This weekend

I think Sandy changed everyone's opinion about having a boat. They saw the pictures of the wrecked boats. They don't want to have to worry about it when the next storm comes through. They don't want to fight with insurance companies or have to pay for an extra haulout. They can spend their spare dollars elswhere and avoid gas prices $.65 cents higher than on the road and high repair prices. I don't see the marina or boat business getting any better anytime soon. I wonder how many new boats the dealer at HM sold. Are they flying out the door like hot bagels on sunday morning. I doubt it.
 
As I look at HM from the road it looks like they have quite a few empty slips also.
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They certainly are not full but they are doing pretty well. I'll bet they have more boats there now then they did 5 years ago. Certainly when you get past the 35' range, there are very few slips available. Of course when you get in the 20' range they have their fair share of empty slips as there are many more less expensive options in the area. And needless to say when you have somewhere around 500 slips, the chances of selling out is not very high. All in though, they are by far the most active marina around and it is rare that there is excessive noise at night even from the transients.
 
Mike,

Please feel free to come over (my boat) is always a pleasure. We can even sit at the tiki bar with music. just like our old Marina.
 
Gina told me she had a wonderful time with you last weekend.
 
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As I look at HM from the road it looks like they have quite a few empty slips also.

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They certainly are not full but they are doing pretty well. I'll bet they have more boats there now then they did 5 years ago. Certainly when you get past the 35' range, there are very few slips available. Of course when you get in the 20' range they have their fair share of empty slips as there are many more less expensive options in the area. And needless to say when you have somewhere around 500 slips, the chances of selling out is not very high. All in though, they are by far the most active marina around and it is rare that there is excessive noise at night even from the transients.
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In the 80's and 90's the marinas here were sold out by november for the next season. You had to pay in full by october 30 or you lose your slip. Mineceongo had a 10 plus year wait. Slips only came up when someone died. I got my slip in june at SPBM in '95 because Gene threw someone out and I was a town resident. I remember going into Mineceongo for gas on a weeknight and I was #5 in line. How times have changed.
 
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There are people up at SPBM on the weekends and its never been so relaxing.

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Are you saying when Bob, Bobby, Ron & Wayne were there it wasn't relaxing????
 
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In the 80's and 90's the marinas here were sold out by november for the next season. You had to pay in full by october 30 or you lose your slip. Mineceongo had a 10 plus year wait. Slips only came up when someone died. I got my slip in june at SPBM in '95 because Gene threw someone out and I was a town resident. I remember going into Mineceongo for gas on a weeknight and I was #5 in line. How times have changed.
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I remember those days as well an agree they are long gone. There still is something strange going on in many local marinas this year and that is the percentage of people actually going to the marinas. I often dink over to the others because I have friends in all of them. A couple Sundays ago on a beautiful day, I pulled into SPBM and it was eerily quiet. Same thing for PennyBridge. The slips werent empty, nobody was on their boats. It has always been a fact even at Haverstraw that a very large percentage of boats go unvisited in the best days but this year it seems to be over the top in some marinas. Hard to explain why. Not even the dock Mary's are around.
 
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In the 80's and 90's the marinas here were sold out by november for the next season. You had to pay in full by october 30 or you lose your slip. Mineceongo had a 10 plus year wait. Slips only came up when someone died. I got my slip in june at SPBM in '95 because Gene threw someone out and I was a town resident. I remember going into Mineceongo for gas on a weeknight and I was #5 in line. How times have changed.

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I remember when HM had moorings outside where the seawall is. If you wanted to get a slip, you first had to go on a mooring, and wait (sometimes years) for a slip to open up.
 
Ok. If u want to go back that far, I remember begging for a slip in the old Penny Bridge when Rick and Steve ran their business out of a trailer under the real Penny Bridge. Now that place is abandoned.. Times have changed. Btw, I used to water ski in Bowline because it was totally uninhabited. Nobody used to drop anchor in there. Even on the weekends.
 
We got our first boat, a 16' trihull in june '77. We waterskied where HM is now. There was a gravel ramp on the north side we used where HM service is. I think it was in the 80ties that talk about slip shortages got started. "You better buy a slip for $150,000.00 now or you will have no place to dock your boat. You can rent it if you don't use it and it will always go up in value just like your house. It's a sound investment." Then you have $2000.00 in dock maintenance and dredging charges each year. How did that all work out.
 
My Father water skied all the time where HM is now. I sat in the boat and watched. We went there all the time into the cove to open the boat up on rough days. Fact: My Father and his friend,( think in the late 50s )went to Plillips 66 fuel company with a set of plans, and wanted to put a marina with the fuel co. in the cove. They were approved for a 40% loan but the fuel company said no. Bad idea. Go figure.
 
Not sure how old it is but I love "The Resort". We are very happy here and the people are so friendly plus on Sunday sitting around the "Olympic" sized pool listening to the band's or DJ........ it doesn't get better than this...oh BBQING is great too......Glad we made the move.
 
It only looks like my slip is empty because we are out enjoying our boat most of the time. We are now about to have diner at the oar frankly I prefer my slip! Not real thrilled about having two boats eared to me and I plan on leaving in the morning it is going to get interesting for sure!
 
I'm thinking 79 because my parents first boat was a 79 and we kept it there I didn't realize that the marina was brand new at the time there were a lot of boats there.
 
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