page_title: HSC Virgen de Coromoto
section_title: History of Rochester–Toronto ferry service
hierarchical_section_title: HSC Virgen de Coromoto / History of Rochester–Toronto ferry service
caption_attribution_description: English: A picture of the Spirit of Ontario 1, part of The Breeze fast ferry service between Rochester NY and Toronto ON, taken August 8, 2004 by Ryan Tucker. Image was taken from the Pier at the Port of Rochester using a Kodak CX6330 digital camera. The vessel in the foreground of the picture is an unidentified United States Coast Guard patrol boat.
context_page_description: The HSC Virgen de Coromoto is an 86 m fast catamaran ferry operated by Consolidada de Ferrys C.A. in Venezuela. It was built in Australia for a fast ferry service on Lake Ontario between Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Rochester, New York, United States. After the ferry service failed, the boat was sold in 2007 and operated in the Strait of Gibraltar. From 2007–2012, the boat operated in Morocco on a Spain–Morocco service. In 2012–13, the ship operated on Kattegatruten's Aarhus–Kalundborg route in Denmark until October 2013 when the route was cancelled.
context_section_description: The vessel was delivered by Austal in 2004 and christened Spirit of Ontario I for the operator Canadian American Transportation Systems (CATS) on an 82 nautical mile (94 miles, 152 km) route across Lake Ontario, linking the ports of Rochester, New York, and Toronto, Ontario. A high-speed ferry service between the two ports was discussed and spearheaded by local politicians and business leaders, primarily in upstate New York, beginning in the 1990s and continuing until the early 2000s. The city of Rochester built a ferry terminal in speculation of such a service being implemented.
caption: Spirit of Ontario I arriving at the port of Rochester
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