Florida
Yacht Survey & Haul-Out Markets in Florida
Florida is not one yacht market. It is a chain of quite different ones, and the difference that matters most to a buyer is where a yacht can actually be lifted out of the water for inspection — and how large it can be before that stops being possible locally.
Each market page below keeps three things strictly apart: travel-lift and hoist capacity, marina dockage limits, and general yard capability. They are separate datasets, and confusing them is the most common way a survey haul gets booked at a facility that cannot perform it. Every numerical value carries its own source and verification date.
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Florida locations
Broward County
Fort Lauderdale
The deepest concentration of refit and haul-out capacity in the state, including published heavy-lift capability.
Miami-Dade
Miami
Miami concentrates two very different things in one market: a deep-water megayacht berthing and brokerage scene on Biscayne Bay, and a working refit and haul-out corridor several bridges upriver.
Palm Beach County
Palm Beach / West Palm Beach
Palm Beach is a large-yacht market with an unusual structure: the viewing and brokerage centre of gravity sits on the West Palm Beach waterfront, while much of the practical haul-out capacity is a short run north around Riviera Beach and the Port of Palm Beach.
Martin County / Treasure Coast
Stuart
Stuart is a serious service market disguised as a small town. The Manatee Pocket holds a dense cluster of full-service yards, including sportfish builders and a 150-ton travelift, within a very short distance of each other.
Collier County / Gulf coast
Naples
Naples is a strong buying market with modest lifting infrastructure — and being straight about that gap is the single most useful thing this page can do for a buyer.
Tampa Bay
Tampa / St. Petersburg
Tampa Bay is the strongest haul-out market on Florida's Gulf coast for the size of vessel most buyers actually purchase, and unusually, the yards here publish the figure that matters most: beam.
How to read these pages
Capacity, dockage and capability are not the same thing
Lift capacity is what a travelift or hoist can physically raise, and it is usually limited by beam as much as by tonnage. A yacht well inside a lift's tonnage can still be too wide for its slings.
Dockage limits describe the largest vessel a marina will berth. A marina that accommodates a 200 ft yacht may have no lifting equipment whatsoever.
Capability covers what a yard can do once a yacht is ashore — paint, running gear, engineering. It says nothing about whether your yacht can be lifted there in the first place.
Where a figure is unpublished or where sources disagree, InspectMyYacht publishes no number and says to confirm with the yard. That is deliberate: an invented specification is worse than a gap.
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