I promised a follow up blog on The Harborage Yacht Club, that we stayed at in Stuart.
What a place this marina is. It is so new that all the slips are empty. We are probably the first boat to occupy this slip. The yacht club even has a dress code for the dining room. We don't even own clothes fancy enough to be permitted in; not that we would want to enter a place like that. We also have to hile 1/2 mile from our slip to the bathroom. At least, the dock hands were helpful and friendly.
The WIFI works, but their login screens are broken. When I clicked on Register to log in, it took me to a folder on their server's hard drive. (See the pic) I didn't explore what mischief I could have done on their hard drive. I called the vendor, Turn Key Systems, but they were clueless. After 36 hours, it was still broken, and every time I called I got a different answer. What a bunch of losers.
I hiked to the showers and Captain's Lounge. They are very fancy, but they still have bugs. For example, the clothes hook in the shower was more than 7 feet off the floor. I couldn't reach it. I understand that new places have bugs, but it would be fairer if they offered an introductory rate while debugging.
Along the hike to the shower, I realized that the nearby condominiums are all vacant. This place is indeed brand new, and probably having a hard time selling condos because of the sub-prime crisis. Then I heard some juicy gossip. The condos sold for up to $750,000 each, but the owners bought them sight unseen. Then they found out that the condos are right beside a railroad track where very noisy freight trains pass often. That makes them unlivable according to their standards. They also found out that the docks were built on the site of a marina wrecked in the last hurricane; which means that they are prime candidates for being wiped out in the next hurricane.
The reality of the whole thing rattles my faith in capitalism. Libby and I are firm believers in capitalism. We believe that letting rich people be rich causes them to invest their money in things that expand the pie that we all share. The Harborage seems to suggest otherwise. It suggests that there are so many people with so much excess money that they can't help but invest it foolishly. They waste their money on foolish things that benefit no one, and do no public service with their investments. Does that mean that liberals can be right? Horrors :(
What a place this marina is. It is so new that all the slips are empty. We are probably the first boat to occupy this slip. The yacht club even has a dress code for the dining room. We don't even own clothes fancy enough to be permitted in; not that we would want to enter a place like that. We also have to hile 1/2 mile from our slip to the bathroom. At least, the dock hands were helpful and friendly.
The WIFI works, but their login screens are broken. When I clicked on Register to log in, it took me to a folder on their server's hard drive. (See the pic) I didn't explore what mischief I could have done on their hard drive. I called the vendor, Turn Key Systems, but they were clueless. After 36 hours, it was still broken, and every time I called I got a different answer. What a bunch of losers.
I hiked to the showers and Captain's Lounge. They are very fancy, but they still have bugs. For example, the clothes hook in the shower was more than 7 feet off the floor. I couldn't reach it. I understand that new places have bugs, but it would be fairer if they offered an introductory rate while debugging.
Along the hike to the shower, I realized that the nearby condominiums are all vacant. This place is indeed brand new, and probably having a hard time selling condos because of the sub-prime crisis. Then I heard some juicy gossip. The condos sold for up to $750,000 each, but the owners bought them sight unseen. Then they found out that the condos are right beside a railroad track where very noisy freight trains pass often. That makes them unlivable according to their standards. They also found out that the docks were built on the site of a marina wrecked in the last hurricane; which means that they are prime candidates for being wiped out in the next hurricane.
The reality of the whole thing rattles my faith in capitalism. Libby and I are firm believers in capitalism. We believe that letting rich people be rich causes them to invest their money in things that expand the pie that we all share. The Harborage seems to suggest otherwise. It suggests that there are so many people with so much excess money that they can't help but invest it foolishly. They waste their money on foolish things that benefit no one, and do no public service with their investments. Does that mean that liberals can be right? Horrors :(
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I'm writing this from aboard my sailboat currently docked at the Harborage Yacht Club and Marina in Stuart, Florida. I arrived here on December 1st and except for trips down to Palm Beach and the Bahamas will remain here until April 1st.
ReplyDeleteThe marina is absolutely first rate and the staff is great. Most of the bugs have been worked. The big change is the collapse of Florida real estate. The top of the line water view condos now go for $250K. You can probably get one for a lot less. They’ve also opened the Yacht Club’s restaurant to the public. There is a sign posted across the road that they’re having a closeout sale at 57% off the original price. The killer here is the condo fee. $625 a month for the $250K condo I looked at.
The trains are unbelievable (And never mentioned or the railroad tracks shown in any sales brochures). This is the main line of the Florida East Coast (FEC) Railroad. They run 24 trains a day with a majority of them 10,000 and 9,000 feet long with three or four engines. Their schedule is on their web site. When they go by the ground rumbles and the wheels make loud squealing noises on the tracks. I’m out at the far dock near the fuel pier and I can hear them from here and I’ve got the condos between me and the railroad tracks. The condos are only 100 feet from the tracks. The trains start blowing their whistles about a mile away and continue right through the Harborage Condos. Since I don’t own one of the condos it’s pretty humorous. There is also a public restaurant with an outside bar and bandstand, Wahoo’s, right in the middle of the condos at the beginning of the main pier. I bet the old retired white folks here really love the loud rock and roll and rap music up until 2:00am. The bandstand is about fifty feet from Yacht Club’s restaurant balcony. . . . Marvelous!
That said I’ll be back next year. Although the City of Stuart’s new marina with all floating docks opens this summer. It is literally right in Old Town Stuart. I’ll have to check that out.
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