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11-11-2010, 09:48 AM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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Mike, think of all the time you can spend now polishing the hull and waxing it down!
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making s-b.com a kinder, gentler place for all 
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11-11-2010, 10:17 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,382
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
Mike, think of all the time you can spend now polishing the hull and waxing it down!
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And buff out some of those holes! |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
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11-11-2010, 12:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
Posts: 8,555
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They get people on both ends of the economic swings. Now , when business is bad and they have many empty slips all summer , they bang you for an increased winter fee and justify it by how they need the money do to the bad economy.
Now go back to say 2002 when the economy was booming. They doubled the fees for my mooring in one season. The same moring cost twice as much one season to the next and it wasn't cheap to start with. They justify by "supply and demand. Then they could rent out every slip at whatever price they wanted.
In the long run they lose customers as Clammer posted about. When they doubled the in season fees and almost all other marinas followed suit I sold the boat. Now with them squeezing the guys who brave the winters in the water , they will lose customers again.
Sure some marinas are more customer friendly than others but over 3 decades of being a customer , I dound that all marinas will get you for all they can.
Sorry to hear it happening to life long , year round guys like Clammer though. I was an April 1 to Dec 1 guy. The guys who fight the winters are really dedicated and its a shame the marinas would screw them.
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Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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11-11-2010, 07:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: harrisville ri
Posts: 516
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LOL-LOL_LOL_LOL-good one,rijim
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11-11-2010, 08:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
Posts: 11,802
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RIJ
I DON,T MESS WITH SUCCESS ><><>..................   |
ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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11-12-2010, 10:00 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,898
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Mike, I left last year because of the games they were playing with me. The final straw that broke the camels back was $400 to winterize a 90HP outboard and another $400 to shrink wrap a Sea Hunt 172.
Just had a 115 and the boats water systems winterized for less than $250.
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No boat, back in the suds. 
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