Best anchorages and harbours in New England
153 documented anchorages and harbours in New England, ranked by boaters' ratings: shelter, seabed, services, photos and reviews, ready to open in the BoatMap app.
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- 91AnchorageUnited States
Tenants Harbor
3.7Working fishing harbour midway down the St. George peninsula in Maine, on a mud bottom, with shelter from nearly every quarter.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 92AnchorageUnited States
Dutch Harbor
3.7Harbour on the west side of Conanicut Island at Jamestown, Rhode Island, between the island and Dutch Island in the West Passage of Narragansett Bay.
- Sheltered N, NE, W, E, S, SE
93AnchorageUnited StatesPort Clyde Harbour
3.6Working harbour and anchorage at the tip of the St George peninsula, midcoast Maine, sheltered behind Hupper Island. Mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, SE
- 94AnchorageUnited States
Raymond Rocks East
3.6Anchorage off East Norwalk in the Norwalk Islands, Long Island Sound, Connecticut, mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW, S
95AnchorageUnited StatesCape Porpoise Harbour
3.6Anchorage at Cape Porpoise, the original village of Kennebunkport on the southern Maine coast, on a sand and mud bottom with shelter from NW through E and round to SW.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW
96AnchorageUnited StatesPortsmouth
3.6Anchorage on the Piscataqua River at Portsmouth, on the Maine and New Hampshire boundary, mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, W, SW, S, SE
- 97AnchorageUnited States
Rocky Point
3.6Anchorage in Stirling Basin off Greenport, on the North Fork of Long Island, with sand and mud bottom.
- Sheltered E, SW, S, SE
- 98AnchorageUnited States
Mattituck Creek anchorage
3.6Anchorage 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
- 99AnchorageUnited States
Camp Island
3.6Anchorage off Camp Island in the Merchant Row archipelago, between Stonington and Isle au Haut, midcoast Maine. Sand and mud bottom.
- Sheltered NE, E, SW, S, SE
100AnchorageUnited StatesDyckman Marina
3.6Small marina at the west end of Dyckman Street, on the Hudson River in the Inwood neighbourhood of Manhattan, New York, opposite the New Jersey Palisades.
- Sheltered NW, NE, W, E, SW, SE
101AnchorageUnited StatesSouth Boston Yacht Club
3.6Yacht club mooring field in Dorchester Bay, off South Boston, Massachusetts, inside the inner harbour.
- Sheltered NW, N, W, SW
- 102AnchorageUnited States
Davis Cove
3.6Small cove anchorage on the western side of Penobscot Bay, Maine. Mud bottom with good holding.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, E, SE
103AnchorageUnited StatesWiscasset
3.5Town anchorage on the Sheepscot River in Maine, about 13 miles above the river mouth, in one of the deepest, ice-free harbours in the state.
- Sheltered NW, NE, W, E, SW, SE
104AnchorageUnited StatesCompo Beach
3.5Anchorage off Compo Beach in Long Island Sound, near the mouth of the Saugatuck River at Westport, Connecticut.
- Sheltered NW, N, W, SW
105AnchorageUnited StatesBear Island
3.5Anchorage off Bear Island, a 21-acre Maine Coast Heritage Trust conservation island on the eastern edge of Eggemoggin Reach near Deer Isle.
- Sheltered NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 106AnchorageUnited States
Hornbarn Cove
3.5Quiet cove on the lower St. George River in mid-coast Maine, with a mud bottom and shelter from every quarter.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 107AnchorageUnited States
Pickering cove
3.5Anchorage off Pickering Island in East Penobscot Bay, Maine, near the western end of Eggemoggin Reach. Mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW
- 108AnchorageUnited States
Nichol's Point
3.5Anchorage near The Gut, the narrow passage between North Hero and South Hero islands on Lake Champlain, Vermont.
- Sheltered E, SW, S, SE
- 109AnchorageUnited States
Point Judith Harbor Refuge
3.5Anchorage inside the Point Judith Harbor of Refuge at Narragansett, Rhode Island, at the south-western tip of Narragansett Bay, on sand and mud.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 110AnchorageUnited States
Quamino rock bay
3.5Anchorage in Cohasset Harbour, Massachusetts, beside Big Quamino Rock, a barren islet off the inner harbour.
- Sheltered NW, W, SW, S, SE
- 111AnchorageUnited States
Belfast Anchorage
3.4Anchorage at Belfast Harbour, at the north end of Penobscot Bay where the Passagassawakeag River meets the bay, in Maine. Sand bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, W
112AnchorageUnited StatesGoddard Memorial State Park
3.4Anchorage off Goddard Memorial State Park, on the shore of Greenwich Cove and Greenwich Bay at Warwick, Rhode Island.
- Sheltered SW, S, SE
- 113AnchorageUnited States
West Neck Harbor
3.3Sheltered anchorage off the south-west shore of Shelter Island, in the Peconic estuary of eastern Long Island, New York.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 114AnchorageUnited States
Stamford Harbour
3.3Outer harbour anchorage at Stamford on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, about 33 miles east of New York.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, E
115AnchorageUnited StatesJoshua Cove
3.2Cove on the Guilford shore of Long Island Sound, Connecticut, just north of the Sachem's Head peninsula, with a bottom of rock and mud.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE
- 116AnchorageUnited States
Oyster Bay Cove
3.2Anchorage in Oyster Bay Harbor on the north shore of Long Island, New York, on the Oyster Bay Cove side east of the mooring fleet, on a mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 117AnchorageUnited States
Monty's Bay Marina
3.2Marina in a bay on the New York shore of Lake Champlain at West Chazy, about 8 miles north of Plattsburgh, with a sand bottom.
- Sheltered S
- 118AnchorageUnited States
Cotuit Bay
3.1Bay anchorage on the south coast of Cape Cod, sheltered behind Osterville Grand Island off Nantucket Sound, in the village of Cotuit, Massachusetts.
- Paid
- Sheltered NW, N, W, E, SW
119AnchorageUnited StatesBoothbay
2.8Anchorage in the inner harbour of Boothbay Harbor, on the midcoast of Maine, with a mud bottom and fresh water available ashore.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, E, SE
120AnchorageUnited StatesCanal cape cod
2.8Waiting anchorage off the eastern entrance of the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts, on a sand bottom in Cape Cod Bay.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, SW, S, SE