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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
by Larry Geller Researcher Brad Parsons mentioned a Superferry book coming out on his blog: ...A book will be coming out soon on this whole affair...you can already buy that book about the Superferry on Amazon.com. Also, I hear second hand Derrick DePledge has another series coming up on this, but again with no strong conclusions. Brad, how do you find out all this? Yes, there is a book coming
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
by Larry Geller Is Superferry traffic really increasing? According to Brad Parsons' calculations, it all depends. I didn't bother searching on the obituary page for a Superferry story today—there was one by Christie Wilson right there on the front page. Of course, it's a highly positive story featuring the numbers released by the ferry company. Ridership is reported to be up over the Memorial
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
by Larry Geller I don't plan to keep posting this, since few Disappeared News readers will be ferry riders. But I'd just like to show how well this is going, thanks to Brad Parsons' continued research and diligence: It's still experimental, of course. But when the Maui News reported widespread seasickness the other day, it was Level 3, so the index was accurate. But standby, world, for Sunday/
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Brad Parsons has projected his experimental Barf Index through Sunday. It's reproduced here as a public service. If you're planning a ferry trip to or from Maui, perhaps this will help.
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 02/23/2008
by Larry Geller Maui researcher Brad Parsons was interviewed this afternoon as part of a Radio New Zealand feature on sea sickness. The program isn't on-line yet, but you can hear the short interview with Brad here. So let's not say that Hawaii's experience with a large capacity passenger ferry has been a complete waste. Its few trips have contributed to the base of scientific knowledge on sea
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
by Larry Geller Just a quick short mention tonight, I'll try to get back to it tomorrow—Brad Parsons has done additional research into wind and wave effects around Hawaii and released a new version of his Barf-o-Meter or Barf Index. It can be found here. It's amazing that this kind of work hasn't been done before. It's a "know before you go" thing, like checking the weather forecast before you go
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
by Larry Geller Thanks to Brad Parsons for pointing to this excellent article by Juan Wilson. Juan has some great pics of the computerized "Seastate" steering system used by the Superferry and a lot of information on the rudder problem that this large capacity passenger ferry is experiencing. Juan describes the problem as a serious structural failure, and a disaster for the ferry corporation.
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
by Larry Geller I note that as of 4:30 p.m., the Superferry has not altered or cancelled Thursday's schedule, according to their website. Yet there is a high-surf warning in effect. From this morning, via surf watcher Brad Parsons: 1. EVENTS: The National Weather Service in Honolulu has issued a HIGH SURF WARNING for the NORTH AND WEST FACING SHORES of MOLOKAI and NORTH FACING SHORES of MAUI
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
by Larry Geller Brad Parsons and friends report fewer than 25 cars and two motorcycles getting off the Superferry on Maui today. There were about 35 cars and one large commercial vehicle getting on departing Maui, he reports. I'm not sure if there was a passenger count done today. For sure, the ferry management would not want low counts to become news, but I would love to see our daily papers
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 12/22/2007
by Larry Geller This surf forecast just in via Brad Parsons: From Pat Caldwell/NOAA: Outlook through Thursday Dec 27. A moderate northwest swell will arrive Saturday night. A larger northwest swell will roll in Sunday night with surf above the advisory level of 15 feet for north-facing shores and near the advisory level of 12 feet for the west facing shores. A small to moderate trade wind swell
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 12/21/2007
by Larry Geller Via Brad Parsons I learned that the Superferry/Hornblower may not be watching for whales and won't watch at all this month. Nor are they inspecting coolers for opihi or other contraband. This needs to be verified and if true, someone should intervene. Who? I don't expect the Governor to act. As I wrote yesterday, bees were discovered that may already have spread the deadly
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 12/15/2007
Citizen journalism: click here. Thanks to Brad Parsons for posting this Flickr album. Technorati Tags: Hawaii, Hawaii Superferry
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 12/08/2007
Brad Parsons has put together some links to other blogs and also links to his collection of photos. See it over at the Hawaii Superferry blog. His article with links is here, and the article with photos of Kahului Harbor and the protests is here.If you're using a newsreader (aggregator) to follow Superferry events, Brad doesn't show a feed on his blog, but this one works. Put Brad's feed into
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 12/07/2007
Brad Parsons unearthed and is circulating a 14-page file of discussion which I believe was obtained as a result of an FOI request. Much of it concerns the plans for accommodating the Superferry at Kawaihae on the Big Island. There's a date at the top, 7/5/2006. There's much to read and I haven't done that yet, nor would I be able to relate the wave height and other figures to the real world.
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 12/05/2007
by Larry Geller Brad Parsons posted links to some pictures he took as comments to an earlier article. Since comments are pretty much buried in this blog, I wanted to put the links up front. The first bunch shows the impressive wave action in Kahului harbor yesterday. The second set is more ominous, a gathering of what looks like paddy wagons for the "Unified Command." Of course, waves will go
