Boarding and Offboarding the CAT ferry Alakai - Maine to Nova Scotia

Описание: This video shows me driving onto the CAT ferry from Bar Harbor, Maine to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. And the offboarding process at Yarmouth.

HST-2 was built as Alakai, which means "sea path" in the Hawaiian language. The vessel is a 349-foot (106 m) long high-speed roll-on/roll-off (Ro/Ro) passenger and vehicle ferry. She used to operate a daily service operated by Hawaii Superferry at a speed of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) between the islands of Oahu and Maui. HST-2 has a capacity of 866 passengers and up to 282 subcompact cars. Alternately, its vehicle decks can be reconfigured in five minutes to carry up to 20 large trucks and 90 cars.

On March 24, 2016, Bay Ferries Limited announced that it had reached an agreement with the U.S. Maritime Administration and the U.S. Navy for a multi-year charter of HST-2. The vessel would be operated for a passenger/vehicle ferry service in the Gulf of Maine between Portland, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and retain the name HST-2, but the service and vessel would be branded as The CAT to align with previous branding used when Bay Ferries operated a high-speed passenger/vehicle ferry on the same route six years prior. The vessel underwent a refit at the Detyens Shipyard in South Carolina and the service started on June 15, 2016.

At the end of the 2018 season, it was announced that the ferry would be departing from the town of Bar Harbor, rather than Portland. Service along this new route was originally expected to begin in summer 2019, but was delayed due to construction work at the Bar Harbor marina. Service was then canceled during both the 2020 and 2021 seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After three years out of port, The CAT returned to sail from Yarmouth on May 19, 2022, providing service to Bar Harbor, Maine for the first time in 13 years.
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