PORT TOWNSEND — A final Point Hudson Marina reconfiguration and design proposal was given full-speed-ahead blessings from the Port of Port Townsend commissioners Wednesday.
The commissioners’ approval came after Port Executive Director Larry Crockett reported that the Point Hudson Marina Advisory Committee had narrowed design options from an original four to a final scheme.
“All in all I think it went very well,” committee member Tike Hillman told the port commissioners. “I think it was a fun committee.”
Jim Pivarnik, Port deputy director, helped facilitate the committee meetings.
“We brought a diverse group of people together,” he said.
The final design, aided and illustrated by Everett-based Reid Middleton engineering firm, include special moorage for kayaks, handicapped-access gangways at the north and south entries, 570 feet of linear moorage at a dock on southern side of the marina, and slips for small boats and up to 70-footers on the facility’s northern half.
Flexible design
Depending on their size, Crockett said the flexible marina redesign could moor between 75 and 150 boats when the project is completed in March 2006.
The marina would be closed in mid-September 2005 after the Wooden Boat Festival.
Larger slips were placed closest to the marina’s eastern water entry.
“It will have about 30 percent more capacity,” said Crockett, which will accommodate growth of the annual Wooden Boat Festival.
“There are still a lot of decisions to be made,” Crockett said, including how to dredge sand-engorged sections of the marina’s southwest, northeast and southeast corners, which are exposed at low tides.
