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The largest Ketch sailboat in the world docked in St. John’s Harbour

The Aquijo, the largest Ketch sailboat in the world, is docked in St. John’s. NTV’s Earl Noble was able to grab some pictures of the ship in the harbour, and had some interesting stats to go with it!

Have a look at the @NTVNewsNL St. John's Sky Cam, located in The Battery and overlooking the Harbour. #nltraffic @OfficialOZFM https://t.co/njF6WLPEFf pic.twitter.com/evibMFoxr4 — Earl Noble (@Noble41) July 13, 2023

According to Wikipedia , a Ketch is a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast) and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post.

Here is a better look at the Aquijo.

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St. John’s is fast becoming an internationally preferred cruise destination. A wide array of cruise lines includes the Port of St. John’s on their cruise itineraries as both a home port and in-transit port of call. The port regularly welcomes cruise vessels on itineraries travelling on a trans-Atlantic (North), Adventure Expedition, Canada-New England and/or home-porting itineraries.

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City of St. John’s and St. John’s Port Authority are pleased to announce the following cruise ships have included St. John’s on their itineraries.

For any changes to the cruise schedule please check the Cruise Information Line at 709-576-8333. Please note, cruise ship visits may be cancelled or postponed at any time, without notice, due to unforeseen circumstances, including marine conditions and ships’ schedules. 

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The Saint John compulsory pilotage area consists of all the navigable waters within a line drawn across the Saint John Harbour from a position at Latitude 45°15’48” N., Longitude 66°04’48” W., 136° (True) to a position at Latitude 45°15’42” N., Longitude 66°04’36.8″ W. and all the navigable waters within a line bearing 180° (True) from Cape Spencer for a distance of 1.6 nautical miles, thence 270° (True) for a distance of 4.16 nautical miles, thence 295° (True) for a distance of 5.3 nautical miles to shore

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For Tankers and Liquid Natural Gas Carriers, the Compulsory Pilotage Area is extended: The area above, plus all the navigable waters within a line drawn from a position at Latitude 45°10.7′ N, Longitude 66°02.64′ W, thence to a position at Latitude 45°08.8′ N, Longitude 66°03.65′ W, thence to a position at Latitude 45°09.5′ N, Longitude 66°05.8′ W, thence to a position at Latitude 45°11.38′ N, Longitude 66°04.58′ W.

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Are we fenced off from imagining bold new options for the St. John's harbourfront?

Andrew furey is just one of the people suggesting st. john's could remagine its harbour space.

The iron fence along Harbour Drive has divided residents for more than a decade

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To fence or not to fence, that is the question. 

And it's a question that has divided residents of St. John's for more than a decade. 

In 2013, the St. John's Port Authority installed a temporary fence along the harbourfront. And in 2015, replaced that with a black metal fence. The construction brought a slew of controversy, from city council upset to social media campaigns . 

The issue is still active. Just last year, Premier Andrew Furey lobbied to reopen the debate with the federal government. 

Furey is not the only one wondering how the harbourfront might change. Cynthia Williams, who wrote her master's thesis in architecture at Dalhousie University on a new focus for the harbourfront, suggests removing the fence and rethinking how Harbour Drive might work if it was tailored to pedestrians and quality of life for local residents. 

"I think there [are] different solutions and different ways that we can tackle it," said Williams. 

What would you change about the St. John's harbour? There's a lot of history to this story (and we'll describe it for you in detail soon), but first, please take a moment to tell us what you would do in the form below. 

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For her design, Williams suggests removing the harbour fence and on-street parking along Harbour Drive. Residents would have year-round access to the area, which would function like the annual pedestrian mall each summer on part of Water Street. 

That would be a real change from the status quo — and it's just one vision of what the harbour could be.

How did the fence come to be? 

When the fence was proposed, the St. John's Port Authority cited security reasons to explain why it was necessary. 

The St. John's Port Authority website states that "piers 9, 10, and 11 are active working piers that see a full range of industrial vessel supply and servicing; as well as hazardous works including welding, vessel maintenance, crane operations and other mechanical activities, just to name a few. No similar commercial site would allow the intermingling of pedestrian traffic with industrial activity."

It cost around $850,000 to construct and install the fence, and the city paid for half of that expense. 

The proposal was, to say the least, controversial. St. John's Mayor Dennis O'Keefe even halted a 2012 council meeting because of protesters. 

For more than a decade, the fence has blocked pedestrian access to a large stretch along Harbour Drive. Overall, the fence covers about 50 per cent of the harbourfront. 

That doesn't mean the fence will be in place forever. Last year, Furey publicly asked to revisit the conversation of the fence's necessity and spoke with Omar Alghabra, Canada's minister of transport at the time, about it.

"Perhaps there will still need to be certain industrial areas that are fenced, or certain coast guard areas that are fenced, and fair enough," Furey told CBC News at the time. 

"But to have a fence around the entire harbour doesn't seem to make sense to me and is difficult to reconcile when you look at some of the other harbours that we've talked about."

Furey cited Halifax's and New York's harbours, which are larger but are both working ports with similar safety concerns. 

"It prevents access," he said. "It prevents economic development in St. John's. People come to Newfoundland and Labrador because of our coastline and the beauty of it, and want access to it."

The unfenced stretch on the north side of the harbour is lined with restaurants and businesses, restricting access even further. 

CBC News asked Sean Hanrahan, the president of the St. John's Port Authority, for comment. In an email, he said there is nothing to add to the conversation. 

The early days

For more than 500 years, St. John's harbour has been a working one, for fishing, trade, tourism and other industries. 

The business district of the harbourfront was once lined with finger piers on the south side of Water Street. 

International fishing fleets would enter the narrows and settle in the St. John's harbour for business. Local fishermen would dock there. 

The finger piers were replaced by Harbour Drive and a paved harbourfront. In 1965, the St. John's Port Authority took ownership. Over the years, the harbour became home to industrial activity, like the supply ships that work in the offshore oil industry and the container ships that hold many of the goods imported into eastern Newfoundland. 

But the harbourfront wasn't just an economic powerhouse. It was also a social hub for people who grew up nearby. 

To many, the St. John's harbour symbolizes home.

"The waterfront represented St. John's," said retired fisherman Glenn Critch. "Because everything then revolved around the waterfront." 

He's following in his family lineage. 

"Fishing is in my blood," said Critch, a fourth-generation fisherman who grew up on the south side of St. John's, where he could see his father work in the harbour from his family's window. 

He said the harbour would be lined with boats, fitting in wherever they could get tied on. 

Those memories do not jibe with what he sees today — and the fence is part of the problem. 

"The waterfront was just open and they could walk and they could speak and you know, that kind of way. But now… I calls it the penitentiary wall because I don't see the need of it," said Critch. "I'll always feel that way."

Rethinking the fence

St. John's Deputy Mayor Sheilagh O'Leary — never a fan of the fence — said the current metal structure was not what was proposed to council. 

"When we were, kind of, pitched this idea, the rendition was very different than what actually manifested," she said. 

At the time of the proposal, O'Leary and then deputy mayor Shannie Duff opposed the construction of the fence, asking for more public engagement. They were outvoted. 

The proposal suggested there would be a viewing area for people to see the water clearly and to sit and enjoy the surroundings. 

O'Leary says the reality feels more like a prison. 

"You sit down and you're staring at bars. You feel like you're incarcerated," O'Leary said. 

"That's not a viewing area that is acceptable. So when the actuality of it came forward and of course city council was asked to contribute to it, that was before when the reality of what it was going to entail happened." 

O'Leary said she understands the security measures that need to be taken into consideration but she doesn't think  the needs of yesterday are the needs of today.

"That's not to deny that it's a working harbour because I know the arguments," she said. "We've already been down this road. But there is a way to create a balance. And the only way that that can happen is if you have collaboration and dialogue."

O'Leary said the Port Authority was the unilateral decision-maker in the fence going up. Even though council paid for much of it, the fence is actually outside the city's jurisdiction.  

A trip down Memory Pier 

O'Leary remembers when the harbourfront had public access. She looks back at those times with nostalgia. 

"I used to walk down here with my dad all the time on the harbour apron," reminisced O'Leary, who grew up in the 1960s and '70s.

Cynthia Williams, born and raised in St. John's, also remembers a nostalgia-filtered version of the harbourfront. 

When she was young, she said, she would walk along the harbour with her family eating ice cream cones. And when she was older, she'd get coffee with her friends and sit on the harbourfront. 

When the fence went up, she said, she didn't want to hang out there anymore.

"It felt like we had a barrier between the harbour and downtown. And that's such an important relationship in our community."

While the St. John's Port Authority has no plans to reconfigure or take down the fence, some people say there's a solution that could balance security issues with a cultural appreciation of the city harbour. 

"To me, the solution is if you got the cruise ships coming in, you can put up the temporary walkway and everything for them to get in and out," said Critch, adding a similar method works in Corner Brook. 

"There's enough room on that that you could have vendors, you know, lined up on the waterfront … especially when the cruise ships come in," he said. "Something like it is in Halifax."

Williams recently moved back to St. John's, equipped with a bachelor of environmental design and a master's in architecture from Dalhousie University. 

In her thesis on reimagining St. John's, she was inspired by both her childhood and what she observed from living close to Halifax's giant harbour. 

"I would get a coffee, friends and I would go for a beer at the beer garden, we'd walk our dogs, all kinds of stuff. So I started thinking when I was living there, you know, why didn't we do this in St. John's?"

But she knows there are limitations to that comparison. 

"We can't copy and paste what happened in Halifax because we can't. Halifax has a much larger port and so much more area to be able to make it public," Williams said. 

"I started thinking … how could we do this at a smaller scale in St. John's to make it successful?"

The St. John's Port Authority's website says the fence blocks about fifty per cent of the harbour. 

"Could we make it 25 per cent," Williams said, "and then could we take the other 25 per cent back to us?"

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Sarah Antle is a journalist working with CBC in the St. John's bureau.

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Even though we’ve seen some notable restaurant closings already this year , plenty of new restaurants have opened across Jacksonville – and even more are on the way. 

From burger, taco and pizza joints to Italian and Mexican restaurants to breakfast, brunch and buffet spots, the area’s dining scene is growing, from downtown to the Beaches to the Southside, Westside, St. Johns and more, not just the St. Johns Town Center, which has served as the destination for many restaurant chains entering the market over the last two decades. 

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Here's a look at what's new in 2024 or coming soon to northern St. Johns County, including the Durbin Park area and Ponte Vedra Beach. (And be sure to bookmark this story for regular updates.)

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Known for its freshly baked, multi-layer stuffed cookies, Dirty Dough is the newest addition to The Pavilion at Durbin Park in Saint Johns. Located at 90 Durbin Pavilion Drive, Suite C-103, the "grab-and-go-style" gourmet dessert shop that opened in June is the first in Northeast Florida from Dirty Dough, founded in 2018 in Tempe, Ariz. Dirty Dough also offers custom specialty sodas, ice cream, and ultimately some edible cookie dough. Other shops in the state are planned for Orlando, Pensacola and Sarasota, according to the company's website. | Read more

Jersey Mike’s Subs

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Jersey Mike’s Subs opened its newest Jacksonville-area sandwich shop at 255 Rivertown Shops Drive in The Shoppes at Rivertown in Saint Johns. Four more will be coming soon: two in Jacksonville, and one each in St. Augustine and Fleming Island. Founded in 1956, the sandwich shop chain is known for its fresh sliced, fresh sliced made-to-order, handcrafted sub sandwiches that range in size from mini to regular or giant. The subs can be served "Mike's Way" with onions, lettuce, tomatoes, red wine vinegar, olive oil blend, oregano and salt or guests can customize the toppings. |  Read more

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With 24-karat edible gold flake as a garnish on its signature entree, Kinya Ramen-Yakitori opened March 11 at 415 Durbin Pavilion Drive, No. 103, in The Pavilion at Durbin Park shopping center in Saint Johns. The Durbin Park location is the Japanese restaurant chain's first in the Jacksonville area. Kinya means "gold." The restaurant bills itself as the "home of the Golden Ramen." It focuses on making the guest experience as well as the food "as good as gold," according to its website. |  Read more

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Hand-stretched pizzas, house-made sauces and Italian family favorites top the menu of Vincenzo's Cucina, which opened in February at 3787 Palm Valley Road in the Publix-anchored Shoppes of Palm Valley retail center at Ponte Vedra Beach. The restaurant offers a variety of 12- and 18-inch New York-style pizzas as well as both thin and thick-crust Square Pies. Pasta, along with 12-inch sub sandwiches, strombolis, calzones, salads, garlic knots and desserts. |  Read more

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