Mark Green informed us that the Humpback barge will be in maintenance, thus unavailable, from March 12 thru March 21. Plan accordingly.
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Another Runway Report from Vince
Fun stuff 12″ of powder snow coating the runway. It is frozen solid but your going to need skiis to land here for the next few days. I’ll update once the snow goes because it’s going to be very soft for a while. Got a few nice photos of this powder runway for the history book.
Runway Condition
Recently from Vince – thanks Vince
Ok folks back at it…
The runway is wet, like April wet not January wet which is a good thing.
The middle of runway is usable except extreme east end which is very soft tundra tires only soft. Stay off the sides if the runway, we pulled two planes out last weekend. Land to the west go to farthest end to turn around. Suggest parking at the mail she’d where it is dry.
the Sheep
Mike and Heather Olson have spent considerable time helping care for the sheep over on the Norm Mills property. They shared the following pictures with us last summer, I’m finally getting around to posting them! Thanks Olsons
Another internet option maybe
Bob sent this, check it out – it’s interesting. It might help you out if you cannot get internet any other way..
https://www.satelliteinternet.com/resources/starlink-beta-sign-up/
Barge share opportunity
Neighbor Chris Pack has the barge coming over on December 28, and it will go back to Roche empty – unless you need it! Contact Chris if you are interested in a barge share.
360-472-1967
Runway closure
We close the runway for at least 1 day every year, this year that day is Sunday, December 6th.
Thanks – WAP Board
Disturbing News
We received notice that one of our neighbors cabin was broken into in early October. What follows is the note from the owners. This is really a shame – we are a small community of considerate owners, the thought that someone would break in to one of our homes is really a shame. Let’s really make an effort to look out for each other, maybe we should start questioning people we don’t recognize? What follows comes from the owners…
From Greg and Janelle Fritz:
We are writing to just let you know what has recently happened to our cabin. It has been a bit of a surprise to us as we have had a cabin on Stuart Island for 30 years and have never had any problem with vandalism until now.
On October 2 my husband received a voicemail from Chris Pack letting us know that our fire alarms were going off for a couple days so he went over to check them out. He could not find our key but said the front door had been broken into. He said he could not see any other obvious vandalism. We attempted to go up to the Island the weekend of the 16th to replace our door but our boat broke down. We finally made it up the weekend of the 23rd to replace the door. I have attached pictures of the door as we found it.
We did not find any obvious theft or further vandalism, no footprints into the house. Nothing obvious except for the broken door knob and door.
The whole thing just makes us really sad. It has always been such a safe place. I don’t have to tell you the costs involved in just ferrying up there, chartering boats to get a door there, buying the door, etc.
There is nothing we are really asking for you to do. We just thought it would be important to let you know in case there is a run of vandalism up there. We have contacted authorities in Friday Harbor but have not officially filed a report.
Greg & Janelle Fritz
Need a propane tank?
From Harbor Propane: Oct. 1, 2020 Bob is trying to get a barge sharing trip together for new tank delivery and/or tank service in the next couple of weeks. Please call Bob at Harbor Propane at 360-378-0379 if you are interested.
Recent Book Club Meeting Pictures
