Haul out and winter storage

I hate it for you northern folks - that has to be one of the best boating areas anywhere, but man the season is short. We are getting into my favorite boating days of the year September - November. Summer storms are gone, but the weather is still warm and all the wakeboarders have gone away for the winter. I don't winterize until Thanksgiving usually.
 
Jus Cruisin said:
Bumming... Got our winter storage pricing in the mail Friday. Heard the cicadas buzzing last week. Also a bummer (folklore - 6 weeks until first frost). Two weeks and the haul out schedule will come out. Grrrrrr
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Yup. And quite the price increase too! 9.66 a sq ft now. Plus some random $200 fee

Thanks Safe Harbor!
 
Shenanigans77 said:
Yup. And quite the price increase too! 9.66 a sq ft now. Plus some random $200 fee

Thanks Safe Harbor!
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How do you charge by the sq. ft.? Isn't it by the linear foot? We're $32/ft. to be on the hard and the audacity of $50/ft. to stay in the water. Haven't received our price increase yet for next season. It should be coming soon though.
 
SKybolt said:
How do you charge by the sq. ft.? Isn't it by the linear foot? We're $32/ft. to be on the hard and the audacity of $50/ft. to stay in the water. Haven't received our price increase yet for next season. It should be coming soon though.
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Total length X Beam. Im 413 sq ft for a 320 sundancer. Thats $3,989 plus their “fee”.
 
Shenanigans77 said:
Total length X Beam. Im 413 sq ft for a 320 sundancer. Thats $3,989 plus their “fee”.
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Yes, but I meant that rhetorically. Safe Harbor is getting out of hand with their charges and what you get for them. That's why I bought a slip and rent it out for the summer, then I can have that subsidize the SH bill and have a place for the winter for free.
 
SKybolt said:
Yes, but I meant that rhetorically. Safe Harbor is getting out of hand with their charges and what you get for them. That's why I bought a slip and rent it out for the summer, then I can have that subsidize the SH bill and have a place for the winter for free.
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Your’re not wrong. I knew when Safe Harbor bought our marina it was going to go downhill FAST. Own my slip but it doesnt seem to matter. Theyre gonna rob you anyways

Need a good recession to put them in check. Would love to see those buildings sit empty
 
So you pay an annual (for 12 months) to be outside, in a slip, and then another charge to go indoors for the winter? What is your total annual charge out of curiosity?
 
Shenanigans77 said:
Your’re not wrong. I knew when Safe Harbor bought our marina it was going to go downhill FAST. Own my slip but it doesnt seem to matter. Theyre gonna rob you anyways

Need a good recession to put them in check. Would love to see those buildings sit empty
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Don't get me wrong I actually like SH except for their mentality of pay pay pay.

They don't want anyone there that doesn't have money, so to speak. They just want carte blanche on billing. That way of thinking will be their undoing at some point, but maybe not ...
 
Jus Cruisin said:
Bumming... Got our winter storage pricing in the mail Friday. Heard the cicadas buzzing last week. Also a bummer (folklore - 6 weeks until first frost). Two weeks and the haul out schedule will come out. Grrrrrr
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Got my notice first week of July, had to put deposit down to hold my spot for winter storage. Rest of the bill will be near end of October after we're in.

That's also when I get the bill for haul out and haul to the storage building. Then I get another one of those to be put back in the water in the spring.
 
SKybolt said:
Don't get me wrong I actually like SH except for their mentality of pay pay pay.

They don't want anyone there that doesn't have money, so to speak. They just want carte blanche on billing. That way of thinking will be their undoing at some point, but maybe not ...
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My cousin married a guy that came from a very hard up family. He said he knew from young he didn't want to be poor like them. He became a dentist, said he wasn't going to work on people that couldn't pay. He moved to New Orleans, started schmoozing the rich folks, made some real nice money.
 
Woody said:
My cousin married a guy that came from a very hard up family. He said he knew from young he didn't want to be poor like them. He became a dentist, said he wasn't going to work on people that couldn't pay. He moved to New Orleans, started schmoozing the rich folks, made some real nice money.
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Not sure that has anything to do with this though. SH is a large conglomerate and is steam rolling the less fortunate people out of their marina's. It's their choice to do so and in the end may actually be a good business model for them. I mean you can't stay in business helping people out and letting bill's slide out six month's.

But their current model of insisting you pay in the fall for a spring time slip is a bit excessive. And forcing people to pull their boat and go on the hard is also not right. Which is what my marina is doing by charging 50/ft to stay in the water and 32/ft to go on the hard.
 
SKybolt said:
Not sure that has anything to do with this though. SH is a large conglomerate and is steam rolling the less fortunate people out of their marina's. It's their choice to do so and in the end may actually be a good business model for them. I mean you can't stay in business helping people out and letting bill's slide out six month's.

But their current model of insisting you pay in the fall for a spring time slip is a bit excessive. And forcing people to pull their boat and go on the hard is also not right. Which is what my marina is doing by charging 50/ft to stay in the water and 32/ft to go on the hard.
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Why would they care?
 
mrsrobinson said:
So you pay an annual (for 12 months) to be outside, in a slip, and then another charge to go indoors for the winter? What is your total annual charge out of curiosity?
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Thats not unusual. My slip fee ($1800) is for year round in the water. If I’choose’ to store on land then its an additional $650 haul, winterize, store. I always choose, piece of mind for 5 months.
 
Pirate Lady said:
Thats not unusual. My slip fee ($1800) is for year round in the water. If I’choose’ to store on land then its an additional $650 haul, winterize, store. I always choose, piece of mind for 5 months.
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Correct, it's not unusual in this area to pull your boat out of the water in the winter and store on land. I'm not used to seeing numbers like $4,000 for that though.
 
highslice said:
Why would they care?
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That is/was my point. They don't and do you really want to keep your boat in a place that doesn't give a sh!t about you, or more importantly your boat?
 
SKybolt said:
That is/was my point. They don't and do you really want to keep your boat in a place that doesn't give a sh!t about you, or more importantly your boat?
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Nope. Although the people who bought the marina where we keep our boat are trending that way. Fortunately they have kept on the same staff and we have a relationship with them. They care about us and our boat.
 
mrsrobinson said:
Correct, it's not unusual in this area to pull your boat out of the water in the winter and store on land. I'm not used to seeing numbers like $4,000 for that though.
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Ya, that’s nuts. I think he said indoors. But cmon, I never got that indoor thing. They get beat up more from UV summer sun than any winter day. Florida boats go to hell a whole lot faster than northern boats. They benefit from a roof.
 
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