Misión La Serena is situated on the Sea of Cortez in the master-planned area of Puerto Los Cabos, 20 minutes from an international airport and Cabo San Lucas. Los Cabos is well known for its incredible sportfishing, championship golf and pristine beaches, as well as its inherent natural beauty. The exclusive oceanfront, deeded, fractional ownership community will include 75 two- and three-bedroom residences on pristine beachfront. Each home has an extensive list of amenities and benefits. Due for completion in 2008, the area will provide the ultimate vacation lifestyle with a renowned spa, Jack Nicklaus golf course, and optional country club and private yacht club memberships. Puerto Misión La Serena is situated on the Sea of Cortez in the master-planned area of Puerto Los Cabos, 20 minutes from an international airport and Cabo San Lucas. Los Cabos is well known for its incredible sportfishing, championship golf and pristine beaches, as well as its inherent natural beauty. The exclusive oceanfront, deeded, fractional ownership community will include 75 two- and three-bedroom residences on pristine beachfront. Each home has an extensive list of amenities and benefits. Due for completion in 2008, the area will provide the ultimate vacation lifestyle with a renowned spa, Jack Nicklaus golf course, and optional country club and private yacht club memberships. Puerto Los Cabos is the most ambitious marina and resort development in the area’s history. The facility, just a walk down the beach from Misión La Serena, is designed with a 400-slip marina; a town plaza with shops, markets and restaurants; and an ecological park with a sea turtle nursery. Vessels ranging from 30 to 240 feet will be accommodated at Puerto Los Cabos. An additional area designated for local fishermen will have capacity for 150 smaller boats. When finished, the new marina and its authentic markets and retail and restaurant environs will help define the Puerto Los Cabos lifestyle by the sea, offering something for everyone from fishing skiff owners to owners of luxury megayachts. Those keen on fishing take note: The legendary Gordo Banks fishing grounds are an hour closer to Puerto Los Cabos than Cabo San Lucas.
Visit www.misionlaserena.com.

Ginn sur Mer on Grand Bahama Island will feature a world-class marina and thousands of residential units. Photograph courtesy of Ginn Resorts. (Click image to enlarge)

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Fifty-five miles due east of Palm Beach, Florida, lies Bobby Ginn’s newest resort, Ginn sur Mer. Dominated by the iconic architecture of a 20-story tower, the nearly 2,000-acre property will house a world-class marina, 4,400 condominium and hotel units, and 1,800 additional single-family residential home sites, including waterfront bungalows with private boat slips. Hallmarks of the property will include two signature golf courses accompanied by grand clubhouses, a megayacht marina with 380 slips, a private airport with on-site customs agents, a Monte-Carlo style casino, swimming pavilions and a beach club, and an international salon and spa. Ownership opportunities can be tailored to a variety of needs with custom oceanfront and ocean view condominiums and home sites, as well as a selection of residences along the golf courses and marina fronts. The residential architecture style is described as "European influences melded with a tropical setting creating a design all its own." High ceilings and open balconies will reign. Located along a heavily traveled Florida/Caribbean route, Ginn sur Mer’s megayacht marina is poised to service many of the world’s finest yachts. A Grand Promenade will run alongside the marina, offering visitors and boat owners a pedestrian walkway lined with restaurants and carefully selected shops. One of the development’s most interesting features is a Grand Canal connecting the island complex of homes, beaches, golf courses and marina. The Grand Canal has been envisioned as a way to keep maritime activity flowing through the property as yachts enter and leave, day boats head out to sea and vaporetto shuttle boats carry members and guests from golf courses and beaches to restaurants and gaming tables.
Visti www.ginnsurmer.com.

A popular port in Palma de Mallorca is undergoing an important expansion for its megayacht clientele. Operated by the marina management company Ocibar (which also manages Ibiza Magna in Ibiza), Port Adriano is stepping it up with the addition of 82 new moorings for yachts between 65 and 200 feet in length. (More than 400 slips already exist, though they are generally for smaller vessels.) Renowned designer Phillipe Starck will be the architect and designer of the commercial area, as well as the common spaces, which will include 8,500 square meters of restaurants, shops and nautical services. In addition, a refit and repair area of 11,200 square meters will be added with a 200-ton Travelift, a greatly enhanced automobile parking area and storage spaces. In-slip fueling is another new facet of Port Adriano’s expansion, as is a sailing school. Construction started this summer and the first new berths should be available by summer 2009. The entire port will be finished the following summer. The lease of the berths (which are for rent or for sale) is set at 30 years, including the construction period. Commercial space will also be available for rent. The MARPOL and ISO 14001- and 9001-certified marina also provides an array of power supply options, fresh and desalinated water, in-slip wastewater disposal, in-slip bilge water disposal, data links (television, Wi-Fi) and a crew rest area. International accessibility and leisure are also at hand, with four golf courses within a five-minute drive, two natural parks at a short distance, Palma’s picturesque North Coast (only accessible by boat) a few miles away and the airport just a 30-minute drive. Port Adriano is also the closest marina to Ibiza.
Visit www.portadriano.com.

Last December, Island Global Yachting (IGY) and Nakheel (Dubai’s premier property development firm) signed an agreement for the former to design, develop and manage all Nakheel marina properties and developments in Dubai. Signature developments include the Palm Islands, The World and Dubai Waterfront, the largest waterfront development in the world. Four months later, 380 berths sold at Anchor Marina situated on the Palm Jumeirah—a considerable feat given the developmental stage of the facility. If this goes to show one thing, it’s that Dubai is happening. According to CEO of IGY Middle East, Ralf Heron, "IGY sees the success of Anchor Marina as an opportunity to catalyze the development of Dubai in becoming the third most popular warm water port alongside the Caribbean and the Mediterranean." Anchor Marina represents one of a rare handful of marinas on the Palm Jumeirah. With the design process complete, development of the marina is currently under way. The marina’s berths will provide for private yachts between 35 and 100 feet in length, with
amenities including spacious concrete pontoons, LED illumination, underwater lighting, wireless Internet connections and bespoke concierge services. IGY has also been charged with the operation of Dubai’s Festival Marina, located in the heart of the area’s retail resort. Seventy-four permanent berths have been made available with lease times ranging from one day to three years. Accommodations at the custom-designed marina are for vessels ranging from 60 to 115 feet.
Visit www.igymarinas.com.