Port Alice, located on Neroutsos Inlet, is known as the ‘Gateway to the West Coast’, providing access to prime fishing and recreation areas such as Side Bay, Gooding Cove and Winter Harbour.  Marine visitors were discouraged from coming to Port Alice because of lack of available moorage facilities. Consumer spending that would otherwise occur in the community was diverted because it wasn’t convenient to dock.

The Rumble Beach marina project included installation of eight concrete floats moored to environmentally friendly steel piles, decked in locally milled red cedar, creating a total of 400 feet of additional moorage space.  The new floats provide 12 to 20 small craft slips for transient and commercial boaters and is large enough to accommodate vessels up to 100 feet in length as well as seaplanes.

Transient commercial and recreational boat traffic, floatplanes and groups of paddlers can now make use of basic marine facilities. Additional traffic will help support and develop the small but growing tourist economy in Port Alice. Port Alice is now also connected to a network of communities linked by marine tourism, fisheries and aquaculture ventures. 

The new facility, completed in 2014, has provided a base for local commercial marine operators. Less than one year after completion, one new charter operator has established a new business operating from the new marina.