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Your rent sounds pretty high, but some of the people responding are paying even more. I pay $190/month (12 month season) at a municipal marina in the West Palm Beach area, which includes water and electricity. However, they are beginning a big refurbishing project to bring the marina up to standard, following completion, I expect the rent to double, which is about what a private marina costs around here. Sort of takes the fun out of owning a boat. Maybe I'll get a mooring.
will
"Jambalaya"
CD 30
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?
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.
Joe L. wrote: 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
I pay $130 per month for my CD30 in Galveston. That includes water, electricity, free movie rentals, swimming pool, playground, game room,
big screen TV, showers/bath house.
We pay 200 a month for a CD25D on the Ashley River in Charleston. This includes power and a pretty nice access to the water. Shop around. When we were looking for slips, I checked at four different marinas and found prices from 400 a month to what I am paying now.
We pay $1860/year ($155/month) for our slip, plus a minimum $3/mo. for electricity. After paying a one-time membership fee of $350 we have showers, pool, a small store, ice, pumpout, and a very capable harbormaster. I was immediately impressed with him when we came to the marina to look at the boat we were considering buying, and he pedaled up on his bike to ask us who we were. Another nice thing is that we can easily get to the Chesapeake Bay or sail in the Rappahanock River, depending on conditions on preferences.
On the down side, the showers need a major overhaul and the channel needs to be continually dredged. And one neighbor plays entirely too much Jimmy Buffet.
Mario
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?
Here in Seattle there is a shortage - thus not much opportunity for shopping around. We pay $345/mo plus utilities (electical, water, cable TV) and Indian treaty fees to total out at about $400/month. Yes, thats about $4,800 per year. It's a good thing I love my boat!
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
We are on the mississippii river down in lake city about 75 miles south of mpls. We have a 34 ft hunter in the city marina that houses about 500 boats. Its the largest marina on the mississippi. We pay 1400 for the slip and another 600 in winter storage. We also pay 175 a yr to belong to the yacht club. Turning the clock back I would not do anything different. To me its great entertainment. We are going to be putting our hunter on the market and will buy a 25 ft cape dory to moor in front of our house on leech lake. NO more marina fees. just a big house payment with high taxes. craig.
I'm paying $1550 for my Typhoon, on the South Shore of LI New York, April thru November. $81 a foot. Water and electric, but no other facilities. A nice protected spot, just off the Great South Bay. After reading the other posts I guess i'm not doing too bad.
I also belong to a small Yacht Club in Amityville. $200/yr dues and $400 to dock the ty. But the only slips available don't have enough water. (The club has a fleet of Mariners-centerboard boats) So I'm waiting for one of the deeper slips.
Mike Wainfeld
CD Ty "Regalo"
We pay $110/foot for 12 months at the best marina in Havre de Grace, which includes winter on shore and hauling and launching. It's hard to complain, since they have a waiting list, and they do things well and when they say they're going to. Our CD31 counts as a 34 footer.
Ann and David Brownlee
"Windrush"
CD 31 #1
Havre de Grace
Mike, I'm moving my boat to Whitehall in a few weeks. Its in Chesapeake Beach right now, stripped down to gelcoat in preparation for new topside paint. Really looking forward to having the boat in Whitehall - highest concentration of classic plastic I've seen (my boat's a '67 Bristol 27). How do you like it?
Here in Niceville we have several options but only one good hurricane hole. That's where I keep KAYLA at 8.50/foot + 7.00/mo utilities + tax. The marina offers 5% discount for automatic draft and 10% for annual payment. Since it's a great hurricane hole, close to home & a great hurricane hole... we plan to stay. We also sail year round.
Ahhh the memories (Waukegan Harbor for years). Now, our CD25 is docked behind house (along with center console sportfisher on Lift)on intracoastal canal 10min from the Gulf of Mexico (Sanibel). Some neighbors are charging $1800-2500 per year with escalation in progress due to SaveManatee "no new docks" issues.
Craig Curtis wrote: 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
This is at Sailors world... Mineapolis area... 10 min from home so evening dinner cuises happen a couple times a week... (Beer and Sandwiches)... This is a small lake and very busy but the closeness is great... Our slip is on the end so from our cockpit we have a full view of the lake... Also, we set sail 100 feet from the slip... Not to put too fine a point on it, but the sailing season here is only Memorial Day to Halloween... Some good points, some bad, but unless we move or drive an hour or hours, is all we have...
Dave
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?