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Will be in Kemah too! Woo Hoo!
1 posted on 01/13/2009 12:56:40 AM PST by BellStar
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2 posted on 01/13/2009 12:58:42 AM PST by BellStar (Please God give us another Chance!)
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As part of the agreement, the ship would be displayed in the Port of Galveston for at least three weeks and then at a sailing race in Kemah.


3 posted on 01/13/2009 12:59:55 AM PST by BellStar (Please God give us another Chance!)
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To: SwinneySwitch; AuntB; BGHater; SisterK; Kimberly GG; ronnyquest; Cvengr; CPT Clay; MNDude

This is a good story about you South Texas!


5 posted on 01/13/2009 1:14:55 AM PST by BellStar (Please God give us another Chance!)
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This is such a great story about the Christopher Columbus Fleet of the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria. Dr. Savage would love it. The really good replicas of the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria have found Angels. I saw them in the glory days and looks like we all are pitching in to put them back into “Bristol Condition”!

Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria will cost $300,000 a year to maintain! Easy now that company X is in the mix!

6 posted on 01/13/2009 1:28:44 AM PST by BellStar (Please God give us another Chance!)
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FIREWOOD!!!


10 posted on 01/13/2009 1:55:43 AM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: BellStar

Is this something the government should be spending taxpayer money on?


15 posted on 01/13/2009 4:03:31 AM PST by Daveinyork
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Down here in South Texas the ships are called the “Columbus shipwrecks.” The city of Corpus Christi has totally mismanaged these ships to the point of ruin. As far as making them an attraction, they hid them under a bridge and enclosed them with a high screen so that visitors and tourists could not get a FREE look at them.

They should have been visible to the public as they entered the waterfront area so that they could be the centerpiece of the downtown shoreline. Did they do that? Nooooooooo.

Just another example of how political management of Corpus Christi embarrasses us all.


17 posted on 01/13/2009 4:51:32 AM PST by DH (The government writes no bill that does not line the pockets of special interests.)
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To: BellStar; bayouranger; stan_sipple; time4good; Guenevere; mugsaway; CSM; calcowgirl; ...

Pinta ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.


26 posted on 01/13/2009 6:22:41 AM PST by SwinneySwitch (ObamaNation - beyond your expectations.)
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Maintaining La Niña is a good idea. El Niño causes so many more troubles than La Niña.


28 posted on 01/13/2009 6:35:22 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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I visited the ships in 93 at Corpus. They were buildt from wood from the same forest that Columbus’s shipwright used, using the original plans.

The ships have been plagued by problems, mostly financial, since their arrival in America


36 posted on 01/15/2009 9:49:09 AM PST by wildbill
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