Could the club afford a club boat

[Rob]

 

Well, I mean ship?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21009533

 

We could sink a couple in the bay, would be ace!!!

 

 

R

[Jim]

What a great idea Rob ! !

Have you thought of running for Prime Minister ? ? ?

[Brian]

What a great idea Rob ! !

Have you thought of running for Prime Minister ? ? ?

He gets my vote.

[Paul J]

Would make a nice artificial reef - now there's a thought for club funds

 

PJ

Edited January 16, 2013 by Paul J

[Jim]

Yeah !

They sold Rover for

[alun j.]

 

 

" Would make a nice artificial reef - now there's a thought for club funds "

 

............but where would you put it ?? Can't see commercials happy to have that in the Bay, obstructing their trawls !!

[Mike Fox]

No point in thinking "small"...I'd vote for having one uptide and one downtide of each of the Navitus bay wind-powered turbines, so all you'd have to do is moor up to one of them and stream your lines astern....

 

Mike

Edited January 17, 2013 by Mike Fox

[mw]

The QE2 up for sale

[Jim]

Seriously, are we ( the club ) making any enquiries ?

What's the rules for sinking a ship in the bay ?

What sort of Dosh would they be looking for ?

Could funds be scrounged ? - - - claimed from lottery ? ? - - - raised ? ?

 

Jim

[Rob]

 

Loads mate, you need to strip and clean it of any pollutants. It would cost you 10x more money than the club has to tow it some where!

 

Rob

[Jim]

Lofty's got his sail. He could tow it !

 

All we need is a local sympathetic millionaire !

Do we know any ?

 

Oh well - - - no harm in dreaming.

[Barney]

Bournemouth Council

Got to be better value than the surf reef.

 

Mick

Edited January 18, 2013 by Barney

[Coddy]

There is (was) a chap in Weymouth who is (was) still trying to get permission to sink a ship in Weymouth Bay/Chesil area as all the WW2 wrecks have broken up and not a lot is left.

 

Seems he has (had) plenty of support except from the council and the Green people

 

You need planning permission not sure who from but I expect it would be the Crown as I think they own the sea bed of our borders.

 

 

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Weymouth and Portland Wreck to Reef Ltd is the non-profit community group behind the push to obtain permissions to source and to sink a ship as an artificial reef at a location to the east of Weymouth and Portland.

 

The general national decline within the diving industry has been exacerbated in Weymouth and Portland by three things, the sinking of HMS Scylla in Plymouth, the building of an accessible launching facility in West-Bay at Bridport, and a ban on diving the HMS Hood in Portland Harbour, this for safety reasons.

Drawing on the experiences and the resulting benefits of previous man made artificial reefs, notably in Plymouth but also around the world, it is believed that this project will help redress the economic down-turn within our diving industry.

 

However, since the inception of this Idea late in 2008 it has become apparent to all involved, that the complexity of a project of this nature needs the involvement and support of all the statutory authorities who would have an interest in this. This in turn has led to the Idea that rather than go to all this effort in order to sink a single ship, for a single section of the marine industry, it would make more sense to broaden the thing out and aim to secure an area of seabed that could be set-aside for numerous artificial reefs; a sanctuary of artificial reefs.

 

It is proposed that this seabed area be

Edited January 19, 2013 by Coddy

[Jim]

We COULD just get an ITALIAN to skipper ( or is that scupper ) it.

They sink ships for a pastime ! !

 

 

Jim