Virtually every place we trailer our boat to in the Great Lakes area has a city, town, county, or public owned marina. We never have problems at these places as often the ramps are double wide. We always rig up or down out of the way and sometimes we do it in the water....it does not really matter to us. Once we are ready it takes the same or slightly more time than a powerboat getting it on/off the trailer. My few experiences with private marinas have not been good but I think it has more to do with profit than boat type. One place we had little issue for the first year or two but as the river became more and more congested the marinas started jacking up launching and parking fees to control the crowd. This was many years ago and we stopped going there as the water just became a zoo. We could have found a public ramp but we did not even want to be on the water there. This year on our Lake Huron trip we tried a private marina just because it was on one side of the swing bridge in Little Current so we wouldn't have to worry about timing the bridge openings. What a mistake...they would not let us launch the boat ourselves as they had to do it and then we payed them for the privilege. The place was snarky with a bad vibe. We left and went over to the public marina at Spider Island on the other side of the bridge which we used in the past. A very pleasent marina with great facilities and a laid back young staff that would help with anything if asked and who's attitude was "hey it's cool dude, whatever".
Highly recommend this place for anyone coming the the North Channel or Georgian Bay. The other great public marina in the North Channel is in Spanish. This one is fairly new and also doubles as a community center for the area. Nice wide deep ramp and plenty of space. Spanish is perfectly placed if you are going to stay in the North Channel. We have used both of them. Little Current is better for supplies, parts, and repair.