From: siegrist@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Frank Siegrist)
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Subject: Re: What is your marina like?
Date: 31 Jul 92 12:09:00 GMT
Reply-To: siegrist@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Frank Siegrist)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

>In article <1992Jul29.182643.24281@csclan.cs.com> CHRIS@csclan.cs.com (Chris Ro
>usseau) writes:
>>P.S. Are the people from the Bay Area the only ones with opinions
>>about their marina services?  Anyone else...East Coast/Gulf Coast/
>>Great Lakes/Inland Lakes???

OK!!  I guess it takes a newcomer to sailing on the Chesapeake to start
off the description of the wide range of marinas around the Annapolis
area.  Living in the DC area and sailing on the Chesapeake allows you
a wide range of places to call your home port.  All the way from south
of Baltimore to north of the Patuxent River and both the east shore
and west shore of the Bay itself.  From what I have seen in my two years
on the Bay, it depends on how much you want to pay, how far you want
to drive and what you feel you need.
My marina is Herrington Harbor North on Herring Bay in Deale, Md. about
20 miles by road south of Annapolis and almost directly across the bay
from St. Micheals.  I'm there because that's where the boat was when
I bought it and I haven't convinced myself I should move.

>
>>1)price/foot/year
>
This marina charges by the size of the slip.  If your 30 footer fits
the same slip my 26 footer does we pay the same price.  They also have
slips that my boat fits and yours wouldn't.  I'm paying $1750 per year
for a slip that is approximatly 11 ft wide at the pilings and about
30 feet long.  The price includes electricity, water, security service,
(guard with dog walks around alot), and people who will adjust your
dock lines if something doesn't look right.

>
>>2)quality of management
>
So far I have no complaints.  My first year someone somehow got a 35
footer into a 30 foot slip along side me and his halyards kept snagging
my mast top.  I complained to the management and they had the guy move.
I assume to a more expensive slip.  They provide such things as tide
tables adjusted for Herring Bay, sponsor free BBQ's a couple times a summer,
etc.


>>3)quality/quantity of facilities
In addition to the stuff above, the fee includes showers, places to
have a picnic(grills, picnic tables), lots of grass to fold sails on,
the use of all the facilities at the sister marina, Herrington Harbor
South, including a pool, free slip use while visiting, a beach (ugh,
Jelly Fish).  Also at HH North there is a supposed to be Porta-Potti 
dump station (I haven't found it yet), real pump out station, gas, diesel, 
a ship chanderly(?) with some stuff like line, blocks and similiar (not 
real well equiped, but better than nothing), and all kinds of repair
shops if you can't do it yourself.  They also provide haulout service
in the Winter and Winter storage at about $60 per month for my boat.
They don't give you credit for unused slip time :-).

>
>>4) other...
>
The difference between the North and South sections of Herrigton Harbor
is the length of Herring Bay.  It takes me about 20 minutes to motor
down Herring Bay to just outside HHS. From there to the bay is about
1 mile. The prices at South are higher, I think because they are closer
to the bay.

The only other thing I can add about marinas is a friend of mine has
a Catalina 22 in a slip in downtown Deale.  He is paying about $700
a year and has no electricity or water, no services and a MLW of 3 feet.

Frank