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Monday, November 27, 2006
 
Organizers of the annual Georgetown Wooden Boat Show are taking exception to some remarks made recently by Georgetown Police Chief Dan Furr about the October event.
At a recent Georgetown City Council retreat, the panel was discussing the possible creation of a new ordinance to govern special events in the city. During that discussion, Furr talked about some incidents that occurred at this year’s Wooden Boat Show.

He told council officers had to make several alcohol-related charges at the event.
Furr said state law allows beer and wine, with the proper permits, to be sold on public property but liquor falls under a different category. He said the sale and consumption of liquor must be contained within four walls and no one can be on the streets with that type of alcoholic beverage. He said the organizers of the Wooden Boat Show were granted permission by the state to serve beer, wine and liquor inside the big tent that was erected for the event.

“The people in the sponsor tent opened the sides of the tent and we had a big problem with people holding drinks walking in and out and they could not be on the streets with the drinks,” Furr said. “We warned them arrests would be made if they were outside the tent and some of them said they didn’t care.”
Citations were issued to several people and one man, who apparently had too much to drink, was arrested for disorderly conduct.

There were also several instances, Furr said, of people walk

ing from the restaurants onto the Harborwalk boardwalk with alcohol. He said it was the first time there has been a significant problem at the boat show, which has been held for 17 years.

The Harbor Historical Association (HHA), which organizes the Wooden Boat Show and the Big Blow Auction which is held the night before the boat show, issued a written response which states the auction and boat show are two separate events.
The letter states the arrests referred to by Furr did not occur at the boat show, but at the auction.
 
Thursday, November 16, 2006
  Festival of wooden boat
Problems at this year’s Wooden Boat Show are causing Georgetown City Council to look at creating a new policy to govern special events that are held on public property.
Georgetown Police Chief Dan Furr told Council at a recent retreat that his officers had to make several alcohol-related charges at the Wooden Boat Show which was held October 21 on Front Street.

“We will have to devote more officers to it. This is the first time we had a significant problem (at the Wooden Boat Show),” Furr said. “We need a special events policy that mandates that organizers of the events carefully manage what is going on. Very few cities in South Carolina allow alcohol on the streets for any reason.”
Council member Peggy Wayne, organizer of the annual Harborwalk Festival and Christmas Parade, said she welcomes tighter restrictions on public alcohol consumption.

“We don’t allow it at all at Harborwalk or the parade. We don’t want beer or wine or anything like that there,” Wayne said.
Mayor Lynn Wood Wilson asked city staff to draft a special events ordinance and bring it to Council for consideration. No time table was given for the creation of the new law.
 
Monday, November 06, 2006
  Festival of July
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Solstice Parade - The Solstice Parade is the official kick-off of the Fremont Fair. Over the past 20 years, the Fremont Arts Council has been a non-profit organization celebrating art and creative expression. The Solstice parade has become popular not only with the locals in Fremont, but with hundreds of people from Seattle and beyond. The parade celebrates not only the beginning of summer, but a love of art and community. Location: Fremont

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Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival - The Wooden Boat Festival is an annual event celebrating one of the most favorite pastimes of Seattlites - Boating. The festival includes a regatta and people’s choice awards. Location: Lake Union

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Wednesday, November 01, 2006
  What about those little chips and dings in the gelcoat?
In today's world, it seems that almost any topic is open for debate. While I was gathering facts for this article, I was quite surprised to find some of the issues I thought were settled are actually still being openly discussed.

Many books have been written on fiberglass repair and it isn't the intent of this article to cover the subject in any depth but many small repairs are well within the reach of a fairly skilled do-it-yourselfer. Like anything else though, if you have never done it before, "consult an expert."

I've been building and repairing in fiberglass since I was 14 and while the first wooden boat I glassed was water tight and lasted a good many years, it was far from pretty. The small investment you lay out for expert repair now will pay big dividends when your boat sells at the price you want.

Truthfully, the only difference between you and wooden boat experts is time. If you'll invest a little more time in reading, you'll be that much nearer to expert status when it comes to wooden boat.

In the Emerald Coast region the standard fees for compound/waxing run between $15.00/ft. and $18.00/ft. for the topside (rub-rail up) which includes a thorough cleaning and treatment of the vinyl, windows, isenglass, and metal. In other words, for the price of doing the "hard" part we'll detail the entire topsides and leave it in "ready-to-show" condition. Hulls (rub-rail down) run about $8.00/ft. but, of course, the boat must be out of the water in order to do it. (This walking on water with a hi-speed electric buffer in hand is still beyond me, but I'll let you know;-)

Fiberglass repair runs from $45.00 to $65.00 per hour and in general as with most everything else, one gets what one pays for. The up side to this is that when approached in a professional manner the dents and dings of ten years hard use can be repaired and made to look like new in an amazingly short time.

All too often we have seen people save $300.00 or $400.00 on a detail only to loose $Thousands$ on what their boat could have sold for. Then too, our local marinas are clogged with many examples of boats with "For Sale" signs which were never given the least bit of attention to make the passer by want to stop and think, "Hey, I wonder what it would be like to call that boat mine." Some of these boats have sat for years when all they ever really needed was a little T.L.C.

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