Salish Sea boaters - marine facilities status

[Bruce Moore]

Wagonner Cruising Guide is keeping this list up to date. There are tabs for Washington, BC, and North BC/Vancouver West Coast waters.

Cheers,

Bruce

 

[SJI Sailor]

This is very helpful, and hard to find (and confusing) on the various sites in themselves. Thank you for sharing!

 

[linedoctor]

Thanks Bruce!

 

[Karll]

In our local news, Friday Harbor has asked transit boaters to stay away until the virus is safe. They don’t have the facilities if a breakout were to occur.

 

[bergroup]

I wonder how boaters are interpreting the "Essential Travel Only" mandate currently in place in Washington State. I would argue that pleasure boating is "essential," however I believe our governor would disagree! 🙂

One of our neighbors is a Coastie and he's told me that The Coast Guard has no plans to stop boaters to see if they are violating the "stay at home" mandate. He advises that if a pleasure boater gets in trouble, he/she could tie up valuable first responder resources during a time of national emergency. Let alone the possibility of needing a hospital bed! (The LAST place on the planet I want to be right now!)

Alas, we are staying in port until the mandate is lifted. If nothing else, for us it's a small sacrifice on our part in order to show respect to our brave doctors, nurses and first responders.

 

[BradOwens]

Alas, we are staying in port until the mandate is lifted. If nothing else, for us it's a small sacrifice on our part in order to show respect to our brave doctors, nurses and first responders.

Well said!