RE: If you are concerned about Xosts sell the boat
Ok I guess I had better explain myself here. We don't own a boat...yet. I have had
boats...up to a 30 ft Cruisers. I am a backyard everything so I do not see any repair or modification
as being too awfully hard. We Owned 5 diesel cars so a single diesel is not scary.
The wife and I have been looking for a couple years now...We
want to just poke around here and there and all over. We are mid 60's age
We actually have enough that we could buy a 35/39 Mainship and hit
a marina every couple days maybe for a couple years then we would
have to thumb our way back home.
Seems like that nice stairway to the bridge on a mainship is gonna cost us fifty thou over a
ladder though...So we are now looking at sundecks.
I am not trying to be a tight azz but I see these huge bow sprits
(like a stainless railing is going to protect anything,) and patio sized
swim platforms and I am thinking that inside living space would be much more important.
For example...We drove 6-700 miles one way to norfolk naval base to see an advertised 37' marine trader.
Gorgeous boat; galley down single engine. Only problem was that I walked off 44 feet.
They had to tie up on the end of the dock cause the naval slips were too short. Odd that the
agent wasn't allowed to fire her up.
BTW when you drive over a causeway in Norfolk be prepared to get a couple invoices for toll bridges, in the mail,
that you had no idea you were even on! With no apparent way to circumvent...gotcha
When you ask the brokers most of them say marinas charge by whatever you tell em the boat is
and generally by the waterline length. I know they are trying to sell a boat but come on be honest.
Same trip we went on down to Oriental NC to see a Taiwan 34 footer that all of the cabinet doors fell
off when you tried to open one. Nice Lehman in that one though. 34 is pretty cramped.
Yesterday I looked at a marina above New Yorks' website that is asking over $8.00 a foot
for transient docking plus a premium for over 40 feet. so what $320 for a night onshore probably
plus tax.) That is why I asked about the hotel tax on docking which would be another what 32 bucks..)
My golden parachute was more like off white.
So here I sit broken hearted ...paid to xxxx but only fxxxxx
Really I am just trying in advance to get a handle on what to expect and where to expect it. Sure I
could dump a ton of money in this deal but WHY when all we really want to do is kick back with a different sunset
every few days.
Not being flippant here.
But if you are that concerned about the minutia of marina costs to the extent that you have detailed.
Sell the boat.
Ok I guess I had better explain myself here. We don't own a boat...yet. I have had
boats...up to a 30 ft Cruisers. I am a backyard everything so I do not see any repair or modification
as being too awfully hard. We Owned 5 diesel cars so a single diesel is not scary.
The wife and I have been looking for a couple years now...We
want to just poke around here and there and all over. We are mid 60's age
We actually have enough that we could buy a 35/39 Mainship and hit
a marina every couple days maybe for a couple years then we would
have to thumb our way back home.
Seems like that nice stairway to the bridge on a mainship is gonna cost us fifty thou over a
ladder though...So we are now looking at sundecks.
I am not trying to be a tight azz but I see these huge bow sprits
(like a stainless railing is going to protect anything,) and patio sized
swim platforms and I am thinking that inside living space would be much more important.
For example...We drove 6-700 miles one way to norfolk naval base to see an advertised 37' marine trader.
Gorgeous boat; galley down single engine. Only problem was that I walked off 44 feet.
They had to tie up on the end of the dock cause the naval slips were too short. Odd that the
agent wasn't allowed to fire her up.
BTW when you drive over a causeway in Norfolk be prepared to get a couple invoices for toll bridges, in the mail,
that you had no idea you were even on! With no apparent way to circumvent...gotcha
When you ask the brokers most of them say marinas charge by whatever you tell em the boat is
and generally by the waterline length. I know they are trying to sell a boat but come on be honest.
Same trip we went on down to Oriental NC to see a Taiwan 34 footer that all of the cabinet doors fell
off when you tried to open one. Nice Lehman in that one though. 34 is pretty cramped.
Yesterday I looked at a marina above New Yorks' website that is asking over $8.00 a foot
for transient docking plus a premium for over 40 feet. so what $320 for a night onshore probably
plus tax.) That is why I asked about the hotel tax on docking which would be another what 32 bucks..)
My golden parachute was more like off white.
So here I sit broken hearted ...paid to xxxx but only fxxxxx
Really I am just trying in advance to get a handle on what to expect and where to expect it. Sure I
could dump a ton of money in this deal but WHY when all we really want to do is kick back with a different sunset
every few days.