Marina of Stintino

Located just behind the breakwater of the Port of Stintino (in the northeastern part of the port, in the Tanca Manna area), the Stintino Marina is a marina equipped with floating docks and a fixed pier. Water depths range from 4 to 10 meters at the transit pier and from 1.6 to 11 meters at the quay. It can accommodate up to 320 boats of various lengths (up to a maximum of 85 meters), with 50 berths reserved for boats in transit.

The marina offers a full range of services for boats: water and electrical hookups, a recycling center for waste collection, a fueling station, security, restrooms and showers, and divers. Also available are repair services for engines, electrical systems, and wooden and fiberglass hulls; outdoor or indoor storage; cranes ranging from 30 to 45 metric tons; and sail repair. The marina has a parking lot. Located in the center of the town of Stintino, the marina offers easy access to all of the town’s tourist amenities: supermarkets, various types of shops, car, motorcycle, and bicycle rentals, as well as booking services for excursions and buoy fields in the Asinara National Park.

When winds are blowing from the east, access to the Stintino harbor area can be difficult, and in general, you should watch out for certain obstacles. A rock marked with a green buoy is located east of the harbor. You should also watch out for the fish farm marked by yellow buoys, located about 0.25 miles east of the port. Once inside the breakwater, it is best to stay away from the shore, where the water is shallow. At night, the town’s lights make entry difficult.
The sand and rock bottom inside the seawall is good holding and it is possible to bottom anchor in case of overcrowding in ports.

Once inside the seawall, the two bights are visible, separated by a promontory, which house the two ports for fishing and pleasure boats, the old port called “Minori” (small), and the new one called “Mannu” (large), around which the town of Stintino is distributed.

The Stintino Marina is the ideal stopover on routes to and from the Balearic Islands, especially when seeking shelter from strong westerly winds. Yachters can avoid circumnavigating Asinara to enter and exit the Sardinian Sea, and instead pass through the picturesque Fornelli Passage, which—with two alignments of four buoys—allows vessels to sail between Isola Piana on the left and Asinara Island on the right (when sailing west), in 3 meters of crystal-clear water and amidst a breathtakingly beautiful landscape. The first alignment is between two beacons located at the extreme southwestern tip of Asinara and aligned at 301° on an east-west course (121° on the reverse course); the beacons for the second alignment are located on the Fornelli Plain, aligned at 251° on an east-west course (071° in the opposite direction). Transit from the Fornelli is prohibited overnight, and can be treacherous in rough seas.

The other passage created between the Sardinian coast and Asinara by Isola Piana, the Pelosa passage, is passable only by small units in calm sea conditions and is more difficult than the Fornelli passage.

The Stintino area is also the ideal place to explore the northwestern part of Sardinia, which boasts numerous sites of natural and historical interest. The Asinara Park and the gulf of the same name, Pelosa Beach, the Valley of the Moon, Isola Piana, the Spanish towers built along the coast, and the town of Stintino itself, to name a few.