FHA Board Meeting Notes – June 20, 2016

To keep everyone up to date on what the FHA Board has been doing, here’s a bullet list of the important and interesting things that happened at the June 20, 2016 Board Meeting: Members of the Point San Pablo floating homes community attended the meeting and asked questions about steps necessary to purchase their marina. Jim...

Fire Safety

Gabe Woods of FireMaster is back to service & supply our fire extinguishers. The recharge fee is $15, or you can buy new fire extinguishers for $50. Saturday July 30—from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.—at the foot of Issaquah. Fire extinguishers require routine care and maintenance. When used properly, a...

Issy Goes Home

  On June 17th Issy was released into the Pacific Ocean, at Chimney Rock, alongside 11 other very plump and healthy harbor seals with whom Issy had been spending lots of time—at the Marine Mammal Center —these past 3 months. As I opened the crate to let him out, he...

Tour Tix Selling Fast

  Nearly half of the 500 advance tickets being offered for our September 24 Open Homes Tour have already been sold—before we’ve even issued our first press release. Congratulations to JoAnn Dunaway for arranging for two busloads of folks from the Sacramento area, and to our social media pros, Windy...

Toads Stage Triumphant Comeback!

  After a three-year hiatus, dozens of floating homes residents and friends dusted off their humming toadfish t-shirts and kazoos to march in the Sausalito Fourth of July Parade. Led by mermaids Michele Affronte and 10-year-old Clare Vu, along with Keith Shaw as Neptune, the kazoo band drew smiles and...

A Solo Sailing Race to Hawaii

On July 2, Issaquah resident Jiří Šenkyřík set sail, racing across the Pacific ocean to Hawaii – solo. The Singlehanded TransPac 2016, the 20th edition, is a race from San Francisco (Tiburon) to Hanalei, on the north shore of Kauaʻi. This year, 22 men and one woman are participating, using...