San Salvador : Profile

Location

San Salvador Island, located in the southeastern Bahamas, is a sparsely populated tropical Out Island Paradise rimmed by a combination of scenic rocky shoreline and powdery white sand beaches. World renowned as the first landing point for Columbus in the New World on October 12, 1492, the Island is just 12 miles long by 5 miles wide, the exposed peak of a sumerged mountain plunging 15,000 feet to the sea floor.

Clearance

Cockburn Town, San Salvador, offers clearance facilities and is worth a visit, claiming to be where Columbus first landed in the New World in 1492. Both Customs and Immigration offices are in the airport building, approximately 2 miles north of Cockburn Town.

Clearance at Government Dock, Cockburn Town

Customs
Tel:242 331 2131, VHF Channel 16

Immigration
Tel:242 331 2100, VHF Channel 16

Docking

Boats that intend to clear into the Bahamas can use either the facilities at Riding Rock Marina, just north of the main town, or anchor off the broken down jetty off Cockburn Town. There is normally quite a swell in the anchorage.

There is now a new basin to be used by Government vessels, immediately to the north of the old jetty, and small yachts may be able to find shelter there. The entrance has been reported in GPS position 24.03.160 N, 74.32.195 W.

Last updated December 2008.

Riding Rock Marina
San Salvador
Tel:242-331-2631, Fax:242-331-2020, VHF Channel 06
info@RidingRock.com
A small marina (11 slips) with limited space. Call in advance to book. Draft at the marina entrance is 8 feet at low tide and 12 feet at high tide. Water/ice, power, fuel, showers, toilets, laundry, pool, bike and car rental, restaurant. Clearence can be completed from this marina.