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Post by lizmc on May 8, 2015 1:55:01 GMT
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Post by snacky on May 9, 2015 7:17:06 GMT
They should start making the wrecks into bars like in San Francisco! |
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Post by Hodge on May 9, 2015 7:31:36 GMT
They should start making the wrecks into bars like in San Francisco! These wrecks are a little too far gone, not really much left of them. |
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Post by snacky on May 9, 2015 7:33:40 GMT
They should start making the wrecks into bars like in San Francisco! These wrecks are a little too far gone, not really much left of them. Aw - well perhaps one could be reconstructed. Since people are continually regretting Toronto's loss of history, there is a chance to recover some! |
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Post by Hodge on May 9, 2015 7:36:08 GMT
These wrecks are a little too far gone, not really much left of them. Aw - well perhaps one could be reconstructed. Since people are continually regretting Toronto's loss of history, there is a chance to recover some! There's so little left I'm not sure they'd know what the ship would look like, the last one was mainly just the keel left. |
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Post by lizmc on May 9, 2015 16:52:14 GMT
They'd probably have a pretty good idea, since schooners like this would have been a dime a dozen during the Age of Sail and Toronto was a very busy harbour....in fact, the last working schooner resident to Toronto Harbour was deliberately destroyed as a platform for fireworks....its transom is apparently still somewhere on Toronto Island......however, rebuilding one is a very expensive proposition, as there are very few shipyards with the expertise to do it.....the replicas built are usually of something historically significant or as required by the film industry.....shame really, because the Tall Ships under full sail are a sight to behold....we do have about 5 tall ships in the harbour, but nothing this old.....
I suspect Toronto is quite gun shy about ships being converted into restaurants at the moment. We had a floating restaurant, Captain John's, for a number of years, however, the owner went bankrupt and owes the city millions in back taxes and mooring fees.....the ship is a rusted hulk and an eyesore, worse, it has settled into the silt and will cost a small fortune to move and tow to a breaker's yard.....
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Post by snacky on May 10, 2015 20:16:21 GMT
They'd probably have a pretty good idea, since schooners like this would have been a dime a dozen during the Age of Sail and Toronto was a very busy harbour....in fact, the last working schooner resident to Toronto Harbour was deliberately destroyed as a platform for fireworks....its transom is apparently still somewhere on Toronto Island......however, rebuilding one is a very expensive proposition, as there are very few shipyards with the expertise to do it.....the replicas built are usually of something historically significant or as required by the film industry.....shame really, because the Tall Ships under full sail are a sight to behold....we do have about 5 tall ships in the harbour, but nothing this old..... I suspect Toronto is quite gun shy about ships being converted into restaurants at the moment. We had a floating restaurant, Captain John's, for a number of years, however, the owner went bankrupt and owes the city millions in back taxes and mooring fees.....the ship is a rusted hulk and an eyesore, worse, it has settled into the silt and will cost a small fortune to move and tow to a breaker's yard..... I didn't mean a floating restaurant. San Francisco actually used the wrecked ships sticking up out of the ground.  |
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Post by lizmc on May 10, 2015 20:27:22 GMT
They'd probably have a pretty good idea, since schooners like this would have been a dime a dozen during the Age of Sail and Toronto was a very busy harbour....in fact, the last working schooner resident to Toronto Harbour was deliberately destroyed as a platform for fireworks....its transom is apparently still somewhere on Toronto Island......however, rebuilding one is a very expensive proposition, as there are very few shipyards with the expertise to do it.....the replicas built are usually of something historically significant or as required by the film industry.....shame really, because the Tall Ships under full sail are a sight to behold....we do have about 5 tall ships in the harbour, but nothing this old..... I suspect Toronto is quite gun shy about ships being converted into restaurants at the moment. We had a floating restaurant, Captain John's, for a number of years, however, the owner went bankrupt and owes the city millions in back taxes and mooring fees.....the ship is a rusted hulk and an eyesore, worse, it has settled into the silt and will cost a small fortune to move and tow to a breaker's yard..... I didn't mean a floating restaurant. San Francisco actually used the wrecked ships sticking up out of the ground. I see.....these aren't sticking out of the ground, though. They are at the bottom of excavations for condominiums under construction. They were all buried, along with the wharves they were tied up to under land fill to increase available land along the waterfront, starting in 1902.......I heard at one point, there was a thought that the archeological site could be incorporated into the common elements of the condo, but I don't think anything came of it.....at least now, developers have to allow for an archeological dig as part of the development, regardless of how much it may delay building. |
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Post by snacky on May 10, 2015 20:34:34 GMT
I didn't mean a floating restaurant. San Francisco actually used the wrecked ships sticking up out of the ground. I see.....these aren't sticking out of the ground, though. They are at the bottom of excavations for condominiums under construction. They were all buried, along with the wharves they were tied up to under land fill to increase available land along the waterfront, starting in 1902.......I heard at one point, there was a thought that the archeological site could be incorporated into the common elements of the condo, but I don't think anything came of it.....at least now, developers have to allow for an archeological dig as part of the development, regardless of how much it may delay building. Aw - but they could do the archeological dig first, and then do a sort of "shopping underground" tunnel area with the ship graveyard! |
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Post by lizmc on May 17, 2015 16:36:12 GMT
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Post by lizmc on Jun 4, 2015 16:24:22 GMT
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Post by lizmc on Jun 4, 2015 16:43:44 GMT
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Post by lizmc on Jun 5, 2015 3:19:04 GMT
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Post by lizmc on Jul 23, 2015 23:05:39 GMT
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Post by Oigirl on Jul 24, 2015 17:53:41 GMT
Just had to say, every time I read this thread I hear the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" in my head. Carry on  |
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