Nov 23, 2024 Update
In January 2024 FOSILS Board of Directors formulated a 3-year Strategic Plan.
2024 was the year to raise funding to repair our tower catwalk
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 your 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 restoration of the tramway to a functioning state. 2025 is the year of the dock, the next step in our strategic plan.
Our conceptual design is done:
With the conceptual design we can break the stages of our project into the following basic stages;
FOSILS began the next step of detailed design, detailed cost estimating, and licensing. We have also selected a program manager from our members who has volunteered to herd all the cats involved in design and construction.
FUNDING
There is still something missing…. Ah yes, how to pay for this. The new dock and tramway restoration are the most aggressive (i.e., expensive) endeavors ever undertaken by FOSILS. Our rough estimate for the dock is in the ballpark of one million dollars. We need a design that will withstand what mother nature will throw at us.
Though the generosity of an anonymous donor, we have received a challenge. Our donor has given us $100,000 towards the dock and will match the next $400,000. This means that if we can raise $400,000 our anonymous donor will match $400,000. This will bring our dock fund to $900,000.
OUR PROGRESS
The month of November has been amazing for this project. We already received a $100,000 donation to be matched bringing our progress in the first half of November to $300,000.
We can do this! For our past visitors, please dig deep to help make a dock at Seguin a reality. For those who haven’t come to the island because of the difficulty in landing on the island, you can help solve that problem. Every donation, large or small, will make a difference.
Click here to donate to our Anniversary Campaign!
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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