Greetings from Tom & Ann Taylor.
We sincerely hope you enjoy your stay at Greenway Sound Marine
Resort. Let us know if you would like anything to make your visit to Greenway Sound Marine Resort more pleasant.
Greenway Sound Marine Resort was built from a bare bay, beginning in 1985. We are Greenway Sound Marine Resort's only owners, and created the entire facility.
Thomas S. Taylor, 69, grew up in the Cincinnati area, graduating from the Univ. of Cincinnati, then moving to Seattle in 1963. In 1967, Tom created the fuel dock at Berg's Marina on Lake Union known as North Star Marina. Tom was the inventor of the Octopus Oil Changer for boats, which was the prototype for the Minit-Lube for cars. The fuel dock was sold to Dean & Donna Morrison in 1977. They are still there.
Ann and her two children, Michael and Christine, joined Tom in life in 1979. Ann had graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Geography. Ann also had gained some very valuable experience in an upscale Seattle restaurant, which would come into use at Greenway Sound Marine Resort and it's fine restaurant was created.
Ann & Tom together developed the Cruise North program, which envisioned support marinas every fifty miles or so in the Northern half of the Inside Passage, and into Alaska. This experience and knowledge came from delivering and retreiving yachts along the coast. There simply are not enough facilities in that vast area to support a growing boating population. Ann & Tom made 12 trips up and down the coast.
After an unsuccessful attempt in 1982-3 to turn around the destiny of Butedale, a former cannery town, it was decided to try to develop an all-new facility, designed just for boats. Ann & Tom took the remnants of Butedale and another project, and started Greenway Sound Marine Resort in 1985. The rest is history, so to speak.
Tom invented the PVC-cedar dock system for Greenway Sound Marine Resort that ultimately became the NOR*CAT float, sold throughout the Northwest. Ann, through extensive research, put together the fine restaurant that is at Greenway Sound Marine Resort today. Tom put together the generator system and the water system, while Ann worked out supply routes with Beaver float planes for food and supplies for the store and restaurant. Tom built communications systems while Ann developed a staff of four to six people each season.
Now it is your turn. Come see what Greenway Sound Marine Resort is all about. You will like it.
