facilities also have a large number that charge by boat size, but the majority of private and family owned facilities charge by slip size. Fig. 5 shows the largest boat sizes that facilities can accommodate, overall and by type of ownership. The majority of facilities overall take boats up to 40 feet, followed closely by facilities that accommodate boats up to 65 feet. More corporate and privately owned facilities offer accommodations for boats up to 65 feet and more family owned facilities cater to boats up to 40 feet.
Environmental Factors
Fig. 6 shows how often marinas dredged at their facilities. Close to half (44%) do not need to dredge at all. About 16% of facilities have dredged only during renovations or expansions or only as funding permits. Close to 13% of facilities dredge about every five years. A variety of natural disasters impact marinas, as shown by Fig. 7. The majority of facilities are impacted by hurricanes (37%), followed closely by ice and winter (29%) and wind (26%) storms. Fig. 8 shows the number of facilities that are Clean Marina certified or in the process of certification. More than half of the respondents (51.4%) indicated that they were Clean Marinas with another 12% in process for certification.
Amenities
The survey asked marinas to identify what amenities they offered boaters and the age of the infrastructure. Fig. 9A shows only those respondents that identified their infrastructure as original equipment, showing the age of that equipment. The percentage shown after each category indicates what
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Fig. 4: Dockage Charges By Ownership
Overall Government Owned Privately Owned/ Not Family Family Owned Corporate Owned
By slip size 41% 34% 48% 37% 17% By boat size 45% 52% 40% 44% 56% Flat fee 12% 7% 10% 14% 11%
Fig. 7: Natural Disasters
Wind storm Flooding Winter storm/ice Tornado Hurricane/tropical storm Low water levels
37% 29% 4% 26% 25% 12%
Fig. 6: Dredging Frequency
44.4% 3.7% .5% 6.1% 12.6% 16.4% .5% 15.9%
As needed but at least every 5 years As funding permits Every other year As needed but at least every 3 years Annually Only after storms Only during expansions or renovations Don't need to dredge
Fig. 8: Clean Marina Certification
51.4% 36.4% 12.1%
No In the process of certification Yes
Fig. 5: Largest Boat Accomodations
Corporate Owned Family Owned Privately Owned/ Not Family Government Owned Overall Up to 65 feet Up to 85 feet Up to 40 feet < 25 feet Up to 150 feet Up to 250 feet > 250 feet
4.7% 4.8% 2% 7% 8% 27.6% 19% 23% 35% 15% 26.6% 19% 34% 20% 31% 14% 28.6% 13% 8% 18.2% 19% 20% 18% 15% 5.1% 4.8% 5% 6% 8% 3.7% 4.8% 3% 1% 15%
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