LaBelle City Dock

Easy to navigate. And woke up to a downtown waterfront festival. How could this get any better!!! Wish there were rope holders on the poles.

Everything we needed.

Not bad. You need to be on your game to dock. I pulled in bow forward. That made a step up to the dock of about 3” from the bow pulpit The stern would have been much lower. A couple spring lines mid- ship and two on the bow to keep it straight. I run solo… if I had a first mate would have been easy. Clean , safe, the bridge is noisy but doable.

Was a good hideaway from Hurricane Milton. Power at dock and safe. Labelle is a great little town. You can walk to most anything. Will be back.

LaBelle City dock is always a great place to stop. We use as a place to clean the boat after summer storage. Good water and power. It does seem there has been very little maintenance on the dock as the rubber rail on the dock is falling off and one off the post has no rubber on one side. You can walk to a good restaurant and to post office or Family Dollar grocery store. Would like to be able to stay more than 3 days.

Our trip to Labelle was to get away from the Hurricane surge on the coast. A perfect spot with amenities close by. As stated by others, the city dock would be improved by adding pilings further out for larger boats. A phone number that actually gets to the dock master would also be an improvement (currently the phone number listed on Dockwa gets to the Labelle water dept and they do not forward calls.)

Not well kept and they Said that my boat would fit but there was no way it would. There was vegetation in the slips.

Love this little place. Fore & aft springs hold you nicely. Forrey Grill is excellent: food & price. Peanut butter pie! Ace hardware just a mile hike. Very nice library on your bow. Second stop. 2017 & ‘24. 14’ beam fits slip 2. Rightmost slip being No.1. No. 3 slip is 18’ wide. Very little motion as you are at the bridge approach- no wake. We went now in on our’84 Mainship double cabin 40. 45 loa, 14 beam, 3.5’ draft

Need a garbage can on the property. Uber rides were not avaliable making travel for dinner difficult. Power worked well

Simple and easy walk into town

No trash available, no wifi, and water from tap is yellowish. Convenient, but okay

This dock is a required stop on our way through. Like the town, enjoy the restaurants and glad for the easy access to stores.

Great for the price but very basic dock with power and water. Our assigned slip was already taken so we took the next one over and notified the city via dockwa which they appreciated. Dont expect anyone to answer VHF, just be ready with your lines. No fingers but piles aft and cleats on the dock. Short walk into down

Awesome stay. Ace hardware close by for some tools and log cabin restaurant for a great dinner. Only suggestion would be two more pylons further out on the middle dock. Any boat needing a 20 foot width dock could be a little more secure. Thank you City of Labelle!

Great for a quick overnight stay, quiet (although it is directly next to a bridge, the noise did not bother us. Nice park area nearby with food truck 👍

Great little town. Refreshing!

The location worked for us. The proximity to the bridge makes for a lot of traffic noise all night long. The port-a-potties were disgusting! The configuration of the docks is such that you have to go bow or stern in and exit your boat off the end, there are no fingers on the docks. The price is good.

Water and electric available. A little challenging getting into the slip but a good night

This is not an easy marina, most US boater are not familiar with European tie-ups, but it is close to town; it is inexpensive; there is electric, water, trash, and bathroom on shore. The bridge mades it noisy, but overall the pluses exceed the minus so I will stay again if through this way

Great stop for $30 bucks. Had to bow in as the docks are 5’ off the water.

Mind the current when approaching the dock! Quaint town with gorgeous, old, oak trees, draped in Spanish moss. Best coffee shop: Bridge Street Coffee & Tea. Best southern dinner: Log Cabin BBQ. La Belle, itself is a 5-star town, in my mind. Very safe location. Lots of lighting. Unfortunately, lots of traffic noise from the La Belle bridge. Note: the bridge will open on request from 6am - 7am, 9am-4pm, 6pm-10pm. It will open with 3 hours notice between 10pm and 6am. The bridge will not open between 7-9am and 4-6pm. The dock is not so great. The construction, itself, is solid. The space for larger boats is a bow or stern in to a concrete fixed dock, with a piling between spaces. Cleats on the concrete wall, lasso the pilings to keep yourself centered. Electrical and water available. The smaller docks have a finger pier with pilings and cleats on both the pier and the pilings. No electrical or water hookup. No toilets, no showers near the dock. If the library is open, you can use their bathroom. The city park bathrooms were open when we came through in December 2023, but were closed during our stay in March. The library is wonderful. Computers, wifi, comfortable seats and tables, with a view of the boats at the city dock. Best of all, everyone we met in La Belle was friendly!

Only boat access at the stern or bow . No indication of the shore power access was 50 Amp or 30 amp . No help docking . Otherwise ok . Cheap . Quiet . No security .

Poor communication, lousy docks. But convenient location.

Quiet( other than loud bridge traffic ) good water and power and some nice gentleman checked on us and how close the dingy was to the dock as we came in stern first and our dingy is on our swim platform! Trash can was close for disposal of our trash. Beautiful sunset off the port side bow . Would have been 5 stars yet hard to see which slip we were assigned and there were zero poles to tie the bow to and this made it almost impossible to keep the boat off the dock at the stern for our 38 ‘ vessel. Nice man ( maybe our dock master ) did inform us of a nice coffee shop and dollar general within walking distance Very close to the bridge and a park. Some strong current there at times Yet overall safe harbor.

While we liked the proximity to the City, the dock configuration was very problematic for our boat. We could go in bow first because the dock was at the same level as our anchor, and we couldn’t go in stern first because the dock was too high to step up to.