T&T: Avalon Moorings

[Warren Hall]

Makes one glad they are an east coast boater!
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Frank Burrows<mailto:fburrows at mail.com>
  To:
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  Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 10:17 PM
  Subject: T&T: Avalon Moorings


  I visited Avalon Harbor on Catalina Island near Los Angeles on an overnight
  trip via the ferry. The moorings there are unlike any I have ever seen. You
  tie up the boat using the small float adjacent to the large mooring buoy.
  The small buoy has a second smaller line that leads to a larger line for
  the rear of the boat. The moorings are very close together and I assume
  this is done to maximize the space. We had some extra time so I found the
  harbormasters office to find more about how the system worked. He gave me a
  brochure that describes the setup. Here is a link to the procedure:
  <http://tinyurl.com/72w9lp>http://tinyurl.com/72w9lp<http://tinyurl.com/72w
9lp%3Ehttp://tinyurl.com/72w9lp>

  I told the harbormaster that I was an east coast boater and we talked about
  the Bahamas and other moorings like the ones in the VIs. I asked him if
  people could reserve the moorings and he got a big smile on his face. He
  said that I was really going to like this story. The moorings are all
  privately leased to individual owners. They are actually owned by the City
  of Avalon but owning a lease enabled you to moor your boat anytime. All you
  had to do was call the night before and they would move the boat on your
  mooring to the next available mooring. Any boat tied up to a mooring they
  do not lease directly is only guaranteed the mooring for 24 hours.

  Then he told me the leases currently sell for $875,000 for a mooring for a
  50 foot boat. There was a 70-foot mooring that sold for over 2 million last
  summer. Owning the mooring does not entitle you to any of the income
  collected. The City collects this fee and keeps it. You are responsible for
  an annual tax and the maintenance of the mooring. The only advantage is to
  guarantee you a spot when you want to visit Avalon. The moorings are not
  available to friends or any boat other than the one assigned to the
mooring.

  I realize that this is not news to the west coast boaters but I thought
  this was very interesting.


  Frank Burrows     Destiny   1979  43'  Viking MY
  Piney Narrows Marina   Chesapeake Bay
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