San Marco & Menendez Moorings

San Marco and Menendez are the two mooring fields in front of the town, one either side of the Bridge of Lions, serviced and maintained by the St. Augustine Municipal Marina. They take mooring balls for vessels up to 120 ft, and the marina assigns them by the length and draft of the vessel and the duration of the visit.

A launch runs seven days a week; call the marina on VHF 71 to arrange a pick-up. Registration gives you proximity cards for the secured restrooms, showers, laundry and lounge, and dinghy dockage is complimentary to all registered guests.

The City of St. Augustine puts mooring rates in two places: a rate sheet it hosts as a PDF, and the Downtown Moorings page on its website. For this pair of fields the two documents agree on exactly one line — the transient day rate of $35.00. Every other rate differs.

The monthly transient rate is $620.00 on the rate sheet and $695.00 on the city's moorings page. The day rate for a St. Johns County resident is $15.50 on the rate sheet and $25.00 on the moorings page. The same split runs through the city's third field at Salt Run, where the transient day rate, the monthly rate and the county resident rate all differ between the same two documents. This is not one stale line; it is most of a city's mooring tariff.

The dates do not settle it either. The rate sheet says at the top that the rates are effective 1 April 2025, but nothing on it says which of the two figures the city is charging today, and the website page carries no effective date at all.

So this page shows both figures and decides nothing. Before a monthly stay, or any stay where the county resident rate matters, call the marina office on 904-825-1026 and have the amount confirmed.

Moorings here are reserved, just as dockage is reserved. If a mooring ball is open, the city asks visitors not to assume it is available for the taking. Availability of long-term and resident moorings in the San Marco and Menendez fields may be limited.

On arrival, contact the marina office on VHF 16 or VHF 71; boats passing the Bridge of Lions request an opening on VHF 9. Once you are secured on the mooring, register at the marina office. The monthly rate is limited to 3 months within a 6 month period, and an annual rate must be paid at arrival.

The reduced city and county rates are not simply claimed. On top of the address shown on the vessel's Florida registration, the city asks for a residential address verified by one of three documents: a driver's license, a state ID, or a vehicle registration — any one of them, and a vehicle registration is not a photo ID. For stays of 7 days or more, two further documents are required on top of that; for shorter stays they are not.