A marina at Brixham, Devon, England. The vertical pilings attach the floating dock sections to the ground beneath the water.

A marina is a sheltered harbor where boats and yachts are kept in the water and where services geared to the needs of recreational boating are found. Brixham (IPA: ) is a small town in the county of Devon, in the south-west of England. ... For other uses, see Devon (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Harbor (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Boat (disambiguation). ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... A modern yacht A yacht (From Dutch Jacht meaning hunt(er)) was originally defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used to convey important persons. ...

The marina may have re-fueling, washing and repair facilities, ship chandlers, stores and restaurants. Slipways are used to get a trailered boat into the water. Marinas may offer a boat hoist well, a type of traveling crane, 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 lots for vehicles and boat trailers. A ship chandler is a retail dealer in special supplies or equipment for ships, who may also be responsible for the berthing and docking of the vessel before it arrives into port and is usually considered the liaison officer for the vessels needs and demands in a foreign port. ... A slipway inside the Cobb at Lyme Regis, England A slipway, boat slip or just a slip, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. ... Utility trailer A Trailer is generally an unpowered vehicle pulled by a powered vehicle. ... A modern crawler type derrick crane with outriggers. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Boats are moored either or on buoys or on fixed or floating walkways that are tied to an anchoring piling by a roller or ring mechanism (floating docks or pontoons). 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. Facilities offering fuel, boat ramps and stores will normally have a common-use dock set aside for such short term parking needs. Buoys redirects here. ... Look up Pile in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A floating dock is a platform or ramp supported by pontoons. ... A pontoon boat, like this small pleasure boat, typically floats and balances by means of two pontoons mounted lengthwise. ... Two inflatable boats at Horsea Island, England. ...

In regions where the tidal range is large, some marinas use locks to maintain the water level for several hours before and after low water. The tidal range is the vertical difference between the highest high tide and the lowest low tide. ... Canal locks in England. ...

Marinas may be owned and operated by a private club, especially yacht clubs — but also as private enterprises or municipal facilities. They are most frequently located along the banks of rivers connecting to lakes or seas and may be inland, sometimes up to as much as twenty-five kilometers) from the river's mouth. A yacht club in Cienfuegos, Cuba Columbia yacht club in Chicago, Illinois A yacht club is a sports club specifically related to sailing and yachting. ... For other uses, see Organization (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see River (disambiguation). ... A kilometer (Commonwealth spelling: kilometre), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1,000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ...

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. An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada... This article needs to be wikified. ...

In the United Kingdom the word "marina" is also used for inland wharves on rivers and canals that are used exclusively by non-industrial pleasure craft such as canal narrowboats. For other uses, see Canal (disambiguation). ... Moored narrowboats near Tardebigge, Worcestershire, England Horse drawing a narrowboat on the Kennet and Avon Canal. ...

"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 dry storage or dry stacking is called droge jachthaven.

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Marinas

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External links

• Marina Recreation Association