Hemingway Marina (Havana) - Docking
Marina:
Marina Hemingway can cater for approx. 150 boats and the majority of slips have both water and/or electricity. It is recommended to use bottled water for drinking. There is plenty of shops and services surrounding the marina including a grocery store, bathrooms (with showers and a small laundry), a pool and fuel dock (24/7). Temperamental WiFi is also available.
Rates are US$1 per foot per day for vessels over 45feet and US$0.70 per foot per day for vessels under 45feet. All costs for permits and berthing are payable by non-US credit card.
- Hemingway Marina (c) SV Shimsal.
Boatyard:
The marina has a good range of services and knowledgeable staff, many of whom are foreign-trained. Rates are reasonable. Boats can be hauled out by crane here and this is also a good place to store the boats ashore.
Ashore:
There are a number of restaurants and shops surrounding the marina, accessible by dinghy or road.
Dinghies can be used as transport anywhere within the canal system of the marina, however, they must be hoisted out of the water at sunset.
There are no maintenance facilities, the Hotel Acuario has no services available, but the Hemingway Yacht Club has drinks and lunchtime meals available Monday to Friday.
There is no shuttle bus from the marina into Havana but there are local buses outside the marina. An inexpensive and comfortable way to get around is to use a “collectivo” taxi.
Last updated: February 2023
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From Cuba Land & Sea Facebook Page:
Hazard warning for canal #1 in Marina Hemingway ⚠️
If avoidable don’t use the turning basin at the bottom of canal #1.
There is a sunken sailboat lying on its side at the height of the rent-a-car place with its mast towards the channel centre – marked with a white fender. When passing, keeping to starboard you should be ok.
There is an abandoned ketch moored on the other side.
Berthing tip from Cruising Cuba Facebook page:
To be closest to the marina store, showers and laundry ask for the north side of canal #2 or the south side of canal #1. If its really busy or if you request it the marina will also put vessels on the south side of canal #2, which means either a very long walk to the facilities or you can launch your dinghy to cross the canal.
Update posted on Sailing and Cruising Cuba Facebook page:
A little update from Marina Hemingway. Quite a number of improvements were made for the Hemingway Billfishing competition. Firstly they moved all the abandoned boats out of channel 2, making more berths available.
In conjunction 6 new power/ water torrents were installed on the east side of C2 and the whole west side of C1 now also has water and electricity. Capacity has so been increased by nearly 50 slips.
There now is a new bus service available to cruisers, they don’t want us to use the hotel bus anymore, that takes you for 1cuc from the marina to “Playa” from where you can then get the double-decker tourist bus to Old Havana for 5cuc. Both are hop-on-hop-off and tickets are valid all day.
There now is wifi available at the Acuario Hotel, half hour for 2.50 cup and 1 hr for 4.50 cup, the day I tested it worked very good …
As far as entertainment is concerned the popular Friday night BBQ at the Yacht Club is still on and a good deal for 5 cups. For late night parties, the Cova now opens nightly as a discotheque from 10 pm. Sun-Thurs entrance is free, Fri & Sat its 3cuc … busier during the week.