Portobelo : Profile

Docking

The national Park of Portobelo is half a day’s sail away from either the San-Blas islands or Colón, at the northern entrance of Panama canal, and is a great place to leave your boat to return home or take a tour of the country.

The entrance channel to the Panamarina (09°36´90N 79°36´70W) is equipped with green (starboard) and red (port) buoys and the first 4 are fitted with a flag for better visibility from offshore. Once inside the anchorage, two stand-by mooring buoys (painted white) can be found in the middle. Call the marina on VHF 69 and a tender will come and assist.

Panamarina
VHF Channel 69
panamarina@pocketmail.com
Panamarina has moorings for 28 monohulls and 27 multihulls. Services include 24h/day security, laundry, showers and toilets, restaurant, workshop, water and electricity. showers and toilets, weekly fill-up of gas bottles, garbage disposal.

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