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^0 <br />Page 2 <br />To begin with & "Boat Club" is nothing more than a fancy term tor Seasonal Boat Rental or <br />Lease. The primary difference being that it would be a seasonal rental or lease on the equipment <br />rather than daily rental. <br />As a result the standard of boat operator is one who is better trained within in the frame work of <br />the club and a safer more responsible user. We have US Coast Guard Auxiliary Instructors teach <br />our members in conjunction with the Hennepin County Water Patrol rules ot the road format. <br />The Boat Club member is typically a local or neighboring resident who does not live right on tlie <br />Lake but would like to have the privilege of boating without having to ow n a boat. <br />Because he is a seasonal user and very often a member of this very conununity the respect for the <br />Boat, Lake & Community is and has been the last three years a proven reality. <br />Rather th^n having a 40 to 50 boat single day rental fleet of fishing boats or pontoons w ith <br />random users we have a total of 10 to 12 runabouts, pontoons and sailboats We do this to get <br />a seasonal rental commitment out of a controlled number of people each year As a result we are <br />not trying to attain needed income and provide parking from a fleet of 40 or 50 small boat users <br />that come and go alternately morning, afternoon & evenings so you turn this fleet of 40 or 50 two <br />or three times a day with parking requirements that get excessive and uncontrollable to say the <br />least. <br />Normal Boat Club users go out for the day and return in the evening so parking is easy to control. <br />The controlled parking situation the Boat Club offers is on of the main reasons we have gone to <br />this type of Lease Rental If you have 12 boats your dealing for parking and Marina parking <br />requirements for only that fleet of 12 not 40 or 50. We will not allow our Boat Club members to <br />come with excess cars and can control this How could you control people from bringing excess <br />cars if you have a 40 to 50 boat fleet of daily rentals coming & going from 5:00 in the morning <br />until 10 00 at night ? As I said This is one of the main reasons why w e do the Boat Club concept <br />so we can handle the parking requirements far easier making the concept fit my needs and the <br />Cities requirements. <br />We also control the grow th of the Boat Club concept by capping membership each year so w e <br />know exactly what we are dealing with in terms of members and our ability to manage it. We <br />currently have approx 50 members & will cap this year at approx. 60. Our facility appears to be <br />able to handle around 100 members or more as we balance the traffic and use by simply leaving a <br />certain number of slips open by not renting them to the annual slip renters. The great thing about <br />the Boat Club is w e can make up lost income in slip rentals and control the right balance of rented <br />slips. Boat Club slips and open slips to accommodate needed income, parking and facility use.