New Costa Rica Marina
Set to Open
by Kevin Brass
A new marina near Quepos is set to open in
April, adding oft-requested boating
facilities to Costa Rica’s Pacific
coastline.
The 55-acre Marina Pez Vela project will
eventually include more than 300 slips,
ranging from 35 to 200 feet; dry storage
facilities and a full-service boatyard, as
well as 200 residential units. The first
phase opening next month features 100 slips.
For a tropical country with a spectacular
coastline known for its fishing, Costa Rica
offers relatively few options for the
boating world (and the population of boating
second home owners). Last year, the ultra-lux
Penninsula Papagayo in Guanacaste in north
Costa Rica opened its own marina, the
country’s first catering to super-yachts.
Strict environmental regulations make it
difficult to build anything along the Costa
Rica coastline, nevertheless a marina. The
Quepos project, which is only a few miles
from Manual Antonio National Park, was the
first project launched under guidelines of a
law approved by the government to speed up
marina development. That law was passed in
1998.
In the case of Marina Pez Vela, which has
been in development for more than 10 years,
demand for slips is driving the project more
than the residential component.
“It’s a marina development that will
ultimately have residential, versus a
residential development that threw in some
docks,” Phil Bronstien, a partner in the
project, said in an interview a few months
ago.
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