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Rio Vista back canal: width pinch, not a depth scandal

The Rio Vista back-canal pinch is a turning and beam problem. Depth on that edge is about 10 ft. A 60-foot yacht still fails the pocket.

Clearance (approx.)

16 ft

Controlling depth (approx.)

10 ft

Map trace

26.1114, -80.1336

wide convertibles in a pinch
60-ft-plus without a turning pocket

Rio Vista’s back canal is the overlay people get backwards. Depth here is about ten feet — kinder than the seven-foot stem the neighborhood is famous for. The pinch is width and the turning pocket. A 60×17 sportfish that “has the draft” still cannot invent a basin. Andrews Avenue remains the air-draft gate to even arrive.

Obstacle 15 (pinch) on edge 52. We do not treat this as a shoal page. Related: Rio Vista HOA, backing-out 60-foot problem, Andrews Avenue. Map trace from Rio Vista back canal. Approximate geometry. If the listing dock is on the stem, this pinch may not be yours — confirm which finger.

What hulls die at Rio Vista back-canal pinch?

wide convertibles in a pinch, 60-ft-plus without a turning pocket

Is this a surveyed clearance?

No. Approximate public planning figures joined to our waterway graph when an obstacle id exists.