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The Cannery Seafood House is hoping this year’s boating season will bring in new customers to its new boat dock.
“It was put in a bit too late for last year, but we’re expecting it to do very well this year,” said Steve Bickerdike, director of sales and marketing.
The restaurant spent about $60,000 on the 60-foot-long dock designed to berth the class of vessels now being used for tours of English Bay and Burrard Inlet as well as large yachts and runabouts.
“These tour vessels can carry about 100 passengers. Now that we have the dock we can offer tour companies an exciting destination where they can stop over for lunch or dinner during a cruise,” he said.
Bickerdike said the company added the dock after market research showed tour companies would welcome such a facility.
“We’d been planning to do it for years, but it always ended up on the back burner,” he said.
Private vessels are welcome to use the dock, but Bickerdike said operators should call ahead to check if the space has been scheduled for a tour group.
He said the company was hoping to attract at least 20 large tour groups a season.
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