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The '''Spirit of Ontario''' was a jet-powered catamaran<ref name=Def>A catamaran is a watercraft with two parallel hulls of equal size.</ref> that ferried vehicles and passengers between [[Toronto, Ontario]] and [[Rochester, New York]], a distance of about 35 nautical miles (40 land miles). The ferry service ran only intermittently from 2004 to 2006, troubled at one point by the manufacturer of the boat going bankrupt. At the end of 2006, the boat was sold to a German company (FRS) and the ferry service ended. | |||
The ''' | The boat was then renamed as the ''Tanger Jet II'' and operated for 4.5 years on a 20-mile [[Mediterranean Sea]] route connecting Tarifa,Spain and Tangier, Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar.<ref name=FerryHistory>[https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/03/29/rochester-ny-fast-ferry-history-timeline-spirit-of-ontario-venezuela/3308643002/ The full Monty: A timeline of our fast ferry’s checkered past] by Steve Orr in the Rochester's ''Democrat & Chronicle'', March 29, 2019</ref> In 2012, FRS renamed the boat as ''Dolphin Jet'' and moved it to Denmark temporary, then in 2013 sold it to Conferry (the government-owned ferry operator in [[Venezuela]]). Conferry renamed it ''Virgen de Coromoto'', and in 2015 it was taken out of service when two of its four engines broke down and parked in a Venezuelan shipyard awaiting repairs which, as of 2019, had never been done.<ref name=FerryHistory/> | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:19, 21 October 2024
The Spirit of Ontario was a jet-powered catamaran[1] that ferried vehicles and passengers between Toronto, Ontario and Rochester, New York, a distance of about 35 nautical miles (40 land miles). The ferry service ran only intermittently from 2004 to 2006, troubled at one point by the manufacturer of the boat going bankrupt. At the end of 2006, the boat was sold to a German company (FRS) and the ferry service ended.
The boat was then renamed as the Tanger Jet II and operated for 4.5 years on a 20-mile Mediterranean Sea route connecting Tarifa,Spain and Tangier, Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar.[2] In 2012, FRS renamed the boat as Dolphin Jet and moved it to Denmark temporary, then in 2013 sold it to Conferry (the government-owned ferry operator in Venezuela). Conferry renamed it Virgen de Coromoto, and in 2015 it was taken out of service when two of its four engines broke down and parked in a Venezuelan shipyard awaiting repairs which, as of 2019, had never been done.[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ A catamaran is a watercraft with two parallel hulls of equal size.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The full Monty: A timeline of our fast ferry’s checkered past by Steve Orr in the Rochester's Democrat & Chronicle, March 29, 2019