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Marina Sailing’s Shared-Ownership Program
Many people have found membership in Marina Sailing the perfect alternative
to boat ownership and a great way to
gain experience and training. With offices in six harbors on the California
coast from Channel Islands Harbor to San
Diego and a fleet of over 95 sail and power boats available for charter, at
reduced rates. Marina Sailing’s members
have found the flexibility and variety of experience offered a good fit for
their Southern California lifestyle.
Marina Sailing, to further enhance our service to the sailing community is
now offering a new program, the Shared-
Ownership Program. For those looking for something more, perhaps a greater
commitment to the sailing lifestyle, or
maybe that perfect boat to look forward to spending time on.
The new 42’ 2007 Jeanneau Deck Salon yacht “Come
Away With Me” has
been chosen as our first offering for Marina
Sailing’s new Shared-Ownership program. When you tour this new yacht
and see how it is equipped and find the
attention to detail present, even when you lift up hatches and crawl under
things, the most discriminating sailor will be
pleased. But that is just the beginning to this yacht’s story. This boat
is designed as an “owner’s yacht”, that is, with a
large owner’s cabin across the stern with large bath and a second private
cabin with bath in the bow. The pictures and
captions in this brochure gives an indication to the attention we’ve
paid to outfitting this boat with every option
available on a modern sailing yacht, most owners only dream about. You can
also take a closer look on the web at
www.jeanneauamerica.com. "Come
Away With Me" is currently being
commissioned and is expected to be available
for viewing by the end of May.
From enjoying sunsets in the cockpit with its large teak table and LED lighting,
From enjoying the climate controlled
cabins, watching movies on the flat screen TVs with surround sound system in
both the main salon and owners’ cabin,
to taking hot showers with plenty of water, this yacht will offer you all the
amenities and comforts available, whether
spending the night in the slip at Marina del Rey or at a remote island anchorage.
While reaching across the Santa
Barbara Channel with the Sun Odyssey 42 DS cutting into the sea with its modern
deep bulbed-keel holding you
steadily on course, while the aggressive sail plan powers you on your way,
while the modern hull and excellent balance
ably and comfortably plies the seas, this yacht will thrill you and comfort
you like no other. This yacht’s many and
redundant systems are met to enable the experienced sailor, and his crew, to
experience all the adventure offered by
Southern California’s Channel Islands while enjoying all the amenities
that can be offered on a modern cruising yacht.
Marina Sailing is offering this new program to allow those who may be considering
purchasing a new sailing yacht a
compelling alternative. A maximum of only eight owner-shares will be offered
who will have sole and unlimited access
to this yacht on a daily basis, when not reserved, and the ability to reserve
up to 42 days a year months in advance.
A
special portal on Marina Sailing’s web site (www.marinasailing.com) will
give you access to a reservation calendar
where you can check for availability or to reserve your allocated and guaranteed
schedule time aboard, months in
advance. Marina Sailing will manage this yacht and maintain it so each share
owner can spend his sailing time,
sailing or relaxing aboard, and we’ll take care of the details of yacht
management.
Larger sailboats, with all the extras, are an expensive and time consuming
undertaking and are simply out-of-reach for
most. From making the initial down payment, to paying the monthly mortgage,
to dealing with the monthly
progression of bills, to doing yacht maintainence, owning a yacht can be challenging.
Slip fees, insurance, property
taxes, bottom cleaning are just the basics that must be paid every month to
keep the boat in the water, whether you use
it or not. The additional chore of keeping the boat clean, both inside and
out, finding the right mechanic, boat yard,
technician, to fix things that aren’t working properly can become time
consuming and stressful and detract from your
time on the boat – the main reason you wanted to buy a boat in the first
place. Marina Sailing’s Shared-Ownership
program will let you enjoy the benefits without the challenges of yacht ownership.
Scheduling
Time on Your Yacht
- As a share owner you always have access to your yacht, when no other share-owner
has it reserved. Any
reservation made after 12: 00 noon on the day before the day of use is not
deducted from your allocated and
guaranteed schedule time.
- New share-owners are allocated two months of schedule time upon initiation
into the program. One ownershare
is allocated and guaranteed 3.5 schedule days each month (2.5 weekdays and
1 weekend day). This
fractional time structure allows up to 8 owner-shares equitable access to
scheduling time. An individual shareowner
may elect to subscribe to more than one owner-share. Reservations made under
rule #1 are exempt and
not counted.
- Marina Sailing’s Share-Ownership program is structured on a rolling
quarter basis. Share-owners are allowed
to accumulate up to 3-months of schedule time, for a total of 10.5 days,
and have access to three months at a time
on the internet based scheduling calendar. Share-owners pay for their ownership-share(s)
on a monthly basis,
starting on the month following initiation into the program. Upon receipt
of each month’s payment, 3.5 days,
representing the following month’s schedule time is added to the share-owner’s
time counter. Time on the counter,
no matter which month it comes from, can be used in either the current month
or the following two months. This
feature allows maximum flexibility in scheduling your sailing times.
- Guaranteed schedule time is tracked on an electronic counter for each
owner-share. Each month 3.5 days of
guaranteed schedule time is added to the counter. The counter has a limit
of 10.5 days. This is to prevent any one
owner-share from accumulating enough schedule time to dominate the forward
calendar, excluding the other
owner-shares fair access to the scheduling calendar. Any previously allocated
time that has not been scheduled,
which would cause the counter to go over 10.5 days, would automatically become
expired. This cap of 3-months of
schedule time (3.5 days/mo. x 3 months = 10.5 days) and access to three months
of the scheduling calendar at a
time is the basis of Marina Sailing’s rolling quarter shared-ownership
program.
- A second constraint is the limit on an owner-share to a maximum of 7-days
scheduled in any one month,
either consecutively or separately (days scheduled under rule#1 are exempt
and not counted). This will allow the
possibility of 8 owner-shares having a complete week scheduled once every
two months. While not allowing any
one owner-share to dominate the calendar in any one month.
- A third constraint is set on Friday-Saturday combinations. Friday is
normally considered a weekday.
However, a Friday-Saturday combination can be scheduled only once in any
two-month period by any one ownershare.
This constraint allows each of the 8 owner-shares fair access to this most
popular schedule time.(again any
Friday scheduled after noon on Thursday would fall under rule# 1 and not
be counted)
- Marina Sailing may reserve time at its discretion to perform yacht maintenance
services. Also the scheduling
rules may be changed at any time by a committee of Chris Mosier, Gary Gilpin
and Tom Cole if any anomalies or
unfairness are encountered.
- Schedule time can be made either through the online share-owner portal
or by calling or visiting Marina Sailing’s
Marina del Rey office (310-822-6617).
- Check into Marina Sailing’s Marina del Rey office on the day you
have scheduled sailing time for your yacht
and marina access keys.
- Upon your return from sailing, return your access keys to the office
and drop off your checklist and report
anything that needs to be fixed.
- A sailing day runs from 8:00AM on the day scheduled to 8:00AM the following
day. A half sailing day only
applies to weekdays and runs from 12:00 noon to sunset.
- Allow enough time to remove from your yacht anything you brought onto
it and clean up the inside and hose
down the outside so it is ready for use by the next share-owner. Marina Sailing
only cleans your yacht twice a
month. If due to special circumstances you feel your yacht needs special
attention notify the Marina del Rey office
so they can arrange it.
If you think enjoying “Come Away With Me”, through Marina
Sailing’s
Shared-Ownership program, might be the right
fit for you, contact the Marina del Rey office for an appointment
to tour this yacht or call Gary Gilpin at (562) 432-4672 or Tom Cole 805-823-5006
and learn the details of this exciting new program Marina Sailing is proud
to offer you.
Marina
del Rey Office || Gary Gilpin: (562)
432-4672 ||
Tom Cole: (805) 823-5006 |