LISEC Bayles Boat Shed
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Workshop Report: Part 4
The red building has been salvaged and repurposed by the Town at great expense. It began life as a steel structure for the Bayles Boat Yard. Now it serves as a Community Center, and houses the offices of Parks and Rec, and an extensive exhibit of historic photos relating to shipbuilding on this very site.
Our work is being carried out behind and to the right. The campground and yacht club (showers) are further along the coast/park access road that we have completely cluttered up with timber carts and shipping containers.
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Left: Marking the entrance to the Community Center where we take most of our meals and all of our meetings is this huge forged anchor recovered from the salty depths and restored for display by the local Boy Scouts. |
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Right: The new park features this remarkable stone and steel sculpture right on the water's edge. The boat hull is fashioned from small-gauge railroad rail. The human figures represent the different periods of boatbuilding history in Port Jefferson. 
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But just the shortest of walks from our island paradise, the real world and its fears intrude, as evidenced by this notice at the adjacent ferry dock. |
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TFG Bridge Division: This was made by Rainer and Ansel Koehn (9 and 5) adjacent to our work site.
This is the first Guild job I have ever been on that involved paving during the event. The crews rush to finish the park before the weather turns bad again. They have given us as much room as they have to spare, but by 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon they were getting way too close.
New paving and the old anchor: perspective from the second floor of the Center, during a quiet moment in the daily leadership team meeting.