Rust In Pieces

[wolfie]

It's a few months old, but while browsing Consumerist I saw that The Love Boat (original series, not '90s remake) is going to be scrapped. Pacific Princess, we'll miss you.

[Argabarga]

Rusted,
Through and through
Drop anchor
Cuz' they're scrapping youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.....................

[Crossbow]

Google Earth has a picture of what I think is the correct ship (based on the article) at the breaker yard.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8279...22652!2e1!3e10

Kinda sad, but not entirely surprising, either.

[AccountingDrone]

And the crying shame is I saw it for sale online a couple years back [2 or 3?] for well under 1 million bucks from the shipyard it was getting the refit at - the line that owned it abandoned it mid-refit. It was still sort of fabulous 70s decor but we joked about finding 50 other people willing to kick in $50K each to get it and use it as a floating apartment building. Only real problem with the idea is we would have had to have a bit of land on a river system with water deep enough to get her to the mooring point because commercial moorings were running something like $1000 per linear food for dock space in the summer and half that in the winter. If we wanted to sail her anywhere, at the time bunker was running around $4.00 per gallon, and she tanks something like 100 000 gallons at a crack. If we had been rich and could have afforded to run her as a yacht, I would have bought and finished a refit on her in a heartbeat.

The Glomar Explorer used to come up on the market for lease or sale occasionally. There is a ship with real history.

Why yes, doesn't everybody browse commercial and ex military ships for sale?