July-August , 2025 Update
In January 2024 FOSILS Board of Directors formulated a 3-year Strategic Plan.
2024 was the year to raise funding to open our tower catwalk
On Jan 11, 2025 the Board of Directors met to review our progress and update FOSILS’ 3 year plan through to the year 2027. Our Parapet will be open this summer and 2025 will be the Year of the Dock.
2025- SEGUIN DOCK CAMPAIGN
THE YEAR OF THE DOCK
The next milestone in our Strategic Plan is a dock for the island. There are many visitors who like the Robert Louis Stevenson “Treasure Island” approach of landing on the beach and dragging their dinghy up and down to accommodate the tides. Those admirable “die-hards” who still want to continue to do so can still do that. But the need for a dock is two-fold, one for our other visitors and the other for FOSILS to safely land supplies and equipment on the island. For example, in the future we will need to land and install is EXTREMELY expensive, historically accurate windows in the keeper’s house. Offloading a window worth thousands of dollars from a boat into a dinghy, rowing it ashore, hauling it up over the rocks to the stairs, and carrying it up the trail to the house 24 times is playing the odds of something extremely expensive going wrong. We need a dock and a functioning tramway before windows, so windows are in the future. First, we need a dock and then a way to safely transport large expensive and bulky material up to the station. 2025 is the year of the dock, the next step in our strategic plan.
Our design is done:
FOSILS has completed detailed design, detailed cost estimating, and permitting. The Army Corp of Engineers and the EPA have approved our permits. Because of the island’s status of a bird sanctuary, work cannot begin until Fall. We are now reviewing bids to award contracts. Granite cribwork will be laid this Fall and the dock is expected to be completed by the end of Autumn. Ramp and Float award and construction will be performed during the winter. Final installation and assembly will is planned to be complete before June 1, 2026.
We are now forming our 2026 plan to restore our tramway to an operational status.
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Tip Koehler
Capital Campaign Chair
Friends of Seguin Island Light Station
207-522-1690
roofclimber@hotmail.com (I know, an unusual address. Make a donation and I’ll tell you the story)
OUR MISSION
To distinguish Seguin Island Light Station as part of Maine’s maritime heritage through Education and Preservation
OUR VISION FOR THE FUTURE
Friends of Seguin Island Light Station is a successfully funded organization able to maintain this National Historic Landmark and provide safe access to all who visit the island
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Responsibility
Respect
Community
Honesty
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