Leave it in year round is what I do, but we dont freeze into the slips here.
Some wood boats are in excellent shape, and some are badly rotten, but the rotten ones wont last long. I honestly think those against the wood boat idea will fade away as their is ever so many fewer year after year to remind them of the past. Both them and the wood boats will be gone.
Some marinas will flat out tell you they dont want your business, but see they are not hurting, they have plenty of business with FG boats. So you go to marinas where there are other wood boats and wood fishing boats to get a better reception. just dont take it personally if they dont want your business because you have a wooden boat. And you know they are probably snooty and have an elitist mindset too, so you would not like it there anyway.
My current marina has no haul out capability, which sort of equalizes all the boats in the marina. I had a boat at one place that could haul out, and he decided I was not hauling it out enough! So eventually I took my business elsewhere. I did not even tell him I was leaving, I just left one day. I found a place that could care less what kind of boat your hauling, some were so rotten, the transoms fell off when lifted. But you know most of them came out and never went back in. the owner of that place, destroyed a lot of wood boats and FG boats using a giant backhoe, right into the dumpster, tore them to pieces. He saved the metal bits for metal recycling. Charged a few hundred to do that. I honestly think he had fun doing that. Too bad the city would not let him just burn them. that places name is
Marina Cove Boat Basin in Hampton VA.
