mikestein
New Member
I've been keeping my boat at the same marina dry storage for years. Lately thing are getting broken, e.g. the bow light two times. Now I'm noticing crescent shaped scratches in my gel coat . they are about 10" to 12" long and curved up, like a smiley face. Something, the forklift, the storage rack, or who knows, is doing this. I like the marina folks but they are very VERY laid back and while they are not reckless by any means, they don't wear white gloves when handling the boats. My boat is probably among the nicer ones there, and it ain't that nice! :grin: They've been great about replacing the bow light -- twice. They tried to fix one of the scratches last season, and didn't do a great job. Now, like I said, they are appearing again. I will point them out, but I'm not really confident they will do anything other than try to buff them out -- which really won't work. So given the shortage of dry storage on the lake I have two choices. Keep it there and continue to put up with it. Or put it on the trailer and bring it home. It's really nice after a long day on the water to tie up and let somebody else put the boat away, but I'm starting to wonder.... thoughts? I've never kept it outside, but I'm thinking it will start to age faster, even if it's covered.