Hopefully, the solution is new boats that are a more sensible size, and don’t need the extensive infrastructure upgrades the new fleet would have required. One of the cancelled designs would have been a similar displacement to our current fleet of three.
I really hope the solution isn’t another clapped out beater from Europe.
Narrator: “The solution was another clapped out beater from Europe.”
If it is, Nicola’s name will be forever tied to it. And every time it breaks down, that comment will be brought up.