Baltimore Marine Center at Inner Harbor

Grat staff, very friendly, super helpful docking help. There’s a security gate which we like and there’s a taxi boat pick up. Everything is right here and a great view of Baltimore Inner Harbor.

The only reason this marina gets three stars instead of four was because of the serious lack of knowledge and experience of our «dock hand». Besides that, the office staff was friendly, the marina clean, and the floating docks were solid and wide. The slips were nicely spaced, and the views great.
The usual drill is to contact the marina prior to actually entering the place, so we called them and got our slip location. Then any full service marina will send an attendant to flag you to your location and to grab some lines as you enter the slip. I was on the bow, with a line in hand, ready to toss it to our helper. As my husband maneuvered the vessel into the slip, I could not see the attendant and wondered where he had gone as now was the time to take my line. I looked over the railing and I saw him tugging at a rope that is used to secure our fender. Really? Are you kidding me? The dry weight (minus water, fuel, supplies) of our boat is 42,000 pounds. I think even a non boater would realize that you are not going to secure that kind of vessel with a ½ inch line that is only 4 feet long.
I was speechless for a split second and then told him to grab the line I had and not the fender rope. He seemed to be clueless. Look, if it had been super windy or if there were some other difficult marine conditions, a deck hand is an awfully nice thing to have… only if they know what they are doing of course. Educate your staff!!!