Pricing in a Marina

I just found this table for the pricing method of some Turkish Marina, which may be a custom there, but one have to check first. For a calculation in advance, it is good to anticipate.

To calculate your price, multiply your boat LOA with your beam to get square meters, then find the column corresponding to this size. As you see there are sizes between 24 - 59.99 m², 60 – 119.99 m², 120 – 179.99 m² and 180 m² and more, fact that makes four area columns. The time period is calculated in days, and as you see, the smallest factor is for a whole year. Find the multiplication factor for the number of days you plan to stay. Then, multiply this factor with the boat area you found in m² and after that, multiply it with the number of days you plan to stay. The result will be the price in Euros, for the whole period. The best part is that this includes a half price haul and launch with ten days of hard standing, with the water and electricity costs also included.

Let’s say you own a Beneteau Oceanis 58, and you plan to stay 365 days.

Multiply 18.24 m LOA with 4.99 beam which makes the area 91.01 m². You look in the 2’nd area column the 60 – 119.99 m² column and find the multiplication factor 0.255

Multiply 91.01 with 0.255 and the result with 365 and you’ll have the price of

8,470 Euros for a whole year, which makes the parking of your luxurious 5 star yacht, cheaper than any sort of lodging you can find outside the marina, with electricity and water costs included, 20.20 Euros/day, a joke.

Price List m2 24.00 59.99 60.00 119.99 120.00 179.99 180.00 + Daily 1,153 1,210 1,328 1,502 30 0,713 0,749 0,820 0,957 60 0,551 0,632 0,691 0,841 90 0,461 0,530 0,576 0,704 120 0,429 0,451 0,486 0,597 150 0,401 0,419 0,450 0,555 180 0,373 0,391 0,417 0,516 210 0,346 0,363 0,386 0,480 240 0,324 0,339 0,356 0,446 270 0,300 0,317 0,330 0,414 300 0,280 0,294 0,305 0,385 330 0,260 0,273 0,281 0,358 365 0,243 0,255 0,262 0,333

The Marina view looks like this:

and your Oceanis looks like this:

Just imagine! 10,000 Euros are a small part of a week price if you charter your 3 cabins Oceanis.

Some Nautical Terms and other Tips

Some nautical terms need to be mentioned, this blog is for everybody, not only for specialists.

LOA means Length Over All, and is the longest length of the yacht.

LWL is the Length of the Water Line.

Hull is the shell and framework of the floating part of the boat.

As a tip, you can know what could be the approximate speed of a boat, just knowing the LWL. This is called Hull Speed, sometimes displacement speed, and is the square root of LWL in feet, multiplied with a constant, calculated to be 1,34.

“v” is measured in Knots (kn), which defines another important nautical term. So, 1 kn is a speed unit representing 1 nautical mile per hour (mph)
1 nautical mile is 1.852 km/h or 0.514 m/s and approximately 1.151 mph
In the modern naval architecture, the hull speed is too "yesterday", more important is considered the Froude Number, or the speed/length ratio, given by this formula:

where “v” is the velocity (speed) in kn, and “LWL” is the length at the waterline. Actually, the Froude Number is

where  “g” is the gravitational acceleration (this is also a constant, 9.8 m/s² ) and “L” is actually the waterline length.

courtesy of Wikipedia

 I considered this a tip because when you ask for the maximum speed of the boat, you can check the answer by calculating quickly and discretely the hull speed. If the difference is less than a knot, than the owner is a good guy. This may be especially available when you buy in Turkey, I've seen people lying about the speed and about a lot of other things, another one being the qualifications they have.
Originally speed was measured by paying out a line from the stern of a moving boat. The line had a knot every 47 feet 3 inches (14.40 m), and the number of knots passed out in 30 seconds gave the speed through the water in nautical miles per hour. This method gives a value for the knot of 20.25 in/s, or 1.85166 km/h. The difference from the modern definition is less than 0.02%.

 Of course, when you buy such a yacht (this is a Ferretti 800), you don't need the discreet check I was telling you about, :)