Remote work has spurred an uptick in homes being relocated to Hat Island.
HAT ISLAND — The homes were supposed to arrive by barge while most of the island was sleeping, but winter storms had shifted sand on the shoreline.
One was coming from Marysville, two more from British Columbia. After a week delay, they’re set to be unloaded Thursday evening onto the shores of Hat Island, a private island in Possession Sound between Everett and Whidbey Island. In the house-barging business, the sea has its own schedule.
The three houses are part of a recent wave of homes delivered to the island, which has 60 full-time residents, a golf course, yacht club and 110-slip marina. There are no stores or restaurants, and a gas pump opens for just an hour on weekends. A private ferry shuttles residents to and from the mainland.
Also known as Gedney Island, the isle is 443 acres, about the size of the average farm in the United States.
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