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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:04:18 -0500, Gene Kearns
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:57:46 GMT, penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
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|That is clearly not what is happening around here, Bill. Up until this
|year, the "trailer sized" slips were all occupied, and there were
|waiting lists. Those smaller slips were mostly vacant this year. It
|was a huge and abrupt change.
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Same here.
I wonder if the $350/mo minimum plus utilities had anything to do with
it?
I store within .5 mile of the ramp, but I won't pay $350+ for a hole
in the water..... even though it isn't nearly as convenient.
No, the price of slips hasn't suddenly shot up at my Marina. The price
of fuel, however...
At my marina, boats under 20 feet pay a lower rate than the bigger
boats. I think last season they were paying about $50 or $55 a foot
for the 6 month season. I was paying twice that, which around here is
still on the low side. They get the cheaper rate mostly because those
smaller slips are in shallow water that would otherwise be of no use
at all.
You people are fortunate to have such reasonable slip prices.
Around here, (MA) a slip costs double that, at a minimum. Scituate's town
owned marina is over $100 per foot and that harbor's private marinas are at
least $125 to $130 per foot last time I checked.
Down here on the Cape the slips are $175/ft or more although there are a few
cheaper in some less desireable areas. Some marinas charge by the actual
boat LOA, some charge by the slip's capacity.
That's why we bought the slips rather than lease them. The market value of
the slip the Navigator is in has more than doubled since we bought it 6
years ago and there's a waiting list of buyers should we ever sell it. We
also get paid 85% of collected slip fees for transient boats that use the
slips if our boat is not in it. My son bought a slip even though he does
not own a boat. It's purely an investment and every fall he gets a check
for over 5K from the marina. When the time comes that he sells the slip,
he'll get a decent return plus will have collected the 5k every year he
owned it.
Although we pay no slip fees, we *do* pay a yearly fee for maintenance,
water and electricity.
So far those fees have been around $1400-$1600 for the season. If I leased
the slip we have the Navigator in, our seasonal cost would be just short of
$10k.
Eisboch