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What do you do with an 80-year-old ferry?

Published 9:48 pm Wednesday, May 14, 2008

By Jon Bauer, Herald staff

I’m Yves, fly me: A Swiss pilot demonstrated the jet-powered wing he invented by strapping on the device and flying loops over the Alps.

The pilot, Yves Rossys, has agreed to take passengers piggyback but has limited checked luggage to one bag.

Ideas float, ferries don’t: Now that the Coast Guard has ruled that the Steel Electric ferries’ days of plying state waters are over, the state ferry system is taking suggesting as to what to do with the Klickitat and her three sister boats. Our suggestions:

  • Stack them and create a maritime-theme parking garage.

  • Moor them next to the Kalakala, a 1977 Chrysler Cordoba and the bats of the Seattle Mariners and open the Northwest Museum of Oxidation.

  • Turn them into floating offices for state ferry officials and see if they continue to ignore the leaky hulls.

    One more idea: The U.S. Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species, noting that climate change continues to melt its ice habitat.

    The Bush administration immediately announced plans to buy the Steel Electric ferries as new habitat for the bears.

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