Suntex Marinas
The Firm
Suntex describes itself in its own releases as the nation's premier owner and operator of recreational marina properties, working with an institutional capital partner, and its own boilerplate narrows what that means: it engages in the ownership and management of marina PROPERTIES.
The distinction is the whole of what a marina owner needs to know before the first call, and one of its own releases spells it out. On the Shalimar purchase the sellers stayed on the water: the release says the exceptional maritime service and hospitality that define the marina will continue, with the former owners operating an independent sales and service business at the marina under their own name. The slips changed hands and the boatyard did not.
So the exit here is partial by design. A marina that is mostly slips and storage has a buyer; a marina whose earnings are repair, haul-out and brokerage is selling two businesses and only one of them to this firm.
Read again in September 2026: four more in eight months, a Dallas lake marina, a thirteen-marina Florida network taken by merger, a Ventura marina and a Charleston harbor, and the portfolio passed a hundred marinas in seventeen states; every release names the same partner.
What It Buys
Dallas, Texas. A national marina owner-operator that buys the property and the dockage and leaves the service side behind, so a seller keeps the boatyard and becomes a tenant.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
5 deals traced to announcements by Suntex Marinas, 2026, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
- Charleston Harbor Marina · September 9, 2026
A Mount Pleasant, South Carolina marina with more than 450 slips, bought beside the adjacent resort's separate buyers.
- Kinship Marina · June 16, 2026
A Ventura, California marina, bought with the firm's institutional partner as its California footprint grows.
- Windward Marina Group · March 18, 2026
A thirteen-marina Florida network with more than 3,000 slips, merged into the firm's portfolio through its joint venture.
- Eagle Point Marina · February 5, 2026
A 597-slip marina on Lake Lewisville outside Dallas, bought with the firm's institutional partner.
- Two Georges Marina · January 21, 2026
A Shalimar, Florida marina rebranded as Shalimar Harbor Marina, whose owners stayed on running the service side.