> > No. When they realised that the Channel was too rough for hovercrafts about 2 days out of 3 they scrapped them. The SeaCats are their replacement.
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> They scrapped them? That's weird. How long ago was that? I only ask because on my birthday last year (April 25th, if anyone's interested...no? that's a surprise) me and my family went off to Dover Castle for the day. Great place, that, complete with interactive tours and so on...what am I talking about? I thought this was about hovercrafts.
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> Anyway, when we were in the castle we could see a hovercraft starting up in the port. They do indeed rule, sounding as they do like aeroplanes starting up, and skimming around all over the place. As I was saying, however, it was certainly there, and if it wasn't going cross-channel where was it going? There were a couple of SeaCats around the place too...
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Well, the Coast Guard here uses them, mainly to break ice in the winter in not-so-deep places, or places-with-lots-of-reefs, wich the st-Laurence is FULL OFF.

I mean heck, Lake St-Pierre, if it wasn't for the channel, would have a nearly negative average deep.

Anyway. They also use them for some rescue work, I've heard, when someone's stuck on a small island or something. Or so I've seen on that show about Girls-with-special-jobs.

Anyway. Had to make a non-arguing post today.

ETienne