Viceport Boatyard

Type	SAFEHOUSE AND ASSET
Viceport Boatyard
The Boatyard in GTA Vice City.
Safehouse in	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Location(s)	Viceport, Vice City
Style	Shipyard
Price	$10,000 $5,000 (Mobile version)
Profit	$2,000 a day. (After completing Checkpoint Charlie)
Occupant(s)	Tommy Vercetti Vercetti gang members Dwaine and Jethro (Formerly)
Unlocked after	Shakedown
Appearance(s)	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
General Specifications
Size	350px
Map
Location in the map (red).

The Viceport Boatyard is a business located in Viceport, Vice City that appears in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

Description

Circa 1986, the Boatyard is owned by two men, Dwaine and Jethro. The Boatyard constructed speedboats for specific buyers, with one example being the Squalo built for a Costa Rican drug lord until it was stolen by Tommy Vercetti under orders of Ricardo Diaz. Later in 1986, Tommy Vercetti bought the Boatyard for $10,000 ($5,000 in the mobile version) from Dwaine and Jethro, who later leave Vice City for San Andreas.

Tommy uses the Boatyard as a port of entry for the cocaine shipments, which he then proceeds to distribute in Vice City. When Tommy finishes the boat race in Checkpoint Charlie, the business will generate up to $2,000 in assets.

The Boatyard also appears in GTA Vice City Stories but it is inaccessible and plays no role in the storyline, although it is sometimes featured in smuggling empire missions if the player has a smuggling building site in Viceport.

Mission Appearances

• The Fastest Boat
• Checkpoint Charlie

Intro Cutscene Transcript

Transcript

Tommy Vercetti goes to look for the boatyard's owners, Jethro and Dwaine. Tommy: Hello? Hello? Hello? Jethro and Dwaine are revealed to be smoking weed in a Reefer. Dwaine: Put it out. There's a dude here. (to Tommy) Hey, suit dude! I guess you're the new owner? Tommy: Yeah. Which one of the boats is the fastest? Dwaine: It's already in the water, dude, I though you might want to try her out. Dude, she's already running with a 300 horse power engine... Jethro: And the fiberglass hull, she just shoots through the waves! Dwaine: She can do like 0-60 in four seconds flat, dude. Jethro: And she can hold like twenty bales of the best Jamaican smoke right in the hull! Dwaine: So go ahead, dude, she's ready to fly! Tommy walks away from Jethro and Dwaine to look at the boats outside. Jethro: Yo yo, uh, suit dude, you got a light? Dude? Dude?

Gallery

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Tommy Vercetti buys the boatyard from Dwaine and Jethro.

The boatyard in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

Purchase cutscene

Tommy is checking out the boatyard he recently bought and is asking if anyone is there.

Suddenly, two young men emerge from a Reefer. One of the young men tells the other one to hide the marijuana they're smoking. They then ask Tommy if he's their new owner.

Tommy quickly replies that he is and asks the two men which of the boats in the boatyard are the fastest.

One of the young men tells Tommy that the fastest boats they have are already in the water, as he thought Tommy was going to want to try them out.

The other young man then starts talking about how good it is.

After he's done listing the boat's pros, he comments that it's good for transporting some marijuana.

Tommy walks off and as he's walking, he's encouraged to try the boats out.

As Tommy walks, the two young men ask him if he has a lighter, but he doesn't reply, leaving the duo hanging.

The boatyard is now under Tommy's control.

Trivia

• The song that can be heard playing in the background during the Boatyard purchase cutscene is "2 Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden. The song is also featured on the in-game radio station V-Rock.