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07-13-2017, 09:44 AM
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City: North Charleston, SC
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Shower - $1.00 for 5 minutes
I was researching on Active Captain for next year's cruise. Just off the Hudson River (New York State) is a marina that lists showers at $1.00 for 5 minutes. This is the first time I've seen a marina charge separately for showers. Is this unusual? Do other marinas (in the USA) do this?
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07-13-2017, 10:18 AM
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City: st pete
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I'd stink....
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07-13-2017, 10:38 AM
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City: Stuart FL
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Never saw that ever.
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07-13-2017, 10:39 AM
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City: Ft Pierce
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A few places... like pay toilets.
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07-13-2017, 10:47 AM
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City: North Charleston, SC
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I might accept it if this was on a remote island where water was scarce but this is in a populated city in the good ole USA. It's even a city marina!
Kingston City Marina, Kingston, NY. Other nearby marinas don't seem to charge separately for use of the showers although a few don't mention even having showers at all.
The thought of them charging for showers when most other marinas don't just turns me off to that marina.
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07-13-2017, 10:48 AM
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City: Stuart FL
Vessel Name: Lucky Lucky
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As a kid there were many pay toilets. That's how I learned the limbo.
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07-13-2017, 10:56 AM
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City: Sidney
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WesK;
This is the first time I've seen a marina charge separately for showers.
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Probably soon to be the new normal but, hey, a buck a week ain't bad.
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07-13-2017, 11:07 AM
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I still do not see why anybody that has a boat with a shower and a head, would ever even think of using public facilities.
Even our smallest cruiser, smaller than most any boat here on TF had a working head and a shower. Yes the shower was a pull out from the sink, but it was FAR better than going to the harbor showers.
Why marinas even provide shower services is beyond me. Public restrooms I understand, but not shower facilities.
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07-13-2017, 11:24 AM
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City: Tacoma, WA & Ashland, OR
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WesK
I was researching on Active Captain for next year's cruise. Just off the Hudson River (New York State) is a marina that lists showers at $1.00 for 5 minutes. This is the first time I've seen a marina charge separately for showers. Is this unusual? Do other marinas (in the USA) do this?
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Universally true in the PNW. The marina where we are in Ganges BC gives 3 minutes for one "loonie".
I'm perfectly happy with my shipboard shower; my wife and daughter prefer a more...ahem...spacious experience.
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07-13-2017, 11:31 AM
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City: Tacoma, WA & Ashland, OR
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ksanders
Why marinas even provide shower services is beyond me. Public restrooms I understand, but not shower facilities.
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When I was cruising in a 23 foot sailboat, it was a welcome amenity.
In one small BC town I'm familiar with there was a waterfront b&b that offered a sailors' special: a shower, scone and tea for $5.
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07-13-2017, 11:48 AM
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Senior Member
City: Bellingham, WA
Vessel Name: Excellent Adventure
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Very common in the islands. You pay to play in the nice ones.
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07-13-2017, 11:48 AM
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City: Ft Pierce
Vessel Name: Sold
Vessel Model: Was an Albin/PSN 40
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Travel far enough and nothing is new or shocking.
Like boat expenses, marina costs, outside labor, rules and regs, etc...etc...
You just have to expect the unexpected...that is the bottom line of a thing called experience or wisdom.
Plan ahead to the max, not the expected...and you wont be disappointed.
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07-13-2017, 01:45 PM
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City: Thibodaux, Louisiana
Vessel Name: Gumbo
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First time I have heard of that, I guess it won't be the last.
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07-13-2017, 02:05 PM
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City: Ft Pierce
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In crowded population areas, not abnormal.
Pay toilets on the boatdwalk in NJ at the shore when I was a kid 55 years ago were normal.
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07-13-2017, 02:17 PM
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City: Toronto ON
Join Date: Aug 2016
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Hmmm... truck stop showers all cost, or get thrown in as a perk for fueling.
Last I remember, $6 for as long as you wanted?
Local problem with the homeless wandering in and using the facility?
RB
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07-13-2017, 02:41 PM
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City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
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Wifey B: I really don't see a problem, thinking it might help control who uses and keep them cleaner. We don't use public showers, but if we did, guess we'd average about $4. A lot of times $3 would do it but sometimes would take $5 or $6 or until the hot water ran out.
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07-13-2017, 05:12 PM
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City: Kilmarnock VA
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Every year since the mid 80's 'til about '08 I would travel south from the Chesapeake to Delray Beach & we would frequently use the marina showers. It's just easier to use the marina facilities and not have to clean the showers onboard. Some showers were better than others and some were kind of rough but we never came down with any illness from using the marina heads ,as far as I know. After burning 900 gallons of fuel a day I don't think $1 for 5 minutes of convenience is too awfully outrageous.
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07-13-2017, 05:32 PM
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City: Northport
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WesK
I might accept it if this was on a remote island where water was scarce but this is in a populated city in the good ole USA. It's even a city marina!
Kingston City Marina, Kingston, NY. Other nearby marinas don't seem to charge separately for use of the showers although a few don't mention even having showers at all.
The thought of them charging for showers when most other marinas don't just turns me off to that marina.
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Perhaps stay at Roundout Yacht basin (RYB) about 300 yards away across the inlet and use the pool ,showers, breakfast bar, pump out and get fuel as well. You can either dinghy over to the town dock or walk across the 'small' bridge to get to town (just about a mile). We have stayed at RYB often and wintered there a number of years as well - they have a larger travel lift and boat ramp on site.
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07-13-2017, 05:34 PM
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Guru
City: Sunset Beach, NC
Vessel Name: Polly P.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ksanders
I still do not see why anybody that has a boat with a shower and a head, would ever even think of using public facilities.
Even our smallest cruiser, smaller than most any boat here on TF had a working head and a shower. Yes the shower was a pull out from the sink, but it was FAR better than going to the harbor showers.
Why marinas even provide shower services is beyond me. Public restrooms I understand, but not shower facilities.
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Haha when you're 6'6" and your shower is built for a small Taiwanese child, you might consider a marina shower a luxury. I shower more with the anchor wash down hose than I do in our actual shower.
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07-13-2017, 05:41 PM
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
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Quote:
Originally Posted by smitty477
Perhaps stay at Roundout Yacht basin (RYB) about 300 yards away across the inlet and use the pool ,showers, breakfast bar, pump out and get fuel as well. You can either dinghy over to the town dock or walk across the 'small' bridge to get to town (just about a mile). We have stayed at RYB often and wintered there a number of years as well - they have a larger travel lift and boat ramp on site.
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Wifey B: We docked at Rondout (it's not round but only for one night, when we went through.
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