17th Street Causeway Bridge clearance for yachts

The 17th Street Causeway is the Fort Lauderdale air-draft conversation that is usually good news. Closed clearance is about fifty-five feet: enough for almost every motor yacht and sportfish we overlay, and still a hard stop for a sail auxiliary that insists on leaving the stick standing. This is the span between Harbor Beach / Bahia Mar and the ICW north. Owners treat it as a schedule, not a filter — unless the program is a mast or a crane-tall tower that never should have been a river boat.

We join this page to the waterway obstacle at the Causeway (graph id 1) so the number you read is the same bottleneck the heatmap colors. Fifty-five feet closed does not kill a Viking 68 with the tower up, a Princess flybridge, or a Sunseeker 76. It does kill a genuine sailing rig and it will humble a chase boat with a too-honest tuna tower if someone measured from the waterline to a weather vane. Opening on request is the second half of the story: event weeks and holiday Mondays stretch waits. Trace the dock on the map from Harbor Beach or Las Olas and you will hit this span before the sea buoy. Related overlay: Harbor Beach, Bahia Mar, Las Olas Isles. If your air draft is in the fifties, we still want a tide and a published clearance check — this is an approximate public figure, not a survey.