Bon Voyage: Captain John's sailing to scrap yard [CTV News]
Bon Voyage: Captain John's sailing to scrap yard
http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=423206&playlistId=1.1972324&binId=1.815892&playlistPageNum=1
- The Deal is Complete, the purchaser paid the full outstanding balance today (Friday).
- They exhausted all options, and there is nothing left – it’s just scrap metal.
- The purchaser has hired Priestly Demolition to scrap it.
- The Ship will be towed to another Toronto water location where Priestly is already setup, to begin the first phase of demolition.
- They can’t move the ship until the Courts approve the final deal.
- If everything goes according to plan they expect to tow it away next week.
The ship has been there for 40 years, the ship is 300 feet. They estimate $500,000 of scrap within the ship – BUT it will be very expensive to move, demolish, and salvage that metal.
Posted Aug 23, 2014, 12:58 AM UTC
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I'm sad. Yes - the restaurant, the inside, and the business was done. But I loved that ship right at the foot of Yonge street, just as you emerge from the downtown and the heart of the city you are greeted by this symbol of the lake and a break from office towers. I wish someone had gutted it and restored it (10 years ago) and brought it up to date or transformed the business (cocktail lounge, lunch sandwich cafe, dance club, hipster hangout). When the tour busses stopped showing up it was time to pivot.
Maybe the attention will spark some new entrepreneurs to do it again with a new ship and bring something new and special with them and this will all be for the better. But I'm sad to see it go. Even though the restaurant was horrible the last time I was there.
A new ship? Fuck that. Good riddance. I like my waterfront with a side of waterfront, not a giant fucking immobile boat blocking the view.
When that ship leaves, it will be replaced by several other boats no matter what. There are already other ships that have docked beside and behind it that would love it's place. Plus it's one of the large slips with a parking lot - something the other 15 large party boats don't have.
I'm sure there is a lineup from boats waiting and begging for that spot. So the useless ship is being replaced by another one... I would just like to see a dinner/nightclub/restaurant style attraction that is open to the public to walk on instead of another private boat that can only be rented for large special events.
"the parking lot where the gangplank now sits is supposed to be turned into a public promenade 45 metres wide."
No it's not. RTFA.
I don't understand, what did I miss?
I felt it was less of an eyesore than a few of the apartments and complexes in the area. Remember my first trip to the city, and we went there.
I'm more sad about it closing down and becoming barren than the ship being scrapped, that's for sure. Had been there for so long.