WEIGH ANCHOR: The slumping economy doesn’t seem...

WEIGH ANCHOR: The slumping economy doesn’t seem to be hurting the marina business much, a worker says, figuring that some people will always own boats and need a place to park them. . . . At the Dana Point Marina, there’s usually a waiting list of four to six weeks to get one of the 750 slips. The biggest slips can handle a boat as big as 28 feet. Smaller ones can handle 23-footers. . . . Dana Point Marina’s monthly cost? $178 for a 23-foot slip, $231 for 28 feet.

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Number of commercial boat ships* in Orange County Huntington Harbour: 874 Newport Harbor: 2,219 Dana Point Harbor: 2,444 * Number of boat slips available for rental by private boat owners. Source: Individual marinas