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The Hawaii Superferry Web site used to have a ticker on its title page. It counted down the days and hours to the company’s July launch. Now the slogan says service starts some time this summer.
“We want everybody to feel comfortable that this is a very, very safe ship,” said Superferry president and CEO John Garibaldi.
By all appearances, the vessel is sea worthy right now. It breezed through ocean trials in April. But since it’s a “fast moving ferry,” the ship is subject to the U.S. Coast Guard’s high speed code.
Everything on board is being inspected more than once.
“They started when the vessel started construction, looking at every weld, looking at the design, the architecture, the drawings,” Garibaldi said.
The double-hulled catamaran is still docked at the Austal shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, where it was built.
(Source: Jim Mendoza, KGMB 9 News)
