In water boat storage ideas?

zip · 11 September 2015, 15:36

My boat is currently on a trailer, but I would like to keep it in water at a marina. I was going to keep it on an Air Dock, which was given to me. I do not want growth getting on my outdrive. I just found out that the measurements that I had for the Air Dock were incorrect, and it exceeds the marinas width requirement. I would like to avoid going out and buying a new Air Dock.

A friend of mine said he would just put a large plastic garbage bag over his outdrive, and this would prevent the growth. I am a little skeptical of that.

Any other ideas?

jyasaki · 11 September 2015, 17:44

I've seen the garbage bag trick before; no idea on effectiveness. Potentially works in a few ways: 1) lack of light doesn't feed algae growth (don't know if this will affect crustaceans like barnacles); 2) smaller water mass heats up faster placing environment out of habitable zone (don't buy this one); 3) smaller water volume loses soluble O2 faster, placing environment out of habitable zone.

If you have the trailer and a place to store it, it's a hell of a lot cheaper on the hard.

jky

zip · 12 September 2015, 01:25

Jky,

Just finished assembling the Air Dock, and it appears it may fit.
I live 5 minutes from my marina, and have had a boat here for ten years.
Yes, it's a lot more money, but I find that I use the boat a lot more.

Bigtalljv · 12 September 2015, 04:58

Sounds wonderful to have a boat in a marina. I haven't two hour drive to get to Ventura. Would love to be closer to Catalina too. But I'm not willing to live any farther south

Jason

ncp · 12 September 2015, 05:06

I'm 20 minutes from a ramp. I wish I lived as close to water as Zip does.

jyasaki · 14 September 2015, 04:15

I'm a half hour from a ramp, but 2 hours from a ramp with any diving.

jky

dbrunes · 20 September 2015, 17:16

Would love to hear how the Air Dock works out... Hope it works out for you! That would be my ideal. What size boat and what size Airdock?

zip · 21 September 2015, 03:15

I have a 7M, and the dock previously had a 26 foot boat on it.
Hope to have it in within the week.

zip · 24 September 2015, 12:17

Boat is completely out of the water.

zip · 24 September 2015, 12:20

let's try this again.

dbrunes · 26 September 2015, 05:47

very cool!

tworotorturbo · 26 September 2015, 22:35

Thats perfect. I will look into a system like that. How is the launch/recovery?

zip · 28 September 2015, 02:18

TRT,

To launch, let air out, back off.
To recover, drive on, air up.
Pretty straight forward.
I decided to go without a frame, and just side and front tie to the dock.