Boca Grande (USBCG)

The port is currently closed for commercial operations. Information for the port is retained should the port reopen. The port is no longer used by commercial traffic; it is reported that the facilities for handling bulk phosphate, general cargo and fuel oil have been removed and the port now has a marina for pleasure craft.

Summer.

Port Boca Grande is located on the N end of Gasparilla Island, on the SW coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico.

From a position 1.5nm W of the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), the channel is located between the old railroad trestle and the causeway between markers R22 and G21 on the ICW. Find day marker '1' and leave it to port. Follow the channel, which runs close to the causeway for 1.5nm to the marina. There is 1.5m depth of water in the channel and at the docks at MLW. There is a normal 0.6m tide in the basin.

BA 3853.

BOCA GRANDE 26є 43.0' N,082є 15.0' W UNCTAD LOCODE: US ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

No Pilotage information available.