Hawaiian Superferry Update
Two weeks ago a judge on Maui dismissed claims of potential environmental damage by the $150 million ferry boat – a clever hit-and-run kind of action by local activists who have been trying to shut down the ferry before it launched – and cleared the way for the ferry to commence service, which it will try to do beginning next week. You can take introductory sailings from Honolulu to Kahalui, Maui for $29/passenger from December 6-20. After that, the price goes up ten bucks for the three-hour sailing. Car service is also available.
That is, if the staunch Hawaiian defense doesn't come up with a new counter-offensive that will stop the Superferry once again. Remember that in Kauai, the locals physically blocked the ferry from landing with surfboards and kayaks. Superferry has announced that they won't resume service to Kauai until they work some things out with the locals. Maui hasn't shown such staunch opposition as yet, but that might all change by this weekend.
More court orders? More kayaks and surfboards? A convoy by the Coast Guard? It's only the bottom of the seventh in this epic, and anything can happen. Stay tuned. This is better than the Red Sox and the Rockies, by a long shot.