Shilshole Blog

Ballard Gossip Girl has the scoop that Paseo will be opening on Tuesday next week. Paseo is taking over the space formerly occupied by Gordo’s. I can’t wait to be able to walk over from D Dock and grab a sandwich. I have always heard their Fremont location is awesome but have never been able to check it out. This will be VERY handy indeed!

I knew the government had cheese, but I didn’t know they also had cake! Turns out they do and they’re going to be giving it away at the Locks this Saturday. The event is to celebrating belatedly the 100 years for the the Army Reserve  (PI Story). cake cutting ceremony is at 3pm and goes till 5pm or I assume until the run out of cake. If that happens, I think they should give out MREs (yes a whole site dedicated to MREs) or some of that space ice cream.

Also on hand will be the 70th Army Band out of Seattle and the 104th Division Band out of Vancouver, WA who will be performing from Noon to 5pm.

I have a lot of chores, the Swap and the Boat Show to go to Saturday, but I’ll try to stop in and take pics and get some cake of course!

I noticed a sign on way down to the dock. This wedekend is National Marina Day which is a Marina Industry event celebrated at member marinas, but along with that event there will be a swap meet 0900-1400 Saturday just south of the main offices. For more information contact gail at mvInfiniti.com by email.

I will definitely be stopping in before I head down to the Summer Sale put on the by Seattle Boat show this weekend as well.

As both the Ballard News Tribune and the My Ballard blog report today, route 46 is going to change in September:

Metro Transit service approved a September 2008 transit program that contained only one change inside the City of Seattle, Route 46 would be changed during midday hours to wend its way from Golden Gardens, to Shilshole via Seaview Avenue to 54th and onto Market Street. It then would travel Leary Way and end up making a loop in downtown Fremont and back to Ballard and Golden Gardens.

Seaview folks have complained about a lack of service since a route was eliminated after a massive cut in Metro revenue was brought on by a tax-cutting Initiative 695 by Tim Eyman in 2000.

The Golden Gardens to Fremont route change, adding 1,785 hours of service, will operate generally from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Route 46 now provides peat-period service from Golden Gardens and the University of Washington campus via Ballard and Wallingford.

What the hell is that new building being built next to Ray’s Boathouse?

It’s been driving me crazy. Everyday I drive by there, but there is never anyone there after work to stop and ask what is going in there?

Anyone here have any clue??

CB…

As most liveaboards at Shilshole know, the Annual Meeting of the Washington Liveaboard Association is March 18th (tomorrow) at 7:00 p.m. at the CYC. There are five open positions in the rotation - these are the result of the association’s bylaws which provide that 1/3rd of the board member’s terms expire each year. Each of these positions is for a three year term. There are also two open positions that have been created by resignations which will be filled by the board, and those appointees will serve only the remaining term of the board members who resigned (one term has a single year remaining; the second term has two years left). If you’re interested in serving on the board, just come to the meeting and raise your hand.

In fact, Angela (S/V Ghost) it’s a good place to meet your neighbors and get involved with the liveaboard community. 

~Gail (M/V Infinity)

The Sloop Tavern YC burgee was stolen from the flagpole between 10 PM Saturday and 8 AM Sunday. The thief used a bolt cutter on the padlock. This makes four. They may have a total set of flags now and are done (doubtful). Anyone with any info on this or earlier cases please come forward, either here or the marina office or with the POS police.

BTW the camera on the pole nearby is non-operational according to the port.

Hi friends and neighbors, I’m writing a story for Pacific Yachting magazine about “liveaboard lessons” - those handy things you have discovered from living aboard your boat that might not be immediately obvious to non-liveaboard boaters, or might take them longer to figure out. I’ve had some great suggestions from those of you I’ve harrassed on the dock, but thought I’d also put the question out to the Shilshole blogosphere and would really love to get your input.

What are some things you’ve learned the hard way (or the damp way or the cold way!) that help make your boat a more comfortable place to spend your time? It could be ideas about storage, climate control, life in close quarters, easier docking, maintenance issues, sleeping configuration, pets onboard, grocery shopping, weather preparedness, the marina environment, stretching your boating dollar futher - pretty much anything you can think of that has improved your liveaboard lifestyle in some way.

Please share your thoughts either via the Shilshole Community blog or you can email me directly: charlotte at charlottefranklin dot net (I’ve written it in words rather than traditional email format to stop my address being bot-harvested, but you know what to do to turn it into an email address).

Many thanks for your participation. Happy to leave out names to protect the innocent so if you’d rather share anonymously just let me know.

Cheers,

Charlotte

S/V Pacific Orca, K-dock (soon to be J-dock!)

The Washington Liveaboard Association is putting on a First Aid/CPR course on Saturday February 23, from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm in the Shilshole Marina Office Conference Room. Providing the training will be Dana Atchison, a Certified Medic First Aid Instructor. Weather permitting, an outside demonstration of CPR in the cockpit of a sailboat is planned to simulate an offshore incident. Participants will receive a Basic First Aid and CPR certification card good for 2 years. The course is $40. Please reserve in advance by calling Eric Thoman at (206) 719-0976 or emailing kimeric@gocarefully.com.

Since December 11, 2007, there is a new blog in Ballard. I like it a lot: it looks like a great website to get the pulse of the neighborhood, talking about all the little things that happen around here, including the weather, with just enough user debates and gossip to make it interesting, without degenerating into mud slinging common on other blogs. It also has a pleasant design, no frills, no ads, and plenty of pretty or humorous pictures. The only other features are many good links, some traffic webcams and a map.

The photos mostly come from the “Ballard photo pool” on flickr, so anyone contributing to that pool could potentially see their photos end up on the site (not sure that’s their actual policy, but I’m assuming it is). That’s also something I envisioned for the Shilshole Blog, back in the day when our photo album was working a bit better.

For now the owners are anonymous, although they say they are “a Scandinavian couple, and one of us works in the information industry.”

That’s basically what I had hoped this blog would become, but maybe there just isn’t all that much to talk about at Shilshole? The Shilshole Blog has been lying a bit dormant lately, and that’s mostly because I don’t live at Shilshole anymore since I moved to Stimson Marina. But I’m keeping it alive, in case anyone feels up to using it.

http://myballard.com