Northwest Yachting November 2018

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LIVE AND LET DRY By Norris Comer

To Dry or Not To Dry, That is the Question! Dry storage as a concept is less mandatory in the temperate coastal Pacific Northwest than most places throughout North America, but certainly attracts its fair share of boaters. Will the growth of dry stacking facilities and the urban squeezing of waterfront property change the game?

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Travel east over the Cascades or up and down the Atlantic seaboard, and you’ve probably seen quite a few of them; giant dry stacking facilities several rows tall, a wall of boat transoms like an army of defiant Scottish warriors lifting their kilts and giving you a collective mooning. While dry stacking, or dry storage in general, can

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