(If you get this twice, my apologies - I lost my connection during the send) Mary, I am familiar with your organization, I keep meaning to buy a membership (it's much more cost effective than paying the daily campsite fees), but haven't done it yet. I am confident that some type of arrangement could be reached on Orcas, either with Charlie & Lynn Meyer of Friday Harbor (they own the Orcas gas dock) or possibly with the Dolphin Bay Marina. I'd expect that the cost would be a capital investment in the $5,000-$20,000 range along with some type of fees after that. Possibly with the right set up, we could then have a discounted rate for water trails permit holders. I've heard through the rumor mill, that the Meyers are just trying to get a more reasonable split on the cost of dock maintenance, especially from the other businesses, such as the restaurants, stores, and the hotel, that have, in essence, had free use of the dock, and that kayakers are to some extent, just a casualty of this battle. I'd be up for meeting to discuss this further. Let me know your thoughts and schedule. Thanks - Saul 425-402-3426 -----Original Message----- From: M Monfort <wwta_at_eskimo.com> To: saul_at_isomedia.com <saul_at_isomedia.com> Cc: rbyron8_at_email.msn.com <rbyron8_at_email.msn.com>; davidg_at_stellar.com <davidg_at_stellar.com>; To: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net <To: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net> Date: Thursday, June 03, 1999 9:19 PM Subject: access to water Hello - Your message was forwarded to me. Are you familiar with Washington Water Trails Association? Check out our web site at www.eskimo.com/~wwta Our whole focus is trail building for folks in human powered water craft and water access. We are building the Cascadia Marine Trail which includes many sites in the San Juan's. This is news about the Orcas gas dock - and bad news at that. The Shaw property was never owned by the state, but a private land owner who sold the property to the anti-kayak interests on Shaw (where the present head of San Juan County Parks lives - FYI). Having worked for 2 years with the state ferries on the the issues you raised, I found that they do not own much if any of the land where their docks are. They lease it and launching there does not work. But they did build in special facilities for the new Anacortes terminal for folks walking on with boats, and the new terminal at Lopez had some possibilities last time I checked. In short there is no easy solution but I would like to talk and possibly meet with you about this issue and see what the possibilities are. We have a brochure going to press in the next couple months showing access for human powered craft in Puget Sound/ San Juans and it sounds like you also have some current info. for that. Cheers, Mary Monfort, Executive Director *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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