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Mosquito Fleet
| 题名： | Mosquito Fleet |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Bruce Buls |
| 摘要： | From cedar canoes to steel submarines, Puget Sound has seen its share of boats, many of them ferries. Except for one bridge, if you want to get from one side of Puget Sound to the other, you have to drive around or you take a boat. For the past 70 years, Washington State Ferries has provided many of those ferry boats (current fleet of 21) for both vehicles and walk-ons. Before that, passengers, freight and mail were carried by an assortment of wooden boats known as the Mosquito Fleet, presumably because they skittered from dock to dock up and down Puget Sound. For a few years in the late '90s and early 2000s, WSF provided passenger-only boats, with a pair of large catamarans running between Bremerton and Seattle. But because of wake-wash issues in Rich Passage, a narrow arm connecting Bremerton and Puget Sound, the property owners protested and ultimately forced the cats to slow down while transiting the passage. With the time lost from slower speeds, the fast cats weren't so fast anymore. WSF finally bailed on passenger-only service and sold the two boats to San Francisco in 2008. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Work Boat |
| 卷： | 79 |
| 期： | 10 |
| 页码： | 16-19 |
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