On Wed, 7 Oct 2026 15:41:29 -0400, Jeffrey Schwartz wrote:

>Having avionics while skimming would help smooth out the ride.
>A high end passenger ship might have it to keep the high passage folks
>sipping champagne during the skim.

Except _maybe_ subsidized liners on the frontier, I don't really think
there would be passenger ships (of any passenger grade) that would do
GGskimming for fuel. Even those ships that are equipped with refiners so
that they can service C ports will probably land, discharge their
passengers, and at worst drop a hose into a nearby lake, river, ocean,
etc., and suck it up.

Sylloyd's of Sylea probably wouldn't underwrite a policy on a passenger
ship that made skimming with passengers aboard a business model, and if
they hear that an underwritten ship has done so, they'd probably look very
hard at whether the policy should be ... prejudicially rescinded.

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