Simple Question about your slip

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Our marina is doing a facelift in several stages. Once the slips get the upgrades they will be increasing slip fees. Management has very little boating knowledge and they have it that they should charge year round boaters by the foot. My used to that math when I am overnighting but not my year round slip.

Do other marinas charge by the foot or the size of the slip needed?
How much for a covered floating slip
How much for a open floating slip?
Are you in a public or private?

I'm also helping by finding the prices along the James and lower York Rivers. Thank you in advance for any help
 
On the upper Potomac they charge based on the slip size. Transients are charged on a per foot basis.

The requirements are that a non-transient boat has to fit in the slip and not protrude past the end of the finger pier. So a 40' slip fits an LOA of 40'. If your LOA is 37' you still pay for the 40' slip.

Most marinas are either purely seasonal or offer year round contracts. Pricing does vary quite a bit based on amenities.

The mix of marinas on the upper Potomac are both Public and Private.

I pay $6k a year for a 40' water slip and electrical is charged separately. That is one of the better deals on this part of the river.
 
Marinas in Florida are typically by LOA. I have seen quotes for fixed pricing, 845$/month for a covered slip with a lift, Max 36’ feet. Not sure if other slips at the marina are per slip size or LOA.
 
We pay by the slip size. We have 25, 30, 35, 40, 44 and 50'.
The docks are all brand new and beautiful open floating trex decked.
All new water and power. We were told that the price will go up 7% per year for the first 5? years after the 10+ million was spent on the upgrades. We are in year 4 (I think).
It's not cheap. I pay $2400 annually for a 44' slip (it's only 5 months) and power is charged by the Kwh, a minimal amount to cover the actual cost or close to it, which I think is fair because some people choose to run their air and light their docks up like the vegas strip for the entire season, most of which they're not even there. My electric was $100 for all 5 months. It's a NY State Park, but the marina is leased out to a private operator.
The other 7 months is $2200 for indoor cold storage at a different location. Our Marina does not offer indoor storage.
 
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Get input from 20 people on this forum - you will hear all kinds of scenarios.

Depends on where you are first - what is the norm for the local market. Second - depends on the marina.

Over the years I have had marinas priced based on the LOA of a boat - or price on the size of the slip.
 
I'm on the Florida Gulf Coast. Every marina I've talked to bases their fees on vessel LOW and/or LOL. Just depends on who's running the show.
 
We are in Texas and it goes by slip size. I mean if you want a 20’ boat in a 50’ slip that’s your choice. I am at a private covered marina with non floating docks. 625.00 per month includes water. 55’ Electric is metered and I think .10/kwh

floating here for a 55’ covered would be about 900.00/mo.
 
Pittsburgh area here. Our marina charges by the foot regardless of where your slip is. I'm in finger slip but pay more than the 19' beside me that takes up the same amount of usable dock space. I think in a finger slip you should pay by the slip as long as you don't stick out past the finger. We pay about $43/foot and electric is an extra $25/month for 6 months so total for our 28' LOA is about $1400 for the year. No amenities other than a set of clean restrooms that have showers, a pavilion with picnic tables and a few gas grills for us to use and a fire pit for everyone to hang around at night. Nice amenities but nothing fancy like a clubhouse, pool, etc. Owner is a super great guy and everyone there gets along great (about 50 boats). I think the biggest boat now is a Four Winns 358 that a couple just upgraded from their 28'er but they haven't had the new one in the water yet.
 
Up in the Great Lakes, Erie and St Clair it is by dock size and just 6 months. Here are my last 3. First one you paid elec separate $60/month, 2 & 3 electric included. These 3 marinas are not far apart and for the most point same amenities...yet $20/ft difference.. Probably the same in your area...where it is supply and demand.

1/ $5,500 for a 60ft
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2/ $4,400 for a 55' covered
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3/ $3,200 for a 45' side tie (raccoons and free trap included) :)
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We pay by the foot at my marina. Last year's prices were $150/foot/year, and then if I remember correctly we pay another $20/foot/year for electric. I run the AC all summer long! We were offered a 10% discount if paid in full at the beginning of the season.
 
We pay by the slip size. $430 per month for a 40' slip. Electric is included. We are in a yacht club so we also pay $140 per month club dues. Amenities include clubhouse with an upscale restaurant and bar, shower facilities, pool.
 
Covered floating slip (concrete) here in central Illinois. Base pay is slip size
$4000 for 38’ slip April 1-oct 31
Free during the winter nothing is stored in your slip. If you have a lift, $40, if you have a 38’ LOA it’s $750, since mine is 42', its $850

They allow up to 10% to hang out, but it cost about $100/foot extra for summer months and about $20/foot for the winter

electric is metered, water free

Showers and bathrooms on the dock
 
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Hah. 1,000 different combinations especially when you start including utilities!

I enjoy paying transient by length overall, winter storage by square footage and summer slip by length of slip. Variety is the spice of life, people.
 
We pay by the slip size. We have 20, 30, 40, 44 and 50'.
The docks are all brand new and beautiful open floating trex decked.
All new water and power. We were told that the price will go up 7% per year for the first 5? years after the 10+ million was spent on the upgrades. We are in year 4 (I think).
It's not cheap. I pay $2400 annually for a 44' slip (it's only 5 months) and power is charged by the Kwh, a minimal amount to cover the actual cost or close to it, which I think is fair because some people choose to run their air and light their docks up like the vegas strip for the entire season, most of which they're not even there. My electric was $100 for all 5 months. It's a NY State Park, but the marina is leased out to a private operator.
The other 7 months is $2200 for indoor cold storage at a different location. Our Marina does not offer indoor storage.


That's $4600 for year round. FWIW that is cheap. Around Boston in a nice public marina the rate would be 2 1/2 times that. Thank God I'm in a private yacht club or I'd have to give up boating.
 
My marina charges by the slip size for wet slips and by the foot for dry storage.
 
I'm on LI in a State Park. (Wantagh Pk). Our season fees are $88.00 a foot. Plus a one time fee per year of $110.00 for electric. Most of the private marinas charge approx $120.00 a foot. But they have a mechanic on site. We do not. This does not include winter storage.
 
That's $4600 for year round. FWIW that is cheap. Around Boston in a nice public marina the rate would be 2 1/2 times that. Thank God I'm in a private yacht club or I'd have to give up boating.
Yep, it’s the super short season. It all depends on where you are. We could go to the other end of the lake and get a 20% longer season or more.
What we all pay for our toys and what it takes to have them is relative only to what other places in your area charge. I should have said in the post above that it’s not cheap compared to other places in western NY.
The smaller yacht clubs are quite a good deal here too. Just not many of them. Boating is not that big here that it can support a lot of places, although the marinas that have good location are close to full, thanks to a good economy.
A couple of interesting things that can help put it in perspective...our marina, the largest in the area has 1100 +/- slips (not a typo), there are 14 or 16 (trying to count my dock mates on my fingers) 44’ slips and 12 50’ slips. Lots of 40’ slips and literally hundreds of 30’s and 20’s.
When the state put the marina operations out to bid about 5 or 6 years ago one of the items discovered was that in all of Erie and Niagara counties,(Buffalo and Niagara Falls and all of their suburbs) there are less than 400 registered pleasure craft 40’ or larger.
Just can’t charge much more than they already do or people won’t own a boat.
 
On our lake, we pay $37.50 a foot for the season (5 months)... floating docks/fingers, shared water spigots, and no power.

Dock house has a small supply of snacks and some basic boat parts. Fuel dock and free pump out. Pontoon rentals available.

Other side of the marina has a dive shop and a huge dive boat.
 
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Wow, from looking at some of what you 9guys have to pay for a slip I feel like I should buy Christmas presents for the marina management.

I'm in a public marina (Port of Kennewick) that's about 10 years old. We have floating concrete docks with ~10' wide main docks and ~9' wide finger piers. It's all covered and water is included in the slip fee. I pay $265/month or $3180 per 12 months. We have to lease the slip for 12 months but that's fine because we use the boat all year unless the bay freezes over, which it does about every 10 years or so.

Here's a photo from Feb, 2017
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