High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A marina is a harbor with wharfs keeping boats and yachts and with services for recreational boating. A marina may have refueling, washing and repair facilities, ship chandlers, stores and restaurants. A marina may include ground facilities such as parking lots for vehicles and boat trailers. Slipways transfer a trailered boat into the water. A marina may have a boat hoist well operated by service personnel. A marina may have out-of-water-storage - particularly useful out-of-season, and important where water freezes. A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships or cargo from freighters. Boats are moored on buoys, on fixed or floating walkways tied to an anchoring piling by a roller or ring mechanism. Buoys are cheaper to rent but less convenient than being able to walk from land to boat. Harbor shuttles, may transfer people between the shore and boats moored on buoys. The alternative is a tender such as an inflatable boat. Facilities offering fuel, boat ramps and st

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