About that diesel ferry

To travel from Missunde to Brodersby, or from Brodersby to Missunde, you need to take an automobile ferry. Since 2003, the Missunde II has been this ferry. She is a cheerful, diesel-driven craft.

Thus the bureaucrats of the State Office for Coastal Protection decided some years ago to replace the old and reliable Missunde II with a newer, silent and much more environmentally friendly solar-powered ferry, to be named Missunde III

The carbon-neutral Missunde III cost 3.3 million Euro, and she was finally delivered after various delays in January 2024.

Authorities quietly sold the outmoded and embarrassing Missunde II for 17,000 Euro…

It turns out that the Missunde III ’s glorious solar roof acted like a great sail in the face of those stiff northern winds. Her small electric motors had trouble overcoming the force, such that she took twice as long to cross the Schlei… The Missunde III ’s greater weight also placed too much strain on her guidance cables, and she had trouble mooring at the dock…

Thus the sun-powered Missunde III languished in harbour while people argued about how much environmental harm they should be allowed to inflict on the inlet to make her steerable…

Thus the Office for Coastal Protection finally went limping back to the not-so-dim buyer who purchased the Missunde II for 17,000 Euros, and struck a deal to buy it back from him for 100,000 Euros. The Missunde II has been given a new permit to sail until 2028…

DB2

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Yes, all of these things could have been foreseen - sounds like some people failed to do their homework.

Pete

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And that was while spending over three million euros. It must have been somebody else’s money.

DB2

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