Today's July 22 LaDaSun has an interview on the community sailing that's proposed for Ellacoya. Any chance someone can post the article into this thread?
Say, if Ellacoya is a total no-go for a community sailing location, then how's about renting out a 99-year lease down at the totally unoccupied and unused Camp Monotomy down on Meredith Neck, close to Buoy 3. It is a former girl scout camp that is owned by the Girl Scouts in Massachusetts, and the camp has been closed for about eight years now. Absolutely nothing is happening at Camp Monotomy and they have a beautifull large piece of land with a huge waterfront that is home to one black bear and no one else.
As a property tax exempt former girl scout camp owned by the Girl Scouts, maybe they could use some rental income coming from a non-profit community sailing association just to help them cover their non-taxes? Maybe you want to jump on this opportunity before the Lakes Region Conservation Trust buys it and it becomes a wilderness in perpituity, that gets used by no one except the black bear that's already there?
In case anyone was wondering, the Squam community sailing program, waterfront and building(s) are on land that was formerly a traditional style motel on Rt 3-25 in Holderness which was purchased by the Squam Lakes Assoc in about the year 2000, and it seems to get a lot of use and now has a great big barn building named the Fisher Family Activities Barn.
www.squamlakes.org/programs/boating.php