Two Naples launches · One delivered launch in Goodland
You pick where you get on the water — north end, south end, or all the way down in Goodland — and the boat is already in, fueled, with the boards loaded when you get there.
Our home port. The Cocohatchee winds through mangrove flats before it opens at Wiggins Pass, which means protected glass on the river and the open Gulf within minutes of the dock.
The south-end launch, tucked into Naples Bay off Danford Street. It is the fast way to Keewaydin Island, Gordon Pass and the northern edge of the Ten Thousand Islands backwaters.
A hundred-person fishing village on the back side of Marco Island, and the closest ramp in Collier County to the Ten Thousand Islands. We trailer the boat down and meet you here for a $120 delivery fee — the run that takes 35 minutes from Naples Bay starts about 10 minutes from this dock.
Photo of Goodland Boat Park by Haydn Blackey, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Licence
Where each one gets you
North launch for the Gulf and the beaches. South launch for Keewaydin and the bay. Goodland for the Ten Thousand Islands, the dolphins and the Everglades. If you are not sure, tell us where you are staying and we will pick.
Wiggins Pass and the nearshore Gulf
From Cocohatchee
8 minutes
Straight out the river mouth into open water. On a calm morning this is the best wakesurfing water in Collier County.
Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park beach
From Cocohatchee
10 minutes
Anchor off the north end of the park and wade in. The closest true Gulf beach stop to any of our ramps.
Cocohatchee backwaters
From Cocohatchee
2 minutes
Mangrove-lined and protected. Where we go when the Gulf is bumpy or the wind gets up.
Barefoot Beach and Little Hickory Bay
From Cocohatchee
20 minutes
North along the beach toward Bonita. Shelling on the bars and almost no boat traffic midweek.
Keewaydin Island
From Bayview
15 minutes
Eight miles of road-free barrier island. Beach the boat on the bay side and walk across to the Gulf.
Gordon Pass
From Bayview
20 minutes
The south entrance to Naples Bay and the classic place to watch a Naples sunset from the water.
Rookery Bay
From Bayview
25 minutes
110,000 acres of protected estuary. Idle speed, resident dolphins, and no houses on the shoreline.
Northern Ten Thousand Islands
From Bayview
35 minutes
The top edge of the island maze. Reachable on a full day — but Goodland is the smarter way in.
Coon Key Pass and the first islands
From Goodland
10 minutes
Out the channel past the Coon Key light and the island maze opens up in front of you.
Dolphin water in Gullivan Bay
From Goodland
15 minutes
Resident bottlenose dolphins work these passes all year and routinely ride boat wakes here.
Secluded shelling beaches — Cape Romano and the outer keys
From Goodland
25 minutes
Gulf-facing sand with no road to it, no concession stand and usually nobody else on it.
Everglades backwaters toward Everglades City
From Goodland
40 minutes
Mangrove tunnels, tidal creeks and flat protected water on the western edge of Everglades National Park.
How the meet-up works
There is no marina office to check in at and no paperwork at the ramp. We text you a pin the night before, you park, and you walk down to a boat that is ready to go. That is true at all three ramps — the only difference in Goodland is the flat $120 that gets the boat down there.
You get a text with the exact meeting pin, a parking note and the weather read for your window.
We launch and tie up at the courtesy dock. Boards, tubes, ropes and jackets go on board.
A ten-minute briefing on the boat, the surf system, the local channels and the no-wake zones. Then your clock starts.
Back at the ramp before dark — dusk is a hard stop. We take the boat out and you drive home.
