[T.B. Yoits]

I must be missing something. That waterway looks so narrow that the ferry could be a cable ferry with diesel or electric motors on both shorelines to pull the cables back and forth.

Cable ferries have been in use in many other places for decades.

[PAR35]

That waterway looks so narrow that the ferry could be a cable ferry with diesel or electric motors on both shorelines to pull the cables back and forth.

If it was a cable ferry, you could run one charged cable and pull the power off it it with a trolley and have electric thrusters on the boat. Need some battery backup for when the trolley jumps off the wire. (Actually it would probably use a pantograph like a train instead of an electric trolley wheel.)

[C210N]

Cable ferries have been in use in many other places for decades.

The main drawback of cable ferries is that a good sharpshooter can take them out. Just ask Josey Wales.

[Charles Martel]

That’s an inlet from the Baltic Sea, so a cable pull design may be impractical - probably too much boat traffic crossing the ferry’s path.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember cable ferries that used the stream current to move the ferry across the river. No outside power needed except the ferryman making adjustments to the ferry cables.

[jackibutterfly]

"I must be missing something. That waterway looks so narrow...."

Why didn't they just build a bridge? Probably would have cost a heck of a lot less?

[Scrambler Bob]

Cable ferries have been in use in many other places for decades.
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Sometimes the cable is fixed, and the motor is on the ferry.