We enjoy coming into Port Angeles on our sailboat.
But seriously, we feel you are missing the boat (pun intended).
The Port Angeles Boat Haven is strategically located along the Strait of Juan de Fuca and offers safe refuge to boaters seeking shelter from gale-force winds.
The friendly fuel dock staff top off your fuel tank, gives you a slip and points you in the direction of a much-needed shower.
If you want a nice breakfast or lunch it is a short walk to the excellent Empossible Eden Cafe.
However, the Boat Haven does not have a laundry.
Boaters make a 2-mile round-trip walking to the coin-op laundry, carrying their large laundry bags.
There are four restrooms on the east end of the marina.
Convert one of the two public restrooms into a unisex restroom and the other one into a small yet useful laundry facility.
One or two washer-dryers, a card lock door, a chair or two and a shelf of books that boaters can take one-leave one, and you have increased the allure of the Boat Haven immensely.
And why in the name of Neptune is there no chandlery in Port Angeles?
Perhaps the city, Port of Port Angeles and Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce could work together to offer incentives for a small marine-supply store and perhaps a dinner place on the port property.
We love exploring Port Angeles and have happily stayed in the marina as is, and will return.
Perhaps one day we will do our laundry at the marina and enjoy a nice dinner nearby.
Pam and Carl Corey,
Portland, Ore.