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Port Canaveral Marinas

Port Canaveral is one Florida city that the entire world knows about. It's located on the Space Coast right next to Cape Canaveral. the home of the Kennedy Space Center. This is the place where America launches its missions to space including the missions to the Moon and the space shuttle.

Port Canaveral is a city that was built as a port in the 1950s, it exists to support the space center and the local economy. The city is home to two Marinas and is notable as the closest yacht port to Orlando, the home of Walt Disney World.

Port Canaveral is a great boating destination, it's a center of fishing and cruising. It also has some tremendous advantages over other Florida towns. It's the only place on the East Coast of the United States where you can sit on your boat and watch rockets being launched into space. It's also a short drive from Disney World and the other theme parks in Orlando.

The Sunrise Marina is a full service marina in Port Canaveral that specializes in fishing boats and fishing charters. Boat storage, fueling, and launching facilities are available at Sunrise Marina. Daily, weekly, and monthly boat storage rates are available at the facility. Detailing and boat repair are also offered.

This is definitely a facility for fishermen, a well stocked bait and tackle store is on site. Live bait including shrimp, fiddler crabs, pogies, mullet, pinfish, eels and mud morrow is available. So is a wide variety of fresh and frozen bait.

The Sunrise Marina features Grills a restaurant that combines a seafood deck and a tiki bar. Grills is not your typical marina restaurant it offers live music from local bands and a sports bar. Grills Riverside, a casual dining restaurant will open at Sunrise in early 2010.

CapeMarinain Port Canaveral bills itself as a vacation center for the cruising yachtsman. Unlike Sunrise Marina Cape Marina caters to the yacht traffic and cruisers.

CapeMarinais an authorized repair facility for a wide variety of boats and engines including Cat Diesel, Mercruiser, Cruisar, Northern Lights, Yammar, Borg Warner and many others. Cape Marina also services electrical systems, control systems, hydraulics, heads, water and refrigeration.

There is a 275 foot floating fueling dock at Cape Marina that can accommodate any boat or yacht. 89 Octane fuel and Valv Tech diesel fuel are available.

Port Canaveral is the place to go for boats on Florida's Space Coast.

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