Gateway Marina

My boat is here. I really like this marina, it’s is spacious and near to the open sea. I don’t like the owner (older guy) I think he is disgusting, greedy and I just don’t like the way he treats his wife in front of customers, its is disrespectful. Overall this is a good marina in NY, I just wish management took better care of the bathrooms and also cleaning the garbage that accumulates and gets stock by the docks. (Some people there just aren’t careful with beer bottles or plastic bags, but it is the marina’s responsibility to taker care of this) any way they could do a better job about this. I wish the people that has boats in this marina were cleaner and care about keeping theirs docks clean, this marina would be so much pretty. There are a lots of cats also here, wild cats that live at the front of the marina and the people that has boats here feeds them (I help feeding the kitties too). Lots of Polish and Russian boat owners here so a lot of party people around, specially weekend nights. it gets a little more louder at night but nothing bad. It’s a lot of fun every time we come. We have not experience any turmoil among the people so we don’t worry. It is safe.

Awful, awful, awful experience.
I’ve been at this marina for 3 years, and couldn’t be happier to get out. And very sorry I haven’t done it earlier. There are so many things wrong with it I wouldn’t know where to start.
So I’ll start with the good stuff. Marina is big. Spacious. A lot of deck space. Big boats stop here, like Banque Populaire Trimaran, biggest in the world. Occasionally you will see a Lamborghini or Bentley or two parked there.
And then there is management. The owner, Ted, seems to mean well, but the issue is money, which he likes very much. But the greediest bunch are marina mechanics. STAY AWAY. STAY AWAY! STAY AWAY!!! After two seasons of them «fixing» my boat it came to the state where I’m afraid to drive it anymore. Every time it came out of a shop it had more problems than before. 15 thousand dollars of «fixing» later it is still more broken than it was when it got into their hands. It is true, even though it does sound crazy. Head mechanic Jose drives BMW and his boss Dave drives new Jaguar. But I can not drive my boat. Marina will make you believe they have no affiliation with the mechanics, but last year when I got tired of throwing money at mechanics hoping they will finally fix it, the owner Ted told me if I go to a different mechanics at a different marina he will no longer have me at the marina… Threatening to kick me out of a marina for trying to choose my own mechanic? Everyone at the marina who I spoke to warned me not to go to marina’s mechanics, but unfortunately my boat was leaking so I couldn’t risk going anywhere else. Now, looking back I think I should’ve just called the tow, taken the risk and had it towed to someplace else, that would save me three seasons worth of hustle and around 10 thousand dollars. The scheme they run is simple. Mechanics do not guarantee any work. They aren’t responsible for the lift. So every time the boat has to go into/​out of the water you pay marina. Then mechanics do some work on the boat, I pay marina to put it in the water, boat still leaks, has to be taken out again. Marina says it has nothing to do with mechanics, so if you need to take boat out, it’s about 3 – 4 hundred dollars. Summer of 2009 I paid over 1.5K in lift payments. When mechanics do the price estimate, they give you a shocker price. Like say $ 7300. As you coming out of a shock, they will tell you «well, we can do with used parts, and it will be around $ 3500». So you might think you’re getting a good deal. But then you look at their prices and check for prices on the internet. Prices for used parts on the internet are about 4 times less than what they will tell you. And the mechanic’s boss Dave is such a sweet talker he will make you believe and agree to anything. He genuinely seems like a nice guy, but he will take as much of your money away as you can afford and even more. He seems to have influence even over marina’s owner Ted, who, I think, likes him like his own son:). So if you like throwing away money and spending your seasons in hopes your boat will be fixed, you can stay here. I’m, on the other hand, happier than ever to be finally done with it. They say boat owner is happy twice, well with this marina you can easily be happy three times, second being the time you get outta there!!!

great marina with a great staff and an amazing service department.

My dad thinks he’s Jack Sparrow. In fact, he thought he was Jack Sparrow way before he knew who Jack Sparrow was. He might not look like Johnny Depp, but the character traits are there: a captain without a ship, he is in fact the worst pirate in the world.
He’s kept his dinky little boat at a few marinas around the city. Gateway Marina is his favorite one. It’s spread over an expanse of wooden docks going out into the sound. At least half the boats docked there are sailboats, some of them quite old. There is electricity and water available at each dock; each boat gets a locker, and the place has 24-​hour security.
Unlike another, cheaper, marina located down the road, Gateway Marina has a lift service. They will raise your boat out of the water and put it on the mount so you can clear the hull of dirt and paint it. They also offer mount services for the winter, so the boat doesn’t get damaged by ice. Other marinas offer these services as well, but Gateway Marina seems to be the cheapest out of all the full-​service marinas in New York.