Boat Street Marina

Most of Boat Street Marina slots are in front of agua verde, near the UW campus. the docks were totally renovated in about 2007 from funky decrepit and cheap, to super flash, clean, big fat slots, 30 amp power, locked keycode gate, and a lot more expensive, a 32′ slot is $ 320, slightly more expensive than just about anywhere in lake union.
No liveaboards, no guest moorage. there is a 24 hour keycode to a simple clean but dark lavatory (that chronically smells of refried beans from the restaurant above) and shower for marina users and no other facilities at the docks, but you are within a mile of a lot of great boat and hardware stores (fisherman’s supply, and hardwicks), and a 10 minute walk to a bizillion restaurants on university ave. and, it is a fantastic location if you work at the UW or university hospital. some small boat slots are against the shore, and thus not very secure, but it’s a pretty good neighborhood — somewhat surprisingly, undergrads that maraud nearby neighborhoods do not seem to bother the boats. (maybe some inebriated survival instinct is at play there?)
the big drawback on this place is the parking. you can pay an extra $ 30/​month or so for a pass to the adjacent lot, but it is only good for 4 hours, 24 hours a day. on top of the ‘highest moorage rate in the city’, another $ 30 starts to get annoying, though not totally out of line. for longer parking, there is paid daily parking about 2 blocks away.
they also have a couple funky, no-​power, no-​gate cheaper slots about a block to the west, but i suspect these are available pretty rarely.
maybe i’m just having trouble dealing with change, but it kind of cranks me to have to pay $ 30 in parking every time i take the boat out for the weekend — and not even get to park at the dock. at that rate, fishermans terminal, shilshoe, everett and edmonds are all looking better and better, so i think my days at boat street are numbered.
if you’re looking for mega cheap, check out port of brownsville — under $ 150 for 32′. but getting there practically requires organizing a safari… it is so inaccessible to the city.
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