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Cape Coral Sailboat Access Canals neighborhoods (community, communities) in Cape Coral, Florida offering direct, unrestricted sailboat access via their gulf access waterfront canal home locations (includes houses, homes, and condos). Includes the direct sailboat access neighborhoods of Everest Parkway (Pkwy), Viscaya Parkway (Pkwy) aka Chantrey Canal area, and Matlacha Pass aka The Ceitus Parkway (Pkwy) area, Palaco Grande Parkway (Pkwy), Cornwallis Parkway (Pkwy) and Burnt Store Marina and Country Club.
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North of Savona are the neighborhoods of Palaco Grande, Corwallis, and Everest Pkwy (general area note in the map to the right, detailed better below). The characteristics of each of these neighborhoods are overall similar to that of Savona Pkwy. Each is getting progressively further North, so note that they are getting a little further distance to the gulf, but prices should reflect this. At the end of Everest is a public boat launch area.
The furthest spot up the river with unrestricted Sailboat access is the Chantrey canal area. This location has the lowest priced unrestricted gulf access homes available in Cape Coral. Here you can get the most house for the dollar, as long as you are willing to accept the longer runs. (Take into consideration that not all boating is necessarily in the gulf anyway. There’s plenty of fishing and relaxing boating to be found in the river itself. If that’s a possibility, take a look at this area). Homes under 10 years old can be found here for about $350k and older homes in the 275’s.
One of the last sections to mention with unrestricted sailboat access is the Matlacha Pass in the Northwest corner of Cape Coral. This area is totally different in almost all respects and requires detailed explanation. Only a small portion of this area is unrestricted access, most of the area is behind a boat lift (supposedly to be converted to a lock in the near future). Of the few properties that are direct access, most fall into an area called Matlacha Isles. It’s an older neighborhood, but offers excellent quick boating access. There are a handful of properties on the Southside of Ceitus Pkwy that offer new, direct access home but they come with big price tags.
One big difference is that heading out of Matlacha Pass takes you up to Charlotte Harbor. Heading West through Charlotte Harbor provides your gulf access. You also have the option of heading South when exiting Matlacha Pass and entering into the mouth of the Caloosahatchee River.
Note that the barrier island chain that separates the edge of Charlotte Harbor and the Gulf includes Caya Costa and Boca Grande. Caya Costa is a wonderful state park that’s 99.9% uninhabited. There’s only a couple rustic cabins on the entire 8 mile long island, and they are for rent if you are interested. (Hint: The water is a much nicer blue up here too). The Southern tip of Boca Grande is known worldwide to fisherman: it is the #1 spot in the world for Tarpon fishing and is home to a million dollar fishing tournament. (The water is over 50 feet deep here. That’s twice as deep as anything else in the region).
Back to the land: with the exeption of Matlacha Isles, all construction in this area is nearly brand new. At this time this section of town seems quite remote and largely undeveloped. If you drove by this area and didn’t know of it’s great water access you’d certainly be asking yourself why in the world are $500,000 to million dollar properties being built out here? But of course there’s a very valid explanation.
Much more commerce will be coming in the future along the Pine Island Road corridor and you can expect to see this area grow considerably.
There is one final sailboat access spot to mention, Burnt Store Marina. This is the very Northwest corner of Cape Coral, due East of Charlotte Harbor. This is one large master planned community with a variety of single family homes, villas, and condos. Here you’d be keeping your boat in the marina as opposed to directly behind your home though. Because this is so far to the Northwest it’s more likely you’d visit Punta Gorda rather than the Cape Coral/Fort Myers area for your shopping and daily activities. This area is largely seasonal vacation homes for those looking for a getaway retreat.
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