[Capt. Tom]

Expect more empty slips this season as gasoline approaches $4/gal. at your automobile service station.
Many marinas are priced about 60-75 cents more per gallon than gas stations. You use a lot more fuel in boats than in cars on a daily basis.

Last season I saw boats in pre-paid slips just sit there because of the high price of fuel.
I would imagine this season when the slip fees came due during the last few months many people would have opted out for this coming season; or decided to trailer their boats-if practical. Boats over 25 feet are more difficult to trailer. - Tom

[hope]

Yep, yep! Sold our Sea Ray 330 this past summer... Gas at the marina was approaching $5 gal, and slip fees went up almost three hundred per month..The more money than brains, liberal, bam lover who bought the marina decided to raise rates in this economy and lost 50% membership. He has gotten his hands on three prime marinas in AZ and went on to Lake Berryessa in Cali to buy up their marinas. Somehow, I think he wants them empty.

You know what they say...The happiest day of a boaters life, is the day he buys it and the day he sells it...

Unfortunately, we miss it badly...We’ll be back though...First time without a boat in 20 years.

[CrazyIvan]

“Expect more empty slips this season as gasoline approaches $4/gal. at your automobile service station.
Many marinas are priced about 60-75 cents more per gallon than gas stations. You use a lot more fuel in boats than in cars on a daily basis.”

Both my kayaks and the canoe run on Guinness Stout.

[CrazyIvan]

“Expect more empty slips this season as gasoline approaches $4/gal. at your automobile service station.
Many marinas are priced about 60-75 cents more per gallon than gas stations. You use a lot more fuel in boats than in cars on a daily basis.”

Both my kayaks and the canoe run on Guinness Stout.