Best anchorages and harbours in United States

Wading River

Tidal estuary in the New Jersey Pinelands, a tributary of the Mullica River, with its lower three miles forming a navigable arm just west of the Garden State Parkway.

• Sheltered W

Watch Hill Cove

Anchorage off Watch Hill, Westerly, Rhode Island, on the edge of Little Narragansett Bay. Sand bottom with good holding.

• Sheltered E, SE, S

Well Rock anchorage

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

West island mooring

Mooring buoy off Dinner Key in Coconut Grove, on Biscayne Bay, Miami. Part of the city mooring facility, sheltered from N and NE.

• Sheltered N, NE

Westerly

Anchorage off Watch Hill in Westerly, the south-westernmost point of Rhode Island, sheltered by Napatree Point at the entrance to Little Narragansett Bay.

• Sheltered N, NE, E

Western Cove

Anchorage in Penobscot Bay off Eggemoggin Reach, Maine, on a mud bottom giving good holding.

• Sheltered SW, S, SE

White Horse Key

Anchorage off White Horse Key, a mangrove and sand island in the Ten Thousand Islands of south-west Florida.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW

Wilton Creek

Sheltered creek off the Piankatank River near Deltaville, Virginia, regarded as one of the Chesapeake's best hurricane holes.

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

York Harbor

Tidal anchorage on the York River, southern Maine, sheltered from most directions but open to the south-west.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SW, W

Zúñiga

Anchorage near Zuniga Point at the tip of Coronado, where San Diego Bay meets the Pacific in California.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW