Victoria International Marina Update

I walked along the Westsong Walkway yesterday specifically to see how this new marina for luxury yachts is developing. You can see for yourself in the photo above - the new marina is the platform on the left. If you look at the small red rubber buoys you can see the extent of the marina out into the waters of the harbour. Here is a link to the Victoria International Marina website where you can see a conception of the finished marina. It occupies a large portion of the Inner Harbour where it is quite narrow so there were concerns about all the traffic that would be squeezed together - seaplanes, harbour ferries, pleasure craft, canoes, kayaks, paddleboards, etc. I believe the solution offered is that small craft such as canoes and kayaks will travel along the shoreline and pass beneath the two buildings on the wings of the marina. You can see below that there is probably just sufficient space for this. The new marina is slated to open in June 2017

Victoria International Marina

A chunk of the waterfront on the Inner Harbour is being developed as a small marina for super-yachts, the Victoria International Marina. The project was stalled for a while due to a shortage of steel piles but has now commenced building. There has been considerable early and ongoing local opposition to a project which promises little more than a place for rich people to park their big boats while blocking the kayak, canoe and paddle-board route along the shoreline of a very busy harbour. A petition gathered some 7,000 signatures in opposition.