Boating, Fishing, and Travel Information for Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, CA

Avalon, an incorporated city and part of Los Angeles County, is an extensive resort community reliant on tourism and is the principal settlement of Santa Catalina Island, one of the California Channel Islands. Daily ferry and helicopter service is maintained year round to San Pedro, Long Beach, Newport Beach, Marine del Rey, and Dana Point.

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Yachting and fishboat supplies, limited engine and underwater repair facilities, and towing service are available at Avalon.
A pleasure pier with various loading floats, concessions, equipment rental firms and a 2-ton hoist are in the S part of Avalon Bay. There are three, 100-foot floating docks, with reported depths of 30 feet alongside, on the E side of the Cabrillo Mole (Cabrillo Peninsula.) The Cabrillo Mole floats are used by passenger vessels that operate to the mainland, and are available to any vessel through prior arrangement with the harbormaster.
Yachts and other small craft moor to buoys in the bay; there are no alongside berths. The mooring buoys in the bay are privately owned. The harbormaster will rent mooring buoys that are not reserved by the owner to vessels on a daily basis. The harbormaster, located on the pleasure pier, offers 24 hour service year round and can be reached on VHF-FM channel 12 and 16 or call 310-510-0535. A harbor patrol boat will meet visiting yachts at the harbor entrance upon arrival and will assign them to a mooring if desired; a fee is collected for the daily use of moorings.
Navigation:
Click the “Map View” button above to see a chart of this harbor.
Avalon Bay, on the N shore of Santa Catalina Island, 2.5 miles from its SE extremity is entered between Casino Point, breakwater on the N and the breakwater extending from Cabrillo Peninsula, on the S. The breakwaters are marked by lights on their seaward ends.
The small bay has depths of 2 to 13 fathoms; a depth of 20 fathoms is immediately outside the points of the bay. The harbormaster reports that shelter is good during SW, NW, and SE weather if the wind does not exceed 20 knots. The breakwater provides limited protection in the NW and SE ends of the harbor during NE Santa Ana winds that occasionally blow during the fall and winter.
A large white circular building, brilliantly illuminated for about half the night during summer, is on Casino Point.
The bay is extremely popular as a yacht haven and vacation resort during the summer.