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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
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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FLL you raise a good point, that winter boat storage creates a lot of revenue for the marinas. However I don't think it is the cash cow that one might think it would be. Certainly at the outside it all looks well and good, Once the boat it winterized and put into a storage location the is nothing more for the Marina to do. However the marina, has insurance costs, the cost of maintaining the storage space (a year around cost), and of course maintaining the personal to unwinterize all those stored boats in the spring....