In addition to all the business taxes a marina probably pays a very big local property tax, too. Marinas tend to have a lot of property right on the waterfront.
Maybe I'm wrong on this but It seems to me as a casual observer that the winter storage-shrinkwrap-winterization of boats is a Winnipesaukee marina's biggest profit earner. Bigger than boat sales, bigger than repair work, bigger than retail sales of boat sundries, oil, & gasoine: Winter storage seems like it is the #1 profit maker. I dunno.....maybe as much as 50% of overall operations.....now that sales and repairs have slowed down so much? Winter starts every year on December 21 and every boat has to be stored somewhere out of the water.
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