Southport Marina

What Southport Marina does

Southport Marina is a privately held, for-profit boating services company headquartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin, founded in 2014. According to firmographic data, it operates with a small team of 1-10 employees and delivers three core service lines: boat slip rentals (seasonal and likely transient), transient docking for visiting vessels, and fuel dock services. The company's customers are recreational boaters and vessel owners using Lake Michigan-accessible waters in the Kenosha area. Revenue mechanics, by inference from the business model, derive from slip lease fees, per-night docking charges, and per-gallon fuel margin, all characteristic of a single-location, asset-based marina operation.

The company has no documented technology platform, no disclosed pricing structure, and no online product surface beyond a website URL (southport-marina.com). No partnerships, certifications, regulatory credentials, awards, patents, or capital-raising activity are recorded in the available source material. The body of scraped web content referenced as a source is unrelated to Southport Marina (a Jaspersoft login page from an unrelated URL), so no third-party validation, news coverage, or digital footprint can be triangulated. Consequently, this assessment is constructed narrowly from firmographic descriptors and the nature of the marina services category, not from independently verifiable operational or financial disclosures.

In aggregate, Southport Marina presents as a micro-scale, locally-anchored marina operator with no documented expansion, M&A, investment, or strategic initiative visible in the input data. The investment-relevant question is whether the underlying waterfront asset is being optimized or whether the entity is a passive operating shell; the available data does not resolve this.

Name

Southport Marina

Website

https://southport-marina.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Southport Marina is a privately held boating services company based in Kenosha, Wisconsin that provides boat slip rentals, transient docking, and fuel dock services to recreational boaters and vessel owners. Founded in 2014, it operates with fewer than 10 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Kenosha

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Core offering

Southport Marina is a boating services company that provides boat slips, transient docking, and fuel dock services. It operates as a physical marina facility catering to recreational boaters needing berthing space and access to marine fuel.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Boat Slips Berthing spaces leased to boat owners who need a place to keep their vessels at the marina.
• Transient Docking Short-term docking for visiting boaters requiring temporary berthing at the marina.
• Fuel Dock Services Marine fuel dispensing for boats docked at or visiting the marina.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Direct peers

• Suntex Marina Investors: One of the largest pure-play marina operators in the United States, owning and managing dozens of recreational marinas. Directly comparable to Southport Marina as a slip-and-dock operator serving recreational boaters, but at much greater scale and geographic breadth.
• IGY Marinas: Operator of upscale marinas in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America offering slips, transient docking, and fuel services. Comparable business model to Southport Marina with similar core services, but focused on luxury and mega-yacht segments.
• Safe Harbor Marinas: The largest U.S. operator of recreational marinas, with hundreds of locations nationwide. Comparable as a direct competitor offering slips, transient docking, and fuel services to recreational boaters — the same core offering as Southport Marina, albeit at a vastly larger scale.
• Westrec Marinas: Third-party marina management and operating company for recreational marinas. Directly comparable as a peer operating slips, fuel docks, and ancillary boating services, often on behalf of marina owners — overlapping with Southport Marina's slip-and-fuel-dock model.

Broad incumbents

• Brunswick Corporation: Diversified marine conglomerate spanning boat brands (Sea Ray, Boston Whaler), marine engines (Mercury), and marine parts/accessories. Comparable as a broad incumbent in recreational boating demand drivers, but its portfolio extends well beyond marina slip operations.
• MarineMax: Largest U.S. recreational boat retailer that also operates marinas and yacht centers. Comparable in the marina-services slice of its business but materially broader in scope, combining boat sales, service, storage, and financing with slip operations.

Others

• Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatU.S.): Member-services organization providing towing, insurance, and education to recreational boaters. Thematically adjacent to marina operators like Southport Marina because its members are the same customer base that rents slips and fuel-dock services.

Regional players

• SkipperBud's: Great Lakes-region boat dealer, marina operator, and service provider with locations across the Midwest. Comparable as a peer operating marina slips and fuel docks in the same Lake Michigan / Great Lakes market where Southport Marina competes.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/SouthportMarina
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/southport-marina

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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