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NEWS AND EVENTS CALENDAR Fisherman's Resort & Marina Scroll to bottom for Calendar of Events FISHERMAN'S' HISTORY Jo & Peter Benjafield first bought the small live-bait and boat rental business at the entrance to Garden Bay in 1961 and transformed it into a resort and marina. Wally & Sue Nowik continued to build its reputation as a spectacular base for fishing, hiking, boating, SCUBA diving, sunset watching and just plain relaxing. David Pritchard and Jennifer Love took over the property in April 2005, and have been very busy ever since upgrading and improving the facilities, while maintaining the “1960s west-coast village” ambience that continues to attract so many returning customers. IMPROVEMENTS SINCE APRIL 2005 New septic system installed, servicing most of the marina and resort. Most hydro cables converted to underground. Major improvements were completed on the docks. Cabin 1 (Prawn Palace) had a new shower installed and was completely repainted. Cabin 2 (Oyster Shack) was enlarged and completely renovated Cabins 3 & 4 were repainted The shop/office received a new roof and front deck as well as a fresh new look inside. The marina washrooms were repainted and improved; There’s a new deck at the top of the ramp to the docks
Above: Shop/office renovation completed spring 2007
David and Jennifer
Sunset at Fisherman's, August 2007
HMCS Oriole - a 101 ft. Canadian Navy sail training ship - visited Fisherman's in the summer of 2006
In May 2006, a group of 14 Grand Banks boats, on a tour celebrating 50 years of GB boatbuilding, stopped in on their way to Alaska. This picture of David and Rosie showed up in the September 2006 issue of Passagemaker magazine. Below: Bill Thompson's 1943 Curtis seaplane, just across the bay from us, is always an attraction - he puts on quite a performance on the evenings when he decides to take it up.
NEW FLOAT PLANE SERVICE: PAINTED BOAT Resort, Spa & Marina has made arrangements with Saltspring Island Air of Saltspring Island (www.saltspringair.com) to begin regular air service to their dock at Madeira Park as of May 8, 2009. The details are as follows: The cost per person is $79 plus GST and is payable by credit card through Saltspring Air. Toll free 1-877-537-9880. Cancellations less than 48 hours in advance will forfeit 50% of your ticket price and less than 24 hours, 100% There are 7 seats in each flight (DeHavilland DHc-2 Beaver airplanes) and in order to achieve such low pricing they do need to sell at least 4 on every flight. For information contact Salt Spring Air (1 877 537 9880) or admin@paintedboat.com. (1 604 883 2456). Painted Boat website: www.paintedboat.com
CALENDAR OF EVENTS - Click on underlined items to link to their websites. APRIL 2009
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