How much would it cost to put Steve Francis’s boat in the water?

Steve Francis needs to put his boat in the water. Is it going to cost a lot of money.

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Former NBA All-Star Steve Francis needs your help. He has a boat, but it’s on dry land. He needs to put it in the water. Do you know anyone in southwestern Florida who can move it for him?

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It turns out it isn’t that hard to find a boat mover in the Greater Sarasota region. A quick Google search turned up a few options, so we called Ralph at Cima Boat Transportation of Punta Gorda. 

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Taking a boat from Sarasota to “the Harbor,” isn’t that big a deal at all. The harbor is actually in Sarasota, Ralph said, so it would cost about $450 to take Francis’s boat down to MarineMax, a boating shop on the Sarasota Bay. The guys at MarineMax would charge another $200 to $250 to put the boat in the water. 

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[​via Deadspin]