Motril - General Info
Description:
Once a small fishing port the harbour of Motril has developed into a commercial port serving the inland city of Granada with frequent ferries and shipping. Motril has a small yacht club/marina and is a convenient place from which to take a day trip to the city of Granada and the famous Alhambra.
A real treat for snorkellers and divers is the artificial reef built two years ago off the Peñon rock to shelter and encourage sealife, now showing remarkable results.
Entrance Notes and Cautions:
This port has a long breakwater (almost a mile long), which has been extended. In order to avoid possible impact from the sea wall extension to the local Azucenas beach (on the approaches to the port), a semi-submerged sea wall has been constructed from the beach (artificial reef). This extends out towards the entrance channel (see picture) and its outer limit is marked with a yellow buoy (flashing yellow every 5 seconds).
The entrance channel into the port is dredged to 13.50m. On approach, be sure to stay close to the breakwater in line with the port entrance and away from the shore.
No yachts must attempt to anchor off the beach as there is not sufficient depth.
Position:
36° 42.68’N, 03° 30.75’W (harbour entrance)
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Nice marina staff and ok facilities, but the marina gets a lot of serious swell from the east and is next to a nasty Cemex factory which appears to discharge smelly fumes at night.
Internet available in the marina bar. Expensive mooring fees – we paid €60 for a 13m monohull, the same price as a 16m boat. A 25-minute walk to town or bus nearby, with few other facilities near the marina. Can anchor outside the port breakaway depending on winds.
There is a MASSIVE new artificial reef just 1 metre underwater at the entrance to the port of Motril. It comes out from the shoreline, and is up to 6 metres wide, by 6 metres deep.
It is marked at the end by a YELLOW buoy – which is a mistake, as a yellow buoy is not a navigation mark, and does not denote a submerged danger to navigation other than an obstruction for an anchor. Any yacht or fishing boat that hits this reef will be very severely damaged. We hit it whilst outside the 8-metre depth contour on our charts. Unbelievable that the Port of Motril would instal (October 2015) perhaps the largest artificial reef in the Mediterranean, and perhaps the greatest new danger to navigation in the Mediterranean, and then not mark it.
In addition, there are no details of their new reef on the ports own website. There is also a new stbd hand navigation buoy further out not shown on charts. Navionics are now updating their charts. If you only rely on paper charts, then you are going to be out of luck for a very long time – unless you read this first!