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Originally Posted by ezechiel
lets say you got to the best Michelin star restaurants with out a culinary degree I guess I offer a lot of information that hasn't been recorded ?
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What does THAT mean?
Anyway, while er9 may have given you info that you wanted to hear, it was incomplete.
For example,
Newport does have mooring balls, but it's a 2 hour drive to L.A., and if you can find one they are
for sale, not rent, and will set you back the
price of a pretty decent boat ($40-50k).
The only marina close to Santa Monica is of course, Marina Del Rey, which is a port that contains over 20 marinas, with over 5,000 slips. But to
liveaboard the process includes not only finding an available
liveaboard slip, but also applying to the Sheriff's Department for a
permit. Your boat had to be insured and inspected by the Harbormaster. Suffice to say that getting a
legal liveaboard slip in MDR is difficult, and it's also expensive. A quick look at one of the marinas that does allow liveaboards shows that the
liveaboard fee is 55% of the slip rate, so liveaboard slip for a 35' boat totals over $1,000/month.
Your best bet for a liveaboard slip is to look at L.A. Harbor, or either Ventura or Channel Islands Harbors, and they have a little better slip rates, to boot. The trade-off being a longer drive if you
work in L.A. I know for a fact that as of this date there are a good number of slips available in Ventura Harbor. Again, no moorings in either of these harbors.