The wind finally gave us a break today. The breakwater has really been taking a beating. To our surprise the barge above belongs to Marco Dominguez who did the repair on the breakwater in December.The barge arrived in our marina this afternoon and I believe they are going to try again to repair the breakwater. They received only half their fee last time because the repair fell apart before the second half of the fee could be paid.
I'm not hearing good things about our "super pier". Jennifer Stephens and Amy Nunez from the GLO office in Corpus talked to Richey on Thursday and updated him on the pier permit process. I don't know what was said, but I'm hearing that they want to seriously scale back our plans. The new pier would be not a lot different from the old one. What our board misses by not keeping owners informed is that owners have a wide swath of experience and acquaintenceces and that is never utilized to help us. I know of at least one owner who has a good friend high up at the GLO and could, perhaps, be of help in the process. I'm hearing that the GLO does not want the pier 'T' to exceed 50 feet in length. The Fulton Pier 'T' is 300 feet in length. We don't need that much, but 100 feet would be nice. I think Justin has a good idea. He feels that if we qualify as commercial, then we may be granted a larger pier. It can not be underestimated the attractive nature that a super pier presents. If we had a pier anywhere close to the Fulton Pier, our rentals would be much better.