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Not many 'Superyachts' draw less than 6' of water. Anything more than that would need a deep water trench all the way to the reef.
That won't happen in my lifetime I hope. They seem to have the best luck with the sportfishing vessels at BYC.

Don't give them any ideas
dynamite the Reef and dredge the sea bed all the way to the BYC ?
Department of Environment would give a permit as long as it would further development.
Does anyone other than me think 'sustainable development' is an oxymoron?

The website said they have a control depth of 8 ft from the main cut to the yacht club.

It will be quite a dock - curious about the insurance and how it will hold up in a hurricane:



A state of the art facility, which will accommodate up to 112 vessels, the first phase will open Fall 2008. Consisting of a fixed T head, bulk headed pier with floating dock fingers, the marina will accommodate vessels ranging in size from 35' to over 150' and up to 8' draft. The face dock is 532' long and selected slips will have high speed fuel bunkering at the dock. Depending on availability vessels may dock alongside or Med moor using the Med moor anchors placed in the seabed perpendicular to the face dock.

http://www.belizemarina.com/index.php?section=12

They need a prop repair shop on that pier somewhere.

Not sure I want my luxurious megayacht parked in front of a permanent, swampy, garbage filled construction site that hasn't been worked on in 3 or 4 months...when is the first phase opening for those new condos? Fall 2019?

UNLESS the reef opening and the passage from there to the new marina are heavily dynamited there is little hope of any large vessel making it unscathed. There are coral heads everywhere. I'm sure they'll go ahead and build, knowing that it can't work, and then use the leverage that having invested so much will give them to get all the blasting done. If I wanted to build this marina that's what I would do. Since they have no desire to operate the hotel and marina they will need to convince a prospective purchaser that it is wholly viable. They must also hope to find a purchaser who is naive.

I am certain that blasting will prove to be necessary, and confident that it will happen in due course.

The marina and the casino are already owned by someone else...purchased by outside investors.

I think you'll find it's not a clean break. I had contact with one of these "new investors" and it's interesting how quickly there was a reaction from our old friends.