Today we are going to look at those waterfront houses in behind Waterway Cafe in what is called Pirate’s Cove.
Pirate’s Cove has waterfront homes on streets such as East and West Teach, Avery & Canal roads. This is unincorporated Palm Beach County but has a Palm Beach Gardens mailing address.
Canals shown on the Plat are for the benefit of all lot owners for all lawful recreational purposes. This is decent verbiage BUT I remember that a few years ago someone had anchored a boat in the lake. Not sure if that was a homeowner who could probably make a case for the right to do this.
VERY interesting that the waterfront lots on Canal Rd are NOT shown on this Plat which may be why some, but not all of them, have carved land out of their uplands and over flowed it for a dock but they do not appear to have a right to come and go over the canal as they are not a lot owner in the subdivision. But the Florida Board of Trustees Land Document System web site shows the State as the owner of the lands below the water in these canals EXCEPT the one that goes along the Waterway Cafe lot. Thus, the public has the right to say moor a boat in that lake and the uplands abutters, including those on Canal Rd, have the right to wharf out to the navigable water to a distance of 1/4 of the canal width. And this accounts for why Waterway Cafe does not have boats ties up along the canal that abuts them.
