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FL West Coast DIY yards
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charlotte harbour boat storage inc., on the upper west side of charlotte harbour, punta gorda, entrance through boca grande pass great yard, 4 dollars a foot for storage, six miles up a fresh water canal[ to rinse out your cooling]. probably full for this year but look them up.the owner ," joe' knows everything , he used to build the brewer 42' at ft myers yacht and ship building. can't say enough. sincerely, colin Thanks for the note... We were, in fact, headed there on several advices from this and other groups (having first determined that All American Boat Storage was just that - you can't do *anything* on your boat, nor can any contractor, there; it's next door, literally). A visit to the site suggested nothing alarming, other than the boats were rafted well over half the width of the channel, waiting for the remaining (the other was in pieces in the yard) lift. However, we ran *hard* aground trying to get up the channel, while still in the harbor. Many phone calls and VHF later, we determined that the most optimistic depth at high tide to get into the tributary under the locks was 5-6. We draw over 6, and had been told by several at both yards that coming in at high tide would be fine. Well, it wasn't a fine, but it acted like one, on stupidity, because it cost us many hundreds of bux to get pulled off the mud. I can't speak to their service. However, I can definitively tell you that you can't get there with any more than 5-6, and then, it's at high tide, optimistically. Lydia's still steaming, over 8 weeks later. Cheap is good, but only when you can get to it... L8R Skip and Lydia -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig http://tinyurl.com/384p2 "And then again, when you sit at the helm of your little ship on a clear night, and gaze at the countless stars overhead, and realize that you are quite alone on a great, wide sea, it is apt to occur to you that in the general scheme of things you are merely an insignificant speck on the surface of the ocean; and are not nearly so important or as self-sufficient as you thought you were. Which is an exceedingly wholesome thought, and one that may effect a permanent change in your deportment that will be greatly appreciated by your friends." - James S. Pitkin On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:12:26 GMT, "Skip Gundlach" wrote: Well, since I'm having very little luck finding inexpensive yards on the FTL side (though I did pick up the yellow pages from every county between Miami and Melbourne and will be calling to confirm my ad-hoc findings from this and other sources), I'm now looking on the other side. This is enhanced in two parts: The first is that I've had a craftsman recommended by a 20+ year user, and he's recently moved from FTL to STP. So, the one I'd likely use is on the west coast, anyway. The second is that during my recent trip (same as retrieving yellow pages) I picked up an ad-type mag in Sailorman, and found a few west coast listings which were on the order of half to a quarter of the apparent 'bargain price' of the FTL area yards, and *those* prices were on the order of half the non-bargain prices. So, we're thinking in terms of doing a shakedown cruise from the presumed point of sale (if the one we're trying on doesn't succeed, there's another over there - and our third choice is in STP!) over to somewhere on the west coast. Do any of you have experience or knowledge of DIY yards anywhere on the FL west coast between the Keys and Clearwater, but preferably not further south than, say, Fort Meyers? Actually, we're rather enthused about the thought of that sail, so unless I find something to equal (i.e. $3-6 a foot per month) on the east side, we'll come over to the Gulf. The only wrinkle which makes it a bit nervous-making is the thought that when we go, and have a total of 20 days to get out of FL, since we'll be headed east, it might be dicey on the time to splash it given the weather windows for the Bahamas crossing. Thanks for any help! L8R Skip and Lydia -- "And then again, when you sit at the helm of your little ship on a clear night, and gaze at the countless stars overhead, and realize that you are quite alone on a great, wide sea, it is apt to occur to you that in the general scheme of things you are merely an insignificant speck on the surface of the ocean; and are not nearly so important or as self-sufficient as you thought you were. Which is an exceedingly wholesome thought, and one that may effect a permanent change in your deportment that will be greatly appreciated by your friends."- James S. Pitkin |
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