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Location: Duluth | Any of you guys keep your boat in a slip. I like the idea of leaving the office and walking right on to my boat to musky fish.
I don't like the idea of retrieving my trailer if I want to fish elsewhere.
Anyone who has gone with this system care to offer pros and cons I'd appreciate it. |
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Location: Walker, MN | I keep my boat on a covered lift in a harbor May-November on Leech Lake. I have about a 7 minute drive to my boat (one cup of coffee), and I can be floating in about 10 min from leaving my door. The best part is being able to slide out and fish for an hour or two with zero hassle. I also like driving a smaller SUV for my daily driver.
The only real down side is that I often buy premium marina gas at ~$3.50-$4.00/ gallon. Sometimes I'll dump in a few cans if it's going to be a short day on the water though. I end up doing boat cleaning and rigging while docked, or floating on the lake..which isn't bad either. I do end up throwing it on a trailer once a month for deep cleaning, oil changes, extensive rigging ect. Overall I love it! |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | I have kept my boat at a slip in a marina on the Larry for the last 3 years after over 30 yeas of fishing off the trailer on my local lake. I really like just being able to remove the cover and go. My boat is a deep v and the bow when sitting on the trailer is above my head consequently I was having trouble retrieving the boat when fishing alone. I would drive on to the trailer then have to get from the front deck to the trailer . Twice I slipped and fell not a good idea at 76 year old hips. This year my plan was to put the boat at a marina on Lake Ontario for June through August for the salmon fishing and then come September move to a marina on the Larry for muskie. Currently covid 19 has all marinas as well as public and private launch ramps shut down by Provincial order so the season is now up in the air. I do have a couple of spots where I can throw my old canoe in a couple of small rivers from farmers fields going back to where I started my back is feeling it all ready. I do hope I can fish big water from a slip. |
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| My boat Ranger 620 sat in the water for 3 months for 15 years. I had a snap on mooring cover and put it on each day. I cleaned the hull when I pulled the boat each September and the hull was in great shape. It sold for a bit less than I paid for it. My new Minnesota boat spent the past 5 summers the same way. I have also kept a boat Ranger 1880 covered and in the water from the end of September to late May for the past 6 years. I clean the hull once a winter then it is detailed in late May. Again the hull is in excellent shape. I see no problem keeping a boat in the water at a dock. However, if it was possible for me to use a lift similar to a ShoreStation, I would. |
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Location: Duluth | Going to pull the trigger and do it. Not like I can travel too far to fish anyway, now need to invest in a nice cover.
Appreciate the feedback, seems like a no brainer |
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Location: Roseau | I keep mine at the Angle for around 5 months in a slip
One tip is add a bilge pump up a few inches from the other one and connect it to a different battery, 2 separate bilge systems. I learned the hard way last fall, lots of rain and my flipper got stuck. |
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Location: Duluth | Bilge was actually my biggest concern. My boat already has two due to the fact that it's a tunnel hull. Maybe time to add two more that run off of shore power. |
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| CincySkeez - 4/9/2020 11:35 AM
Bilge was actually my biggest concern. My boat already has two due to the fact that it's a tunnel hull. Maybe time to add two more that run off of shore power.
One of my neighbors, who only spends a few weeks/weekends a year at his place, leaves his fishing boat tied to the dock. He added a bilge pump, with a line running to an outdoor outlet, after his battery ran down and his boat would have sunk had it not been in only about a foot of water. Don't know if it is a 110V bilge, or if it is hooked to some sort of inverter, never thought to ask. |
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| Biggest prob is you can't easily run someplace else to fish. Like rivers just before and just after safe lake ice. So get a beater 14' semi-deep V with a 20hp motor and a nice transom trolling motor with a extending handle. Pull the center seat, drop in a plywood floor. Battery case in front of the forward seat. Now you're mobile all the time. |
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Keeping Boat in a Slip