Aircraft pay landing fees to use airports, and vessels pay dockage and wharfage fees to use public port facilities or lockage fees to transit locks along a waterway.
In the meantime, the battleship Arizona, which was sunk in the bombing at her dockage in the Harbor, which has upward of a 1000 seamen intombed inside, has been made intoa public monument.
Charles Morgan, a shipper in New Orleans in the eighteen-fifties and sixties, was so irritated by New Orleans' taxes, New Orleans' dockage fees, and New Orleans' waterfront clutter that he moved his operation to the Atchafalaya and developed a competing city.
Labeled on maps as Traverse Island, it lacked dockage; the men kayaked ashore.
A dispute over dockage fees led to a lawsuit under federal admiralty law.
A holder of one share gets four and a half weeks a year on the yacht, with dockage, cleaning, maintenance, insurance and a captain at the wheel included.
But on second thought, she acknowledged, "they are on a very deep, wide canal, and someone who has a larger boat and wants something more upscale with that kind of boating dockage" might pay a precedent-setting price for the town houses.
Referring to Fort Lauderdale's many properties on canals, he said: "Some people will buy a house just for the dockage.
Estimates of other costs: fuel, $1,500 to $2,000; dockage fees, $20 to $50 a night; $3,000 for the crew and $6,000 for lift fees and to haul the boat back.
"Depending on the kind of marina you want to be in, dockage costs can range from $1,500 to $2,500 a season, winter storage from $500 to $1,000 and maintenance from $4,000 to 5,000 a year," he said.
Most second-home seekers want a mainland waterfront property with deep dockage and a view of the main channel, said Cathy FiaccofGarlock of GaRealtyRealty in Alexandria Bay.
