Located in a large boating-tourist area, the Bahia Mar facilities are designed primarily to 

 serve transient powerboaters. The peak season is from November through April. For the 

 1972 winter season, the daily rates for berth rentals were 30 cents per foot, with a $9 

 minimum. A 4-month winter contract is offered, which reduces the rate to 25 cents per foot 

 per day. Summer (off-season) rates are 10 cents per foot per day. Annual contracts are also 

 available, the yearly rate ranging from $2,100 to $3,000 depending on boat length. 



Service and convenience facilities include showers and dressing rooms, a freshwater 

 swimming pool, an elevated pedestrian walkway for access to the oceanside beach, car -rental 

 services, a U.S. Post Office, and a U.S. Customs clearing station. Because these facilities 

 must be available to the pubhc, no security fences are possible, but a 24-hour roving security 

 guard is provided, and during the winter season all vehicles must pass through entrance 

 control gates. 



The only troublesome construction features are a few of the perimeter walls, which were 

 not provided with adequate filter courses. Inadequate embedment of rebars has resulted in 

 some spalling of the concrete. Wave and surge action has apparently pumped fill material 

 from behind and underneath the perimeter wall into the berthing basins in some areas, 

 leaving sinkholes behind the wall. 



Bahia Mar is a good example of a small-craft harbor that has been converted from a 

 financial burden on a community to a successful business enterprise by the addition of 

 ancillary facilities financed by the private sector. Success is mostly attributable to an 

 accurate assessment by the new owners of additional services desired by harbor patrons, and 

 the investment of private capital in facihties needed to provide these services. Good 

 management of the facilities and vigorous advertising to make the boating public aware of 

 their availability is also recognized. 



(2) Lighthouse Bay Marina. Lighthouse Bay Marina (Fig. 166) is on the shore of 

 Pamona Lake near Quenemo, Kansas. This 200-slip marina is privately owned and operated 

 by the Aquamarine Corporation of Quenemo. Funds for financing the project were obtained 

 through the local bank. 



The marina is managed by one of the three equal partners who own Aquamarine 

 Corporation. The operation supports four other full-time employees year round; a 

 mechanic, two general maintenance personnel, and a bookkeeper. During the peak summer 

 months, April through October, the marina remains open 24 hours per day and the 

 personnel requirements increase to 14. 



The lake on which the marina is situated is regulated to a conservation level. In the 

 9 years of pool operation the lake level reached a high of 14 feet above conservation level 

 twice and dropped once to 4.5 feet below level. The average yearly lake -level fluctuation is 

 5 feet. This history coupled with the average basin depth of 24 feet required a floating-dock 

 system, anchored by cable and shore -connected, hinged struts. 



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