Free Mooring or Docking @ Ft. Lauderdale or S. Florida

[Zathur]

Originally Posted by zstine

In Ft. Lauderdale, we anchored several days in lake Sylvia. Short dink ride to the Southport Raw bar where you can have a beer & snack and leave the dink. plenty of access to shopping/provisioning from there.


In Miami south beach, you can anchor south of Belle Island. Dink up the canal and there's a dock for Publix, which is right across the street. You can also walk to many South Beach attractions. There's supposedly a ~45min time limit or something, but we had left our dink there all day several times without an issue... Note, this is 2019 data, though I doubt much change.


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That’s useful info thanks. Much appreciated

[Cheechako]

Originally Posted by zstine

In Ft. Lauderdale, we anchored several days in lake Sylvia. Short dink ride to the Southport Raw bar where you can have a beer & snack and leave the dink. plenty of access to shopping/provisioning from there.


In Miami south beach, you can anchor south of Belle Island. Dink up the canal and there's a dock for Publix, which is right across the street. You can also walk to many South Beach attractions. There's supposedly a ~45min time limit or something, but we had left our dink there all day several times without an issue... Note, this is 2019 data, though I doubt much change.

ActiveCaptain !! check it out

Maybe their attitude has changed. We anchored in Lk Sylvia once and within an hour a Police patrol boat was harassing us. I convinced them we were only overnighting one night and moving on, it was late afternoon and we hadn't been able to find a place to anchor.

[Ded reckoner]

As Cheechako mentioned, No Name Harbor at Key Biscayne is a good site. It has good holding in mud and protection for conditions at least up to a gale. Anchoring is available either just outside the Harbor (for which a short dinghy ride can be taken in) or in the Harbor itself. On weekends, No Name Harbor will fill up with boats of all kinds and become a Latin festival.

[Zathur]

Originally Posted by Ded reckoner

As Cheechako mentioned, No Name Harbor at Key Biscayne is a good site. It has good holding in mud and protection for conditions at least up to a gale. Anchoring is available either just outside the Harbor (for which a short dinghy ride can be taken in) or in the Harbor itself. On weekends, No Name Harbor will fill up with boats of all kinds and become a Latin festival.

Thanks

[Zathur]

Originally Posted by Cheechako

Maybe their attitude has changed. We anchored in Lk Sylvia once and within an hour a Police patrol boat was harassing us. I convinced them we were only overnighting one night and moving on, it was late afternoon and we hadn't been able to find a place to anchor.

Thanks