Best anchorages and harbours in United States

Point Comfort Marina

Marina at 39 Charles Avenue in Keansburg, on the south shore of Raritan Bay in New Jersey.

Point Defiance Marina

Public marina inside Point Defiance Park, on the north-west tip of Commencement Bay in Tacoma, in operation since 1903.

Point Judith Marina

Marina in the sheltered waters of Point Judith Pond at Wakefield, Rhode Island, taking vessels up to 110ft.

Point Judith Yacht Club

Volunteer membership yacht club on Salt Pond Road at Wakefield, on Point Judith Pond in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

Point Loma Marina

Marina in America's Cup Harbour, at the north tip of Shelter Island in San Diego.

Point of Pines Yacht Club

Family boating club at 28 Rice Avenue in Revere, Massachusetts, on Broad Sound at the mouth of the Saugus River, about 10 miles north of Boston.

Point Ogden

Anchorage off Point Ogden on the Manatee River near Palmetto, Florida, close to the Bradenton-Palmetto waterfront on the route to Tampa Bay.

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Point Patience Marina

US Navy MWR marina at the Naval Recreation Center on the Patuxent River at Solomons, Maryland.

Point Pleasant Yacht and Fishing Club

Point Pleasant Yacht and Fishing Club, a marina on the Manasquan River at Point Pleasant, New Jersey, on Hollywood Boulevard.

Point South Port St. Joe

Full-service marina on the east shore of St Joseph Bay, in Port St Joe on Florida's Forgotten Coast, between Panama City and Apalachicola.

Point View Marina

Marina and boatyard near the Galilee channel in the Point Judith harbour at Wakefield, Rhode Island.

Point Yacht Club

Small members' yacht club on Arnica Bay near Orange Beach, Alabama, next to the Pirates Cove bar.

Pointe Aux Chene Marina

Marsh marina at 4266 Highway 665 in Montegut, Louisiana, at the edge of the Pointe-aux-Chenes wildlife area in Terrebonne Parish.

Pointe Marine

Member-owned marina on the Bear Lake Channel at North Muskegon, Michigan, with access to Muskegon Lake and Lake Michigan.

Pompano Marina

Marina with around 50 berths at Pompano Beach, Florida, on the Intracoastal Waterway.

Ponaug Marina

Family-run marina on Apponaug Cove in Warwick, off Greenwich Bay in Rhode Island.

Ponquogue Marine Basin

Family-run marina founded in 1970, in a sheltered cove off Shinnecock Bay at Hampton Bays, about 1 nautical mile west of Shinnecock Inlet.

Pontchartrain Boatyard & Marina

Working boatyard and small marina on Bayou Liberty in Slidell, on the north-east shore of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana.

Pope's Landing Marine

Full-service marina and boatyard on the Danvers River at Danvers, Massachusetts, on the North Shore off Route 128.

PORT 32 Tampa

Marina and drystack facility in South Tampa, near the mouth of Old Tampa Bay, with direct access to Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

Dennis Dreyer Municipal Harbor

City-run harbour, the Dennis Dreyer Municipal Harbor, on a peninsula off the Corpus Christi Ship Channel at Port Aransas, Texas.

Port Arthur Yacht Club

Yacht club on Pleasure Island, on the west shore of Sabine Lake at Port Arthur, Texas.

Port Austin State Harbor

Public harbour at the tip of Michigan's Thumb, where Saginaw Bay meets Lake Huron, run by the Michigan DNR.

Port Charles Harbor

Full-service marina on the right bank of the Mississippi River at mile 221.5, in St Charles County, Missouri, family-run since 1928.

Port City Marina

Full-service deep-water marina on the Cape Fear River in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina, with over 200 floating concrete berths.

Port Clinton Marina

A 140-berth marina at the mouth of the Hammonasset River in Clinton, Connecticut, looking out over Clinton Harbour and Cedar Island.

Port Covington Marina

37-berth marina on the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River in South Baltimore, just outside the Inner Harbour.

Port Fourchon Marina

Marina at the mouth of Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana's southernmost port, where the bayou meets the Gulf of Mexico.

Port Hadlock Marina

Private marina at the south end of Port Townsend Bay, between Port Townsend and Port Ludlow.

Port Hope Marina

Small village marina on the Lake Huron shore at Port Hope, Michigan, 17 miles south of Port Austin on the east side of the Thumb peninsula.