any less expensive wet slip in florida?
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The basin in front of Bayfront Park in Sarasota. The city made it an official mooring (fee) a few years ago. Most were nice sailboats who stayed put but the rift raft moved outside the mooring field and created a floating trailer park clogging up that part bay.
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I’ve been a yachting guy for 35 years down in Florida and I am all about anchor rights but than we get the tent city scum that ruin it for everyone.
Biggest worry during any little blow is the unattended junk boats breaking free or dragging down on you to your death.
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The other issue with the floating trailer parks is the "lack of pump outs" issue. Peanut Island has a bunch of vagabond boats and some beautiful blue water yet for some odd reason the water tests routinely cause the swimming areas to get shut down. The bum boaters are crapping in buckets, then rinsing the buckets in the water which contaminates the area. Seems like when one boat sinks/gets removed, another 2 appear in that spot!
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The other issue with the floating trailer parks is the "lack of pump outs" issue. Peanut Island has a bunch of vagabond boats and some beautiful blue water yet for some odd reason the water tests routinely cause the swimming areas to get shut down. The bum boaters are crapping in buckets, then rinsing the buckets in the water which contaminates the area. Seems like when one boat sinks/gets removed, another 2 appear in that spot!
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The other issue with the floating trailer parks is the "lack of pump outs" issue. Peanut Island has a bunch of vagabond boats and some beautiful blue water yet for some odd reason the water tests routinely cause the swimming areas to get shut down. The bum boaters are crapping in buckets, then rinsing the buckets in the water which contaminates the area. Seems like when one boat sinks/gets removed, another 2 appear in that spot!
Just last weekend we were joking that this is the result of 5 years without any hurricanes, Cause the first one that comes, 95% of these will be gone.
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