Beaulieu-sur-Mer, the quiet back base.
Around 720 berths, alongside berthing up to 45 metres and, inside the marina perimeter itself, a superyacht yard — 140 t travelift, 300 t floating dock. Eleven kilometres from Monaco: where a yacht winters and hauls out, away from the spotlight.
Between Nice and Monaco, Beaulieu-sur-Mer is the only harbour to combine a marina of around 720 berths, berthing for vessels up to 45 metres, and a superyacht yard operating inside the port perimeter itself. Neither an anchorage roadstead like Villefranche nor a showcase port like Monaco: Beaulieu is a technical and wintering base — where a yacht spends the off-season, comes out of the water and gets her hull redone, out of sight.
The port backs onto the Petite Afrique, known for a mild microclimate sheltered by the cliff, and inherits a wintering tradition born in the Belle Époque. The original basin — breakwater built 1887-1891, stone mole added in 1895 — was driven by mayor Hippolyte Marinoni; the modern marina was built from 1968 onwards over Anao, an ancient Greek anchorage. Two basins, more than 7.5 hectares of sheltered water, and a singular position within our Côte d'Azur coverage: Nice 7 km away, Monaco 11 km, the railway station 1 km from the port.
The basins:
- —Beaulieu Plaisance — around 720 pontoon berths, alongside berthing up to 45 metres, visitor calls possible for vessels under 45 m subject to availability. Harbour office on watch year-round on VHF 9; direct public operation by the Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur within the Ports d'Azur network. Some 32 businesses inside the port area, including two shipchandlers.
- —The technical zone — inside the marina itself, the Safe Harbor Beaulieu-sur-Mer yard (formerly Monaco Marine): travelift haul-outs, afloat berths on a floating dock, yachts handled up to 44 metres. Details below.
- —Port des Fourmis — the commune's second basin, at the foot of Villa Kérylos: 244 berths run under an association of local boaters, for craft up to 12 metres. Outside the superyacht bracket — but telling of how residential this waterfront is.
A shipyard inside the port,
Monaco eleven kilometres away.
The integrated yard
7,700 m² and some thirty staff within the port perimeter: 140 t electric travelift, 40 t trailer, 40 t crane, paint cell. Yachts handled up to 44 metres — 298 projects completed in 2024. The technical zone was modernised with around €8 M of works between December 2023 and October 2024.
Safe Harbor, formerly Monaco Marine
The American group Safe Harbor Marinas completed its acquisition of Monaco Marine on 31 July 2025 — its first European foothold, nine Mediterranean sites taken over, Beaulieu among them. The yard also runs a 300 t "eco" floating dock: five afloat berths for superyachts up to 44 metres.
The port and its neighbours
Around 720 berths under direct public management by the Métropole (Ports d'Azur network), with an overall requalification launched in November 2022. Nice-Côte d'Azur airport 16.2 km away, railway station 1 km. Minutes along the coast, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat — same network, VHF 9 — offers 581 berths, including one 50-metre berth in the outer harbour.
The work of a back base.
Wintering under mandate — negotiating the off-season berth, a winter maintenance plan, regular onboard visits and recommissioning before the spring. A vessel up to 45 metres gets a harbour office on watch all year here — and a yard within the same perimeter should a defect surface.
Refit oversight at the travelift or floating dock — hull treatment, paint, overhauls: we represent the owner towards the yard — quote and work-order approvals, milestone inspections, acceptance. The July 2025 change of operator makes this contractual oversight all the more valuable: warranties, contacts and terms are being reset. This is the core of our yacht management, under mandate or as a one-off engagement.
Back base for a Monaco-berthed yacht — for a superyacht lying in Monaco, Beaulieu offers, 11 km away, a fallback berth for the chase boat or heavy tender, technical work without the Principality's pressure, and a station 1 km from the port that simplifies rotations — organised through our crew management & MLC service.
Anchoring and posidonia: the captain's brief — since the Maritime Prefect's orders of 14 October 2020, anchoring in the posidonia seagrass beds is prohibited off Beaulieu for vessels of 20 metres and over — order no. 204/2020 covers the eastern coast of the Alpes-Maritimes, from the mouth of the Var to the Italian-Monegasque border, Beaulieu's sector included, while the 24-metre threshold of order no. 205/2020 applies to the western coast. The yachting press further reports a zone closed to all vessels, established in 2025 along part of the Beaulieu–Villefranche–Èze shoreline, where seagrass replanting campaigns are under way. We build these zones into the passage plan — and when in doubt, a berth in the port always beats an environmental offence.
A vessel to winter or a refit to oversee in Beaulieu?
Supervised wintering, yard oversight at the travelift or floating dock, a back base 11 km from Monaco: we can be on site quickly, with clear figures within 48 hours.
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