Harry, Pdfs of all drawings can be obtained from the Museum Curator, Sandrena Raymond, at (cura...@marmuseum.ca). Let's hope that the drawings will still be available for many years to come. However, all Canadians should drop a note to their Conservative MPs, if they want to help.
Rob On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Harry Hallgring <hhallgr...@icloud.com> wrote: > Hi Rob, > Truly a critical period in the history of the museum...wish i could write > a huge check! Fearing losing forever the opportunity to acquire the > drawings for MIRAGE, i would like to initiate the process buy them. She is > a 1985 C&C Northeast 39 built in the Bruckman yard. Would you be able to > point me in the right direction to get this rolling? > > Harry Hallgring > Sent from my iPad > > On Jan 19, 2015, at 7:22 PM, Robert Mazza via CnC-List < > cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > Thanks for letting everyone know about this. As you might know, I serve on > the Board of Trustees of the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston, > and I was the co-curator of the New Age of Sail exhibit at the Museum last > year, one of the high points of which was inducting George Cuthbertson and > Bruce Kirby into the Canadian Sailing Hall of Fame. Your attached piece by > Mr. Granatstein is quite accurate. The Marine Museum is facing extinction > if the Federal Government doesn't change its mind and hangs on to this > historic piece of waterfront property, or if they don't work more closely > with the City of Kingston to help them acquire the land. Otherwise it will > be sold to private developers who will evict the Museum to build more > condos. The Museum does not have enough money to finance a relocation, > even if a suitable location was available. > > Yes, please write your MPs, especially the Conservative ones. This is very > serious stuff. The Museum holds the entire C&C Collection of drawings, as > well as drawings from German and Milne, and many other prominent Canadian > Naval Architects and shipbuilders. > > Rob Mazza > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Jim Watts via CnC-List < > cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > >> < >> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/why-is-ottawa-sinking-kingstons-marine-museum/article22515252/ >> > >> >> Time to write your MP's. >> >> >> Jim Watts >> Paradigm Shift >> C&C 35 Mk III >> Victoria, BC >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album. >> >> Please donate to the C&C Photo Album to keep this list free for all >> subscribers. >> >> Email address: >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com >> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of >> page at: >> http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album. > > Please donate to the C&C Photo Album to keep this list free for all > subscribers. > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of > page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > >
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