Suggestions for a lovely marina with haul out in Florida please

[Oscarpop]

We have decided to head north from Grenada and keep the boat in Florida over the hurricaine season.
We need to be out of the water and strapped down to keep the insurance happy.
We will also be living there so need a place close to an international airport, somewhere safe and secure, and a nice place to be.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

 

[Ashman]

Speak to Westland Marina in Titusville, we've hauled out there, basic but very helpful.
Also we've used the slips at the adjacent Municipal Marina for a trip home to the UK from Orlando Airport on Aer Lingus via Dublin. The US Immigration people clear you back into the USA at Dublin and gave us 12 months leave to stay on our visa.

 

[BobnLesley]

Different days? We too were thinking about hauling at Westland's yard last summer, but found the reception there unfriendly/unhelpful, it wasn't cheap either if you're looking for a long term haul-out and from looking around, I didn't see a strap-down facility there either. That said and perhaps strangely given Florida's hurricane zone location, other than at one very expensive and non-DIY yard we visited in Fort Lauderdale, we never saw any yards with ground-bolts to secure to?
We did think that Titusville's Municipal Marina and adjacent moorings - "Rated to hold a sixty foot motor boat in 100 knot winds" - to be a very friendly, helpful and pleasant place; indeed the whole town was a pleasant and friendly place to be stuck for a month. It's handy for Orlando airport too.

We hauled in Green Cove Springs - well upriver/away from the ocean, though again, not strapped down - which is well priced for long term, non-livaboard storage and separate from the 'working' yard too, but it's also out in the boondocks.

 

[Ashman]

Westland Marina has a concrete area with tie down rings for strapping down, probably only room for ten boats so you would need to book a place I guess.