Travel Tips

Stump Pass Marina in Englewoods allows you to refuel your energy and your boat

Stump Pass Marina in Englewood is one of my favorite places to stop and grab a bite to eat when out on the Intracoastal Waterway and end up south near Lemon Bay. This is also the perfect place to stop for fuel or for relaxation away from the crowded waterway if you are spending the hot summer afternoons on your boat. Equipped with a fuel shop, a bait and tackle store, a bar and restaurant and even a swimming pool this is much more than an ordinary marina. The large, spacious dock area leaves lots of open room for pulling in your boat and tying up to the dock temporarily. If you are planning on staying in the Venice area for longer than a few days, consider renting out a boat slip or dry docking your with Stump Pass Marina. They offer more than 300 dry dock storage spaces and several large yacht and charter boat dockside tie-up spots.

If you get stuck out on the water with a faulty engine, Stump Pass Marina offers lots of great repair and maintenance services and even offers services of a tugboat that can pull you safely to shore. Most fellow boaters will offer to inform Stump Pass of your whereabouts on the water in case you are without a cell phone or radio.

Stump Pass Marina also offers a great place to launch your boat or jet ski and a potential site for boat and jet ski rentals for part of the day or for an entire week. It is best to call and reserve these watercrafts in advance, especially in the summer months when boats and jet skis will be rented out more often.

In case you are planning to stay in town during hurricane season, from June through October, consider storing your boat safely in dry dock at Stump Pass Marina. In the fall of 2004, the new owner, Mark Lindsay decided to offer video surveillance online to his customers so they could see the conditions of their boats and the storm if they are unable to take their watercraft with them. The customers only have limited access to certain video surveillance through a password, but this leaves one last concern for boat owners if a hurricane or tropical storm leaves you no time to take your boat away from the coast.

Since Stump Pass is right on the water, there are always amble fishing spots and fisherman hanging around the docks trying to get a bite. The kids will be entertained by the well-known “pet” snook fish that will eat fresh shrimp right out of your hand on the docks of Stump Pass Marina.

To arrive at Stump Pass Marina from the shore, take SR-776 south from US-41 until it meets SR-775/Placida Road. Take this a few miles down and you will see Stump Pass Marina on the bay side at 3060 Placida Road. From the Lemon Bay waterway, start looking when you pass Redfish Cove coming from Venice and then Oyster Creek and soon after you will a small inlet that will direct you right into Stump Pass Marina.