Where we work in Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale dockage falls into three very different worlds, and a hull does not foul the same way in each one. We work in all of them.

The beachside superyacht row — Seabreeze Boulevard. Bahia Mar Yachting Center, with more than 250 slips and vessels to 300 feet, and Las Olas Marina, rebuilt with 68 slips for yachts to 250 feet. Big boats, short stays, owners who want the bottom right before the next passage.
The 17th Street and Intracoastal corridor. Pier Sixty-Six Marina alone offers around 5,000 linear feet of deep-water dockage across 164 slips, taking yachts to 400 feet. Fastest ocean access in the city — and the fastest growth on a neglected hull.
The New River. Lauderdale Marina and the resort basins upriver, roughly 168 deep-water slips from 18 to 140 feet. Protected, quiet, bridge-managed — and sheltered water is exactly where slime settles first.

We also work the residential canals off Las Olas Isles, Rio Vista, Harbour Beach and Lauderdale Harbours, where the boat lives behind the house and there is no yard to haul it to.

Why Fort Lauderdale hulls foul so fast

There is no off-season here. Water temperature rarely drops far enough to slow marine growth, so a hull that was clean in March is carrying a full slime layer by April and hard barnacles by May. The first thing that happens is not damage — it is a thin vegetal film that covers the antifouling and stops it working. Growth then accelerates, and the paint gets blamed for a problem the film caused.

That film is what our robot lifts, every four weeks, before anything can anchor to it. The antifouling goes back into contact with the water and starts working again, so it lasts longer rather than being scrubbed away by hand.

What a visit looks like at your slip

Nothing moves

Your boat stays in its berth. No haul-out, no travel lift, no yard days lost. In-water hull cleaning, start to finish.

The robot works

Operated from the dock, it grips the hull and sweeps it section by section. Growth is caught in an on-board filter bag and taken ashore — not left in the basin.

You get the proof

With the Signature care: an HD video of the whole bottom, plus a condition log and anode (zinc) tracking, on your phone the same day.

On The Signature and Prestige memberships, a master diver finishes what a robot should not touch: propellers, shafts, rudders, through-hulls and anode replacement.

What it costs

Memberships start at $5.50 per foot per month, everything included — one scheduled pass every four weeks, condition and anode log; the Signature care adds HD video after each visit. Traditional Fort Lauderdale hull cleaning divers bill per dive; we keep the bottom permanently clean for a flat monthly rate, and your antifouling lasts longer for it. Prices exclude applicable Florida sales tax.

Every membership starts with a free hull assessment at your slip — about thirty minutes, no obligation.

Fort Lauderdale marinas: a word to dockmasters

If you run a marina here, what happens under your docks is increasingly your business too. We capture what hand cleaning releases into your basin, and we document every intervention vessel by vessel. See the marina partnership.

Boat bottom cleaning in Fort Lauderdale