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Posted by jon (82.10.43.3) on 22:21:17 17/04/05
In Reply to: Southsea posted by John Kempton
ok guys,
the scrilage (sp?) has begun. Southse has gone to the melting pot in the sky, and the attitude of the breakers ( you like the ship, sure thing ya, we will chop off a bit and then fleece you for it ya? gut!) is shocking in the extreme!
But lets learn lessons from this.
1. If you want the ryde to avoid the same fate, do something NOW! avoid the mistakes made with southsea.
2. Talk of purchasing the ship is the best place to start, but show the current owner that you mean business from the start. Ask for permission to board with a marine engineer to look at the possibilties of re furbishment and cost. form a united front and use the power of the group through a (benign !) Dictator style leader!
Commities are fine but you lose all sense of purpose and direction. the southsea soc. ( which I was a member of) used this system and look what happened. ( this is not an attack on them, they did the best they could at the time with limited funds, just learn from the mistake. They could have bought the ship at 2 other juctions in time, either of which would not have ended like it has now!)
and finally. anybody thought of a lottery grant? i think it has been mentioned before, but would the weight of a local politician help? it is amazing what tehy will agree to support just before an election! :-)
sorry to go on but loosing Southsea is bad, The Ryde is even more important to the UK marine Heritage.
You know what will happen 10 years from now some facless MP will say, " well we were going to open a National Marine Heritage Exhibtion, But there are no ships to go in it. so we wont now. But we have saved 25 Million pounds from not opening one........
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