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Fort Lauderdale Boating Homes

Fort Lauderdale Boating Homes

Collection

Fort Lauderdale Boating Homes

Fort Lauderdale Boating Homes.Fig. 1

Market

South Florida

County

Broward

Status

43 Available

From

$3,290,000

Deepwater homes in the Yachting Capital — Las Olas Isles, Seven Isles, Harbor Beach and Rio Vista, with no fixed bridges to Port Everglades.

Fort Lauderdale didn't get called the Yachting Capital of the World by accident — it's a city literally drawn around its canals, with more than 165 miles of navigable waterways threading through its neighborhoods. For the owner whose boat is the point, the finger isles off Las Olas, Seven Isles, Rio Vista, and Harbor Beach are among the only places in America where triple-digit feet of private dockage sits behind a single-family home minutes from an ocean inlet.

The hierarchy here is written in bridge clearances and dockage length. The most valuable water has no fixed bridges between the seawall and Port Everglades — a straight, unrestricted run to one of the deepest inlets on the East Coast. From there we weigh water depth at the dock, seawall condition and age, turning basin room for larger vessels, and whether the dockage can hold the boat you actually run, not the one in the brochure.

This collection gathers the deepwater single-family side of the market — homes carrying our Boating & Deepwater tag, verified for genuine ocean access. Homes from $3M; filter by price, beds, and architectural style to narrow the water that works for you.

On the market · 43

Boating & Deepwater in Broward.

43 listings
43
On the market
$3.3M–$40M
Price range
$7.5M
Median
29
Ocean access
30
No fixed bridges

The insider view

What deepwater actually means.

Not all waterfront floats a boat. Deepwater is a specific thing — ocean access, no fixed bridges, and dockage that fits your draft. Here's how to read it.

No fixed bridges

The phrase that matters most. A fixed bridge caps your air draft — the tallest boat that fits underneath at high tide. “No fixed bridges” to the inlet means a sportfish or motoryacht with towers and outriggers can reach open ocean without ducking anything. It's the single biggest value driver on a boating home.

Ocean access vs. water frontage

A canal-front lot is waterfront. It isn't necessarily boatable to the ocean. “Ocean access” means a navigable route to an inlet — Boca, Boynton, Palm Beach, or Jupiter — without a lock or a low bridge. We verify the route, not just the water view.

Dockage, draft, and beam

The right question isn't “is there a dock,” it's “what does the dock hold.” Water depth at low tide (draft), slip length, beam clearance, and whether the seawall carries a lift. A 60-foot Viking needs very different infrastructure than a center console.

The inlets set the map

Palm Beach County's boating markets orient around four inlets. Jupiter and North Palm feed the Jupiter Inlet; the Intracoastal estates of Palm Beach and Manalapan run to the Palm Beach Inlet; Boca and Delray sit near the Boca and Boynton inlets. Proximity to a maintained inlet is proximity to open water.

Where it concentrates

Boating & Deepwater in Broward centers on Fort Lauderdale (25), Hallandale Beach (6), Hollywood (5), and Pompano Beach (3).

Good to know

Questions buyers ask.

It means there is no fixed-height bridge between the property and the ocean inlet, so your air draft is unrestricted — tall sportfish and motoryachts can reach open water at any tide. Homes with no-fixed-bridge ocean access command a premium over otherwise-identical canal homes.

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