Puerto Montt : Profile

Clearance

Entry and exit papers are cleared at the Amada office in Avenida Costanera. Contact must be made on arrival. Puerto Montt Radio monitors VHF channel 16.

An expensive health inspection may be required if clearing in to Chile at this port.

Exit zarpe issued from here will inly now be issued for ports north of Gulfo de Penas and not for all the way to Puerto Williams.

Last updated December 2008.

The best mooring and anchorages are in the narrow channel between the mainland and Isla Tenglo. There are three marinas with floating pontoons and buoys. This area offers good shelter and the holding, in mud, is good.

Club Deportes Nauticos Reloncavi
Camino a Chinquihue km 7, Puerto Montt
VHF Channel 16 (during the day)
Excellent hot showers, a 10 ton crane, new 30 ton travel hoist and a restaurant. Mooring buoys as well as a floating dock.

Marina Oxxean
Camino a Chinquihue km 6, Puerto Montt
Tel:+56 65 255 544, VHF Channel 16, 71
www.marinaoxxean.cl, marina@oxxean.cl
This is a new and very safe marina with water, electricity, fuel (diesel and gasoline), hot showers, slipway, drying wall and high-pressure hull cleaning. Phone, fax and internet access, general delivery (poste restante). They can also offer an underwater repair service.

Marina del Sur
Seno Reloncavi, Canal Tenglo
Tel:+56 65 251 958/251 959, VHF Channel 16
www.marinadelsur.cl, mds@marinadelsur.cl
A good marina with many services, including a dry dock. Hot showers, laundry, fuel pump, Customs and Immigration clearance, phones and internet access, general delivery (poste restante) and a bar. There is a boat service company based at the marina which can carry out most repairs including watermakers, refridgeration and electronics.

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