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- Jul 30, 2004
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I am just wondering if anyone else has had a bad experience with the Harbor Inn at St Michael.
I booked a slip for Sunday night and was told that slip A3 was reserved for me. Real nice, just right for my 47' Chris Craft and I could lay alongside with the stern deck ovelooking the harbor. It was pricey at $3.25 a foot but I thought OK for the view etc.
On arrival we were kept hanging arroound outside the harbor. The VHR operator at the hotel asked us to stand-by on 74, which we did for 5 minutes. No more contact from the hotel so we called again on 16 and were told again to change to 74. The VHF operator was using CB talk instead of standard VHF terminology.
I was told to go to slip D6. When I asked about A3 I was told it was taken. As I passed A3 on the way to D6 I saw a 30 foot sailboat in the slip that I had reserved. Then I got the first view of D6. The slip was maybe 16 feet wide and the outer piling was 20 feet from the dock edge. The hotel wall was 10 feet from the edge of the dock so any idea of a view over the harbor was gone.
I tried to back in but found that my keel under the bow was dragging in the mud on the other side of the channel and this made maneuvering into the slip just about impossible. 15 foot beam into a 16 foot slip with the bow dragging in the bottom and a 12 knot cross wind is a bit of a challenge. After a while I gave up and just told them to stuff it and went back to Mears at Kent Narrows.
Probably just as well as the big storm came through that night and I hate to think what it would have been like in the 20 foor slip.
I called the hotel to complain this morning and was told by the manager that they do not reserve slips, it is first come first served, and they saw nothing wrong with putting a 47 foot boat in a slip that was only 20 feet deep.
They were very casual and did not seem to care. The manager admitted that she had no idea about boats or mooring and left that to the dockhands. Not a great deal of interest on their part.
I booked a slip for Sunday night and was told that slip A3 was reserved for me. Real nice, just right for my 47' Chris Craft and I could lay alongside with the stern deck ovelooking the harbor. It was pricey at $3.25 a foot but I thought OK for the view etc.
On arrival we were kept hanging arroound outside the harbor. The VHR operator at the hotel asked us to stand-by on 74, which we did for 5 minutes. No more contact from the hotel so we called again on 16 and were told again to change to 74. The VHF operator was using CB talk instead of standard VHF terminology.
I was told to go to slip D6. When I asked about A3 I was told it was taken. As I passed A3 on the way to D6 I saw a 30 foot sailboat in the slip that I had reserved. Then I got the first view of D6. The slip was maybe 16 feet wide and the outer piling was 20 feet from the dock edge. The hotel wall was 10 feet from the edge of the dock so any idea of a view over the harbor was gone.
I tried to back in but found that my keel under the bow was dragging in the mud on the other side of the channel and this made maneuvering into the slip just about impossible. 15 foot beam into a 16 foot slip with the bow dragging in the bottom and a 12 knot cross wind is a bit of a challenge. After a while I gave up and just told them to stuff it and went back to Mears at Kent Narrows.
Probably just as well as the big storm came through that night and I hate to think what it would have been like in the 20 foor slip.
I called the hotel to complain this morning and was told by the manager that they do not reserve slips, it is first come first served, and they saw nothing wrong with putting a 47 foot boat in a slip that was only 20 feet deep.
They were very casual and did not seem to care. The manager admitted that she had no idea about boats or mooring and left that to the dockhands. Not a great deal of interest on their part.