The fuel dock serving Cap Sante Boat Haven is nicknamed “Fido’s Fuel,” a station offering competitively priced fuel, supplies … and delicious ice cream bars.
Live music on the Anacortes waterfront, at a price you can’t beat: FREE! Starting next month the Port of Anacortes will host a series of Friday night concerts at the recently-reopened Seafarers’ Memorial Park, adjacent to Cap Sante Boat Haven. What a great way to celebrate our priceless Fidalgo Island waterfront.
This scene is just a hint of things to come at Seafarers’ Memorial Park on the Anacortes waterfront. The park, owned and operated by the Port of Anacortes, re-opened Friday after two years of an environmental cleanup. Other “upgrades” include public amenities such as benches, picnic tables, pier and dock. Colored algae growth on the […]
Among hundreds of people celebrating the Friday re-opening of Seafarers’ Memorial Park was remote control boat enthusiast Vic Childs. Vic also “plays” with a sailboat of the lifesize variety.
It was a perfect day to mark the culmination of a years-long reclamation project at Seafarers’ Memorial Park, the shoreline park owned and operated by residents of the Anacortes Port District. A sun-splashed Mt. Baker loomed on the horizon as hundreds of Re-opening guests explored the waterfront site that is destined to draw crowds for […]
Guests at the Port’s Opening Day of Boating Season event last Saturday were given an opportunity to preview the soon-to-be-reopened Seafarers’ Memorial Park on Fidalgo Bay. Improvements include a new pier and small craft dock, which kayakers will love. Visible in the distance is Cap Sante and the Rotary Park gazebo.
A parade of boats was just one of numerous events scheduled Saturday at Cap Sante Boat Haven for the opening day of Boating Season 2011. Other activities included sea shanties, brief speeches, a blessing of the fleet, clam chowder luncheon and a tour of the soon-to-reopen Seafarers’ Memorial Park.
Architect Jeremy McNett holds a scale model of the new Port of Anacortes building that will be occupied by tenant Puget Sound Rope. A groundbreaking ceremony for the project was held Friday morning, attended by Port staff, Puget Sound Rope representatives, two port commissioners, Mayor Dean Maxwell, Chamber of Commerce Director Stephanie Hamilton and others.
This photograph taken from the hill near Grandview Cemetery shows a changing Fidalgo Bay shoreline. In the foreground is Anacortes Marina. Above is Cap Sante Boat Haven, a public marina protected by a new configuration of breakwaters. A new pier will serve the small boat community from Seafarers’ Memorial Park, which also features an environmentally […]
Welders by the dozens are at work on a variety of vessel construction and maintenance projects at Dakota Creek Industries in Anacortes.
Just one month before the re-opening of Seafarers’ Memorial Park, the Port of Anacortes Wednesday posted a new electric sign at the intersection of Seafarers Way and “Q” Avenue. A Meyers Sign crew made up of Rich Joneli and Brett Entrikin (pictured) placed the sign and the first of several tenant panels (whale watching). Lights […]
Port of Anacortes staff members recently toured sulfur processing facilities near the intersection of Highway 20 and Farm to Market Road. Sulex, a Canadian-based company, is almost done building a storage facility that will allow increased production. Sulex, which converts a refinery byproduct to “prilled” sulfur signed an agreement to ship finished product across docks […]