San Diego
The Board of Port Commissioners on Tuesday tentatively agreed to move the city’s maritime museum, consisting in part of three popular vessels, to the Broadway Pier, which is undergoing extensive renovation.
A final decision will have to await a consultant’s report analyzing costs and improvements necessary to the 70-year-old pier.
The idea is to move the Star of India, the Berkeley and the Medea--the backbone of the museum’s fleet, now docked nearby on the embarcadero--to the pier and to open a 10,000-square-foot maritime museum on top of the little-used building sitting in the middle of the pier.
The building was designed in 1971 and was to be used by cruise ship passengers. But the cruise ships instead have docked at the nearby B Street Pier.
Once moved, the three old sailing ships would use the pier as a promenade. They would be docked on the south side of the pier, and the harbor excursion boats on the north.
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