No dinghy docs anywhere on St. Simons Island, GA

[widmn]

Am thinking about buying a boat and want to use some local anchorages. Slips are not available and I really don't want one anyway as I have a place to stay on lands.
Problem is that no one has a dinghy dock unless you want to pay $600 per month to tie up your dinghy. What is up with this? Anywhere you go in South America, they are glad to tie your dinghy up for free so you shop in town.

[Sailmonkey]

For starters.

https://www.waterwayguide.com/latest...n-georgia-2021

Secondly, if someone already has it forth the infrastructure to create a dock to park and store your dinghy and possibly car, they’re going to want compensation for it.

In a more limited economy such as islands or way out there locales without much population or even a population that moves by boat, things are different.

[Chotu]

So you are planning to just put a boat into one of our anchorages? And leave it there? Unattended while you are on land? At your place?

Just leaving it to take up the Anchorage and not being on it?

If I read that correctly, and that’s what you plan to do,
I hope this doesn’t work out for you.

[boatpoker]

Originally Posted by widmn

Am thinking about buying a boat and want to use some local anchorages. Slips are not available and I really don't want one anyway as I have a place to stay on lands.

Is this regarding the 65' ketch you were buying a while back ?

[widmn]

No not about the 65' ketch

[sailorboy1]

There is a boat ramp on Lanier Island. You of course aren't going to be able to leave you dink there.

But as a whole it is amazing how few towns along the ICW make it easy for boats to come ashore to visit without having to get a slip. Of course the ones that do end up with the low life falling apart anchor out boats and derelicts that make boaters look bad.

[Manateeman]

Low life...that’s us alright...just consider our manatee life style...We definitely are falling apart. Just read any of our medical reports. Endangered.
Derelict...that’s us again. Our food costs nothing, we don’t pay taxes...heck we don’t work at all. If we get hit buy a boat, the feds pay our medical bills and we have a private hospital at NASA where we rest until we feel better.
Some people think we are adorable and donate to our legal political action club.
You can’t make us move...if we are frolicking in your slip, you’ll just have to wait until we finish. We don’t even need to anchor...we just drift. The Federal Police are our private security force and have allocated us special rest zones. We don’t require permits to discharge our biscuits. We can off gas next to your exclusive yacht club with impunity. We can rest on any shore we choose and we get to live undisturbed in the finest crystal clear springs where you cannot boat.
We prefer boats without propulsion especially those anchored out for so long without hauling that they have a fine growth of manatee salad on the waterline. You feel these vessels are an eyesore but we consider them environmental reserves. So please remove your toxic antifouling, non recycled flotsam you call a yacht from our sight as we find your inability to share space on the planet rather silly and you intolerant attitude a bit childish.
Our welcome flag for pizza and beer is hoisted for all to enjoy for sailing is no longer a privilege of the rich nor an activity which requires athletic abilities.
Sedentary though we may be...intolerant we are not.
Bristly manatee kisses to you.
The manatee crew.

[sailorboy1]

someone is on drugs that don't agree with them

[widmn]

Originally Posted by widmn

Am thinking about buying a boat and want to use some local anchorages. Slips are not available and I really don't want one anyway as I have a place to stay on lands.
Problem is that no one has a dinghy dock unless you want to pay $600 per month to tie up your dinghy. What is up with this? Anywhere you go in South America, they are glad to tie your dinghy up for free so you shop in town.

Why?? If you go to Key West or Onset, MA, there are hundreds if not thousand of boats at anchor in the bays not live on or attended for long periods of time. Dinghy docks are free. I believe they hope you will buy fuel and other supplies which people indeed do.

[Sailmonkey]

Originally Posted by widmn

Why?? If you go to Key West or Onset, MA, there are hundreds if not thousand of boats at anchor in the bays not live on or attended for long periods of time. Dinghy docks are free. I believe they hope you will buy fuel and other supplies which people indeed do.

I’d bet most of those boats are on moorings, with a monthly rate associated that includes dinghy dock access.

[sailorboy1]

In MA the Habormaster controls things and it is possible in lots of places to have your own mooring installed. But you still have to find a way to come/go to it

[JoetheCobbler]

[QUOTE=

But as a whole it is amazing how few towns along the ICW make it easy for boats to come ashore to visit without having to get a slip. Of course the ones that do end up with the low life falling apart anchor out boats and derelicts that make boaters look bad.[/QUOTE]
That's not factual.
Annapolis MD- is that overrun with derelict vessels? Every street that ends at the water is a free dinghy dock.
Silver lake Anchorage in Ocracoke has a free dinghy dock, their achorage isn't full if derelict vessels.
Oriental NC has ,TWO free docks for large boat dockage air-conditioning bathroom and free pump out as well as dinghy dockage.again no derelict vessels everywhere.
I could list hundreds of locations from key west to Maine and all along the NYS canal system and fingerless as well as the great lakes.

Quit spreading falsehoods.

[skipgundlach]

Come to Annapolis, where every street ending on a river or creek has not only a dinghy landing but a hose bibb for you to get your water...