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Sperm.

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Ruski

Strand St.

Aesop

Hambaps

Beats

Wild

Doomed

Knockaloe.

first

Dylan

titanic

Fish

Baa!!

Crybaby.

What really depresses me is that for years now the IOM Gov have been shipping in these so called experts and paying top dollar for their ""expertise"" What do we have for it Choo,Choo's and radars that don''t work , oversized ridiculously expensive runways, Bendy busses etc,etc,etc,etc, ad nauseum! They;ve spunked hundreds of millions unnecessarily on uneeded projects and now that we need to tighten our belts, they;re still at it ,with yet another ill thought out vanity project .,although I do have to say I can smell a hint of desperation on this one! It seems they will not be happy until they've spent every last penny and driven the Island into the ground with their stupidity . The Island can not afford to gamble at present time on this latest ill thought out scheme.

So we need a pontoon because the old coffin dodgers don't like being tendered from the ship to our nearly new 500,000 thou (Somebody mentioned 3'5 mill but maybe that was something else?) purpose built landing pontoon in Circus beach with it's 50yd away Coach Parking facilities but the extra 60,000 people a year will come just because we have a nice pontoon .smack in the middle of the tidal flow with a 100yd uphill walk to Coach ,because they sure as f*ck aren't going to get a coach down across Port Skillion .

Yul!

I agree and as a previous poster has said ,Cruise liner visits are going even though as you say passengers are tendered ashore. It's also worth pointing out again that Guernsey St Peter Port is another sheltered anchorage with the prevailing westerly winds blowing directly off the land ,but even with this natural advantage cruise visits to Guernsey are regularly cancelled due to adverse weather conditions , So it's success seems to be more about the duty free advantages rather than a state of the art landing pontoon built directly in the path of prevailing wind and tides as per our usual blue sky thinking model. Question from me would be ,can the Manx Gov replicate the Guernsey model as regards Duty free?

Thanks for that IOMSA, I agree with you that the project is technically feasible and nobody's argueing that point ,it's where you want to build that is one of the main points of issue . And your former sea captains inform you that cruise liners could be berthed ""Perhaps with the assistance of tugs depending on prevailing tide and wind conditions at the time So have you allowed room on the model that you kindly supplied to us for the Tugs to maneuver in the space between the outside of Alexandria Pier and the inside of pontoon and outside of any cruise ship that may dock ?

You could buy one of these for 5 mill , get rid of a few non jobs from IOM Gov, and use the wage savings to pay crew for it , winner!!!

Really!!

Well they're angling to clean out the 50 mill development fund so you'd think so ?

Ho!