Marina Real in SC looks like it would charge under $200 per month to dry-store a 39-footer, and about the same to launch. The slip rates look pretty reasonable, too. Hmmm…...
Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Nov 2, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Rick Brass <rickbr...@earthlink.net> wrote: > When I got your message I was, in fact, looking up information on San Carlos. > Looks to be a pretty good location to base a timeshare boat. The city is > serviced by US Air and Aeromexico, among other airlines, and seems to have a > lot of attractions. I believe it is a couple of hundred miles north of > Mazatlan, and it seems pretty centrally located in the Sea of Cortez. Looks > like a lot of boat rental and diving tour locations in the area, so there > should be options for marinas and boat yards. San Carlos might be a good spot > to be located. > > I’m presuming that it’s pretty hot in the summer, so it might be best to haul > the boat for protection from hurricanes and for maintenance for 3 or 4 months > in the summer. Wally might be able to provide some input on the area and on > the desirability of a summer haul out. There might still be 8 or 9 months > available for cruising in Mexico each year. > > My 38 has the same arrangement of Barrient 32 and 28 winches as Outrider. I > have planned to upgrade my existing winches using the self tailing conversion > kits available from Winchmate. The spring jaw conversion kits run $600 for > the 28 and $650 for the 32. Would agree this is a good addition for Outrider. > I’m not sure what sort of watermaker would be most desirable or what the > maintenance impacts and costs might be. That might be a decision for the > owner group. Canvas probably doesn’t last too long in the tropic sun, so a > color change (though desirable) might become part of a maintenance chore in > the near future. > > I think we’d need to work out a number of details about boat > ownership/documentation, maybe set up a partnership to manage joint ownership > and expenses, look into insurance coverage, figure out how to equitably > allocate cruising time, and a number of other details. But all that should be > pretty do-able. And I, for one, am pretty serious about having the chance to > sail for a month or so each year in the Pacific. Especially if we can keep > the initial cash outlay under about $10k and keep the annual contribution for > maintenance, etc in the range of a week’s charter in the BVI – which should > also be do-able.
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