Best anchorages and harbours in United States

Bristol Yacht Club

Private members' club on the tidal Delaware River at Levittown, Pennsylvania, about 15 miles upstream of Trenton.

Bristol Yacht Club

Yacht club at Bristol, near the geographic centre of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, with a mooring field open to visiting cruisers.

Broad Creek Marina

Marina with wet slips and dry storage on Broad Creek, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, off Calibogue Sound.

Brockport Yacht Club

Private sailing club at the mouth of Sandy Creek on the south shore of Lake Ontario, in Hamlin, New York, about 17 miles west of the Genesee River.

Bronxonia Yacht Club Inc

Member-owned yacht club founded in 1904 in the Throgs Neck neighbourhood of the Bronx, on Eastchester Bay.

Brooklyn Yacht Club

Member yacht club on Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, on the south shore of the bay.

Brooks Bridge Marina

Family-run marina at the foot of Brooks Bridge on Okaloosa Island, between Destin and Fort Walton Beach in the Florida Panhandle.

Brother's Island Marina

Sailboat-oriented marina with 175 berths on Brannan Island, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, north of Antioch.

Broussard Brothers

Marine contractor's dock at Intracoastal City, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

Brown's Boat Yard Inc

Family-run boatyard on Cheesequake Creek off Raritan Bay, near Sayreville and Parlin in New Jersey, established in 1952.

Brown's Marina

Small marina on the west bank of the Housatonic River in Stratford, Connecticut, minutes from Long Island Sound.

Brown's Marina

Small marina on the Pagan River at Rescue, on the south side of Hampton Roads in Virginia.

Brown's Point Marina

Marina at 357 West Front Street in Union Beach, set in a cove on the south shore of Raritan Bay, New Jersey.

Brown's Yacht Yard

Year-round full-service boatyard on the eastern shore of Gloucester's Inner Harbour at Cripple Cove, Massachusetts.

Browns Cove

Anchorage in a cove off Mill Creek on the Magothy River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, south of the Patapsco.

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Buck's Harbor Marina

Full-service marina in a protected deep-water harbour at South Brooksville, at the head of Eggemoggin Reach in Penobscot Bay, Maine.

Buck's Landing

Small non-motorised launch site on Gallinas Creek, north-east of San Rafael, between Santa Venetia and China Camp State Park.

Bucksport Marina

Marina on the Waccamaw River along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, near statute mile 376, at the rural settlement of Bucksport in Horry County, South Carolina.

Bucktown Marina

Public marina at the mouth of the 17th Street Canal on Lake Pontchartrain, in Bucktown, Metairie, Louisiana.

Buffalo Launch Club

Private boating club on the east shore of Grand Island, on the upper Niagara River.

Buffalo Yacht Club

Private club at 1 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, at the head of the Niagara River where it leaves Lake Erie. Third-oldest yacht club in the United States.

Bullock Cove Marine

Full-service boatyard and marina on Bullock Cove, in the northern reaches of Narragansett Bay, at Riverside, Rhode Island.

Bulman Marine at The Waterfront Club

Boatyard and marina at 20 Jericho Road on the western shore of Scituate Harbour, on the Massachusetts South Shore.

Bunkers Marina

Family-run marina on Post Creek in Wildwood, New Jersey, opened in 2018, offering slips, storage and a rental fleet of pontoon boats.

Buras Boat Harbor

Working boat harbour at Buras in the Mississippi River Delta, Plaquemines Parish, used by inshore charter and fishing boats.

Burlington Boat Ramp

Public launching ramp on the tidal Delaware River at Burlington, New Jersey, near the mouth of Assiscunk Creek.

Burlington Harbor Marina

Full-service marina on Lake Champlain waterfront at Burlington, Vermont, with 160 berths including 60 transient slips for boats up to 90 feet.

Burnham Harbor

Largest of the Chicago Park District harbours, on the west side of Northerly Island in front of the Museum Campus, on Lake Michigan.

Burnham Park Yacht Club

Members' yacht club on Northerly Island along the east shore of Burnham Harbor, incorporated in 1938.

Burr Brothers

Family-run boatyard and marina at 309 Front Street, at the head of Sippican Harbor in Marion, Massachusetts, on Buzzards Bay.