KBWBS Looks For A Home Ashore

Since its inception in 1992, the Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Festival has depended on living rooms, barns, yurts and yards to house its meetings, materials, vessels and supplies. While we’ve had a fine time and many potluck dinners, we’ve realized that our organization has outgrown its britches.

As a result, the KBWBS has begun the process of applying to the City of Homer to lease a small parcel on the Homer Spit to serve as a focus for our activities. After meeting with folks from the Harbor and City, we decided that the best location for us would be down by the Fishing Hole, by the Pier One Theater, where we can access the beach and be slightly out of the way of the daily bustle on the Spit.

Our plan is to erect a small structure there that can shelter our increasing collection of vessels, and also provide a location for the small boat construction and restoration classes that we’ve always dreamed of offering to the community of Homer.

We’re going to need help to make it happen, though, and you can be a part of that by becoming a member. Click on the link above to learn more about membership in your local Wooden Boat Society; it doesn’t take much, and it helps a lot. Thanks!