Waterfront guides
Know the water before you buy on it
Every waterway here behaves differently. These guides walk each one the way I would walk it with you in person, including the parts that are not flattering.
Each guide separates what is confirmed from what still has to be checked on your specific address. Where a figure is not verified, you will see a marker saying so rather than a number I made comfortable.
Fort Lauderdale
They call it the Venice of America for a reason. Fort Lauderdale is built around a canal network that reaches deep into the city from the Intracoastal, and the New River runs right through the middle of downtown. It is the largest and busiest of the three markets I work, with the widest range of everything: the most marinas, the most dining on the water, and the most bridges to think about.
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East Pompano Beach
East Pompano is the east side of the city: the Intracoastal, Lake Santa Barbara, and the finger canals that feed into them. It has a quieter, more residential feel than Fort Lauderdale while still putting you a short run from an ocean inlet. It also has the strongest wreck-diving identity of the three markets I work, which is a large part of why I ended up spending so much of my own time in this water.
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Lighthouse Point
Lighthouse Point is a finger-canal town, and it was more or less designed around boats. It is small, almost entirely residential, and sits just south of Hillsboro Inlet, which is the shortest ocean run of the three markets I work. There is no municipal ocean beach here. What there is instead is canal frontage, and a lot of it.
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Not sure which waterway fits your boat?
Tell me the air draft and the draft and I will tell you which of these actually works for you.