How much do you pay a year for your ski site

[ToddF]

These prices can include your HOA dues if you live on a lake

[ToddF]

But we used to pay 2500 a year for the club

[MISkier]

$2250 for one site with private, purpose-built slalom lake, boat, and gas included. Ski any time.

 

$175 for other site with private, purpose-built slalom lakes. BYOB. Ski any time.

 

Both clubs/sites have about 20 members. Both sites have jumps, but I do not require them.

 

I wish I could have voted for both categories.

[Chef23]

We ski on public water but everyone kicks in somewhere between $50-150 depending on what is needed for supplies for the two courses we maintain. We generally get pretty good conditions and I feel very luck for the site we have but there is no restriction on boat traffic. One of the courses is in a cove so we generally get good conditions.

 

It is a BYOB setup pretty much everyone that skis there has their own boat. Usually two or three of us will join up and come out together so we rotate hours through the boats.

[Marco]

Roughly $2500/yr HOA dues for a private tournament lake with only 5 owners. We do all the sweat equity, maintenance, etc to keep the costs down. The $2500 does not include boat costs. Each owner has their own boat (we all already owned boats before we built the lake).

[TylerR]

I ski on a public water course but throw in probably 400 or so a year in bouys and other equipment for maintience of the course

[popof]

Roughly 1500€ here in France. (1880$)

 

It is mainly a club activity here so this includes:

 

Annual Membership Fee (roughly 500€)

2-slalomed lake

Small club facilities, tiny tiny beach, longchair, sofas, small restaurant / foodtruck (additionnal meal is roughly 15$), shower, lockerroom, bar...

Depending on the season 5-7 hours of real ski time, sold by the hour (roughly 150€ / hour)

Approximately...50-60 members / regular skiers? (ball park figure)

 

Typicaly one hour will give you 5 sets of 6 passes.

 

So that total is for one season of 45 passes approximately, with gas, membership, insurance, boat depreciation, eventual coaching from the local instructor (coach guest stars are to be added of course whenever they show up at the lake), and for whoever doesn't have it's own: Gear (skis, jacket, wetsuits...)

 

So basically it comes down to 1500/45 = 33€ / set (40$ more or less).

 

Obviously the more you ski, the less each given set costs, with an imaginary low limit of 36$ if you skied all day long, all season long.

 

 

[thager]

Nothing is ever free! I supply/maintain everything and pay the house payments and taxes.

[kfennell]

Mortgage, HOA, insurance, taxes, JUST under $40,000 a year.

[Mrs_MS]

HOA dues 1200 per year

Club Boat fee 500 per household per year

Buck a pass = approx 1200 - 1500 per season for us

 

One lake

Approx 16 skiers - of those only 5 diehards

Possibly raising club boat dues in near future to keep up with rising costs

 

So for us approx 3K per season

[The_MS]

Skiing on glass, no wait and top notch drivers, Priceless.

[nam1975]

About $750.00 or so to cover insurance and weeds. BYOBoat. 10 members or so.

[OTF]

We ski cheap!

Our site works great- like @MS said we have a few awesome drivers (@Mrs_MS and @PJ). We get classic training tips from @ MS (come on you gotta start your gate turn in like 30minutes earlier!!). Kick ass shorelines, nothing bounces back. Almost always a driver on site and rarely have to wait more than a set or two for your turn. @thager shows up regularly and once a year @wish comes in for a week. I'd happily pay 3x

[Chef23]

There are some great deals out there on sites with club boats. I paid 32.5 for my boat in 2002 I don't calculate what insutance and gas cost me plus the initial boat investment. 2 or 3K for a private site plus a ZO boat seems like a good deal.

[thager]

@OTF Happily???

[6balls]

$750/yr split two ways at the swamp. About $4K 13 years ago for lift/dock. Existing boat til 2010 then a $17K invest in updated boat. New buoys every year or two...pretty fortunate.

[WallyGater]

7 days/week any time of day - $2300 1st skier + $700 for 2nd skier (must be immediate family to be added to membership)

[Than_Bogan]

Public water and arguably free, but I decided to count the $240 we pay for the privelege of a dock and mooring.

[Kelvin]

@kfennell, You can't count all that toward skiing!! You gotta live somewhere . . . but I know what you mean :smiley:

[OTF]

@thager if that meant we'd price out the leach the yes HAPPILY!

[mopowpow]

$1000 HOA dues and $1600 for property taxes on an empty lot. But we never wait to ski on a 2 lake private site. The only drawback - it's iowa...

[ricski39]

Me and two other guys lease a pond from this very nice, sort of redneck lady in South Carolina. We write her a check for $300 in the spring and ski through December. The only downside is with only three of us sometimes it's hard to find a driver.

[101driver]

England UK our water costs £11,300 ($17,741) per year for a small circular quarry lake just big enough for the slalom course. Club fee's just cover water rent and a small amount towards annual club cost such as new buoys. They are broken down as follows family £625 ($981) single £410 ($644) child £140 ($220) Minimal facilities just lake, slipway, slalom course, jetties, toilets and barbecue area. Members need their own boat. Most people join as family memberships and sometimes a friend on a single who ski's off their boat. Water is totally underutilized it is very rare to see another boat. Most regard the lake as their own private lake as it is so rare to see anyone. The only regular skiers are 5 committee members. Some members never ski at all. Friends of members can be signed in to the club by a member for six times maximum a year for a fee of £10 ($16) each visit per guest. This small additional guest money is used to improve club facilities. Club is open 365 days a year dawn to dusk, subletting for any reason is strictly prohibited in the water lease which limits club revenue generation so 99% of the rent comes from membership dues.

Nigel Smith

Club secretary

[ski6jones]

I don't like to think about this subject ... at all. Club dues and set fees at one site, taxes and POA dues at another site. All in I'd guess about $10k/yr.

 

See, I knew I didn't want to think about it.

[teammalibu]

I hear ya Carl we pay more than I can count! And worth every penny!! Like MS said the fun and friends is Priceless!!

[ski6jones]

No doubt Mike, best money I spend all year. Hurts a little to add it all up.

[The_MS]

Not to mention dropping $200 for 6 rounds of ELR a couple times per year. Don't forget to add up all the road trips, IPA and practice sets.

1post ski set IPA with the gang at Cottonwood=PRICELESS

[TWB]

A group of five skiers pay $2500/yr. Includes boat payment and private site lease. Does not include gas or occasional maintenance on docks, the boat lift, or the slalom course.