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Old 06-01-2022, 10:15   #31
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Re: Cruising from your own dock? Real Estate Options?

My lot with the best boat house there is coming up for sale
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Old 20-01-2025, 12:23   #32
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We built a small studio house on a deep water canal in Port Charlotte, FL, finished in 2019. We have 100' of concrete seawall and 2 docks where we have successfully docked a 33' shoal draft sailboat and a 36' trawler. We built our home here because I was working in the area. I am now retired and we are no longer needing 2 homes so this cute, small home could be for sale, but is not currently listed. We have an appraisal that came in at $385k but we are open to offers from the right parties. If interested, please reply and I will send you more information. P.S. We have survived 3 recent hurricane direct hits and only suffered about $50 worth of roof shingle "damage" and some screen damage to our lanai. It's built with concrete block and 8 foot above mean tide so it's never been flooded from storm surge.
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I'm no longer in the market, but others here may be. Good luck!
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A sight on one of the western rivers would be cheapest. I have a dock on the Columbia River. I have a work shop, a couple docks, and an 83' boat. The docks are mine, but lease the land under and access from state land. I live aboard and cruise. I have power, but no water, so I use my watermaker year round. I also have Incinolet toilets, so put no sewage in the river. Lease is about $2000/year.
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. . . Digging into google maps I found it was a 5+ mile trip to the ocean from that dock, ergo a 1+ hour trip to the ocean what with no-wake zones.. .
I know this is already not relevant to the OP, but being docked up a river some ways from the ocean has some big advantages -- first of all shelter in case of storms, secondly the water may be brackish so giving you a much better situation with bottom growth.

For some years I had a pontoon mooring up the Hamble River near Southampton on the South Coast of England. It was a few miles up the river and took a good while to get out into the Solent, and even longer to get out of the Solent into the English Channel. It was great. I always enjoyed the ride down the river, which was time to admire the scenery, look at boats, get the boat ready for going out to sea.

So this is not necessarily a net disadvantage, and in some cases might be a positively good thing.
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