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By Kirk Boxleih1er H
kbox/eitner@masoncounty com
The Port of Hoodsport closed out 2022 by dis-
cussing the state of its dock going into'2023.
When Katherine Yackel, operations manager of
the YSS Dive Shop in Hoodsport, asked whether
donations or fundraisers could be'organized for
the dock, Port Commissioner Cody Morris said
the port is working with attorneys to establish an
account for funding any dock work.
After a recent dock inspection, Morris said the
dock was in “much rougher shape” than he’d real-
ized, so dock work will be emphasized, but at the
same time, all the port’s spending projects must
be compartmentalized.
Once the port creates an account for its dock, it
must collect outside donations specifically intend—
ed to go toward the dock. Morris said he hoped the
port “will get that rolling within the next month
or two.” .
Morris said YSS Dive is among several local en—
tities interested in helping fund the dock, so he
recommended developing a short—term plan for
dock repairs, to offset “general wear and tear,”‘
and what he deemed “a more grandiose plan,” to
mitigate the amount of serious damage that the
dock sustains every year.
“In a dream world, we’d be getting a’breakwa-
ter system going to cut down on” that damage,
Morris said, before reporting he’d spoken to either
hydraulicists or aquatic engineers ‘~— he said he
was unsure which —- who’d told him a significant
issue is “the actual direction of how the dock faces,
and its relationships to the tide and the wind.”
Morris said the dock work would be a “massive
project” regardless, requiring not only permission
from the state Department of Natural Resources,
but also “lots of money, in both the engineering
and the buildout.” r
Fortunately for the port, Morris cited “quite a
few parties who have a mutual interest in seeing
this happen,” including boaters, as well as Alder-
brook Resort & Spa. *
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The Port of Hoodsport dock. Journal file photo
Yackel asked the port inform her when it’s
ready to receive donations, because “we’ve poked
around in the diving community, touching on do—
ing a fundraiser for the port, and they’re inter—
ested in helping.”
Yackel volunteered to submit “some fun ideas”
for fundraisers, developed by the diving commu—
nity, including a possible “dive around the clock”
event to benefit the dock, which would invite div-
ers to go into the water for a 24-hour-period to
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raise money,ian idea met with a positive reaction
from all the commissioners.
Commissioner Terry Brazil offered to put the
port in contact with a representative of the Ever-
ett-based Reid Middleton engineers, whom he met
twice at the commissioners! most recent meeting
in Tacoma.
According to Brazil, the representative said his
people would be willing to give the port a report
on what it needs to do by scheduling an appoint-
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Kincannon said she’d also met an engineer at
that same Tacoma meeting, “last name Ander—
son,” whose contact information and email cor-
respondence with her she’d already forwarded to
Port of Hoodsport Operations Manager Kathleen
Wyatt.
“We should get a couple of different people to
‘ look at it, and do some comparisons,” said Kin-
cannon, who concurredwith Morris on the- need
for short-, medium— and long-range plans for the
work on the dock.
Brazile likewise recommended such work be
conducted in phases.
Brazil additionally pointed out that Reid'Mid—
dleton “knows how to write grants, where to get
grants, and all the angles of which different or-
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‘boating organizations and shoreline manage-
ment, which is why he said the group “gets a lot of
grants, in a lot of states,” that can be used to fund
repairs, rebuilds and additions.
“I’m glad you’re working on this,” Yackel said.
“That’s really exciting news. The dock is key to
commerce, along with boaters in the summer. We
get so much tourism coming in from them, but we
could get even more of it.”
Hardware Distillery owner Jan Morris predict-
ed she could “get practically every business (in
Hoodsport) involved in a fundraiser,” as she simi-
larly considered the dock “good economic devel-
opment for businesses,” as “boaters come in and
shop at Hoodsport.”
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