public use. The database contents following:
- Nation
- Name of the ferry and exnames
- Baujahr: year of buildt
- Bauwerft: yard
- Tonnage: measurement in BRZ/GT as possible
- Länge: length over all in meters (m)
- Breite: breadth over all in meters (m)
- Tiefgang: draft under waterline
- Passagiere: passengers
- PKW: cars - "PBE = Person-Bil-Enheter"
- Knoten: knots
- gebaut als: buildt as - the ferries first name
- Reederei: operator
- aktuelles Einsatzgebiet: place, the ship is working now

[Curtis]

Looks nice

[cascade]

This site is based in Germany - as the .de is the German ending - like .ca is Canadian and .co.uk is for the England ect... the flags - are to show you the country in which they are talking about.

You also might want to go to www.stp-norway.com as Pal a friend of mind has a very good site - airplanes and boats / ships. There is a lot of cruise lines going to Norway and then up North. His English - written on the site is OK - not perfect.

[cascade]

There are a number of German sites - as they have a club system - where they travel around the world and ride as many as they can - different ferries. In 2001 they did a trip to BC and rode a few of BCFS - and then wrote up a report on what they found. Not good reading if your a fan of BC Ferries.

They are well organized - so they get trips to the bridge and engine room ect.... they also take a lot of pictures - which they post. We use a number of these sites to check out what other operators are doing and what the general public think of them. I guess you could say they are like a "Film Critic".

In Europe the operators check daily these sites to see what there customers think of the service and how they can improve it. That is why - as I said many posts back - that this forum could do a lot of good - in helping BC Ferries get there service sorted out. What other forum is there for the general public to debate - complain about the service of BC Ferries. Not many people write in - nor do BC Ferries welcome emails from there customers. Very big difference to what we have over here.
Plus there is a lot more competition - with other ferry operators - and low cost airlines - and the channel tunnel.

[Shane]

they even have a picture of the chiliwack on it!