or have dry stacked, or know about dry stacking.

Do you clean the boat or do they after a day out?
Do you flush salt water or do they?
I assume there are different levels of service?

I have no experience, just curious...

The advertisements in my area often mention “everything” included.
Just call ahead and your boat is waiting for you – fueled and ready to go.
Some even provide food, beverage and bait (crazy prices I am sure).
When you get back, dock it and go home.

Any experiences?

Yes, the service that they provide is up to the individual marina.

Some places around here include launching in the storage fee, and some don't.

Some places wash down and dry your boat for you, and some don't.

Some will flush it for you and some don't.

I'm sure that you get the idea.

Each place will vary.

Good luck!

Some are better than others. I stacked mine while the lake was down a few years ago. My only real complaint was that I always ended up with a couple of nicks along the aft section of the strakes from the bull's lifting forks.

Our dry stack building was completely enclosed and the marina bulls were diesel powered. So, diesel soot tended to collect on the boats topsides as well. Service was generally good. However, you had to live with their operating hours. So, if you decided to go out for a spin at 7:00 PM and they were closed, you are out of luck.

Go down to the new Tampa Harbor dockominium. For a mere $250K you can own your spot and get all that good stuff included, of course there is a monthly maintenance fee also.

Actually I think $250K is for a big boat, I think the smaller spots are $150K, but can't recall for sure.

My experience was not very good, either at the old Tampa Bayside Marina (mentioned above by CMJ) or at the Tierra Verde High and Dry.

Tampa Bayside was supposed to do everything, and yet a couple of times when I left and came back for something quickly, they had already put the boat away... evidently w/o flushing the engines. Bottom line is, I never trusted them to actually do everything unless I stood there watching them.

At Tierra Verde they supposedly included the flushing, but they did such a half-___ job that I ended up doing it most of the time. Not to mention that I usually got there and had to wait anywhere between 15 minutes and 1/2 hour for my boat to come down.

The whole concept of dry-stacking originally was that because of limited wet slip availability, the ability to stack so many boats in a small amount of space would result in cheaper prices. The reality was that dry stacking was significantly more expensive than a wet slip, at least for our 31' boat.

A few years ago I keep a 26' Donzi at a dry storage facility outside of Annapolis. I was very pleaed with the service. While you could not call in advance (too many people were calling an not showing up on time) I never had to wait more then 10 to 15 minutes. They provoided whatever level of service you wanted as far as washing after an outing. I usually did a quick rinse covered the boat up and walked away. The boat seemed to get dusty sitting in the stack, so I frequently had then had them put it in a wash rack before I went out. It was nice not having to paint the bottom.

So, much of the care depends on the owner and/or their monitoring of the agreement?
Kinda sad that a contract doesn’t cover/honor cleaning/flushing in many cases.

And CMJ, I am going to jump right on a dockominium... if I can just remember which sock I left that 150k in

Thanks for all the responses guys – great stuff
I should have mentioned that I am not interested in stacking, just curious how stacked boats are taken care of.