From: frank theriault
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Rick Womer <rwomer1...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
The ferries across the river in Basel are interesting. ?They get
their power from the current; a cable connects the vessel through
a block (pulley) to another cable stretched across the river.
?Using a rudder to keep the hull at an angle to the currrent, the
boat moves across the river.
The vessel under way:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10204533&size=lg
And the grizzled old skipper guiding ours:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10204543&size=lg
Judging by the coloured balls strung along the cable it almost looks
like the "gay pride ferry". Interesting means of propulsion.
Are they colored balls? I thought someone had "borrowed" the flag
streamers from a used car lot.
Those kind of ferries were quite common in the US & Canada prior to the
advent of the motorcar and the highway & bridge building frenzy of the
early 20th century.
Where they still exist, they've mostly been replaced by cable ferries
using some kind of power to pull the barge along the cable, but there
are a few reaction ferries still operating in the US & especially in Canada
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