Moving to Bellingham

[olygirl]

Hi Fellow Tugnuts! We are moving from Olympia to Bellingham and would welcome some input from any of you up there. Firstly, can anyone recommend a good Yamaha Certified mechanic? We have an R23 with outboards and they will need servicing. Also, any thoughts/information you can share about the marina in Blaine? We will have to go there first until a slip opens in the Bellingham marina.

We are moving Jan. 3 but won't bring the boat up until around Feb. or March...weather dependent! Hope to meet some fellow tuggers in our new home!

Laura & Cynthia
Cool Mint

 

[baz]

If you were to move to Alaska the covered moorage up there is approx $450 for the whole year. 😱 :roll:

 

[Hamster]

Olygirl - welcome to Bellingham! I keep my 23 on a trailer here in covered storage. The waiting list at Squalicum is extremely long - 5 years last time I called. Blaine has two marinas - one by the Port and the other Semiahmoo. For heading into BC, Blaine is a good place to start but you do have a lot of open water. Access to the San Juan’s - I believe, is better out of Bellingham (or Anacortes).

I just had my 20-hour service at West Coast Marine by Squalicum Harbor. Nice place. I did have a house battery stolen out of the yard, which is shared by a lot of marine businesses. I am going to get locking latches for my storage lockers based on that experience. Not sure if there is someone in Blaine for service.

Send me a message if you have other questions about this area.

 

[cathy&ron]

Cathy and I (Ron) live in the Blaine area and we moor our 26’ Ranger sailboat there in the summer. We also have an R-23 “Lady Grey”.
It’s a Wonderful marina run by very nice people. With all taxes and fees, it was about $235 a month for the sailboat.Blaine is a great place to head north, south, or west from. There are islands in all three directions. See you this spring, or sooner.

 

[Cutwater28GG]

La Conner or anacortes could work for a marina in the short term. Ask the Bellingham yacht guys for service. They sell rangers and cutwaters.