It always surprises me that the Ramsgate to Ostende ferry is viable and with Sea France not being seen as viable even by the French courts it does make one wonder how a channel crossing that is much further can work as well as it evidently does.
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Tuesday 10 January 2012
Ferry Thoughts and pictures.
It always surprises me that the Ramsgate to Ostende ferry is viable and with Sea France not being seen as viable even by the French courts it does make one wonder how a channel crossing that is much further can work as well as it evidently does.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
Whatever happened to all the Sally Line boats when they ceased trading, the Sally vessel looks more modern than the current operator's fleet?
ReplyDeleteThere you go Ken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Line
ReplyDeleteI read about two offers to keep the company going, one was denied due to anti-competition regulation and the other as "too many staff would be made redundant"... Given that everyone has or soon will be made redundant don't those decisions now seem flawed?
ReplyDeleteRob. Don't believe everything you read. Seafrance failed because they were uncompetitive. They employed nearly three times as many crew as any of their competitors - crew that went on strike at the drop of a chapeau.- and used the several illegal subsidies that they received from the French government to reduce their prices below cost. One of their ships has been built with a further illegal subsidy. Their French staff have frankly been relying on government cave-in for too long
ReplyDeleteThe Transeuropa ferry with 2 funnels that serves Ramsgate is the old Sally Sky ferry.
ReplyDeleteGot any more great pictures of the Royal Daffodil pleasure steamer.... if so would love to see them. Many thanks
ReplyDeletePaul (wakegeol@globalnet.co.uk)
Interesting site,and I notice that you have used three of my paintings as illustrations as well, nice to see them getting a bit of an airing on the web !
ReplyDeleteAll the best ,
Ian H Boyd
Hillcrest ,South Africa
ianb@ledom.co.za
Ian apologies for the lack of accreditation I had assumed they were contemporary pictures, until I had a closer look.
DeleteIf you email me michaelchild@aol.com I will add any accreditation text and links you want.
I usually publish several hundred local interest pictures in a month and don’t usually slip up as badly as this.