South Beach Harbor is accepting applications at 8:30 AM Pacific time on January 1, 2025. Applications are not completed without payment. Payment may be made in person, phone, or mailed.
NO LIVEABOARDS ALLOWED AT SOUTH BEACH HARBOR
- Applications are not complete or valid until payment is received. Payments may be made via phone, in person, and/or check sent to the Harbor office.
- Applications are processed in order of completion.
- If you believe there is an error with your application, please contact the harbormaster's office.
- If you are interested in the standby waitlist, please email sbh-waitlist@sfport.com with your name and phone number. Office staff will send a notification when the waitlist reopens.
Please Note: The current waitlist is posted to the website at the beginning of every month, depending on staff availability. The list will give you an approximation of your position on the waitlist.
All monthly berths are offered to the person at the top of the waitlist on a conditional basis. In order for the berth license agreement to be approved, the following steps need to occur:
- Make an appointment for vessel inspection. An appointment must be made with the Assistant Harbormaster for the boat to be inspected at South Beach Harbor. The boat must be inspected for seaworthiness and to ensure that the vessel will fit the assigned slip in terms of overall length and beam.
- Houseboats, “house cruisers” or other such wide beamed, high freeboard, shallow draft vessels are not accepted at South Beach Harbor.
- Provide a standard marine insurance policy. Must provide evidence of a policy, including Protection and Indemnity coverage, placed with an insurer with a current A.M. Bests’ rating of no less than A-. This insurance coverage must name "City and County of San Francisco and the San Francisco Port Commission and their officers, directors, agents and employees" as additional insureds. Limits of coverage will normally be no less than $500,000 per occurrence, although lower limits may be approved for the smaller boats at the discretion of the Harbormaster. This insurance coverage must be maintained at all times while the vessel is berthed at South Beach Harbor.
- Provide documentation of boat ownership. The prospective berth holder must present current Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) registration or Coast Guard documentation showing the applicant is the registered owner of the boat.
- Vessel registration/documentation of ownership with a LLC, corp., etc. must submit a verification list of member name(s).
- If the boat is owned by a partnership, a copy of the partnership agreement must be provided. In all cases the prospective license holder must have a significant ownership interest in the boat (normally at least 25% ownership) and must remain personally active in the boat. The partnership agreement needs to indicate the respective ownership interests, as well as each partner's share of expenses and share of profits and income upon sale, rental or other income generating use of the boat. The original licensee must remain as agent for the partnership, receiving all billings and signing all agreements.
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Current Waitlists
Waitlist will open from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025
The Harbor will be accepting application at 8:30 AM pacific time on January 1, 2025. Applications are not completed without payment. Payment may be made in person, phone, or mailed.