Dry Storage

What he needs now are contacts to publicise, develop, and fund the idea - always the most difficult part.

Kim? he's got some very good rendered pictures of the concept - a small article in one of the mags possible?

John W? - interested in talking to him?
 
Colin, we are not involved in residential building.
We may, in time, get involved in true leisure developments (not resi, maybe hotels, chalets and the like) but we have no desire to be a house-builder.
Our mission is to have excellent marinas, providing excellent service, value for money, decent infrastructure, leading to happy customers, higher profits (oops!). So that's next Monday morning taken care of!
John

by the way, I will duck no reasonable question put my way
 
Leaving the boat tied up alongside to be stacked is all very well, but I like to have mine lifted and placed on a cradle at ground level, so that the hull can be washed and the engine flushed with fresh water. Maybe Cobbs Quay offer this to those who require it.

The issue of debris dropping off boats stacked high, keeps cropping up. I don't believe it is an issue. Dry berthed boats don't get weed or other muck on them, and I've never seen boats on the bottom get any dirtier, either at Cobbs Quay, or where I am.

Old Chinese proverb 'Man who sail boat into rice field, soon get into paddy'
 
John

I am berthed at Chatham Maritime and live on the Island and would certainly welcome dry racking, no more anti fouling and fouled outdrives, it would appear that this would be an ideal location for dry racking effectively increasing the size of the marina and your profits, (that must be tempting) on the surface plenty of space still available dockside and around the submarine pens, still lots of development works locally to be carried out, maybe the right time to investigate.

Locally the area is lacking good secure shore based storage with easy launching.

Or will the idea fall foul to the great british disease, great idea but we where just to late.

Derek
 
I am aware of 3 places in Poole - Cobbs, Pole Boat Park and Rockley Boat park
Lymington as mentioned and also a yard/marina at Beauli ('cus spelling) offers it.
The key issue seems to be that if you have water in a nice area you have the potential for a marina; if you have land then housing becomes the most profitable use as evidenced!

Also need to take into account tides - Poole developments are based on a tidal range of 1.5 m max(!) making it easy to facilitate forklift access to the water/holding pontoon. Florida has I think a small tide range and obviously inland lakes in the US even less!
Interested in how Lymington launches by the way.
IMHO Cobbs have got the best overall setup but, and no doubt John will comment, I believe they are somewhat oversubscribed!
 
When are you going to start building these new fangled boarding houses for boats? The profits per square meter must be huge, even with the initial investment for building and giant forklift. Plus of course when they are in the water, they need visitors moolrings wherever they go, more income! Services for maintaining the boats when racked etc. etc. Did you see that post reference the round building thingy? Must be worth a look, 160' diameter is not a very big building and could be incorporated into a leisure developement very easily, with all kinds of facilities, but I'm rambling now, mind you the best ideas often come out of ramblings and dreams!
 
Lymington launches by forklift. straight into water on holding pontoon. All states of tides - no problems even at highest and lowest.
Superbly friendly and helpful staff. Only problem I can see is the waiting list, they don't even advertise prices for dry racking on website any longer, as current list is so big.
 
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