Docks Committee Report

Our docks re-roofing project is now complete. We’ve removed an enormous amount of weight and coming trouble. Great thanks go to the contractor for a job well done and to Chuck Gould and Jeff Purvis for carefully managing the moorage difficulties for the people moored in the 27 affected slips. We didn’t much impact the guest moorage areas at all thanks to their efforts. Chuck, Jeff, Art, and Carl Weiss washed those four roof units with fire hoses to remove residual gravel and to teach the spiders to wear their PFDs!

The first major part of the Fire Code Compliance Project has begun with engineering of a new standpipe system. These pipes will be bigger and will extend from the far end of the docks all the way to the sidewalks on Boyer Avenue. Fire response will be significantly faster than ever possible before and that response time is critical to keeping incidents small in scope instead of becoming the devastating events we’ve witnessed over the past 8 years or so. It’s possible that this project will be completed around the end of the year.

We still must form the team needed to install our draft curtains in the overheads. This fall will be a great time to organize and begin that project in earnest. Your help is very much needed.

At this writing, your Docks Chairman is about to depart town for his month of total irresponsibility. Don’t expect much better upon my return! The Committee needs to start this year with progress on some things, just to gain momentum to carry through. Please be a part of that.

Committee meetings: 6:00pm The fourth Tuesday each month: Aug. 25, Sept. 22, Oct. 27, Nov. 24, Dec. 22

Work Parties: 8:30am The second Saturday each month: Sept. 12, Oct. 10, Nov. 14, Dec. 12

Arthur Mauldin, Docks Chairman
Dave Svendsen, Assistant Docks Chairman