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Edmonton Riverboat
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Gronk!
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Opening later this spring, I hope.
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Go Beyond Your Wildest Dreams EDMONTON’S ICONIC RIVERBOAT! Please visit our BUY TICKETS page to see more details about our sightseeing cruises, brunch/dinner buffet cruises and events like Duelling Pianos. about us The Sky’s The Limit Join Us! Discover the beauty of Edmonton as we invite you to...
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degrandprix
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Hope they can find a buyer that will keep it going!
kcantor
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I wonder if she’d qualify for some of those residential conversion grant monies?
IanO
Superstar
Short-term rentals for houseboat cruising?
northlands
Senior Member
Thank you to the current owner, who probably lost a seven figure number on this entire endeavor, but saved the old girl to be a quirky staple of the Edmonton river valley for another generation.
Never forget this timeless quote RE the Queen:
Craig had taken over operations and Dick was instructing his son to get rid of the stress-inducing vessel. “Craig, it’s like a hand grenade with the pin pulled,” the son recalls his father saying. “You’ve got to find someone to pass it to.”
Never forget this timeless quote RE the Queen:
Craig had taken over operations and Dick was instructing his son to get rid of the stress-inducing vessel. “Craig, it’s like a hand grenade with the pin pulled,” the son recalls his father saying. “You’ve got to find someone to pass it to.”
Gronk!
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Meet the new owners of the Edmonton Riverboat
Rob Davy and Eric Warnke met in the early 2000s as teenagers working at Nexopia. Nearly a quarter-century later, the two serial entrepreneurs are the new owners of the Edmonton Riverboat.
edmonton.taproot.news
thommyjo
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Gronk!
Senior Member
New owners, same old signage
Gronk!
Senior Member
Can't wait for summer! I hope the riverboat survives this winter.
IanO
Superstar
How about a summer SkyriseEdm meet up on the boat!
Gronk!
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Looking ahead in 2025: Edmonton Riverboat, Edmonton Edge Fund
In 2024, Taproot reported on several stories that evolved after we published them. In this, our final retrospective of 2024, we caught up with two specific stories that will continue to offer new details in 2025.
edmonton.taproot.news
Riverboat’s business partners to part in 2025
The original story: In 2024, Taproot was the first to report that two serial entrepreneurs, Rob Davy and Eric Warnke, had purchased the Edmonton Riverboat. The two met as teenagers when they were among the first employees at Nexopia, Canada’s first social network. The new owners said they thought the riverboat had only scratched the surface of its potential and that they wanted to offer an elevated experience.Then what? “It blew our expectations out of the water — no pun intended,” Warnke told Taproot in an online interview from the boat in late December. Warnke said customers enjoyed duelling piano performances the most. For about 10% of sailings, the river’s water levels were too low for the boat to complete its full course, so those customers were given credits to return in 2025 for a full experience. Davy left the business at the end of the 2024 season. “He owns, like three other businesses, so it wasn’t as simple as tacking on a fourth one as we thought it would be, and then ultimately, we’re just better friends than partners,” Warnke said. “It’s an amicable thing. We’re still friends.”
What’s next? The boat was moored at the end of September, but it’s still being used for parties through the winter, including a New Year’s Eve bash. Warnke said he hopes to start the 2025 sailing season on Mother’s Day. He’s planning for a special event to celebrate the boat’s 30th anniversary in May, and to run sailings daily in 2025 instead of from Thursday to Sunday. -Stephanie Swensrude
If this SRC meet up is scheduled for a weekend sailing then I may be interested!
