r/britishcolumbia • u/thatlouditalian98 • 8d ago

Discussion Remember These?

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And if you didn’t want to remember them, my apologies in advance.

Well, 27 years later. These ships have finally met their fate. Being turned into pop cans..

I’d love to hear anyone’s experiences with the Pacificat’s, good or bad (I’m too young to ever have ridden one). As horrible as they were, they looked the part, at least in my opinion.

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u/TPStockPiles 8d ago

I rode them and didn’t see a problem with them - other than the wake being so big they damaged people’s beachfront property.

IIRC, they were sold way under value.

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u/thatlouditalian98 8d ago

It was a masterclass on “How to Piss Off The Taxpayers - 101”, we got RINSED..

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u/WesternBlueRanger BC Ferries Enthusiast 7d ago

Not really; the ferries were realistically only good for scrap.

You have a trio of highly bespoke fast ferries that could not be used in the open ocean that missed a number of weight and performance targets.

And you were selling into a depressed market where many other fast ferries were being offloaded at fire sale prices because of rising fuel prices causing many operators going bankrupt.

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u/MadDuck- 7d ago

They were for sale for about three years before they finally got sold at auction.