and fitted with significant yachting structures. This
facility is located on the southern side of the namesake island,
on the right hand side of the Po di Levante river arm, is equipped
with first class yachting facilities with 453 berths of which 50
are reserved to transit traffic. The permitted LOA is 25 meters
while the water depth ranges between 2.8 and 4.0 meters.
Porto Levante
is about 4 kilometers away from this river's mouth and has
a wet basin for 130 boats, its entrance is however limited by a
bridge spanning across it.
Marina Nuova di Porto Levante sits on
the left river side at about one and a half mile further inland
with 100 berths for boats up to 10 meters LOA. The areas
surrounding these facilities make for excellent excursions, better
if supported by a local guide and riding the typical river flat
boats or a pram. From here, Venice lagoon is a stone thrown away;
several entrances are marked on the navigational charts as ports,
in reality they are access channels marked by wooden clusters
supporting the ports' navigational marking.
From the
the picturesque namesake town is easily reached. Berths
in number of 150 for boats up to 18 meters in 3 meters water depth
are found here.
The Chioggia Inner Harbor
has a water depth up to 3.5
meters, it is however permanently crowded with fishing boats and
local minor crafts. The new marina instead, the Sporting Club with
70 berths and a permitted draught up to 3 meters, is very well
organized and assisted.
A stop over at Chioggia is indispensable for those wishing to pick
up and understand the true Venetian spirit, far from the tourist
pressure. It is the home port to Italy's largest fishing fleet and
as a welcome consequence, the place overflows with renowned
seafood restaurants.
Malamocco port
is the main entrance to the Venice lagoon with a
channel leading directly onto Marghera. At Malamocco, the
Alberoni marina
sits at the right channel's hand with 60 berths in 2.5
meters water depth.
To reach Venice, however, it is more
convenient to enter through the
Lido port.
A careful study of the
local Sailing Directions is recommended and particular attention
should be paid to the current set that can reach here significant
strength. Reaching Venice by boat is one of the most unforgettable
experiences a sailor can have. Famous monuments, silhouetted
against the sky, immediately transmit the recollection of
splendid, glorious times of which the precious vestiges are the
living proof. Yacht mooring can be had at only two marinas both
managed by the local yachting club.
Sant'Elena,
reachable from both
the Lido and Malamocco channels, is a private wet basin mostly
reserved to the owners associated to the Diporto Velico Veneziano;
sometimes however a mooring albeit a temporary one, can be found
among the 225 berths, 15 meters LOA facilities set up here.
San Giorgio
is the home of Circolo della Compagnia della Vela, which
recently threw the challenge for the America Cup
with the good "il Moro di Venezia" boat. This facility offers 70 berths only but its
position is unsurpassed: you practically moor in front of St.
Marks square. Water depth here is 2.3 meters and entrance is from
the west.
Tronchetto
is another location where preparations are
under way for a new wet basin: it can take today 60/20 meters LOA
boats in a water depth of 5 meters. Additional facilities within
the Venetian lagoon are found at Fusina with 152 floating berths
with 13 meters LOA and 300 additional shore storage. At Mestre,
the Scafo Club
in the Salso channel offers shelter to 340 / 13 meters LOA boats; the
DEC wet basin
another Mestre facility, fits
200 boats at their moorings and 500 ashore properly sheltered.
A particular mention should be made for
Piave Vecchia, a channel
port at the mouth of the Sile river where no less than five wet
basins have been set up: two,
Marina del Cavallino and
Marina Faro
on the left side and three, Darsena Faro,
Nautica Dal Vi and the
Tourist Port of Jesolo
on the right hand river side. The local
availability sums up to 1558 - 30 meters LOA berths with a maximum
permitted draught of 3.5 meters.
Venice is really surrounded by series of first class mooring
facilities offering the possibility to visit one of the world's
wonders without having to bypass the island surrounding it, some
like Burano, Murano and Torcello alive with a flourishing tourist
activity, others totally abandoned but not less attracting like
San Servolo, Santo Spirito housing the Agostinian Friars Order,
San Clemente with its old quarantine station or, finally Poveglia
whose monuments patrimony has been reducer to the spire bell tower
of San Vitale.
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