On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:44:46 -0500, Jim wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:05:47 -0800 (PST), Loogypicker
wrote:

On Jan 6, 11:54 am, "Don White" wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1160855.html
An overnight trip on a ferry is an alternative to a five hour flight?

Five hours at six hundred MPH is three thousand miles. Your 20 MPH
ferry will take more than a week.

Casady

The trip under discussion is 700 miles.

About an hour and a half flying time. Not trip time, flying time.
Started writing flying time in log books in 1964. It never did include
all the time hanging around the airport. I have a special [several
actually] slide rule for calculating flying time and it never heard of
waiting for luggage anywhere, although it actually does correct for
coriolis, not to mention the lies airspeed indicators are subject to.
I can believe overnight, as in a day and a half, for a ferry. Last
ferry I was on burned coal and had pistons, but it was that fast.[SS
Badger].

Casady