High cost of slips

Rich · Post by **Rich** » Apr 19th, '02, 10:43

I'm guessing that I may hold a record for slip cost this season (but none too proud). I've just re-signed at $145 per foot for May 2002 to May 2003. For my CD26 that works out to $3770. Considering that I'm in Minnesota with a sailing season of just 4 to 5 months, I'm not getting much value. Worse, I'm on a puddle of a lake (really a wide spot in the St. Croix River). It kind of takes away some of the joy of sailing. The only redeeming feature is the drive to the boat is just 20 minutes. What are others paying this year?

Rich Passmore
s/v Shearwater
Stillwater, MN

rpassmore42@hotmail.com

Joe L. · Post by **Joe L.** » Apr 19th, '02, 10:59

Wow! If I were you, Rich (good name for someone who has a $3700 slip), I take that $3700 and move to the coast! I guess I'm pretty lucky - $75/year for a mooring.

Joe L.
bob CD25
Bristol, RI

jl0246@alpha.rwu.edu

Clay Stalker · Post by **Clay Stalker** » Apr 19th, '02, 11:38

Rich wrote: I'm guessing that I may hold a record for slip cost this season (but none too proud). I've just re-signed at $145 per foot for May 2002 to May 2003. For my CD26 that works out to $3770. Considering that I'm in Minnesota with a sailing season of just 4 to 5 months, I'm not getting much value. Worse, I'm on a puddle of a lake (really a wide spot in the St. Croix River). It kind of takes away some of the joy of sailing. The only redeeming feature is the drive to the boat is just 20 minutes. What are others paying this year?

Rich Passmore
s/v Shearwater
Stillwater, MN

Rich:

Hate like hell to agree with you, but that is the most expensive slip I have ever heard of....

Clay Stalker

cstalker@cheshire.net

Olli Wendelin · Post by **Olli Wendelin** » Apr 19th, '02, 11:50

Rich,

Does this include winter storage?

Here in Charleston, SC marina slips vary from $5.50 to $10.00 per ft per month. Private dockage is between you and the owner. I pay $1.50 per ft per month on a private dock. I know others that have free dockage.

You might check the possibilities of setting your own mooring. Many boats here are on their own moorings. No fee, just the cost of the mooring tackle. Then you need to find a convenient launch point for your dinghy. I know one guy who paid slip fees on his dinghy ($25 a month). He had all of the marina facilities and a short row to his boat.

Olli Wendelin
BLUE MOON
Charleston, SC

wendelin@spawar.navy.mil

john doyle · Post by **john doyle** » Apr 19th, '02, 11:51

Rich wrote: I'm guessing that I may hold a record for slip cost this season (but none too proud). I've just re-signed at $145 per foot for May 2002 to May 2003. For my CD26 that works out to $3770. Considering that I'm in Minnesota with a sailing season of just 4 to 5 months, I'm not getting much value. Worse, I'm on a puddle of a lake (really a wide spot in the St. Croix River). It kind of takes away some of the joy of sailing. The only redeeming feature is the drive to the boat is just 20 minutes. What are others paying this year?

Rich Passmore
s/v Shearwater
Stillwater, MN

My puddle of a lake outside of Atlanta, Ga. is $2100 a year, but we do have year round sailing

redzeplin@yahoo.com

Peter K. · Post by **Peter K.** » Apr 19th, '02, 12:30

I pay $950 for the season on Sandusky Bay on Lake Erie for dockspace for my Cape Dory 26. Season is from May 1 through October 31. Yours is pretty high in my opinion, but I guess we do what we have to do. Good luck,
Peter K. -- CD26, Hull #42

pkozup@juno.com

Bob Grabham · Post by **Bob Grabham** » Apr 19th, '02, 12:49

Ouch, is right. Here on the Chesapeake I'm leasing a slip for $1720/year and that includes water and electric. Even if I haul for the winter it's only another $60 per month for storage on the hard. That's for a CD36 and the sailing season is about nine months long.

Bob Grabham
CD36, #140
Hunky Dory
Topping, VA (Rappahannock River)

grabhamb@chesterfield.gov

Jerry Axler · Post by **Jerry Axler** » Apr 19th, '02, 13:05

Clay Stalker wrote:
Rich wrote: I'm guessing that I may hold a record for slip cost this season (but none too proud). I've just re-signed at $145 per foot for May 2002 to May 2003. For my CD26 that works out to $3770. Considering that I'm in Minnesota with a sailing season of just 4 to 5 months, I'm not getting much value. Worse, I'm on a puddle of a lake (really a wide spot in the St. Croix River). It kind of takes away some of the joy of sailing. The only redeeming feature is the drive to the boat is just 20 minutes. What are others paying this year?

Rich Passmore
s/v Shearwater
Stillwater, MN

Rich:

Hate like hell to agree with you, but that is the most expensive slip I have ever heard of....

Clay Stalker

Wow!! I keep my boat on the middle Chesapeake,where we sail from March to November and is a reasonable drive from Philadelphia for $2700 hard and wet storage. Of course there is a charge for hauling, but I would look elsewhere for a better price.

Jerry Axler
Shana CD36

cutter36@erols.com

Ken Coit · Post by **Ken Coit** » Apr 19th, '02, 14:03

$200 a month, 12 months a year, plus $400 membership. However, the slip would take a much larger boat. We have several feet on either side and at least 10 in front of us. Ideal for a 45 ft power yacht that draws 5 ft. or less.

Alternatively, you can buy the slip for a total cost of about $45K. Annual membership still required.

Ken

Rich wrote: I'm guessing that I may hold a record for slip cost this season (but none too proud). I've just re-signed at $145 per foot for May 2002 to May 2003. For my CD26 that works out to $3770. Considering that I'm in Minnesota with a sailing season of just 4 to 5 months, I'm not getting much value. Worse, I'm on a puddle of a lake (really a wide spot in the St. Croix River). It kind of takes away some of the joy of sailing. The only redeeming feature is the drive to the boat is just 20 minutes. What are others paying this year?

Rich Passmore
s/v Shearwater
Stillwater, MN

parfaitNOSPAM@nc.rr.com

Rich · Post by **Rich** » Apr 19th, '02, 14:03

Pricing seems to be a function of supply and demand (duh!). 2.6 million people, relative few large bodies of water. Strange, but in the land of 10,000 lakes, relatively few can support a fixed keel sailing fleet. The options are Lake Pepin, a wide spot in the Mississippi - 1 hour south; Lake Minnetonka, surrounded by $million homes - western suburb; Lake St. Croix, aforementioned wide spot in the St. Croix river - 20 minutes east; Lake Mil Lacs, a relatively shallow big lake more reknowned for fishing than sailing - 90 minutes north; and the big lake, Lake Superior, 3 to 4 hours north.

I have the unfortunate luck of owning a sail boat in a slip renters market. I've heard of slip prices going as high as $5000 per year.

I've considered the mooring concept. My kids make that more hassle than it's worth, at least at their current age. At least I can hold my head high, safe in the knowledge that the record is safe.

Jerry Axler wrote: Wow!! I keep my boat on the middle Chesapeake,where we sail from March to November and is a reasonable drive from Philadelphia for $2700 hard and wet storage. Of course there is a charge for hauling, but I would look elsewhere for a better price.

Jerry Axler
Shana CD36

rpassmore42@hotmail.com

Catherine Monaghan · Post by **Catherine Monaghan** » Apr 19th, '02, 14:15

Wow! And I thought mine was expensive at $85/foot and we have to pay for a 34-foot boat since our CD32 has a 2-foot long bowsprit bringing her LOA to 34'2.

Cathy
CD32 <a href="http://www.hometown.aol.com/bcomet/real ... ization</a>, #3
Rahway, NJ
Raritan Bay

Rich wrote: I'm guessing that I may hold a record for slip cost this season (but none too proud). I've just re-signed at $145 per foot for May 2002 to May 2003. For my CD26 that works out to $3770. Considering that I'm in Minnesota with a sailing season of just 4 to 5 months, I'm not getting much value. Worse, I'm on a puddle of a lake (really a wide spot in the St. Croix River). It kind of takes away some of the joy of sailing. The only redeeming feature is the drive to the boat is just 20 minutes. What are others paying this year?

Rich Passmore
s/v Shearwater
Stillwater, MN

catherine_monaghanNOSPAM@merck.com

Dana · Post by **Dana** » Apr 19th, '02, 14:39

Rich,

Prices vary greatly based on region. My CD26 slip at Point Judith, RI was $100/foot for the summer, $67/foot for the winter storage in 1988.
I was charged like a 28' since heel to toe...the CD26 is 27'11" (marina owner got out his tape when I berth next to him one day against his Pearson 30....says that looks like a mightly big 26 footer!) Anyway one of the cheapest places I knew of in RI for a slip. Town moorings??? well that is another matter when it comes to low cost...my total in 1988 was $4676 per year....

Currently at one of the best marinas in southern Chesapeake Bay (and most expensive) at $2268 per year for 30' single slip, water and power included, pool, laundry, nice first class restaurant, etc...this is one item which really saved my boating from disapearing...

Dana

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Rich wrote: I'm guessing that I may hold a record for slip cost this season (but none too proud). I've just re-signed at $145 per foot for May 2002 to May 2003. For my CD26 that works out to $3770. Considering that I'm in Minnesota with a sailing season of just 4 to 5 months, I'm not getting much value. Worse, I'm on a puddle of a lake (really a wide spot in the St. Croix River). It kind of takes away some of the joy of sailing. The only redeeming feature is the drive to the boat is just 20 minutes. What are others paying this year?

Rich Passmore
s/v Shearwater
Stillwater, MN

darenius@aol.com

Craig Curtis · Post by **Craig Curtis** » Apr 19th, '02, 14:47

In the Chicago Harbor system (which is owned by the Park District but run by Westrec Marine, a private company) slips range from about $65 to $85 a foot for the season while a mooring can is around $30 a foot.

Craig Curtis
Cape Dory 40 "Coalescence"
Burnham Harbor, Chicago

Craig_Curtis@prusec.com

Clay Stalker · Post by **Clay Stalker** » Apr 19th, '02, 15:27

Dana wrote: Rich,

Prices vary greatly based on region. My CD26 slip at Point Judith, RI was $100/foot for the summer, $67/foot for the winter storage in 1988.
I was charged like a 28' since heel to toe...the CD26 is 27'11" (marina owner got out his tape when I berth next to him one day against his Pearson 30....says that looks like a mightly big 26 footer!) Anyway one of the cheapest places I knew of in RI for a slip. Town moorings??? well that is another matter when it comes to low cost...my total in 1988 was $4676 per year....

Currently at one of the best marinas in southern Chesapeake Bay (and most expensive) at $2268 per year for 30' single slip, water and power included, pool, laundry, nice first class restaurant, etc...this is one item which really saved my boating from disapearing...

Dana

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Rich wrote: I'm guessing that I may hold a record for slip cost this season (but none too proud). I've just re-signed at $145 per foot for May 2002 to May 2003. For my CD26 that works out to $3770. Considering that I'm in Minnesota with a sailing season of just 4 to 5 months, I'm not getting much value. Worse, I'm on a puddle of a lake (really a wide spot in the St. Croix River). It kind of takes away some of the joy of sailing. The only redeeming feature is the drive to the boat is just 20 minutes. What are others paying this year?

Rich Passmore
s/v Shearwater
Stillwater, MN

Last summer I had a slip at the Apponaug Harbor Marina in Warwick, R.I. .. It was a 30' slip and was $1920. for the season, including electricity and water. All of the marinas in Warwick are around this price, quite a bit higher next store in East Greenwich. However, Warwick is power-boat heaven and I couldn't wait to get out of there....Bristol is a dream. Usually a waiting list at Apponaug, but I don't think a long one. Not a pretty marina by any stretch, mostly local folks, half sail, half power, but reasonably priced.

Clay Stalker

cstalker@cheshire.net

Mike Spindler · Post by **Mike Spindler** » Apr 19th, '02, 16:29

I'm paying $1700 for the season on Whitehall Creek between Annapolis and the Chespeake Bay Bridge. And another ~$500 for winter storage and bottom paint.

Mike Spindler
CD-25 "Persistence"

mike@spinsoft.net

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