Boating, Fishing, and Travel Information for Clearwater Beach, FL

Small-craft facilities in the Clearwater area are located at the part of Clearwater Beach Island, along the S side of the island N of Clearwater Memorial Causeway, and at Clearwater proper. Berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, pump-out station, launching ramp, wet and dry storage and marine supplies are available; hull, engine are electronic repairs can be made. At Clearwater just E of Mile 136.6, a 60-ton mobile hoist can handle craft up to 70 feet.
The city of Clearwater operates the City Pier and Municipal Marina at the turning basin. The marina can provide berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, pump-out station, wet storage, and marine supplies. The harbormaster has his office at the marina and assigns the berths. The Clearwater Police Boat is based at the Municipal Marina. The Clearwater Coast Guard Station is on the E side of Sand Key about 1 mile S of Clearwater Pass.
Navigation:
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Clearwater Pass, 12 miles N from Johns Pass, extends E from the Gulf between the N end of Sand Key and the S end of Clearwater Beach Island. The pass is crossed by Pinellas County Route 183 highway bridge, which has a clearance of 74 feet.
There are many prominent features in the Clearwater area including a large white apartment hotel near the N end of Clearwater Beach Island, a large hotel on the island on the N side of the Clearwater Memorial Causeway, several tall radio towers, and several other prominent buildings. At Dunedin, 3 miles N of Clearwater, a large hotel, two tanks, and a stack are conspicuous.
A dredged channel leads from the Gulf through Clearwater Pass to a junction with the Intracoastal Waterway, and a dredged side channel leads N from just inside the pass along the E side of Clearwater Beach Island to a turning basin at the W end of Clearwater Memorial Causeway. In 2003, the controlling depths were 8.0 feet to the fixed highway bridge; thence in 2006, 3.5 feet (7.4 feet at midchannel) to the Intracoastal Waterway, thence 5.1 feet in the side channel to the turning basin with 6.0 to 7.2 feet in the basin. The channels are well marked by lights and daybeacons. Clearwater Pass Channel Light 1 (27°58’16″N., 82°50’51″W.) mark the entrance from the Gulf.
Clearwater (Garden) Memorial Causeway crosses Clearwater Harbor from Clearwater Beach to Clearwater; the fixed bridge over the waterway has a clearance of 74 feet.