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Seeing the paucity of marina space in South FL and the extreme cost
makes me wonder what will happen as prices for slips continue to rise.
Most of you do not seem to consider $300/month for a slip to be extreme
but I consider it to be absurd. Most boats I see in marinas seem to
leave their slips no more than once a month. For power boats, there is
always storage available on land but this is rarely done with sailboats
but it might make sense. Consider that it no longer makse economic
sense to operate a marina on the water as the property is simply to
valuable to be used that way. Even here in N. FL. we see old marinas
being bought and condos being built on the land eliminating marina
space. Property values drop exponentially with distance from the water
with that only a block from the water often being a tenth the cost of
waterfront.

The problem is that the environmental lobby won't allow any new
docks/marinas. They have such idiotic regulations as to make a mockery of
government. For instance, in turbid waters they have restrictions on docks
because the dock shades the water and seagrass can't grow. Turbid means
dark water, it occludes the light and seagrass can't grow anyway!!

Environmentalists like the very left in politics assumes that people are the
problem and do anything they can to eliminate them from the water. No new
docks, marinas...idle speed in almost all waterways, discurage development
in all areas. This raises the cost of existing waterfront property.