Best anchorages and harbours in Long Island Sound
48 documented anchorages and harbours in Long Island Sound, ranked by boaters' ratings: shelter, seabed, services, photos and reviews, ready to open in the BoatMap app.
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- 1MouillageUnited States
Belden Point
5.0Mooring field off the west side of City Island in Eastchester Bay, the Bronx, New York, on a mud bottom.
- Sheltered NE, E, SE
- 2MouillageUnited States
Calf Islands
5.0Day anchorage off the Calf Islands in Captain Harbor, fronting the Byram shore of Greenwich, Connecticut, in western Long Island Sound.
- Sheltered NW, N, W, SW
- 3MouillageUnited States
Coecles Harbour
5.0Anchorage in Coecles Harbour on the east side of Shelter Island in New York, ringed by tidal creeks and oak woodland, mud bottom.
- Sheltered W, SW, S, SE
- 4MouillageUnited States
Eaton's neck lighthouse
5.0Anchorage off Eatons Neck at the entrance to Huntington Bay on Long Island Sound, New York. Mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 5MouillageUnited States
Hamburg Cove
5.0Marina and RV resort in the Seabrook district of New Orleans, at the junction of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal and Lake Pontchartrain.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
6MouillageUnited StatesLloyd Harbor
5.0Sheltered harbour branching west off Huntington Bay on the north shore of Long Island, New York. Mud bottom, well protected from all directions.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 7MouillageUnited States
Long beach point
5.0Anchorage off Long Beach Point, the low sandbar that separates Orient Harbor from Gardiners Bay at the tip of Long Island's North Fork, New York.
- Sheltered NE, E, SW, S, SE
- 8MouillageUnited States
Majors Harbor
5.0Anchorage on the south-east side of Gardiners Island, set on the east side of Gardiners Bay between the forks of eastern Long Island, New York.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, E, S, SE
9MouillageUnited StatesNorwalk River anchorage
5.0Anchorage on the Norwalk River off South Norwalk, Connecticut, behind the Norwalk Islands on the north shore of Long Island Sound.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 10MouillageUnited States
Oyster Bay anchorage
5.0Anchorage in Oyster Bay on the north shore of Long Island, off Centre Island, opening onto Long Island Sound.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 11MouillageUnited States
Oyster Bay Harbor
5.0Mooring in Oyster Bay Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, set on a sand bottom with all-round shelter.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW
12MouillageUnited StatesSag Harbor Bay
5.0Anchorage off the village of Sag Harbor, on Shelter Island Sound at the eastern end of Long Island, New York.
- Sheltered E, SE, S, SW, W, NW
- 13MouillageUnited States
Threemile Harbor
5.0Anchorage in Three Mile Harbor at East Hampton, New York, sand bottom, sheltered from the west but exposed to winds from the south-west to north-west.
- Sheltered SW, W, NW
- 14MouillageUnited States
West Harbor
5.0West Harbor on the north side of Fishers Island, New York, the island's main harbour with the ferry landing and a broad mooring field.
- Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE
15MouillageUnited StatesManhasset Bay
4.7Anchorage and mooring field in Manhasset Bay off Port Washington, on the south shore of Long Island Sound.
- Paid
- Sheltered N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW
- 16MouillageUnited States
South Montauk Lake
4.5Anchorage at the southern end of Lake Montauk, a 900-acre embayment on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York.
- Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE
- 17MouillageUnited States
Port Jefferson
4.4Anchorage and mooring field in Newport Harbour, Rhode Island, off Fort Adams State Park, on a sand and mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW
18MouillageUnited StatesPort Jefferson Moorings and Launch Service
4.3Visitor mooring field run by a launch service in Port Jefferson Harbour, on the north shore of Long Island, New York.
- Paid
- Sheltered N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 19MouillageUnited States
Charles Island
4.0Anchorage by Gumbys Head in the Westport River, near Westport Point, Massachusetts, on a sand bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW, S
20MouillageUnited StatesCompo Beach
4.0Anchorage off Compo Beach in Long Island Sound, near the mouth of the Saugatuck River at Westport, Connecticut.
- Sheltered NW, N, W, SW
- 21MouillageUnited States
Duck Island Anchorage, Westbrook
4.0Anchorage behind Duck Island off Westbrook on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, sheltered by the island and its breakwaters.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 22MouillageUnited States
Mattituck Creek anchorage
4.0Anchorage in Mattituck Creek on the North Fork of Long Island, reached from the south shore of Long Island Sound.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
23MouillageUnited StatesNorth of Yonkers Yacht Club
4.0Hudson River anchorage off Yonkers, New York, about 17 miles above The Battery and within sight of the New Jersey Palisades.
- Sheltered NE, E, SE
- 24MouillageUnited States
Northport Harbour
4.0Anchorage basin off the village of Northport, at the southeastern end of Northport Bay on the north shore of Long Island, New York.
- Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE
- 25MouillageUnited States
Orient Harbour
4.0Anchorage off the hamlet of Orient at the eastern tip of Long Island's North Fork, in Long Island Sound, New York.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, W, NW
- 26MouillageUnited States
Raymond Rocks East
4.0Anchorage off East Norwalk in the Norwalk Islands, Long Island Sound, Connecticut, mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW, S
- 27MouillageUnited States
Rocky Point
4.0Anchorage in Stirling Basin off Greenport, on the North Fork of Long Island, with sand and mud bottom.
- Sheltered E, SW, S, SE
- 28MouillageUnited States
Coecles Harbor anchorage
4.0Anchorage inside Coecles Harbor on Shelter Island, at the eastern end of New York's Peconic Bays, on a sand bottom.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, W, NW
- 29MouillageUnited States
Southold
4.0Anchorage off Southold on the North Fork of Long Island, New York, in the Peconic Bay system between Town Creek and Jockey Creek.
- Sheltered NW, N, W, SW, S
30MouillageUnited StatesThimble Islands
4.0Archipelago of pink-granite islands and rocky outcrops in Long Island Sound, off Stony Creek in Branford, Connecticut.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SE