Available Marina

Preview Shortlist Plus is $1.95 a month or $19.50 a year and is free during preview. Nothing is charged. Pricing

Slip shopping, with your own numbers

Find the slip that fits. Know the full price.

Weighing two or three marinas? Type in your boat and what each marina quoted you. Available Marina works out the length they will bill you for, the full season cost with tax, electric, fees and winter storage, and whether your boat fits each slip with the room you want.

Compare slips Questions to ask

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Plan view of two slips from the worked example below: the boat fits Example A; Example B is half a foot too narrow for the side room this owner wants. A · $3,240.00 B · $3,009.00 0.5 ftshort
Plan view, not to scale. Invented numbers from the worked example below; Available Marina lists no real marinas.

Worked example (invented numbers)

A made-up 30 ft boat, 10.5 ft beam, 3 ft draft, wanting 1 ft of side room and 1 ft under the keel, for a 6-month season. Not real marinas or rates: Available Marina lists none.

  1. 1 Example B (flat, monthly) lowest, does not fit Fits? Too narrow by 0.5 ft for the side room you want Season $3,009.00
  2. 2 Example A (per foot, season) Fits? Yes Season $3,240.00

The cheaper slip is half a foot too narrow for the room this owner wants. That is the kind of thing worth knowing before the deposit.

01 · Cost

The full price, not the rate

A rate per foot is not a bill. The comparer works out the billed length (your boat, the slip, or the longer one, with any minimum), then adds tax, electric, monthly charges, season fees and winter storage.

  1. Slip rentbilled length x rate
  2. Taxon the rent
  3. Monthly chargeselectric, other, liveaboard x months
  4. One-time feesseason fees
  5. Winter storageif you need it
  6. Your seasonranked cheapest first

Open the comparer

02 · Fit

Will it fit?

Length against the slip, beam plus the side room you want against the slip's width, draft plus the water you want under the keel against the depth they gave you. Plain yes or no, with the difference in feet.

Check the fit

03 · Questions

Ask before you sign

Sixteen questions to ask a marina about billing, power, insurance, liveaboard rules, guests, storms, renewal and leaving early, so the quote you compare is the whole quote.

  • Billing and the priceHow do you measure the boat you bill for?
  • The slip itselfWhat is the depth at this slip at low water, or at the lowest normal lake level?
  • Rules and paperworkWhat insurance do you require, and in what amount?

Read the questions

Pricing

What it costs

Free

$0

  • Compare 2 marinas side by side: billed length, slip rent, tax, monthly charges, one-time fees and winter storage, totalled for your season
  • The fit check: length, width and depth against your boat and the room you want
  • Questions to ask before you sign
  • A private Slip Shortlist that keeps one comparison of 2 marinas
  • A note on each marina, on every plan

Shortlist Plus

$1.95 a month

or $19.50 a year (two months free)

  • Compare up to 6 marinas side by side
  • A printable comparison sheet to take to the dock office
  • CSV download of your comparison for a spreadsheet
  • A Slip Shortlist that keeps up to 6 marinas

Free during preview: every Shortlist Plus feature is on for everyone and nothing is charged.

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