Vero Beach City Marina

The Vero Beach City Marina is the city-owned Municipal Marina, listed at 3611 Rio Vista Boulevard by Marker 139, and the city says every one of its slips is open to the public.

Office hours at the Vero Beach marina run 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., the fuel docks close at 4:45 p.m., and the page lists office numbers 772-231-2819 or 772-978-4960 and fax 772-231-6893 (City of Vero Beach Municipal Marina page). Slips and moorings rent by the day, the week or the month, and the page keeps a separate letter for anchoring vessels.

The marina page also carries two lagoon items. It gives the Florida Fish and Wildlife hotline, 1-888-404-3922, for reporting sick, injured or dead sea turtles and marine mammals, and it links two planning documents: the county Manatee Protection Plan and the state basin management action plan for the central Indian River Lagoon. Fuel dock size, shore facilities and visitor numbers are covered in the Vero Beach marine services guide, and the managed mooring field has its own guide.

A daily transient slip at the Vero Beach Municipal Marina is $2.50 per foot per day and a weekly stay $2.00 per foot per day, under the schedule posted with the October 2025 rate sheet.

Weekly stays carry a 7-night minimum, and long stays, catamarans, tenders and boats over 100 feet each carry their own rates. The Vero Beach rate page states that every rate is charged plus applicable taxes and none is prorated, and that Harbormaster approval is needed for all monthly, seasonal, annual and dry storage berths and extended stay moorings (Vero Beach Municipal Marina Reservations and Rates). The page also posts two files: Resolution 2025-48 on the marina rate increase and the October 2025 city marina rate sheet.

Tenders that are towed rather than carried aboard pay for their own length on the same term as the parent boat, and annual tenants must berth a tender in its own slip instead of rafting it on the hip of the larger vessel.

An annual slip at the Vero Beach Municipal Marina comes through a waiting list that costs $50.00 a year, and term tenants are billed monthly with a $25.00 late penalty after the 10th.

The Vero Beach schedule charges the $50.00 waiting list fee for each year a name stays on the list, and only in the year a name is selected for a slip is that year's fee applied toward the first month of annual dockage (Vero Beach marina rate schedule). All fees are due on the first day of each calendar month; anything unpaid by the 10th rises by a $25.00 penalty, and a returned check draws both the returned check fees allowed under Florida law and the late penalty.

Liveaboards get one break. A live-aboard vessel absent from its assigned berth for a full calendar month may have the $100.00 monthly liveaboard fee waived for that month, but only if the named vessel is away for the whole month. Land-side charges are spelled out too: a car left overnight in a Vero Beach marina space before a transient boat arrives or after it leaves costs $5.00 a day and must be cleared and paid with the Harbormaster first, and transient trailer storage is $25.00 a day. The Vero Beach marine services guide lists the dry storage and haul and launch prices.

Shore power at the Vero Beach Municipal Marina is charged per cord per day for transient boats and monthly for term slips, while water fills and pump outs are $5.00 each.

Transient boats at Vero Beach pay $7.00 a day per cord for 30-amp service, $12.00 for 50-amp and $40.00 for 100-amp, and the schedule lists a $25.00 electric utility deposit (Vero Beach marina electric and utility rates). Metered term slips pay a $13.50 monthly readiness-to-serve charge plus $0.20 per kWh. Non-metered slips pay $15.00 a month for a 20-amp, 110-volt outlet, $60.00 per month per cord for 30-amp service and $135.00 per month per cord for 50-amp service, and the Harbormaster may meter larger vessels. Water is a flat $5.00 per fill up, pump out is $5.00 per boat, and larger vessels with several tanks pay per tank for each.

Bookings go through the Vero Beach transient registration page, where boaters find an online form and the VBCM dockage application; single reservations go in at least 48 hours ahead and multiple vessel registrations 30 days ahead (Vero Beach Transient Dockage and Mooring Registration). The rates page explains that the lead time allows 24 hours for processing. On the water, the city recommends monitoring VHF Channel 16 and working Channel 66A.

Yes, if space is available and the owner signed the Vero Beach Storm and Hurricane Policy Permit before hurricane season or ahead of any tropical disturbance in the Atlantic basin.

Under the Vero Beach rate schedule, storm slips are charged at twice the daily dockage rate and storm dry storage at the transient dry storage rate of $30.00 per foot per day; neither may run past 7 days per occurrence (Vero Beach storm and hurricane rates). Signing the permit only puts a boat on a waitlist for an open space; the city states that this is not a guarantee that a space will be available at the time a storm approaches. Storm rules for the moorings are explained in the Vero Beach mooring field guide.

The Vero Beach City Marina and Bob Summers Park are both on the City Charter Section 5.05 list, so any sale, lease, trade or gift of either needs approval from the city's voters in a referendum.

The city's Charter fact sheet lists the Municipal Marina, Bob Summers Park, Alex MacWilliam Park and the Alex MacWilliam Boat Basin Park among the Vero Beach recreation properties protected by Section 5.05 (Charter Section 5.05 facts on the Three Corners fact sheet). The marina zoning facts page adds that Bob Summers Park, where the Vero Beach Dog Park sits, carries the P, Park future land use designation, and that under Policy 1.13 of the Land Use Element a commercial use such as a hotel is not allowed on property designated P, Park (Vero Beach marina zoning facts page). The same page says there are no plans to add commercial or industrial uses to the City Marina or Bob Summers Park, and that such uses would be inconsistent with the C-1M, Marina and P-2 zoning and Future Land Use Map designations of these city properties.

The dog park is a lease of city land. The city's facility listing lists 3449 Indian River Drive East as the dog park's address and dawn to dusk as its hours, and says a Florida nonprofit of the same name leases the site from the city and runs and maintains it on private sector donations alone (Vero Beach Dog Park facility page). The marina page links an updated Marina Master Site Plan showing a dog park setback. The C-1M permitted uses, the hotel question and the dry storage rebuild are covered in the Vero Beach marine services guide. Last verified: October 22, 2026, against the Vero Beach Municipal Marina, Reservations and Rates, transient registration and marina zoning pages, the Charter fact sheet and the dog park listing.