I can load the dive gear at home right into the boat.
Unload when we get home.
No schelpping 200 pounds of dive gear down the pier.
and back up the pier.

Gas station prices are bad enough.

One state reserve we love to dive requires that you launch there,
not come in from outside (actually, there's a way around that,
but it's more work than launching there).

I can work on the boat in the garage.

My garage is more secure than a marina.




"*JimH*" wrote in message
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We have always docked, except when we had our 16 foot tri-hull at the
beginning of our boating experience.

So now we have a 20 footer (actually closer to a 21 footer) on a trailer
with no dock till next year.

Our experience so far...............ramp fees, congestion at the ramps,
attitudes at the ramps, cost to trailer the boat to/from the ramp. damage
to the boat from trailering...............yikes.

We will dock the boat next year. The $900 dockage fee is well worth it
for us.

We can always load the boat on the trailer for maintenance and winter
storage off site from the marina.

So why do you trailer your boat?