Thread: Is it true . . .

They always seem to be "modest and realistic" but then building or acquiring a building with a sufficient "free span" to house this vessel isn't going to be a modest expense. Then there's the "preservation" aspect which is the most infamous project killer of all. Lets not even bring up the staffing, museum and other "details" for an interactive, static display with such a huge "foot print" both physically and communally.

My only point is the tremendous amount of effort and cash these "adventures" seem to require, is almost always underestimated. Several worthy projects here in the USA have had to be scaled back because of the realities of these "preservation projects".

....yeah but, yeah but. . . there's a tradition here for getting projects like this up and running, just to name two, the James Craig and the Polly Woodside. This is a relatively small country so projects like this get more coverage perhaps, I don't know, but Adelaide NEEDS this project!

Port Adelaide needs this project and the pollies know it, lets just hope that it happens, but South Australians really need to get the behind this project asap for it to succeed. As the "Save the City of Adelaide" site mentions: It would be the salvation of the historic Port precinct. - "There is a land where summer skies are gleaming with a thousand dyes,...."!

GregF

On the weekend at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival in Hobart I was lucky enough to have a chat with the maritime artist who did the poster for the Festival this year, John Ford.

John knows quite a bit about the bid to bring the City of Adelaide to Adelaide and he told me that a shipping company had agreed to charge the cost price only to bring the ship over and that the Australian Submarine Corporation in the Port have agreed to give the ship space on the hard until the permanent site is available. Apparently the estimated cost is 2 million dollars to bring the ship to SA.

I asked John to give a % estimate of how likely he thinks the ship might get to SA and he suggested around a 75% chance.

So that sounds encouraging, but writing to your local members in SA would be a good idea as well as the Premier, Tourism Minister, Minister for the Arts etc. Not to forget the Prime Minister, another former South Australian.

GregF