South Carolina dry stack facility rebuilds for larger boats
Ripley Light Drystack Marina in Charleston, S.C., completed renovations to its scaffolding to allow it to hold boats weighing up to 20,000 pounds, according to a May 29 report from The Post and Courier.
The $2 million renovations on the dry stack facility was completed in early May. Bruce Wallace, director of operations, estimates the dry stack can accommodate 100 boats that are 35 feet or longer.
Deas Manning of Carolina Dockage Properties, who is marketing the marina, said that even though the economic recession has hurt the boating industry, the facility’s renovation will outlast the recession. “It wasn’t built just for today,” he said.
Even with the slowdown, the marina is about 75 percent occupied.
The original 180-slip dry stack facility was built in 1998. Last year, rust began eating away at the structure, which had an awkward and inefficient interior configuration, Manning said.
Construction workers demolished the building and replaced it with six open-air stacks.
Date: June 14, 2010
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