St. Petersburg marinas
 

Never seen a marina with covered lifts in Florida.......

That will more than likely we your only option at all.

Covered lifts and 24 access is VERY rare in this area and shocked you even found that one.

Home Port Marina in Ozona has a few covered slips with lifts. Only about 10 lifts with maybe four being covered.

maximo marina in st pete has just built all new covered slips with a good number of brand new lifts
other than that there are not a lot of options for covered lifts with slips
I think the guy told me the covered lifts are going to run about $750 month

That was the same number I heard too, my buddy might move his boat there from Tierra Verde Marina. I am sure they will go quick once completed.

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As already been said, the covered lifts are fairly uncommon down here. We work on boats at a lot of marinas around here and there's everything from very good to very bad. Not saying they're all bad, but after having seen the things we see it would make me nervous to always leave my boat in the care of some of the marina's around here. If you're set on covered it's going to be a much harder hunt but there are always private boat lifts for rent.

They do have nice new covered slips with lifts, but as someone who has kept a boat there for the last 6 years or so I can tell you that they seem to be doing everything they can to run off their customers. They were a great marina before they sold out to IGY Marinas. I keep a boat in the high and dry there. They continually think of new ways to charge you new fees. They charge you if you have a outside contractor work on your boat, they charge you if you want your boat put on a wash rack. If you come back after they close and tie up to the wrong side of the fuel dock they charge you a transient dockage fee. They raise their rates all the time. I just got a letter the other day that the rates are going up again Jan 1. I have started looking for alternative marinas, I would suggest anyone considering maximo think twice.

Tierra Verde is my fav and the restaurant and pool there just add to the fun of the area after a day of boating.

What are they hitting outside contractors now? We haven't worked on one there in quite a while. We've been charged everything from $0 to $250 to work at marinas around here.

It's not a huge amount of money, I think it might only be $25 that they charge the boat owner, then from what I understand the charge the contractor on top of that. To me it's the principal of it. I don't like to shop where I feel like I'm getting nickel and dimed at every turn. Imagine you went out to a $100 dinner and they charged you for the extra ketchup. It's just something that should be included with the meal. Same thing with moving your boat to a wash rack, at $400 a month for a 24' boat it should be part of the deal, just as it has been for the last 15 years of my high and dry rentals.

Yeah that makes sense. The marina's always try to justify to me when we get charged that we're using their power, their water, their restrooms, etc etc..... Ok whatever. MarineMax is the absolute worst. If you store your boat there they charge outside contractors $250 a day and require double the amount of liability insurance as anyone else anywhere does. I needed to measure the diameter of a tower on one of my customer's boats that was getting serviced there and they wanted $250 to let me walk to the boat with a micrometer for 2 minutes. Ha, no!

2 weeks ago