Storage

rasbury · March 15

I never thought to ask but where ever you're storing your boats, are you allowed to work them there? We have a 270 and trailer it but for most your bigger boats are not trailering home to do things. With some of the pictures posted over the years, some appear to show a nice chunk of property. Maybe moving it is comparable to cost of storage over the winter. Others store at a marina. I live in a city and over the past month I'm at the point I can no longer bring it home, at all. I was able to get our boat to a marina where I can store it on the trailer. They have a pad I can rent for 30 bucks a day to do oil changes etc and other work I can do where it sits. Cost per month with tax is 180 bucks a month which is about half of other storage places . It's florida so there is plenty of storage for boats and rv's but stacked like cord wood. They don't want you working on them and provide no power or water and I get it. There'd be parts and pieces of RV and boats everywhere. I'd think a place like that, however, could be a really good business. It would be like a ""dry" marina..have a ships store for trip supplies etc...property? I contacted our power company as we have huge transfer lines that are "vacant property" for the most part and can be leased cheap..actual marina space in Florida is disappearing. We have three here in sanford - two of them are in recovery from hurricanes (and bad maintenance over the years) and then there is the one I'm contracting with now. I'm not 100% done, they were balking at the length because the registration shows 30'. They won't accept 30' and maybe its an insurance thing..I have to get it corrected...

Ian · March 15

Some marinas allow self work, some don’t. At our club you can work on your boat if you can get to it - mine is with many others tightly packed so cleaning drives possible, power wash and buff not until it comes out.

mbnarney · March 15

I recently moved my boat from a marina where it was rack stored to a dock behind someone's house. can work on it there but anything below the waterline will require it being hauled. At the Marina i couldn't have the boat launched after 3p on Friday until 9a on Monday. Now i can go anytime I want. I was paying 475 a month at the Marina and I am now paying 500. The difference is probably made up in gas as I was 45 to an hour from the intercoastal now less than 15. Dockage down here is at a premium so i felt pretty lucky to get what I have. If I had to trailer my boat in South Florida traffic I would sell it.

TonyG13 · March 15

My current place allows owners to work on their own boat, and only contractors paid through the yard (so they can take their cut). No outside contractors. I have electric right next to my boat, but water.

We are contemplating moving next winter to a place that will have electric and water and allows both owner work and I can bring whoever I want as long as they provide a certificate of insurance.

Going rate for inside heated storage is about $5000 for October-May includes stands, haul-in and launch, and light power wash. (Remember, indoor heating is expensive.)

Rich_ · March 15

There are very few marinas around here that will let people work on their own boats. Technically bottom painting is applying pesticide so that must be done by a licensed applicator unless you own the land and marina land is not your land according to the lovely department of environmental conservation. Most marinas will want a cut and insurance for any outside contractor to do any work on their property.

aero3113 · March 15

Luckily my arch folds and I have the room on my property to store the boat. It’s, $500 in the fall to have her moved and blocked and $500 in the spring to move her to the dock. It’s about a 20 minute drive from the house to the dock. It’s so nice to have the boat in my backyard in the off season.

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