(GPS thread). I started a new topic because this is about moorings. I lived in Marblehead for a few years (birth place to the American Navy). I would have a few drinks at Mattie’s Sail Loft on State Street and a few bears at the Riptide. Now that I live in San Diego I can see some differences between marinas and moorings. If I am correct in Marblehead you pull the boat out each winter and put her back in the water say at Marblehead harbor each spring on a mooring. There are no marinas, partly because they probably would go broke in the winter, partly maybe because there are not any good places for them. Any way I know of maybe one in Salem harbor where a friend had an old lobster boat that he purchased. Most people put there boats on moorings in New England am I correct? When I looked for a place for the C-30 I was going to purchase I found a waiting list for moorings in San Diego but did find a few slips for a C-30. Because we can leave the boat in the water year round it seems this could be one big reason for the difference. Am I off the mark here or do people just like to war of the mooring verses slip thing? -CW