Norwegians and Germans settled there, and the place evolved into a prominent shipbuilding and yachting center.

The city is a major yachting center, with 42,000 resident yachts and 100 marinas and boatyards in 2006.

Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.

Beaumaris acts as a yachting centre for the region, with many boats moored in the bay or off Gallows Point.

The nearby harbor remains one of the most active and important yachting centers in the country.

Marmaris is noted more as a yachting center than for its sightseeing.

A large marina, capable of holding up to six hundred boats, now replaces the old harbor, making the port of Antibes a major international yachting center.

It is a major yachting centre with three marinas.

Beside the Brandy Hole saltings there are two yachting centres with boatyards, slipways, moorings and a yacht club.

An ocean town, yachting center, summer home, and old downtown district that reeked of tar and salt and quaint.