Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:54:58 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Chuck Gould wrote:
On Nov 28, 12:26?pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:57:46 GMT, wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:47:22 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:
Lots of the trailer size crowd also store their boats near a ramp. When you
look at the cost of leaving a boat in a slip, it is large. ?More bottom
paint and cleaning as well as the cost of the slip. ?Marina Del Rey, has
boat storage about 200 yards from the ramp. ?So someone can easily dump the
boat in the water for a couple hours fishing. ?Lots of ramp areas do the
same thing, nearby storage.
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.
They still insisting that you buy 25' of space for 20' boats?

That seems to be the norm around the Mystic area and northwards.- Hide quoted text -

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It's customary around here to rent out the slip based on its capacity.
Transient boaters staying for a night or two generally pay by the
foot, regardless of the slip to which they are assigned.

While some marinas might have 25 foot slips, darn few are going to
have 27 or 28 foot slips. In any market where the slips fill up, the
landlord has to realize that simply because a particular boat doesn't
occupy the entire available space in the slip, the entire slip has
effectively been rented. Nobody would want to fool with a 4-foot
jetsi also jammed into their space because their boat was only 26 foot
LOA and the slip was 30 feet.

You have rentals, Tom; when you rent a three bedroom house do you give
a discount to a family that only has one kid and doesn't really "need"
part of the house? :-)
That is the same way in Georgia. You pay for the slip size, and they
have maximum boat size allowed in each slip.

It isn't the same issue.

They have a minimum size - 25 feet if you have a 20 footer.

Well if you get the smallest covered slip size 10x26 and you have a 20
ft. boat, you will be paying the same as the 30 ft. boat. It really is
the same thing, they just go about it differently.