The I word for Old Boats

by Susan Peterson Gateley
(Wolcott NY USA)

I saw a recent post about getting insurance on a fixer upper.

My spouse suggested an idea-here it is.

If people know of boat yards and or marinas that are "Old Boat Friendly" ( or at least tolerant) could we post them up here somewhere?

For example there is one marina in our area that still tolerates old wooden boats and repairs to same.


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It is called Bayside Marina and is located in Fair Haven NY.

They have a link on the chamber of commerce website for Fair Haven.

When we bought our old boat 6 years ago, we had to motor her 120 miles to get to a place that would haul an uninsured wooden boat-

Seems like this may be a problem for other brave hearts that are trying to fix up old woodies in the U.S. where liability laws and insurance and increasingly ruling the world...