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Spring is in the air! Birds are flying through, tulips are blooming and boaters are waking up from their winter slumbers. We are seeing more and more people every day down on the docks. We have a pretty robust crew of boat mechanics down here. While they stay busy all winter, things really ramp up for them in spring and you can see them all bustling. Boats are getting cleaned off, engines getting prepared for the coming season and things are finally starting to warm up.

The winter moorage people are all gone, freeing up F dock for the Swinomish Yacht Club's annual spring parade the first S...