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The Dominion has finally begun it’s last voyage. If we ever see it again, it’ll be in the form of a new steel coffee table, the springs in our new mattress or perhaps even a door panel in a new car. It’s going to the scrap yard, and that’s just fine with everyone in Cowichan […]
The Dominion I has been fitted with it’s towing bridle. Now it’s just a matter of paperwork and an inspection by a marine surveyor and all systems will be “go” for the trek to Mexico and the scrap yard. Rob Van Riter of San Diego, the man who bought the vessel for $100 from Oregon […]
Update: June 15 2013: New reports indicate that the tow is scheduled to leave Cowichan Bay around midnight Friday June 21. — Read the Saga of the Dominion I here. — There’s a big tugboat in the bay today and it’s possibly here to take one of our nautical landmarks away for good. The Dominion […]
The Dominion I has been a political football in Cowichan Bay since it first arrived in 2007. The story has been a long one. Below is an incomplete chronicle of events, those stories I was able to save from the shambles of The Current after it suffered a database crash in December of 2012. Since […]
