basskisser wrote:
JimH wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
JimH wrote:
........cost you this year? How big is your dock and what amenities
does your marina offer?

For us, $1,525. Drive up dock, 25 foot floater with water, electric
and dock box. The marina has 250 slips total, a pool, clubhouse and
top notch mechanics. The owners (3rd generation) live on site.

http://www.romps.com/

We moved to this marina because of our bad experiences with the dufus
*OMC Certified* mechanics at the marina we were at last year.

So how about you?

Moved from open moorage (about $5k per year in a "public" marina) to
covered moorage at over $6k. My covered moorage is something of a
"deal", as the owner plans to leave the cover on and pass along the
cost of meeting the new fire codes. Will probably be $7k - $8k per year
at that point. It's possible to pay the same per month for open moorage
in this area if you don't shop carefully- and the moorage market
hereabouts is always a sellers market. Fixed or diminishing supply,
increasing demand.


It sounds like a deal, considering a 12 month moorage, the size of the
slip (based on what I know about your boat) and the fact that it is
covered.

Our contract is only from April 1 to November1.

Regarding Bassies comment about the pool......I agree to a point. When
boating conditions are right and the Lake temp is warm enough we prefer
to swim off the boat at our local swimming spots. However, there are
many times when bad seas keep us off the Lake. In those instances,
having a pool at the marina is a plus.

If the weather is crappy enough to keep you off of the lake, then isn't
it usually crappy enough to keep you out of the pool??

I was not talking about the weather. I was talking about the
conditions on the Lake. There are many times where where the weather
but we see small craft warnings are in effect.

JimH wrote:
basskisser wrote:
JimH wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
JimH wrote:
........cost you this year? How big is your dock and what amenities
does your marina offer?

For us, $1,525. Drive up dock, 25 foot floater with water, electric
and dock box. The marina has 250 slips total, a pool, clubhouse and
top notch mechanics. The owners (3rd generation) live on site.

http://www.romps.com/

We moved to this marina because of our bad experiences with the dufus
*OMC Certified* mechanics at the marina we were at last year.

So how about you?

Moved from open moorage (about $5k per year in a "public" marina) to
covered moorage at over $6k. My covered moorage is something of a
"deal", as the owner plans to leave the cover on and pass along the
cost of meeting the new fire codes. Will probably be $7k - $8k per year
at that point. It's possible to pay the same per month for open moorage
in this area if you don't shop carefully- and the moorage market
hereabouts is always a sellers market. Fixed or diminishing supply,
increasing demand.


It sounds like a deal, considering a 12 month moorage, the size of the
slip (based on what I know about your boat) and the fact that it is
covered.

Our contract is only from April 1 to November1.

Regarding Bassies comment about the pool......I agree to a point. When
boating conditions are right and the Lake temp is warm enough we prefer
to swim off the boat at our local swimming spots. However, there are
many times when bad seas keep us off the Lake. In those instances,
having a pool at the marina is a plus.

If the weather is crappy enough to keep you off of the lake, then isn't
it usually crappy enough to keep you out of the pool??

I was not talking about the weather. I was talking about the
conditions on the Lake. There are many times where where the weather
but we see small craft warnings are in effect.

Huh?

JimH wrote:
basskisser wrote:
JimH wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
JimH wrote:
........cost you this year? How big is your dock and what amenities
does your marina offer?

For us, $1,525. Drive up dock, 25 foot floater with water, electric
and dock box. The marina has 250 slips total, a pool, clubhouse and
top notch mechanics. The owners (3rd generation) live on site.

http://www.romps.com/

We moved to this marina because of our bad experiences with the dufus
*OMC Certified* mechanics at the marina we were at last year.

So how about you?

Moved from open moorage (about $5k per year in a "public" marina) to
covered moorage at over $6k. My covered moorage is something of a
"deal", as the owner plans to leave the cover on and pass along the
cost of meeting the new fire codes. Will probably be $7k - $8k per year
at that point. It's possible to pay the same per month for open moorage
in this area if you don't shop carefully- and the moorage market
hereabouts is always a sellers market. Fixed or diminishing supply,
increasing demand.


It sounds like a deal, considering a 12 month moorage, the size of the
slip (based on what I know about your boat) and the fact that it is
covered.

Our contract is only from April 1 to November1.

Regarding Bassies comment about the pool......I agree to a point. When
boating conditions are right and the Lake temp is warm enough we prefer
to swim off the boat at our local swimming spots. However, there are
many times when bad seas keep us off the Lake. In those instances,
having a pool at the marina is a plus.

If the weather is crappy enough to keep you off of the lake, then isn't
it usually crappy enough to keep you out of the pool??

I was not talking about the weather. I was talking about the
conditions on the Lake. There are many times where the weather
is good with high temps and sunny skies but we see small craft warnings in effect on the Lake.

Edit......damn pain medicine.

Chuck Gould wrote:

A few years ago, our local marina owners' association hired an advisor
to speak at one of their meetings. His message: "Raise your moorage
rates constantly. Do not try to keep your rates down to where your
slips are always filled. Shoot for about a 20% vacancy rate.
When you are 20% vacant because of higher rates, your overall revenue
will be more than it was with all of the slips filled at a lower rate
and your expenses will be less because you are providing services to
fewer boats."

I think we have 2-3% vacant slots. Would be nice to have all slots full
- that way the club could have more money wise and we wouldn't need to
pay up for the non-existent/non-boat-owning members either.

Risto