Miami Beach Sports & Outdoors Tips by grandmaR

MM 1089 Miami Beach Marina

In Miami we went into Miami Beach Marina initially which is right inside the breakwater on Government Cut - was $2/foot as long as your boat isn't longer than 79 feet. Very convenient from the ocean. Electricity, and water included. There was a $25 deposit for a gate key to get access to the boat, and one of us had to go up to the gate to let our daughter in when she came to get us.

Not much in the way of services for that - did get a daily Miami paper, but that might have been meant for the bareboat that shared the short fixed finger pier. The docks are concrete, and they tied us so far out that I couldn't get to the finger pier from the boat except by special gymnastics - either I went out the gate and sidled along the lifelines until I got to the piling at the end of the finger pier and then leaned back and clutched the piling with one hand while clinging to the shrouds with the other hand and stepped backwards groping for the pier with my foot.

Equipment: OR - I climbed over the lifelines forward of the shrouds (can't go through the shrouds) and then sidled sternward toward the piling and went through the same manuever. The boat was only close enough to the pier to step across right at the piling.

Our boat was full of soot when we got back to it - the air is very dirty here. This is also where the boat show is held, so you can't get a slip then.

They advertise a fuel dock, pumpout, ice and:

Casual and fine dining
Neam's Gourmet Market, gourmet grocery and provisioning
Hopkins Carter, complete marine hardware, bait and tackle
Tarpoon Lagoon Diving Center
Dive Charters
Club Nautico, boat rentals
Biscayne Towing
Yacht and Sailboat charters
Yacht and Sailboat brokers
New boat sales
Sport and drift fishing charters
Majesty Casino Cruises
Water Taxi

Address: 300 Alton Road, Miami Beach

Directions: Enter from Atlantic Ocean in Main channel Turn right on 35 degrees with Causeway Island on port maintaining a distance of 100'.

Phone: (305) 673-6000

Theme: Boating/Sailing

Website: http://www.miamibeachmarina.com/