My Rosslare Ferry Photos

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Some pics from Rosslare last Monday. Lots more added here https://flic.kr/s/aHsjUZ2Jao

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Few pics from yesterday at Rosslare. Lots more here
https://flic.kr/s/aHsjUZ2Jao

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Few pics of Brittany Ferries Normandie arriving at Rosslare today












Some pics of the ongoing development works added to this thread https://www.irish-ferries-enthusiasts.com/forum/index.php/topic,2084.0.html

[Ferriesbetterfastercheape]

Thanks for the nice pictures !

Wondering that people are booking tickets for such a rusty ferry... .
Sadly not a good ads for Brittany Ferries.

[Kieran]

Wondering that people are booking tickets for such a rusty ferry... .
Sadly not a good ads for Brittany Ferries.

To be fair, most ferries are going to have some superficial rust this time of year until they get their annual trip to the shipyard for refit., looks like Normadie is up next, once the Barfleur is back in service

[Ferriesbetterfastercheape]

Mhmmm - i am living nearby one of Europes biggest cruise-ship ports (and 2 ferry-ports too) - normally never seen (or maybe only very small parts) rust.
This is a thing of how good - or bad - a fleet is managed.
F.ex. the ferries from TT line Germany are similar very rusty often.
But there are other ferry-companies also who paint during the year always with long paint-toys especially the rusty points over, from onboard-side and from land-side.

It is similar as with Taxis, there are some very clean outside and inside - and some not... - depends only from the owner... .

Here at Brittany it seem as extremly money saving action - to paint generally nothing - or in the last possible moment only. Each hour paid for a paint-worker is saved money, and the colors are also expensive. Or in other words: Every Euro for a pott color more than needed is less profit. And the typical french "laissez faire"... "it will still work somehow"... .

Most / many / all German travel-agencies and coach-operators are trying to avoid such ferries to book for their customers. Think you have booked a 2-week-round-trip England-Ireland-Scotland in a coach. And if your coach-bus arrive in the ferry-port, all people comes out walking around at the waiting-lane and see the ferry with so much rust - is it the wished happy start in your big holidays ? And what do you think what the other 40, 60, 80 people in the bus are thinking or talking about ? First impression is the most important - always.
Nobody want any negative feelings - especially not in holidays - so i would never book such a rusty ferry. And Germans call this just only "Geldschneiderei und Schlamperei".