Wintering costs

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Saw this in local paper.
Pretty cheap.
If you add Up the costs for big boats like 40' that is cheap.

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Avg price is $55-66, is this the going rate for this type of work? Same price for single or twin engine? What type of matls? Tuna tower included?
 
Andy,
I have no idea, I would call and ask.
One would assume any boat over 29' would have twins.
I don't pay for winter storage but if I did, my costs would be:
Winter Storage 40 x $23 = $920
Haul Out 40 x $19 = $760
18 Gallons Pink x $3 = $54
Sta-bil = $45
Couple cans of WD40 = $10
Shrink Wrap 40 x 12 = $440
Bottom Paint Gallon $120
Bottom Paint Labor $120

So my cost, doing it myself is $2469.
of course oil and oil change is extra.

So to me, that is a good price that saves me the hassle and $500 or so.
Assuming he keeps the cost the same for a 40' with twins and flybridge.

If I didn't have free winter storage, I would seriously consider this!
I know some of you guys don't and that is why I posted.
Do you own oil, fresh water and A/C, then let him do the rest!
 
Those are great prices. The question is; Will he let you do your own oil, fresh water, AC, and then do the clean up that you normally do before it gets covered in the fall and again before you launch in the spring?
I don't pay for winter storage either anymore. When I was in a boatyard it was required that he do the oil changes, and winterize the fresh water system, head, and AC as part of the deal. It made sense because of the way he hauled boats out and stored them when he was done with everything. To let owners jump in the middle of everything and then come back to the boat for shrinkwrap would have screwed up his whole system. He lifted a boat, and it stayed on the lift until after everything was done, it was wrapped, and then tucked away in it's winter spot. Then he moved on to the next boat.
Waxing the boat out of the water was not an option for the owner in the fall because that would mean he would have to block it up somewhere for you, then come back and get it again to bring it in to the building to wrap it, then bring it out to it's winter spot.
He had no problem at all with an owner uncovering the boat in the spring and detailing the boat himself or making minor repairs or modifications as long as the owner was neat and didn't bring in any outside vendors that didn't come through him. That was very fair. Many places won't even let an owner do that much.
When I was looking around for places to dock a few years back I went to one place that pretty much refused to let an owner lift up his own hatch while the boat was at his dock or in the yard.
 
Dave, I don't think he can handle a 40' boat there. You rarely see boats there much over 30'. The ad says it's a 16 ton travel lift but I think the haulout slip is fairly narrow. It's mostly a small boat place.

I guess the plans for the town to buy the place and turn it into a park fell through when the economy went down.
 
He is a bit high on the up to 18' Right now I pay $325 for all that, but I do not have the yard store the boat..I cant see land storage at $670 for a small boat.

Most boats in that size range have an outboard. Winterizing that is nothing, supplies alone are cheap. The best value here is the framing and shrink wrapping
 
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Originally posted by JohnC

Dave, I don't think he can handle a 40' boat there. You rarely see boats there much over 30'. The ad says it's a 16 ton travel lift but I think the haulout slip is fairly narrow. It's mostly a small boat place.

I guess the plans for the town to buy the place and turn it into a park fell through when the economy went down.






You're right.
I just realized that it's the place at the top of my canal. He has a price for 29' and up, but I don't think I've ever noticed anything near as big as a 40 blocked up there. I would say that most of the boats I see on the hard there are much smaller.
The prices are still pretty decent for some of the smaller boats though and the location is probably pretty secure for winter storage since most of it is in immediate view of Montauk Highway.
 
Wow, what happened to all that?
I still see the big columns.
 
the island gazebo is now the fuel dock......connected to land with floating docks....the building was enlarged......

Rumor has it....the town backed out.....
 
If the idea ever goes through I think I'll buy a gondola and have my son give rides up and down the canal.
 
yeah.....all the small canals thru that neighborhood are cool.....
 
Must be a lot of history there, was this area a rich mans playground?
 
There is so much history here and we are just stepping all over it...
 
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Originally posted by walterv

Must be a lot of history there, was this area a rich mans playground?






I thought the whole area was built to attract Italian immigrants to move out from the city.
 
About 10yrs ago, when we were looking to move to a waterfront house, we looked at houses in that are "The Venice". many of the home were summer bungalows that had either been expanded or torn down & rebuilt. One of the houses still had steel walls, cheap to construct for a summer bungalow, another house was built in the 1920's in an art deco style, very interesting. Many of the home there had the waterfront property across the street from the actual house. We finally settled on a house further east on the border of Lindenhurst & W Babylon.
 
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