We did a cost comparison to see if we'd save money by storing the boat close to LBI vs. burning the gas to get to Millville. I included marine gas, car rental, storage, shrink wrap, and winterization of the engines. On Saturday we went to 2 local marinas that seemed like good candidates based on price and recommendations from others.
Spoke to Rick at Total Marine in Tuckerton and he seems knowledgeable and easy to work with. His price to shrink wrap was considerably higher than the others and when I asked him about it he talked about big increases in the cost of plastic. The other small gotcha is that they don't have pump out so we'd have to make sure the holding tank was pumped before we dropped the boat off.
Spoke to Violet at Chestnut Neck Boat Yard in Port Republic. She was very conversant in the lingo but I don't think she'd be directly involved in work done on our boat. It's a big place and we'd be more of a number than a name there.
Chestnut Neck is about $300 cheaper than Total Marine so we'll take the boat there sometime in the next couple of weeks. It'll be easy to switch next year if our experience is bad.
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