Great article here from the Kitsap Sun’s Nathan Pilling about the proposed liveaboard spaces in Eagle Harbor and how the island’s rowing club will be impacted…
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – A city proposal to add a handful of new liveaboard mooring spaces in the city’s open water marina in Eagle Harbor has officials with Bainbridge Island Rowing worried about the future of their club.
The added boats would sit in part of the rowing circuit the club’s shells have glided through for years, according to club leaders. A series of private buoys on the southern edge of the marina prevent safe navigation in that area, and asking rowers to navigate through the expanded field of boats is a nonstarter, they said.
According to the city, 11 boats have assigned residential spots in the northern areas of the Dave Ullin Open Water Marina, a designated space for boats to anchor in the middle of Eagle Harbor. Under a pair of proposals considered by the Bainbridge City Council on Tuesday (Feb. 12), the city would build additional liveaboard spots and fill up the majority of the space throughout the marina by constructing 16 single-point mooring spaces for residential boats.
