Project update

I've been busy digging out and recovering from a week of hard labour in Halifax so no posts for a few days.

Things are slowing down for the holidays, but back here at Project Ojibwa HQ there has been continuous activity.

A steady stream of membership applications are coming in and we are up to about 50 members to date. Only 49,950 to go and we will have the project paid for  .....well we can hope anyway. I think 500 members is reasonable.  Once the local community learns that the only way to get a peek inside the boat before the public opening (which could be more than a year away)  will be through the membership route, things will pick up dramatically.  In fairness we haven't really launched the membership program fully yet.

We have seen the quote for transiting the boat and it's looking as if the move by floating drydock is the most practical, and surprisingly not much more expensive than a traditional tow (much less risky as well).  Soil testing will be done soon on the site and hopefully any questions about ground stability will be put to rest.

Thursday evening found us meeting with the town council of Bayham.  Council passed a resolution to generate letters of support for the project to the political players in our little drama and to encourage neighboring municipalities to join in.


Everyone is very supportive and eager to get the wheels turning on the project.  We're all asking the same question at the moment  "WHERE'S THE BEEF?.....hoping that CAF/Candev is listening, because we've done all the T crossing and I dotting we've been asked to do and all that stands between us and a hard launch of the project is for the cash that was promised over a year ago to begin flowing... hopefully once the holidays are over, the bureaucrats will run out of excuses to delay and get this show on the road!