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Old 08-08-2015, 10:16 AM   #56
S41
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City: Puget Sound
Vessel Model: Currently boatless
Join Date: Aug 2015
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Originally Posted by Marin View Post
In our harbot the port charges for the length of the slip (unless it's an end tie) and the footprint of the boat using some forumula that's a mystery to everybody.

In our case, when they replaced our old dock with its 40' slips with a new dock with 45' slips we elected to pay more per month for the 45' slip rather than move to a 40' slip somewhere else in the harbor. We like where we are and it's worth the extra cost to stay there.

While the port has no problem with our keeping our boat in a slip thats longer than it is, this means they can't put a 45' boat in it. So the reasoning is that if we want to keep our smaller boat in a larger slip, we can but we have to pay the rate for the larger slip.

Seems fair to us, given the waiting list time for slips in this particular harbor. There are plenty of boats on the waiting list for a 45' slip and we're preventing one of them from having one.
The rule in our marina is no over hanging the dock and no sticking out into the fairway. You pay for slip length. We are in a 50 ft slip. With the bowsprit & anchor at the bow and dinghy on the stern we are at around 48 feet total. This for a 41 foot deck length. The marina doesn't measure, they just look down the docks to see if anyone is sticking over.., We are Very happy to pay the city for the great marina, clean facilities and security they provide.
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