At the Lake Worth Lagoon Symposium I met a woman who handles grants for Florida Inland Navigation District. She was positive about getting money for Lake Worth Waterfront improvements.
Yesterday she sent me an additional source of funding: Florida Fish & Wildlife
BOATING INFRASTRUCTURE: Features providing stopover places for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels to tie up, including (but not limited to):
• Mooring buoys -- permanently anchored floats designed to tie up non-trailerable
recreational vessels;
• Day-docks -- tie-up facilities that do not allow overnight use;
• Navigational aids -- channel markers, buoys, and directional information;
• Transient slips -- slips that boaters with non-trailerable recreational vessels occupy for no
more than 10 consecutive days;
• Safe harbors – facilities protected from waves, wind, tides, ice, current, etc., that provide
a temporary safe anchorage point or harbor of refuge during storms;
• Floating docks and fixed piers:
• Floating and fixed breakwaters;
• Dinghy docks – floating or fixed platforms that boaters with non-trailerable recreational
vessels use for a temporary tie-up of their small boats to reach the shore;
• Restrooms;
• Retaining walls;
• Bulkheads;
• Dockside utilities;
• Pumpout stations;
• Recycling and trash receptacles;
• Dockside electric service;
• Dockside water supplies;
• Dockside pay telephones;
• Debris deflection booms; and
• Marine fueling stations.
There is no reason why we couldn't get funding to support our sailing club--or to in some way enhance the LW waterfront.
Ted
