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Marina

For other uses of this word, see Marina (disambiguation)
Marina (disambiguation)

A marina is a place for docking pleasure boats.Marina may also mean:...
.

A marina is a sheltered harbor

Harbor

A harbor or harbour , or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. Harbors can be man-made or natural....
where boat

Boat

A boat is a watercraft of modest size designed to float or plane on water, and provide transport over it. Usually this water will be inland or in protected coastal areas....
s and yacht

Yacht

A yacht is a recreational boat. It designates two rather different classes of watercraft, sailing and power yachts. Yachts are differentiated from working ships mainly by their leisure purpose....
s are kept in the water and where services geared to the needs of recreational boating are found.

The marina may have re-fueling, washing and repair facilities, ship chandler

Ship chandler

A ship chandler is a retail dealer in special supplies or equipment for ships.For traditional sailing ships items that could be found in a chandler might include: rosin, turpentine, tar, pitch , linseed oil, whale oil, tallow, lard, varnish, twine, Rope, hemp, oakum, tools , brooms, mops, galley supplies, leather goods, and paper....
s, stores and restaurants. Slipway

Slipway

A slipway, boat slip or just a slip, is a Inclined plane on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. They are used for building and repairing ship building and boat building....
s are used to get a trailered

Trailer (vehicle)

A Trailer is generally an unpowered vehicle Towing by a powered vehicle. Commonly, the term trailer refers to such vehicles used for transport of goods and materials....
boat into the water. Marinas may offer a boat hoist well, a type of traveling crane

Crane (machine)

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For other uses of this word, see Marina (disambiguation)
Marina (disambiguation)

A marina is a place for docking pleasure boats.Marina may also mean:...
.

A marina is a sheltered harbor

Harbor

A harbor or harbour , or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. Harbors can be man-made or natural....
where boat

Boat

A boat is a watercraft of modest size designed to float or plane on water, and provide transport over it. Usually this water will be inland or in protected coastal areas....
s and yacht

Yacht

Ship chandler

Slipway

Trailer (vehicle)

Crane (machine)

A crane is a lifting machine equipped with a winder , wire ropes or chains and Sheave that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally....
, instead of a more space-wasteful slipway, operated by service center personnel. Marinas may offer out-of-water-storage, which is useful out of season and important in latitudes susceptible to freezing waters. Marinas may include ground facilities such as parking lot

Parking lot

Parking lot is a cleared area that is more or less level and is intended for parking vehicles. Usually, the term refers to a dedicated area that has been provided with a durable or semi-durable surface....
s for vehicles and boat trailers.

Boats are moored either or on buoy

Buoy

A buoy is a floating device that can have many different purposes. It can be anchored or allowed to drift. The word, of Old French or Middle Dutch origin, is now most commonly , although some orthoepy have traditionally prescribed the pronunciation ....
s or on fixed or floating walkways that are tied to an anchoring piling by a roller or ring mechanism (floating dock

Floating dock

A floating dock is a platform or ramp supported by Pontoon s. These are usually joined to the shore with a ramp that rests upon the dock on rollers, to adjust for the vertical movement of the dock ....
s or pontoons

Pontoon (boat)

A pontoon is a flat-bottomed boat or the floats used to support a structure on water. It may be simply constructed from closed cylinder s such as pipes or barrels or fabricated as boxes from metal or concrete....
). Buoys are cheaper to rent but less convenient than being able to walk from land to boat. Harbor shuttles, also known as "water taxis", may be available to transfer people between the shore and boats moored on buoys. The alternative is a tender such as an inflatable boat

Inflatable boat

An inflatable boat is a lightweight boat constructed with its sides and bow made of flexible tubes containing pressurised gas. For smaller boats, the floor and hull beneath it is often flexible....
. Facilities offering fuel, boat ramps and stores will normally have a common-use dock set aside for such short term parking needs.

In regions where the tidal range

Tidal range

The tidal range is the vertical difference between the highest high tide and the lowest low tide. In other words, it is the difference in height between high and low tides....
is large, some marinas use locks to maintain the water level for several hours before and after low water.

Marinas may be owned and operated by a private club, especially yacht club

Yacht club

A yacht club is a sports club specifically related to sailing and yachting. Yacht Clubs are mostly located by the sea, although there are some prestigious ones that have been established at a lake or riverside location, like the W?rttembergischer Yacht Club in Friedrichshafen, Germany....
s — but also as private enterprise

Organization

An organization is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, which controls its own performance, and which has a boundary separating it from its environment....
s or municipal facilities. They are most frequently located along the banks of river

River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
s connecting to lakes or seas and may be inland, sometimes up to as much as twenty-five kilometers) from the river's mouth. Marina is a name from Russia.

A marina will charge fees for most services. Fee-based services like parking, picnic area, pub, and club-house for a shower, are usually included as part of any monthly long-term rental agreement package. Visiting yachtsmen usually have the option of buying each amenity from a fixed schedule of fees, and arrangements can be as wide as a single use, such as a shower, or several weeks of temporary berthing. The right to use the facilities is frequently extended at overnight or period rates to visiting yachtsmen.

In the United Kingdom the word "marina" is also used for inland wharves on rivers and canal

Canal

Canals are artificial channels for water. There are two types of canals: Aqueduct canals, which are used for the conveyance and delivery of water, and waterways, which are navigable transportation canals used for passage of goods and people, often connected to existing lakes, rivers, or oceans....
s that are used exclusively by non-industrial pleasure craft such as canal narrowboat

Narrowboat

A narrowboat or narrow boat is a boat of a distinctive design, made to fit the narrow canals of England and Wales....
s.

"Dry storage" or "dry stacking" is mainly found in the USA and Europe. Dry-stack boat storage stores boats vertically in rack systems (double, triple or even quadruple). It extends the life of the boat by keeping the hull dry, and stores a boat for winter on marinas that lack slip storage. The boat is retrieved with a forklift. In the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
dry storage or dry stacking is called droge jachthaven.

Marina

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