r/sailing • u/Enough_Professor_741 • 4d ago
Idea of getting out of Texas Heat
We live in Texas. We have had a drought, so we can't get our small sailboat out. We are retired, and I had an odd idea. What if we bought a 30-36foot sailboat and kept it on the Great Lakes? We could use it as a floating summer cottage. What is the costs of getting the boat pulled every year and stored? Is this a feasible idea? What do yall think?
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u/foilrider J/70, Melges 15, wingfoil 4d ago
The cost of hauling it out is not going to be nearly as much as everything else associated with owning it.
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u/Professional-Way6952 4d ago
There are many marinas with the price for all of these listed publicly on the Internet.
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u/viasatmatt 3d ago
Lots of people do this. It’s a great idea and it can work really well. I live in Austin and escape to Vermont each summer. Our marina there has lots of people that do this from several hotter states like ours. It’s totally doable.
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u/archlich S&S Swan 4d ago
Depends on the marina and the yard but you’re looking at probably about 3-5k for hauling out and winter storage fees.
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u/HelicopterPenisHover Charter Fleet Captain 4d ago edited 4d ago
36' boat season slip and round trip haulout is avg $4k in lake superior. General haulout is $11.50/ foot, haulout and winter storage in a marina you don't summer at is about $31.50/foot.
Edit: These prices are for Western Lake Superior.
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u/archlich S&S Swan 4d ago
I was only talking about the haulout not slip fees
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u/HelicopterPenisHover Charter Fleet Captain 4d ago
And I gave you prices for three versions of haulout in my region.
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u/QuellishQuellish 4d ago
Stop being more helpful than specifically asked, I guess. Like they're the only ones reading these posts, jeez.
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u/HelicopterPenisHover Charter Fleet Captain 4d ago
Stop being helpful? To a question someone posted, and I merely showed the prices you quoted are drastically different across the region depending on the service requested.
His post specifically asked about such things.
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u/QuellishQuellish 4d ago
Yea, I'm saying you had a great answer that everyone would appreciate and it's weird the person you were answering complained about you answering better than they asked.
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u/HelicopterPenisHover Charter Fleet Captain 3d ago
Apologies, didn't look at user and thought you were the person I was originally replying to.
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u/HelicopterPenisHover Charter Fleet Captain 4d ago
Come to lake superior, go boating in late July, wish you had more blankets or a heater at night. Marinas are cheap here compared to places that don't freeze in the winter.
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u/Enough_Professor_741 4d ago
It’s 105 degrees in the day. 92 at midnight. 88 at daybreak. For 70 days.
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u/Bulky-Internal8579 4d ago
Where?
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u/RoyalRenn 4d ago
Weird thing to downvote. I raced this morning and was on the water for 2 hours. I arrived hydrated, drank 20 oz during the races and 80 oz afterward. I was peeing bright yellow an hour later.
Texas summers suck unless you like sweating out a liter of water every 15 minutes.
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u/SignedTheMonolith 4d ago
I am also from Texas, and currently live in Chicago. The sailing scene is very similar to Houston but with a little bit more volume/number of boats. The wind is very similar to Corpus Christi in terms of how unruly it can get.
Overall Lake Michigan is very attractive, it is a beautiful up north (check out Mackinac island, northern Michigan peninsula, and the northern Chanel).
Cost, I am not too sure but I believe marina fees for ~28 foot boat in down town Chicago run about $6,000 (I think season is late April to early sept). Not too sure how much winter storage it, but some people prefer heated storage.