Castellammare del Golfo (ITCTR)

The port is currently closed for commercial operations. Information for the port is retained should the port reopen. The port is used mainly by fishing boats and leisure craft. The shoreline is quayed for about 130m. Several pontoons extend from the quayed section of Molo del Castello and from the quayed section of the shoreline extending S of the root of Molo Nord. They are used by recreational craft.

Summer.

Castellammare del Golfo is located on the NW coast of Sicily.

Anchorage can be obtained off the port during offshore winds, W of Secca della Cernia (38°02.4'N 012°52.8'E), in depths of 12.0m, good sholding ground, or E of the shoal in depths of 16.0m. Designated anchorage berths, numbered B1 to B4, each having a radius of 0.4nm. Anchorage is prohibited within these areas without prior authorisation from the port authority in Trapani. Local knowledge is required.

From the position E of the head of Molo Nord, the route leads generally WSW into the harbour. A light is exhibited on Molo Nord and is visible 263°-093° (190°, exhibited near the NE end of the castle on Molo del Castello).

BA 1976. Italian 17, 252. Admiralty Pilot NP45.

Attention should be drawn to a shoal spit with a rock, awash, extending 0.1nm NNW of the head of Molo del Castello.

SE winds raise a swell in the harbour and those from the NE can cause problems. Local advice is that with winds from the NE mariners are advised to leave their moorings as soon as possible.