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Around 8 a.m. today, you may have noticed Lake Union looking a little more weepy than usual--and for good reason. That was when the beloved Wawona, a really old schooner, moved to the dry docks on other side of the lake in order to begin the slow death of dismantlement after some 30 years beautifying the waterfront. Decades-long efforts to raise enough money to renovate the ship finally lost steam in the march towards creating a more perfect Union. (Har, har.) All this shippy hullaballoo reminds us of the Kalakala debacle. Apparently the Kalakala is now scheduled to be restored in 2010, potentially to be converted into a future museum site; has owner Steve Rodrigues considered purchasing the Wawona as well? It could be a really cool, touristy floating bar!
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They should turn it into a couscous restaurant like in that movie at SIFF last year where they turn an old boat into a couscous restaurant. Man was I hungry for couscous after watching that.
You just like writing "couscous."
Maybe I like writing couscous. Maybe I don't like writing couscous. My couscous memory and unfulfilled couscous desire still stand!
This looks to be an old article about the Kalakala. This is what the owner is trying to do now: http://weeklyvolcano.typepad.com/spew/2009/03/return-of-the-kalakala.html
Oh hey! Perfect--thanks for the update, J101.
Better to be peacefully dismantled than to continue to disintegrate in place...