lbtransit.com\/grandprix<\/a>.<\/p>\nBring your own boat<\/p>\n
Many Southern California boaters rent slips in Rainbow Harbor and Shoreline Marina for Grand Prix weekend. Weekend docking for recreational boaters is available from the Long Beach Marine Bureau.<\/p>\n
Rainbow Harbor slips next to the racecourse are $6 per foot per day, with a three-day minimum \u2014 so a 50-foot boat could be docked all Grand Prix weekend for $900.<\/p>\n
Shoreline Marina has the same offer at half the price, $3 per foot. Water traffic to the Rainbow Harbor and Shoreline Marinas is limited to those who have assigned slips.<\/p>\n
The Long Beach Marine Department starts accepting reservations for Grand Prix weekend guest slips on Jan. 2 every year. Slip availability goes quickly, and usually a waitlist develops, according to Marine Department staff.<\/p>\n
Guest permittees are provided with Marina-specific wristbands that allow them to enter and exit the marina areas, which are otherwise closed off during race weekend. Guest permittees still need to purchase Grand Prix tickets if they wish to attend race events inside the track areas.<\/p>\n
Parking during Grand Prix weekend is limited. Marina parking spaces are reserved for boat owners with permanent slip permits and no guest parking passes are provided during race weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have boats coming from San Diego, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Marina del Rey, and Santa Barbara and we are expecting approximately 50 boats between Rainbow Harbor and Shoreline Marina to join us this year for the LBGP,\u201d said Bryan Plante, superintendent of Marina Operations.<\/p>\n
The boats range in size from 30 to 70 feet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do expect that many current permit holders in our Downtown Marinas will be attending the festivities as well,\u201d Plante said. \u201cWe will be fully staffed for the event, helping to coordinate access in and out of the marina, monitoring the marina grounds, and answering any questions that our boaters and guests to the area have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other \u201cracy\u201d yachts<\/p>\n
Roger Penske\u2019s 240-foot motor yacht \u201cPodium\u201d is decorated in Indy memorabilia. The value is estimated to be around $120 million, and the vessel\u2019s annual running costs are about $12 million.<\/p>\n
The yacht can accommodate up to 12 guests and a crew of 14. She is currently in the Cayman Islands, so no 200-mph beach party for her.<\/p>\n
The Firestone family boat is Tamsen, named after the stepmother and mother of the Firestone children. It was custom-built and was designed specifically for their big, extended family.<\/p>\n
For instance, they needed large communal dining spaces and the galley is on the main deck instead of below deck. Its last reported location was Savannah, Georgia.<\/p>\n
Grand Prix founder Chris Pook\u2019s boat \u2014 \u201cPrix Occupied\u201d \u2014 is berthed near his Long Beach home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traditionally, the weekend of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach marks the informal spring season opener for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,3929,3930,131,133,132,137,3738],"class_list":{"0":"post-245600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-grunion-on-the-water","10":"tag-grunion-sports","11":"tag-long-beach","12":"tag-long-beach-headlines","13":"tag-long-beach-news","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-the-grunion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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