Purpose

To create, manage and sustain a community oriented multipurpose facility serving those individuals, entities and organizations in our community providing:

Boating related activities
Boating classes, workshops and lectures
Rowing and sailing programs for youth and adults
Maritime art and traditional boat building programs
Space and opportunity for small boat repair, maintenance, staging and launching

To promote a sense of self and leadership in our youth and adults through marine education programs.
To promote knowledge of our local maritime heritage and waterfront traditions.
To promote safe and meaningful access to the waterways of Fidalgo Island
To bring together municipal, port, tribe, school district, other non-profits, trade associations, local businesses and service clubs who share our objectives.

Strategy Statement

Our SBC strategy is to facilitate/provide water access wherever possible and allowable. We must be resourceful and flexible, able to fit our vision into niche spaces and opportunities in the waterfront plans of the Port of Anacortes, the City of Anacortes and other civic spirited landowners. Our vision coupled with the strength of community sentiment for water access will help key our success.

The following areas have strategic significance for small boat facilities and should be pursued to meet the above mission and achieve the vision.  They are listed in order of current feasibility and opportunity (timing):

1. North Basin: Permitting exists for small boat hoist launching at PQ Dock.  Including launch access/retrieval near the PQ walkway and upland facilities in the City/Port boundary area from the AYC building to the headland above the PQ causeway, this improvement will have immediate impact and can be realized now with City and Port support.
2. Seafarer’s Memorial Park: Environmental soils remediation provides an opportunity to improve the upland and shoreline design and refocus this area to its original purpose of providing a safe and friendly hand launching facility.  By incremental improvements to the site remediation plan this near term opportunity will strengthen our community sailing programs and provide improved hand launch opportunities.  Possible educational boatbuilding programs with the planned Anacortes Marine Technology facility are natural local links as well.
3. Log Pocket/Wyman’s: This site’s natural formation provides an opportunity to allow trailer launching near the defunct marine rail system (commercial area often used by industrial barge loaders) and hand launching in the mitigation reformed log pocket.  Current Port planning provides consideration of the rebuilt log pocket as a public access buffer area while moorage of tugs/industrial craft is considered on the outside of the old Wyman’s Wharf.  An SBC opportunity may exist for user groups capable of safely coexisting with activities in this area.
4. 30th St area: With the DNR property, the TTTrail right of way and the City of Anacortes ramp, this is a longer term but almost unlimited opportunity.  There is ample room for a boat launch, parking and storage/repair of small boats.