Hello Gary Bletsch & all;

Most interesting, that. Sounds like you found a hovercraft. I don't recall
any such mass transit vehicle having been in service, but that's what it
sounds like.

I'm going to have to visit that place later today.

I'll let you all know what I find out about it.


L8r all,
Dusty -- Everett, Wa.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
> [mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf
> Of Gary Bletsch
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 17:04
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: [Tweeters] off-topic Bellingham boat question
>
> Dear Tweeters,
>
> While doing my Bellingham CBC area this year, I came upon a
> Spotted Towhee (token bird reference) and a very strange
> boat. My quesetion is about the boat!
>
> This ruined hulk sits in a junkpile near the Bellingham
> School District's maintenance yard. This is at the south end
> of Bakerview Valley Road. This road accesses a small
> industrial park just SE of the corner of Hannegan and E
> Bakerview, and lies north of SR 542.
>
>
> At first I thought it was an old airplane. The boat had a
> twin tail as on certain old cargo planes. On the tail fin was
> the inscription "CH-NCH." I thought it might have been
> Swiss-made, since "CH" means Switzerland. Googling produced
> nothing but references to some chemical that has a similar formula.
>
> The boat was a ferry. It has buslike seats in it. It would
> have carried fifty to maybe a hundred passengers. The cockpit
> had some rusted old helicopter-like controls in front of the
> right-hand seat.
>
> What is interesting about this craft is the propulsion. Back
> aft is a big, circular fan of some sort. The fan is about
> eight feet in diameter and still rotates on its axle, which
> axle is perpendicular to the earth. I reckon the big fan
> would have raised the boat up in the manner of a hydrofoil.
>
> Does anybody in Tweeterland know anything about the history
> of this craft?
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Gary Bletsch
>
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Gary Bletsch
>
> near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington
>
> garybletsch at yahoo.com
>
>
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