Historic Lighthouse For Sale For $1 -- I found my new home!!!

[Livid_Liberal]

:party: :love: :hitit: :birthday: To ME!! :lol: :congrats: :drink:

Historic Lighthouse For Sale For $1

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news...34/detail.html

4:13 pm EDT August 12, 2008

BOSTON --

An historic Nantucket lightship that helped countless boats reach safe harbor can now be had for $1.

But there are few takers.

That's because it will likely cost more than $150,000 to relocate and restore the LV-112, which
is owned by the National Lighthouse Museum, a New York preservation group.

Beginning in the mid-19th century, there were four Nantucket lightships, but there hasn't been one
on the island since the LV-112 left in 1969.

In its prime, the 150-foot lightship, built in 1936, was anchored at the outer fringes of a range of treacherous
shoals about 50 miles off Nantucket.

Now, it's moored at Oyster Bay, N.Y.

http://www.lighthousefriends.com/nantucket_nlm1.jpg

The museum thinks the ship could be an attraction that anchors a waterfront tourist spot.

For more information: http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=805

[DoYouEverWonder]

I would have been foolish enough to think that buying that ship would be a good idea.

Fortunately, I was cured of this affliction after living aboard a 42' ketch for a couple of years.

[Livid_Liberal]

I don't know that I could live on it, let alone buy it and move it
(Where?!) and finance the restore but it's fun to think about! ;)

[Free Press]

If I could get it over to Hong Kong, I'd take it in a minute.

Everyone I talk to here who lives on a boat says anyone who's lived on one will tell you that once you've tried it you'll never go back to land.

But they tend to have large, fairly permanently moored 50-60 foot 3-level motor yachts or junks, with electric, water, sewage, phone and internet hookup so the space and convenience makes them rather comfortable. I guess a 42' ketch wouldn't have near that kind of space.