Imprint
and some Background about FINNJETweb (see below)
| Name of the Website | GTS FINNJET web (short: FINNJETweb) | |
| Extent of the Website | The Website encompasses the following domains including all subpages: | |
| http://www.finnjetweb.com | http://www.finnjetweb.de.vu | |
| http://www.finnjetweb.de | http://www.finnjet.8k.com | |
| http://www.finnjet.de (via Milan Lötsch) | http://www.davinciweb.info | |
| This is a private website related to the ferry Finnjet! Don't send any booking requests or brouchure orders, as these will be ignored. The ship is no longer existant after all anyway. | ||
| V.i.S.d.P. (Responsible according to the german press-law) | Mathias Saken | |
| Editorial Staff | Mathias Saken, Martin Rogge, Salomon Kaukiainen, Kai Knocke and others | |
| Webmaster | Mathias Saken | |
| Ways of contacting me | ||
| - via eMail | mathias@finnjetweb.com | |
| - via Phone | +49 6232 440740 | |
| - via Fax | fax number on request! | |
| - postally | Mathias Saken Paracelsusstr. 4 67346 Speyer GERMANY |
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Partner and
Credits:
Personal thanks see at the bottom
of this page
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FINNJETweb
is hosted by "Neue Medien Münnich", for my needs the
best Webhoster around..! All-Inkl.com
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The FINNJETweb
Guestbook was provided for free by Webtropia.
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For the creation
of our photo-galleries we use the free and great JAlbum software. Recommended
to anyone :-)
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We
use WebAlizer
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JAlbumImportant
Information
To
copy, or use anything on this site anywhere without a permission by the Webmaster,
or those, who have created the Information, is not allowed!
The regional court
Hamburg decided with judgement 312 0 85/98 of 12.05.1998 that one may be held
responsible contents of the linked page by the accommodation of a hyperlink.
This can be prevented - so the regional court - only by the fact that one
dissociates oneself sufficient and expressly from contents of these pages.
I offer on my pages links to other pages on the Internet. To all this links
applies: "I stress expressly that I do not have any influence on the
organization and contents of the linked pages.Therefore I dissociate myself
hereby expressly from all contents of all linked pages on the entire homepage
including all sublists. This assertion applies to all links on my homepage
including all sublists attached to the links and for all contents of these
pages, to those links or to banners of this homepage."
Entered registered trade marks are used without indication and guarantee of
a free use.
This site is run
private and has to be seen as Hobby. There is no connection to any company. Remember to respect the copyrights - in the event of an infringement the commiter will be forced to pay a fine. Should the fine not be paid, the commiter may expect legal action.
Disclaimer
6. Whoever finds spelling mistakes: Feel free to keep them! :-)
History of this Website
The FINNJETweb went online in February 2001 - still under the name "GTS Finnjet Infosite". How everything started: In Autumn 2000 I got to know Milan Lötsch via ICQ. He's a Finnjet-fan just like me. He had got a Finnjet page, similar to this one, but he registered www.finnjet.de and Silja Line ha obviously something against that. In the end they even wanted to take him to court. So he had to shut down all activities. However, the pages are still available on this URL: http://members.tripod.com/finnjet. Then somewhen I started some ralleys on the Internet for searching Photos, News and other Information about the ship. I already collected all kinds of stuff in "real" and now I also looked for "FINNJET" on the Internet. I found so many photos there, that I needed to think about what I could do with them. I thought already a long time before February 2001 about opening a Finnjet site, but I was afraid of Milan's story, that I would get in trouble with Silja Line, just like he did. But then I thought about it again, I didn't actually have any registered DE, COM, ORG, NET domain or something like that and also my contents were (and still are!) all "clean" and correct with the Copyrights and so I just opened and continued. This went fine for 16 months but then I got a phonecall from Mr. Rohrbach, CEO of Silja Line Germany shouting at me in an unacceptable way telling me what I write makes Silja loose of 100.000's of Euros. He probably meant my report about the article in Helsingin Sanomat saying Finnjet is for sale, but it seems like he did not even know about that article!! So for now the site was offline and laid up. After several talks with Silja Line Finland I thought then that there shouldn't be any problems anymore, so I re-opened the site in October 2002. The first general aspect for opening the page at all was the huge number of pictures in my digital archives. Since I opened the site, I met more and more Finnjet fans, who could all help me with some Photos of Finnjet or other nice things (Thank You very much!!). Slowly my page got more famous, and slowly also the Link pages of other sites contained this site. I got always some new ideas which I could put on this site and Ialso have a "plan" which things I'm planning to put on this site (and which not!). The Updating frequence is relatively irregular, but as you might have noticed I'm trying to update a few times per month at least. Well, and today the relations to Silja are back to normal again, the site is reachable via three Top-Level Domains and the site developes itself more and more to THE information source about GTS FINNJET. And: Listen and be astonished, even on Finnjet's bridge my page is known. Captain Juhani Lönnroos is alleged to have said the site is very good and the page he likes most is the "Age"-Page! :-) Thanks.
The webmaster about himself
Who's the webmaster? My name is Mathias Saken and I live in southern Germany, more precisely in Speyer, this strange but historically important "one horse town" with 50.000 citizens :)
I was the first time on Finnjet in 1992, but I was too young then to remember it very well. Then I was on Finnjet 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. If one is generally able to be interested in things like this you need to be only once on board and you're "fan"! :) Also in the future I'll probably be on board every year at least once. What is so amazing in that ship? Finnjet is unique! Finnjet is much faster, Finnjet has Gasturbines, she was the first real Cruiseferry and when she was built 4x bigger than the bigegst ferry before! Also the ambiance is much different than on other ferries. It's just a very very special ship that has been part of my Finland holidays. Finnjet is also called "the queen of the baltic sea" not without reason! Last but not least Finnjet is nowadays the only real cruiseferry serving Germany except the Color Line ships. For me as 50%-Finn those anyway have a big disadvantage: What in hell do I want in Norway..? ;) Ok, enough about ferries! I was born on 1st March 1988 in Cologne and nowadays I study tourism at the university of applied sciences at Worms (south-western Germany). My (in fact unnormal) hobbies are of course GTS FINNJET, Ferries and ships in general, Music, Radio, Internet etc... Additionally I was on air as a Radio DJ together with a friend of mine at Radio Darmstadt every Saturday at 18:50 with our "PartyMixX" until 2006. I still mix music sometimes but the lack of time has definately reduced my efforts.
Specials thanks goes to
- Salomon Kaukiainen for
his great photos, webspace and many interesting talks and support!
- Milan Lötsch for his nice support in the beginning and tips for the
site
- Cornelia Klier for her beautiful Finnjet-photos und
other interesting stuff such as several press articles.
- Martin Rogge for his superb photos and his huge collection of press articles....
and very amusing correspondences :-)
- Pekka Ruponen for his photos, postcard-scans and other things.
- Eerik Laine for his incredible drydock photos.
- Thomas Sachsendahl for his ad-free Webspace some time ago
- Lars Kruse for his excellent Finnjet photos
- René Sindt for the lot of nice photos
- Sami Koski for a really big amount of nice photos
- Jens Münzberg for many great photos
- Paul Byrne for his great commitment, photos, videos, and other things including
a nice, regular correspondence! :-)
- Steen Lolck Burnaes (probably the best cruise manager Finnjet has seen!)
for very good and competent support and information about Finnjet
and many more.
- Magnus Slotte (Captain) for providing a nice visit to the bridge and interesting talks
- Vitaly from the ship's Information Desk :-) Also for some interesting talks
- Ilja Berunenko for webspace, photos and daily talk :D
- Sonja Altmann (Cruise Manager) for her help
- Kalle Id
- All former and current Finnjet captains! (mainly Juha Rautavirta, Luciano Lullia, Sime Vitlov)
YOU, for visiting this site (and reading up to this point..!)!
AND ALL THOSE I FORGOT!
Now I wish you some really interesting minutes on board the FINNJETweb!
Mathias Saken, Webmaster