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  Thankyou Howard Colin and Barry for your positive words.
  
  This is going to be a huge undertaking-the world wide maritme heritage community will have its eyes fixed well and truly upon what will be a daring venture. TS DOVER would make a fitting flagship for the projected port community trust and identify it with the perceived high standards of the golden age of cross channel travel.Talking about 'golden'-what a superb 'Golden Arrow' ship she would make-with an upgrade to some of her accomodation. I do hope the current docks row is resolved soon and the trust is set up unscathed. It seems a great pity that the port has fallen out with the ferry operators-when the root cause appears to be the down turn in freight owing to competition from the tunnel!
  
  Barry I will certainly be in touch-thanks for the offer...however it will take a couple of weeks to dot the I's and cross the T's... and I want to put a bit of a team together for the visit to the ship to take place say early to mid November. I 've already done some work on a general prospectus and I'm hoping a colleague will help with the operating business plan. In the meantime I intend to get back to the ship's owners for further advice.
  
  Incidentally Peter G,if you can find a square rigger that's connected with Dover and carries that name-I'll help you. I think you'll find that most were quietly broken up though!

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