Leschi Sailboat Moorage -- Volunteer Work Parties

All,
During our work party today, we accomplished a number of additional repairs
to both the north and south floats.  I wasn't working on the South end, so
I'm not sure exactly what happened there, but on the north side of things
the focus was to replace and fix areas where the docks rub on the pilings.
All of the work concentrated on the middle group of floats and at least
three key piling to dock interface points were fixed.  I've attached Dave
Casey's email with pictures for those who are interested. 

Chris Schober (the concessionaire) worked with the group all day and has
been extremely supportive, providing materials, tools, and his personal
labor as well.  Overall these events appear to be win/win!  Most of the
useable floats should now last another season, although there is still a lot
of work to be done if they need to last much longer than that.

Speaking of the future, Chris mentioned today, that he had a good meeting
with the parks department last week, and they want to meet with our group
(and the public) sometime during the early part of December to review their
initial plans/proposals.  According to Chris, they are investigating our
suggestion of adding floats to the breakwaters to make the space utilization
more efficient while also increasing the effectiveness of the breakwaters as
a whole.   We'll have to see exactly what this is during the meeting.
Please pass on any information you learn regarding this meeting.  The venue
is supposed to be the Mt. Baker Rowing and Sailing Center.
--Rusty
Saturday, October 20, 2007