Posted on February 5, 2012 - by Memphis Istaboa

Update: Legacy Harbor Marina… Fort Myers, FL

Update: 4/25/14

Legacy Harbour has just allowd onSpot wifi to install a great WiFi hotspot. This marina is now broadcasting a very strong signal all around the marina. If you’re pass through and want to stay at a first class marina with incredibly fast internet delivered wirelessly to your boat, Legacy is the place.

The fun part of doing these reviews is writing stories about the nice places, the good boat-fixers, and kind folks we run across while we cruise around. Legacy Harbor is one of these places.

We stopped here a few years ago to spend the night and ended up staying a month. It’s a really fine marina and it’s staff is great.
Located right in Downtown Ft. Myers, this is one of the most convenient marinas in the State of Florida. A Publix is a block away, fine restaurants are within easy walking distance. The other boaters who reside there are very nice folks who will go out of their way to help you, loan you a car, or just invite you aboard for a “docktail”, they call them.
A good story: During our last stay there, we had a shore cord plug burn out. Luckily there was a young fellow aboard who was adding freon to our A/C and he had a plug and quickly fixed it. I couldn’t think of why the plug would burn out and while pondering the problem… I remembered an hour earlier smelling something burning all the way up the dock. I had even questioned a few folks about the smell.
So I go into the office and tell Eric, the Harbor Master, about the plug and the smell. He said he would look into it. (I figured that would be the end of that) As I was walking up the dock and saw a friend, I told him about the burnt plug and the smell. He said, “That wasn’t an electrical burn you were smelling, that was Carol roasting coffee.”
I felt really stupid and bad about questioning Eric so I walked back to the office. Walking in, he immediately said he was knocking a hundred bucks off my bill. I told him about the coffee and apologized for questioning him, told him to forget the hundred bucks, but he insisted on reducing my bill.
Nice folks. Nice facility.