Harbour Authority Cortes Island (HACI) started taking applications for summer moorage spots at 9 AM on April 1st. 

Harbour Master Jenny Hartwick explained, “What’s happened over the last few years on Cortes, especially after Covid,  is we’ve seen a steady increase in summer visitors  and local residents getting out on the water. That puts additional pressure on the available moorage that we have at the docks.”

“The one point that I want to make really clear is we have ample space available for anyone who is looking for moorage at the docks. What we do not necessarily have available is moorage at your first choice dock.  We have some  areas of higher population density and the docks that are in those areas tend to be the most popular. For safety reasons, we cannot accommodate every single boat that puts in a request for moorage at those docks.  If we tried,  there would be too many security issues: be it vessels getting damaged or the possibility of people getting hurt and, literally, the facilities themselves wouldn’t be able to support the weight of all of the boats that we have asking to stay there.”