Pacific City Dorymens Association
The Board of Directors and the General Membership took the following actions at previous meetings of the Association: First, a policy statement was approved defining the dory fleet's "essential, traditional, and historic fishing grounds" between Cascade Head and Cape Lookout. The decision relates to the establishment of offshore energy facilities, marine reserves and other programs that may deny access to the dory fleet's fishery. Then, the membership approved a Board position in opposition to the Coast Guard's new bar crossing regulations and reaffirmed support for only two pilot marine reserves at Depoe Bay and Bandon with funding for the program to be obtained from sources within Oregon. Our Association has been represented at over 40 meetings since the first of this year.
1,000 copies of the Association's new beach safety flyers were distributed throughout the area. Some surfboarders still appear to be challenging vessel traffic in the designated dory launching and landing area north of the ramp, however.
2009 marks 50 years since the first "Dory Derby" in 1959 and an expanded celebration is planned for Dory Days on July 17 - 19. The new Memorial Wall will be dedicated at 2 PM on Sunday the 19th. The Association will participate with a booth exhibiting photos for sale depicting events of the past half-century. More volunteers are needed for this two-day weekend.
The next membership meeting is on Saturday, August 29, the weekend before Labor Day.
Dory skippers are again reminded to use the NOAA buoy data and weather links on the left side of this page. Know before you go !
Our Mission:
To protect, defend and promote the traditional cultural and economic values of the dory fleet, and specifically
To protect the usual and customary access to, and use of, the public beach at Cape Kiwanda for all the traditional activities associated with dory vessels, and
To maintain and improve all traditional vehicle and pedestrian access and vehicle parking on public lands at Cape Kiwanda, and
To support safety regulations consistent with traditional dory vessel practices, and
To actively seek laws and regulations that provide the maximum recreational and commercial fishing opportunities consistent with realistic conservation of the resources, and
To establish and support projects and events that promote the traditional, cultural, historic and educational values of the dory fleet.
--Amended and Approved August 28, 1999
