Boat care on the water in Hallandale Beach
Hallandale Beach's City Marina, with 26 annual and 3 transient slips and a pump-out station, is the most southern public dockage and pump-out point in Broward County. The Golden Isles neighborhood, a 310-home subdivision on the Three Islands Waterway just off the ICW, is known locally for having some of the deepest, widest canals in the two-county area.
The Hallandale Beach Boulevard bridge, at ICW Statute Mile 1074.0, closes to 36 feet and opens on the quarter-hour and three-quarter hour, a specific, published schedule rather than an on-demand opening, so a boat timing a run through town plans around four windows an hour, not a horn signal.
Before any bridge existed here, the only way across the canal was by rowboat, or by swimming a team of horses across and hauling the wagon over by rope. The first real bridge went up in 1917; a hand-cranked swing bridge followed in 1926, electrified in 1951, and it opened and closed roughly 125 times a day, backing up US-1 and A1A traffic until a new, privately-funded bridge replaced it in 1959. The Intracoastal has shaped this town's traffic, not just its waterfront, for over a century.
- the Intracoastal Waterway
- the Three Islands Waterway
Dive services for Hallandale Beach boats
Marinas and docks around Hallandale Beach
We come to the boat in Hallandale Beach: dock, lift or slip.
- Hallandale Beach City Marina26 annual + 3 transient slips, pump-out
Listed for location only, not an affiliation.
The visit, step by step
- 01
Free inspection
We look first and tell you straight what we found.
- 02
Hull schedule
Every 2-3 weeks in summer, 3-4 in winter. It depends on the boat.
- 03
Zincs
Swapped at about half their life, with a zinc report.
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Props
Pulled by our divers; repairs go to F&J.
Hallandale Beach questions
What's special about Hallandale Beach's canals?
The Golden Isles subdivision on the Three Islands Waterway is known locally for some of the deepest, widest residential canals in Broward and Miami-Dade, which is part of why bigger boats sit comfortably there.
Has Hallandale Beach always had a bridge over the Intracoastal?
No. Before 1917 there was no bridge at all; a hand-cranked swing bridge followed in 1926 and opened and closed about 125 times a day until a new bridge replaced it in 1959.