What? How is that possible?
Scrapping is done all the time for ships, and a tow out to sea and opening the drain plugs can't possibly cost nearly that much? Can it?
What? How is that possible?
Scrapping is done all the time for ships, and a tow out to sea and opening the drain plugs can't possibly cost nearly that much? Can it?
They’ve been neglecting it for years.
It’s a public works project and therefore grossly overpriced by definition.
In order to tow it out and sink it, thanks to environmental law all potential hazardous materials have to be removed. To scrap it, it has to be made tow-able to a ship breaker’s.
In about 1998 or so, to spend the night there was as cheap as the Long Beach Hilton, so I expensed $80 for a night. I think I even had dinner there on another trip. You could just walk in and walk around.
About a year later, you couldn’t even get on board without big bucks.
Crab fishing.
I’ll bet you could store 500 pounds of crabs in that.
Isnt the Spruce Goose parked in the same location as the Queen Mary?
Stayed aboard several times in the 80s; the forward lounge with all the art deco trim and furnishings was like traveling back in history. Sorry to see her go.
Before towing it to the South China Sea and sinking it, fill it up with all the illegal alien vermin in CA...
Tell them its a free cruise... No masks of vaccinations required...
A boat is a hole in to water where money is poured.
Salt water is a youknowwhat.
For a comparison, check out the travails of USS Texas. It’s going to cost millions to fix her, but it looks like she’s finally going to get drydocked and repaired. Assuming that the Parks & Wildlife people don’t do something nefarious in the meantime.
The QM is no doubt filled with ‘toxic’ chemicals, and asbestos. The biggest issue is probably the asbestos. The enviros would go nuts if you just sank her off the coast as a reef without cleaning up all the contaminants.
(Never mind that old ships sink, regardless)
The best option available to them would probably be to sell/give her to the poor people who run ships aground on the shore and break them down by torch in (TWH). But no doubt they can’t do that either.
As it is, she’s much like any other boat, a hole in the water that you throw money into.
Tow it out to sea. Change ownership at sea. Now it is someone else’s problem.
Sell it to me for $1. I’ll convert it to a set of homeless shelters. I’ll sell Tenancy In Common shares for tens of thousands of dollars, to go into maintenance.
Ask Bezos to disassemble and reassemble it in Death Valley as a space launch pad and tourist spectacle.
Sinking ships and California go together.
The QM wouldn’t make it two hundred off the dock before it sinks or capsizes. Much of its insides have been torn out and its hull neglected so it won’t be able to move without immediate damage.
Plus you have the most inept city government in California trying to save it.
A derelict ship? Hmmm...
My grandmother sailed on her years ago.