The Wooden Boat Festival could go on next summer even if needed repairs to the Point Hudson jetty were to sail forward.
Carol Hasse of Port Townsend Sails, which is based at Point Hudson, raised …
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The Wooden Boat Festival could go on next summer even if needed repairs to the Point Hudson jetty were to sail forward.
Carol Hasse of Port Townsend Sails, which is based at Point Hudson, raised the question of how a future jetty repair might affect the Wooden Boat Festival.
“Our big fear right now as Point Hudson tenants … is that the port is thinking they’re going to replace the breakwall in the summer. Next summer. Which would mean no Wooden Boat Festival … that makes no sense,” Hasse said, adding that she thought the Point Hudson jetties should be replaced now.
Hasse spoke during an Oct. 11 meeting with port staff that focused on lease rates for Boat Haven tenants.
Port Commissioner Peter Hanke said commissioners hadn’t yet decided what the port is going to do in regard to the Point Hudson breakwater and have not apportioned funds to fix it yet.
“As commissioners, we’re simply trying to bring the port up to a point where we can make that decision when the decision happens,” Hanke said.
“We’ve got all the pieces, the tools in place, to activate it. If we do go ahead with this next year, the fish window opens July 15, so construction technically could start on July 15,” Hanke said.
Some sort of closure at the marina would occur from two to three weeks after that start date, he said. The start date could be pushed back to July 31 or Aug. 15, Hanke said, adding that for businesses in the tourist and restaurant fields, “June, July and August are big months. That’s where you hit it. So if you can somehow move this so maybe we lose the last two weeks of August or something like that, the effect is going to be a lot less than if we lose all three months,” Hanke said.
It will take four months to do the work, he said, “and the concern from the contractors is how much they can get done before they get into October, because the concern is you get the winds in October and things fall apart.”
Hanke said the port would have to absorb higher costs for the jetties because equipment would need more protection.
“We’ll definitely have the marina open during the festival,” Hanke said.
Sam Gibboney, port executive director, said the project would be shut down two days per week anyway, and thus a four-day festival window could probably be arranged.
