Best anchorages and harbours in United States

Point bay

Anchorage on the Vermont shore of Lake Champlain near Thompson's Point, in the town of Charlotte.

• Sheltered NE, E, SE, S

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.

• Sheltered N, NE, E

Port Royal Anchorage

Anchorage in Battery Creek off the town of Port Royal, between the creek and the Beaufort River in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, SW, S, SE

Port Townsend

Anchorage off the Port Townsend waterfront on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, mud bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N

Potter Cove, Prudence Island

Sheltered anchorage on the north end of Prudence Island, in the geographic centre of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SE

Powrplnt

Anchorage on the Cumberland River in Kentucky near a power plant, mud bottom, sheltered from NW, W and SW winds.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW

Prisoners Harbor

Anchorage on Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the California Channel Islands, about 23 NM offshore from Santa Barbara.

• Sheltered SE, S, SW, W

Providence Point

Open anchorage off the Bristol shore of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, with a bottom of rock and mud.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW, S

Key West Harbour Anchorage

Open anchorage in Key West harbour, southernmost Florida, on a sand bottom about 1.3 miles south-west of the Historic Seaport.

Redneck Rivera

Anchorage on the Pasquotank River below Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on the route of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW, S, SE

Redwing

Anchorage on the Mississippi River near Red Wing, Minnesota, upstream of Lake Pepin, with a rock bottom.

• Sheltered NE, E

Ripper’s Cove

Anchorage on the north shore of Santa Catalina Island, California, about 4 nautical miles east of Isthmus Cove.

• Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE

Roberts Bayou

Anchorage on Arnica Bay near Josephine, in Baldwin County on the Alabama Gulf coast, on a sand bottom.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, SW, W, NW

Roche Barbor

Anchorage off Roche Harbor on the north-west tip of San Juan Island, Washington, with a mud bottom and shelter from most directions.

• Sheltered N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Mooring near South Bristol

Anchorage on the mid-coast of Maine, in the South Bristol and Boothbay region. Rock bottom, with fresh water available.

• Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE

Santa Barbara

Open roadstead off the Santa Barbara waterfront in California, anchoring on a sand bottom east of the harbour.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE

Shaws Cove

Small rocky cove on the Laguna Beach shore in California, within the Laguna Beach State Marine Reserve.

• Sheltered N, NE, NW

Sheffield island

Anchorage off Sheffield Island, the southernmost of the Norwalk Islands on northern Long Island Sound, in Connecticut, with a sand bottom.

• Sheltered E, SE

Snipe Key

Anchorage off Snipe Key in the Lower Florida Keys, about 16 nm north-east of Key West, on a sand and weed bottom.

• Sheltered E, SW, S, SE

Snoring Bay

Small cove on the south-east side of Sucia Island in the San Juan Islands, Washington, within Sucia Island Marine State Park.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW

South Basin

Anchorage and county mooring field on the south side of the Rickenbacker Causeway, off Key Biscayne in Biscayne Bay, Florida.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW

South Beach

Anchorage off the southern tip of South Beach, Miami Beach, near the Government Cut inlet in Florida.

• Sheltered NE

Split Rock Point

Anchorage off a rocky headland on the New York shore of Lake Champlain, about four miles south-east of Essex.

• Sheltered SW, S, SE

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

St Augustine

Anchorage and mooring area on the Matanzas River at St Augustine, Florida, around the Bridge of Lions in the historic city centre.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SE

Stave Island

Anchorage off Stave Island in Lake Champlain, Vermont, north-west of Malletts Bay near the South Hero shore.

• Sheltered E, SW, S, SE

Tavernier Key

Anchorage on the Atlantic side of Tavernier Key, an uninhabited mangrove island in the Upper Florida Keys.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W

Tierra Verde

Anchorage off Tierra Verde in Florida, in a sheltered basin opening onto Boca Ciega Bay near St. Petersburg, mud bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, E

Topanga Beach

Open mooring off Topanga Beach in Santa Monica Bay, California, between Santa Monica and Malibu, with a sand bottom and shelter only from NW through NE winds.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE

Tybee Cut North Of Channel

Anchorage in Tybee Cut, a creek branching north off the Wilmington River near its mouth at Wassaw Sound, Georgia.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE