RANGELEY – A second appeal regarding the sale of boat slips at Haines Landing Marina in Oquossoc was denied by the Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday.

The appeal was based on Code Enforcement Officer Robert Griscom’s opinion that dock owner Larry Spellman of Abbadrew Realty Trust in Ossipee, N.H., did not need a conditional use permit.

After a three-hour session, the Zoning Board of Appeals upheld Griscom’s decision, he said Friday.

“It was a pretty good meeting that keyed on a lot of different subjects, including whether those appealing had the stand to do so,” he said.

Two groups, the Mooselookmeguntic Improvement Association and the Haines Landing Cottage Association, along with marina abutters George Dunn and James Proctor representing Hobart Maine Properties or HKH campgrounds, which Proctor manages, took the appeal before the zoning board.

The appeal was based on their belief that Griscom erred in his ruling and shouldn’t have ruled on it himself. The Planning Board should have been consulted, Proctor said Tuesday.

Proctor said Friday that he wasn’t surprised at the outcome and said the appellants were going to regroup and take some time to decide whether to appeal in Superior Court.

Spellman received a verbal opinion from Griscom that it was not a subdivision and did not need a permit or to go before the Planning Board in February 2007. The public didn’t realize what was happening until Spellman put up signs advertising docks for sale, Proctor said.

During the meeting, the appellants tried to present the facts and history of the marina, and voice their concerns that someone from outside could come in and create such a huge change and in such a unique area as Haines Landing, Proctor said. The “dockominiums” create something only the wealthy can afford and, with no dock rentals, the working person is cut out, he said.

The marina is at the very end of Route 4 near the shore of the 11-mile-long lake and has 67 slips. The dockominium works similar to a condominium, but instead of buying a house on land, boat owners purchase a home on water for their boat, slip-seller Richard Toas said last summer.

Buyers receive a deed and title to the slip and become part of an association, similar to condominium owners. Association members pay annual dues of approximately $200, he said.

The cost of the slips range from $19,900 to $34,900, depending on size and availability, and whether they are close to shore and/or the gas pier, he said.