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02-07-2005, 07:40 PM
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The Canadian icon Bluenose II has new operators. She has been run for the past decade by The Bluenose II Preservation Trust Society, but during the past two years the organization has been at the bottom end of the public relations heap due to a couple of administrative mis-steps (an unpopular lawsuit against a retailer who ran afoul of the Trust's ownership of the rights to the Bluenose image, and an allegation of complicity in the previous federal government's misappropriation of advertising funds scandal). She will now be run by the same folks who administer the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in Lunenburg, and will remain home-ported in Lunenburg. The latter point is a hot-button issue, because when the politicians had control of her through the 'eigties, they kept her in Halifax to be available for political functions and let her run down to the point where she was nearly condemned.
It will be interesting to see how her operations and husbandry may change now that she is run by seafarers, shipbuilders, and sea captains.
More on the story here. (http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20050204004)
The Canadian icon Bluenose II has new operators. She has been run for the past decade by The Bluenose II Preservation Trust Society, but during the past two years the organization has been at the bottom end of the public relations heap due to a couple of administrative mis-steps (an unpopular lawsuit against a retailer who ran afoul of the Trust's ownership of the rights to the Bluenose image, and an allegation of complicity in the previous federal government's misappropriation of advertising funds scandal). She will now be run by the same folks who administer the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in Lunenburg, and will remain home-ported in Lunenburg. The latter point is a hot-button issue, because when the politicians had control of her through the 'eigties, they kept her in Halifax to be available for political functions and let her run down to the point where she was nearly condemned.
It will be interesting to see how her operations and husbandry may change now that she is run by seafarers, shipbuilders, and sea captains.
More on the story here. (http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20050204004)