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bigbuddy
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 posted on 26-6-2008 at 19:03 |
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Hello everybody!
Once again: can anybody help me with the contacts of the Turku based investor group led by Johnny Sid and the other one led by Lillbacka Oy?
Any other ideas who could be interested in "our" Finnjet?
Please tell me! I won't give up until we have the confirmation that she was finally beached! I need more ideas to continue my efforts. I think we
shouldn't give her up yet! She's definitely worth to be kept alive!
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Mazel
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![[*]](./images/xpsilver/default_icon.gif) posted on 26-6-2008 at 19:08 |
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It is done,but already not finished yet...
http://www.myspace.com/finnjet
I won´t give up until the first funnel is broken down... 
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mikael
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| posted on 26-6-2008 at 20:10 |
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Hello girls and guys,
I feel with you. I´ll miss our Queen Mum of the baltic sea also. But has anyone here contacts to the techical university of helsinki ???
My idea is to ask them how about to lay up FINNJET in helsinki as museum ship of the university, ´cause she is the first one of the fast ferries
ever was built, so it could be interesting for them to get her. I think many things cuold be tought on her, and for many students it would be possible
to find a home on her for their time of study.
Greetz Mika
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bigbuddy
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| posted on 26-6-2008 at 20:21 |
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Welcome to the forum, mikael!
I'm sure you can find any contact on the university's website:
http://www.helsinki.fi/university/contact.html
Please, just try on your own as I'm too busy writing to some other people regarding her rescue at the moment.
Tell us when you've written your email, just to know we've made another attempt.
Let's keep our fingers crossed!
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ravensuominen
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| posted on 26-6-2008 at 21:31 |
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Here's what you're probably looking for:
Helsinki University of Technology, Ship Laboratory
Or maybe this:
Maritime Institute
But unfortunately they don't have the money. Universities are very poor in Finland with extremely low budgets.
Petri Suominen
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mikael
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| posted on 26-6-2008 at 21:42 |
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I will mail all three ones.
Finnjet is a vessel were Finland could show what great maritim engineers they have and had, Finnjet was 30 years ago the most modern, longest, fastest
and only vessel in this class so it is very poor for Finland to let be scraped one of the most or the most important ship in their maritim history
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bigbuddy
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| posted on 27-6-2008 at 10:24 |
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@Kepa: You're so right! We should try to work together! Maybe you can try to get back in contact with any huge Finish newspaper to start an
appeal?!
I think it's easier for you as a native speaker.
Of course, I agree to do anything what could increase the chance to save her as well...
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Mazel
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| posted on 27-6-2008 at 10:44 |
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I agree too!!! It´s the second day I´m working on the myspace Jetti Site and of course the whole night...now its completely in english...add some
stuff from finnjetweb a. s. o.
check it out on : http://www.myspace.com/finnjet
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yamsi
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| posted on 27-6-2008 at 18:31 |
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Although it seems impossible to save Finnjet, it´s nice that some Finnjet fans haven´t given up their hope jet. Maybe for a start it would be easier
to come up with enough money/cash to pay the owners to postpone the scrapping / next beaching process on 4th of July. If That would happen I would
love to re-start selling my "Finnjet explorer" plan to capital risk investors .
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maakrapu
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| posted on 27-6-2008 at 18:45 |
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If there would be any possibility to save her, one business plan to sell would be artic cruises to Arctis and Antarctis which seem to be quite
popular these days - GTS or should we say M/S Finnjet would be perfect for those thanks to A1 Super ice breaking class.
For example..
http://www.antarcticabound.com/
http://www.cruisingholidays.co.uk/polar-cruises.aspx?hid=N402
http://www.arcticantarcticcollection.com/
http://www.expeditiontrips.com/
... and many many more
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Mathias
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| posted on 27-6-2008 at 19:46 |
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Keep in mind that 1A SUPER ice class requires also a certain amount of power that Finnjet doesn't have anymore since removal of the turbines. They
could be replaced of course but once again there are too many obstacles left to be taken to get her in service again, therefore I still think the
fight is lost.
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maakrapu
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| posted on 27-6-2008 at 20:08 |
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I agree with Mathias - there are too many "if"s in this speculation at the moment ...she is beached, without turbines, lack of maintenance and all
the rescue attemps before beaching were unsuccesfull so there is only 1:1000000 chance to success now ... sad but true.
Anyway it's nice to see that some fans still have hope and they are trying, let's help them because it is always good that people have hope even if
the situation seems hopeless.
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Mazel
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| posted on 27-6-2008 at 20:39 |
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Is there anybody who noticed this???:
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Mathias
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| posted on 27-6-2008 at 21:07 |
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yep, a similar version of the article was also available online and linked in one of the earlier postings of this thread. At least even Indian press
realized that shes not just any ship...
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Finni
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| posted on 27-6-2008 at 21:34 |
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I think we will never see her back in the baltic but here is another idea perhabs.Whats about the idea for Finnjet to take a Rostock-Stockholm turn
with rebuilded diesel engines with maybe 20 or a little bit more knots and a timetable like ColorLines Kiel-Oslo turn about 19 hours or a little bit
more? When Superfastferries close this route there were enough passengers but not so much freight and they were going faster. What do you think about
this way to save her?
Let´s save her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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K
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| posted on 27-6-2008 at 22:23 |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by maakrapu
If there would be any possibility to save her, one business plan to sell would be artic cruises to Arctis and Antarctis which seem to be quite
popular these days - GTS or should we say M/S Finnjet would be perfect for those thanks to A1 Super ice breaking class. |
Actually, the turbines would have been an ideal power source for a ship operating in the Arctic/Antarctic areas, as they have very tight restrictions
on pollution there, and gas turbines have smaller emissions than diesels. But here again her size is the problem - she is too large to be a real
"expedition" ship (which tend to be a lot smaller), and she could't have operated on polar areas year-round - there simply wouldn't have been
enough passengers. And Baltic Sea ice classification - even 1A Super - isn't actually much use in the Arctic and Antarctic, over there it's mostly
about dodging icebergs, not cutting through surface ice. Well, they're saying in the papers the ice cover on the north pole will melt entirely this
summer, so an ice class might become redundant soon anyway...
That said, had Jetti lingered in Jeddah a while longer, a buyer might have emerged around now - today's (well, yesterday's Finnish time) news report
Cruises Only (or Origin Cruises - both names are mentioned in articles, one is apparently a sub.brand of the other) have acquired the Orient Lines
brand from Star Cruises and tend to re-start it. Orient previously operated the Marco Polo, originally the Soviet liner Alexandr Pushkin, and the new
owners stated they're trying to find a replacement "that is rich in history and character" and can carry 600-800 passengers. Modified into cruise
use, Jetti would have fitted the bill perfectly. Well, she still could - I'd say contacting Cruises Only chairman Wayne Heller would be the best bet
in getting Jetti pulled off the beach and back into service. That too is a long shot, but I'd say it's more viable than any of the other
alternatives that have been proposed on this thread.
Finnjet fan in the third generation and the author of Illustrated Carparks of Finland.
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Mathias
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| posted on 27-6-2008 at 22:25 |
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The problem is that there won't be enough passengers/cargo on that route, you can't operate a ferry solely with passengers nowadays anymore, it
might work between Finland and Sweden but here we have the huge amount of Drink and Taxfree cruisers, sailing to Rostock from Stockholm would cause
higher losses than simply re-starting Finland traffic I guess...
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yamsi
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| posted on 28-6-2008 at 10:12 |
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Finnjets size would not be a problem for North / South pole cruises. The reason why large cruises ship doesn´t sail there is that the most of guest
would like to go shore and that would be a huge logistic task if 1000 +to 2000 + guests should be transported shore and back from a large cruise ship
which is not design for that kind of operations.
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bigbuddy
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Come on everybody - there's stil the chance to save her!
Mazel and me, we need every single Finnjet-fan to support our efforts. Write to newspapers or anybody who could be interested in
preserving the fastest ferry in the world.
Please help us! It's not too late until 4th July when she will be pulled completely onto the beach.
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akseli
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| posted on 30-6-2008 at 18:07 |
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Finnjet ist still on usshipbroker.com
Does this mean that there is still alittle hope that a buyer might come up or is just the homepage not up to date?
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Rokker
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| posted on 30-6-2008 at 18:55 |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by akseli
Finnjet ist still on usshipbroker.com
Does this mean that there is still alittle hope that a buyer might come up or is just the homepage not up to date? |
Usshipbrokers.com says that "SOLD FOR DEMOLITION, INDIA...". I guess that doesn't wake any possible byers up.
GTS Finnjet - the Finnish Concorde, Greyhound of the Baltic Sea
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bigbuddy
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| posted on 30-6-2008 at 19:10 |
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Has anybody some more ideas whom I could write to. I still haven't given up yet. But I'm running out of ideas (and out of time)...
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Mathias
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| posted on 30-6-2008 at 19:55 |
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Finnjet and Norway...
No more lights, no more smoke...
Final crew disembarking after beaching on 19th June.
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K
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| posted on 30-6-2008 at 20:10 |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mathias
Finnjet and Norway... |
The end of two eras on the same beach at the same time. The last survising ship originally built primarily for the Transatlantic service, and the
first and last gas turbine -powered cruiseferry. 
Finnjet fan in the third generation and the author of Illustrated Carparks of Finland.
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Rokker
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| posted on 30-6-2008 at 20:34 |
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I still assume that she's anchored, not beached. In those pictures.
GTS Finnjet - the Finnish Concorde, Greyhound of the Baltic Sea
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