A boat share is also a place.
Every partnership on Share Your Boat lives somewhere — a slip, a dock, a stretch of water that becomes part of your weekends. These guides introduce the marinas our listed boats call home.
Newport Beach & Orange County
Tucked in beside the PCH Bay Bridge, where Upper Newport Bay meets Newport Harbor, this quiet 1960s-vintage marina puts a nature preserve at your stern and the whole harbor off your bow.
About 450 slips on the calmest water in Newport Harbor, where a 100-acre waterfront resort meets the Back Bay — and the open ocean is a slow, scenic forty minutes away.
Officially the Balboa Yacht Basin — the city-owned marina everyone just calls the Basin — this is the last working-boatyard corner of Newport Harbor, where a 1939 shipyard and a 1957 fountain-bar diner share the waterfront with 172 slips.
Greater Los Angeles
North America's largest man-made small-craft harbor holds more than 4,600 slips between Venice Beach and the Ballona wetlands — a full waterfront neighborhood where the open Pacific starts just past the breakwater.
Long Beach's big downtown marina was built for the 1984 Olympic sailing events and never lost the habit — flat, protected water behind the breakwater, with the open Pacific and Catalina a short run away.
