January, 2009

I will be attending our Michigan Small Harbors Coalition meeting in Mt. Pleasant on Tuesday, January 27. This meeting will include representatives from Sen. Stabenow and Sen. Levin as well as the USACE. It should be very informative with discussions about the upcoming stimulus bill along with appropriation requests for this upcoming year. I am also in conversation with the state to try and secure some funding. I am including in this blog an email received from the owner of a moored sailboat that sank in our harbor this fall and a picture. It is now unsafe to even anchor a boat in our harbor when the winds are out of the northeast. This is the second boat to sink in our “Harbor of Refuge”. A couple of years ago, we had a vessel sink that was docked at our marina. This shows our need to rebuild the breakwater in this harbor. We must find the funding to accomplish this task, or there will be no port on this 90 mile stretch of Lake Superior.

Thank you, Jack Hubbard, Burt Township Supervisor