Best anchorages and harbours in New England

Pipes Cove

Sheltered cove between Greenport and Shelter Island on the North Fork of Long Island, New York. Mud bottom, six berths, fresh water available.

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

Vineyard Haven Harbour

Harbour between East Chop and West Chop on Martha's Vineyard, in the town of Tisbury, with a sand bottom.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW, S, SE

Calf Pasture Beach

Anchorage off Calf Pasture Beach at the eastern point of Norwalk, Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Mud bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E

Sheepshead Bay

Sheltered bay on the southern shore of Brooklyn, New York, lined with marinas and a long-established party-fishing fleet, on a mud bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW

Harmon Harbor

Sheltered anchorage on Georgetown Island near the mouth of the Sheepscot River, in mid-coast Maine, on a mud bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW

Mount Sinai

Anchorage in Mount Sinai Harbor on the north shore of Long Island, about a mile north-east of Port Jefferson, New York, on a mud bottom.

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

Cumberland Bay anchorage

Anchorage in Cumberland Bay on Lake Champlain, off Plattsburgh on the New York shore.

• Sheltered N, NE, W, NW

Boothbay harbor

Large, well-sheltered harbour on the mid-coast of Maine, one of the main cruising destinations of the region, easy to enter in all conditions.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, NW

Barred Islands

Anchorage in Penobscot Bay near Islesboro, Maine, on a mud bottom giving good holding.

• Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE

Connecticut

Anchorage on the Connecticut River near Gildersleeve Island, between Cromwell and Portland in Connecticut, sand bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, SW, S, SE

Converse Bay Sud

Anchorage in Converse Bay on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, near Charlotte, Vermont, with a bottom of mud and weed.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SE

Dering Harbor

Mooring harbour on the north-west shore of Shelter Island, New York, with direct access to Long Island Sound.

• Sheltered NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Great Brewster North Anchorage

Anchorage on the north side of Great Brewster Island, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, sand bottom, sheltered only from the north.

• Sheltered N

Jameson Point

Mooring area off Jameson Point on the north side of Rockland Harbor, Penobscot Bay, Maine, with three buoys on a mud bottom.

• Free
• Sheltered NW, N

Little Peconic Bay North

Anchorage on the northern side of Little Peconic Bay, off the North Fork of Long Island near Cutchogue, New York.

• Sheltered NW, N, W

Stonington Harbor

Anchorage in Stonington Harbour, off Fishers Island Sound in south-eastern Connecticut, on a sand bottom.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, SE

Louis Engel Waterfront Park

Anchorage off Louis Engel Waterfront Park at Ossining, on the east bank of the Hudson River in New York State.

• Sheltered NE, E, SE

Mounty Bay

Anchorage on Lake Champlain at West Chazy, on the New York shore about 12 miles south of the Canadian border and 8 miles north of Plattsburgh.

• Sheltered NW, N, W, SW

Ossining

Anchorage on the east bank of the Hudson River off the village of Ossining, in Westchester County about 30 miles north of Manhattan.

• Sheltered NE, E, SE

Point Au Roche Anchorage

Anchorage on the western shore of Lake Champlain near Plattsburgh, New York. Sand bottom, sheltered from north through north-west.

• Sheltered N, NE, NW

Point bay

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

• Sheltered NE, E, SE, S

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.