Best anchorages and harbours in Boston and the North Shore

Hull Bay

Open anchorage off the town of Hull, on the western side of Hingham Bay in outer Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW

Isle of Shoals

Anchorage at the Isles of Shoals, a small archipelago about 6 miles off the New Hampshire and Maine coast. Gosport Harbour lies between Star, Cedar and Smuttynose islands.

• Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE

Back Harbor (Sandy Bay)

Anchorage in Sandy Bay off Rockport, Cape Ann, with a sand bottom and the Sandy Bay Yacht Club 0.2 nm to the south-east.

• Sheltered W, SW, S, SE

Kittery Point

Mooring and anchorage area at Pepperrell Cove, just inside the mouth of the Piscataqua River in southern Maine.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW

Portsmouth

Anchorage on the Piscataqua River at Portsmouth, on the Maine and New Hampshire boundary, mud bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N, W, SW, S, SE

South Boston Yacht Club

Yacht club mooring field in Dorchester Bay, off South Boston, Massachusetts, inside the inner harbour.

• Sheltered NW, N, W, SW

Quamino rock bay

Anchorage in Cohasset Harbour, Massachusetts, beside Big Quamino Rock, a barren islet off the inner harbour.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW, S, SE

Great Brewster North Anchorage

Anchorage on the north side of Great Brewster Island, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, sand bottom, sheltered only from the north.

• Sheltered N

Squantum

Mooring buoy off Squantum, a peninsula of Quincy in Massachusetts, bordered by Dorchester Bay and Quincy Bay south of Boston Harbour.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW

Well Rock anchorage

Anchorage in the outer waters off Cohasset Harbour, on the Massachusetts coast south of Boston, on a sand bottom.