1. Modern Marina (yacht club) is either an appendix to a prestigious residential complex (yacht garage) for VIP residents. Or the simplest hotel for traveling yachtsmen with a bar and shower. In Russia, sometimes marinas are lowered to the level of parking lots.
But almost always marina is also a men's club - with BBQ, technical consultations, gossip and booze.
It's like a garage cooperative from the Soviet era.
But, unlike a garage cooperative, a marina is a very expensive, troublesome and bureaucratic event, and therefore the owners of berths are mostly tenants, not shareholders. At the same time, the bay, given over to the marina, inevitably degrade from a violation of water circulation.
2. The boat cooperative [nowadays] is a coastal boathouse, without jetty and berths. Moreover, boathouses are only about the first floor, and above that: the second, third, and sometimes the fourth are prestigious housing in the first line.
This ALWAYS generates envy, questions about social justice and the legality of the use of the coastal strip... for VIP accommodation.
3. Are there any alternatives to these two formats: "boathouse" and "marina"?
Absolutely! This is a cooperative of owners of ship lifts and "wet garages".
The most expensive and legally tricky part of any marina is the embankment/breakwater mall.
It is the mall that radically narrows down the choice of suitable locations and makes it difficult to coordinate the entire project. It is the mall that causes the main damage to the environment and turns any bay into a quiet swamp. But what about without it?
It is enough to lift the boats above the water!
Ship lifts are suitable for this. Ramps or slips.
A single such structure (despite its relative cheapness) leaves unresolved the issue of protection and land communication with the coast. Therefore, the optimal form is a cooperative. Where several lifts connected by walkways + utility rooms (gatehouse, storerooms, possibly a fishing goods store) function as a single unit and have a common umbilical cord of engineering communications with the shore.
Such a cooperative has several significant advantages over marina:
- It does not require a significant area on the shore. This means that it will not turn the beach into a warehouse of rusty watercraft on keel blocks.
• It does not require a mall, which means the bay will not turn into a swamp with black standing water and oil stains. There will be no fewer fish!
• This format includes organically integrated public areas for swimming, diving, SUP, sunbathing and fishing.
• It can grow organically - it doesn't have a turtle shell from the mall. It can grow not only through new members, but also through second berths for PWC, small storerooms, kungas, beach hut - creating an indescribable atmosphere of maritime romance and male fraternity.
• HYDRANTULA technologies make it possible to lift sailing and motor watercraft up to 45 feet long, as well as kayaks, jet skis, and small catamarans above the water - that is, the most affordable types of vessels. Such a cooperative will definitely not turn into a gathering of oligarchs and will not annoy the public.
4. And most importantly, it is within the reach (and money) of almost any shipowner.