U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 ¢ 295 (169) CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA – HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT (41°56'N, 72°41'W) 200 feet (61 m) WEATHER ELEMENTS JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC YEAR YEARS OF RECORD SEA LEVEL PRESSURE (station pressure reduced to sea level) Mean (millibars) 1017.3 1016.8 1015.3 1014.4 1015.3 1014.3 1015.2 1016.2 1018.3 1018.9 1017.3 1018.1 1016.5 47 TEMPERATURE (°F) 47 47 Mean 25.8 28.3 37.1 49.0 59.6 68.6 73.7 71.6 63.2 52.7 42.0 30.1 50.3 47 47 Mean daily maximum 34.1 37.0 46.1 59.9 71.4 80.0 84.8 82.4 74.3 63.9 50.9 38.1 60.4 47 Mean daily minimum 17.0 19.1 27.7 37.6 47.4 56.7 62.2 60.2 51.6 41.0 32.6 21.5 39.7 47 Extreme (highest) 66 73 87 96 97 101 102 101 101 91 83 74 102 47 47 Extreme (lowest) -26 -21 -8 9 28 37 44 36 27 17 1 -14 -26 47 47 RELATIVE HUMIDITY 47 Average percentage 48.2 43.4 28.2 18.5 28.0 17.5 27.0 36.9 57.9 64.1 47.8 56.4 39.7 47 47 CLOUD COVER 47 46 Percent of time clear 20.6 22.9 20.9 17.6 16.4 15.5 15.1 18.1 22.2 26.7 18.6 19.7 19.5 47 Percent of time scattered 16.2 16.0 15.5 15.2 16.3 19.6 21.5 22.3 18.7 17.6 16.8 15.9 17.6 47 47 Percent of time broken 14.9 14.2 14.6 17.1 19.5 22.8 24.1 21.6 17.7 15.9 15.8 13.4 17.6 47 46 Percent of time overcast 44.4 43.5 44.9 45.1 41.9 36.1 33.3 32.4 36.3 34.9 44.5 47.2 40.3 47 PRECIPITATION (inches) 47 Mean amount 3.4 3.1 3.8 3.8 3.7 3.5 3.2 4.0 3.7 3.6 4.0 3.8 44.2 47 47 Greatest amount 9.6 7.2 9.4 9.9 12.0 13.6 8.4 21.8 9.0 11.6 8.5 8.3 64.5 47 47 Least amount 0.3 0.4 0.2 1.3 0.7 0.2 1.0 0.5 0.8 0.3 0.5 0.7 29.0 47 47 Maximum amount (24 hours) 2.2 2.1 2.5 2.9 4.8 5.8 2.9 7.7 5.1 4.3 3.3 2.9 7.7 47 47 Mean number of days 17 15 17 16 16 14 13 13 13 12 15 17 178 47 47 SNOW 12.4 11.5 9.1 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 9.7 46.1 47 Mean amount 47 47 Greatest amount 37.0 32.2 43.3 14.3 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.7 8.7 35.4 88.2 47 47 Least amount 0.2 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 T 17.0 47 47 Maximum amount (24 hours) 14.1 14.3 14.0 14.1 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.7 7.6 13.5 14.3 47 Mean number of days 14 11 10 3 Miss 0 0 0 0 Miss 4 12 54 47 47 WIND 47 47 Percentage with gales 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.01 0.04 47 47 Mean wind speed (knots) 7.7 8.2 8.6 8.5 7.5 6.9 6.3 6.1 6.3 6.8 7.3 7.5 7.3 47 47 Direction (percentage of observations) 47 47 North 13.3 13.5 12.2 10.2 9.6 8.0 8.2 11.0 12.7 12.2 12.7 13.9 11.5 47 47 North Northeast 6.8 7.3 8.1 7.3 7.0 5.2 4.2 5.8 6.9 6.9 6.3 6.7 6.5 47 47 Northeast 2.7 3.6 4.7 4.9 5.1 3.8 3.0 3.6 4.1 4.0 3.1 2.7 3.8 47 East Northeast 0.7 1.3 1.6 2.1 2.3 1.7 1.3 1.7 1.8 1.5 1.3 0.8 1.5 46 East 0.6 0.9 1.4 1.7 1.7 1.4 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.5 1.1 0.7 1.2 East Southeast 0.7 0.9 1.3 1.5 1.8 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.0 1.0 0.9 1.2 Southeast 1.9 2.0 2.1 2.4 3.4 3.1 2.9 2.5 2.6 2.2 1.9 1.9 2.4 South Southeast 3.6 3.7 4.5 5.9 7.7 8.3 7.2 6.5 6.2 5.5 4.2 3.3 5.6 South 8.7 8.9 9.6 13.3 16.6 18.1 16.9 14.9 12.8 12.6 10.8 9.0 12.7 South Southwest 5.1 4.9 4.3 6.0 7.7 9.6 9.3 8.8 7.6 6.9 6.3 5.9 6.9 Southwest 4.8 3.9 2.9 3.6 4.3 6.1 7.5 6.5 5.3 4.7 5.5 5.9 5.1 West Southwest 4.5 4.1 3.6 3.9 3.6 4.2 5.0 4.5 3.7 4.2 5.0 4.7 4.3 West 5.5 5.5 5.1 5.1 4.1 5.0 5.7 5.3 4.9 5.1 5.8 5.0 5.2 West Northwest 10.5 10.2 10.6 8.7 6.0 6.0 6.1 5.8 6.2 7.2 9.2 9.6 8.0 Northwest 14.9 14.4 14.3 11.7 8.1 7.9 7.5 7.9 8.2 9.9 11.4 13.9 10.8 North Northwest 10.1 10.4 10.3 8.3 6.6 5.8 6.9 6.9 8.3 8.0 9.1 9.8 8.4 Calm 5.6 4.6 3.6 3.4 4.2 4.4 6.2 6.2 6.3 6.1 5.6 5.6 5.2 Direction (mean speed, knots) North 7.4 7.7 8.0 7.9 7.0 6.3 5.7 5.9 6.3 6.6 7.0 7.3 7.0 North Northeast 7.4 7.8 8.6 8.5 7.6 6.5 5.8 6.0 6.4 7.1 6.7 7.3 7.2 Northeast 5.8 7.2 8.3 8.5 7.0 7.2 5.8 6.5 6.1 7.2 6.3 5.9 7.0 East Northeast 4.4 5.4 6.2 7.4 6.8 6.0 5.1 5.4 5.5 6.1 5.5 5.0 5.9 East 3.2 4.2 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.3 4.5 4.9 4.4 5.5 4.8 3.5 5.0 East Southeast 4.2 4.9 5.9 7.1 6.1 5.4 5.1 5.6 5.2 5.0 5.5 4.8 5.5 Southeast 4.8 5.3 6.6 7.3 6.3 5.7 5.4 5.6 5.5 5.3 5.6 5.0 5.8 South Southeast 6.1 7.0 7.5 7.8 7.2 7.1 6.5 6.2 6.2 6.4 6.3 6.2 6.8 South 7.2 7.6 8.1 8.7 8.3 7.6 7.2 6.8 7.1 7.2 7.4 6.9 7.5 South Southwest 7.7 7.9 8.5 8.8 8.6 8.0 7.5 7.2 8.0 7.9 7.8 7.8 7.9 Southwest 8.6 8.5 8.6 8.6 8.5 7.8 7.6 7.4 7.7 7.7 8.6 7.9 8.0 West Southwest 7.7 7.6 8.7 8.1 7.6 7.2 6.9 6.5 6.5 6.8 7.5 7.2 7.3 West 8.1 8.8 8.8 8.4 7.4 7.0 6.7 6.1 6.3 6.7 7.3 7.9 7.5 West Northwest 10.2 10.9 11.3 10.6 9.3 8.3 7.3 6.8 7.6 8.4 9.5 10.3 9.5 Northwest 10.4 11.0 10.8 10.7 9.7 8.2 7.3 7.1 7.8 8.8 9.8 10.2 9.6 North Northwest 8.4 8.8 9.1 8.8 7.8 7.0 6.3 6.0 6.5 7.1 7.9 8.0 7.8 VISIBILITY Mean number of days with fog 12 10 12 12 13 15 16 17 16 14 13 12 162 T = trace (not measurable) amount of precipitation Miss or blank is a missing value
296 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 bridge is a highway bridge with a 24-foot fixed span and (195) a clearance of 6 feet. A harbormaster is at Old Lyme. (188) The passage to the east and north of Calves Anchorages Island, about 1 mile above the railroad bridge crossing (196) Special anchorages are at Essex. (See 33 CFR Connecticut River, is used extensively for mooring small craft in the summer. This passage is subject to shoaling, 110.1 and 110.55, Chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) particularly on the north side of Calves Island; caution is advised. A small-craft facility is on the east side of the passage just above the entrance. Berths, electricity, water, ice, marine supplies, storage facilities, a 25-ton lift and (197) Hamburg Cove and Eightmile River, which some repairs are available. In 2002, depths of 18 feet were empties into the north end of the cove, indent the east side reported at the facility. A special anchorage area is west of Connecticut River, 6 miles above Saybrook Point. A of Calves Island and the dredged channel across Calves dredged channel leads from Connecticut River to a turning Island Bar. (See 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.55b, Chapter 2, basin at Hamburg, a village at the head of navigation. for limits and regulations.) There are boulders in places outside the dredged channel (189) Lord Cove has its entrance about 300 yards and the entrance channel is outlined by grassy flats on northward of Calves Island. In 1981, a depth of 3½ each side. Buoys mark the entrance and private aids to feet was available through the unmarked entrance. The navigation mark the channel to Hamburg. The center of marshlands surrounding Lord Cove and the other coves the turning basin has piles used for moorings. between Essex and the river mouth at Saybrook are frequented by duck hunters in October and November. (198) Because of danger of gunfire, mariners are cautioned not to stray too close to the numerous duck blinds that exist Small-craft facility in this area. (199) Asmall-craft facility, on the east side of the basin, has (190) The dredged section of the main channel in Connecticut River westward of Calves Island has sewage pump-out, water, ice and some marine supplies. A numerous obstructions and sunken rocks close to its 35-ton travel lift is available for hull and engine repairs. edges; mariners are advised to exercise caution and to avoid the edges of the channel. (200) (191) Haydens Point, about 4.6 miles above Saybrook Point, is marked by a light. Foul ground is between the ENCs - US5CN31M, US5CN32M light and the shore. (192) Essex, a town on the west bank about 5 miles above Charts - 12377, 12378 Saybrook Point, is the scene of considerable small-boat activity. Depths alongside the town landing are about 6 (201) Eustasia Island, 8.5 miles above Saybrook Point, feet. Essex Cove is the area off the main river channel divides the Connecticut River into two channels. A light skirting the waterfront at Essex. A dredged channel, off the southeast end of the island marks the junction of marked by private buoys, leads from the main channel the two channels. The eastern channel crossing Potash through the cove and thence rejoins the main channel to Bar through a dredged cut is better marked and easier the northward. In 2007, the controlling depth was 5.5 feet to follow. The western channel leads to Pratt Creek, in the buoyed channel. A 5 mph speed limit is enforced. westward of the southerly end of Eustasia Island, and to A privately marked small-boat channel leads westward the landing at Deep River and thence crosses Chester from the dredged buoyed channel in Essex Cove to a Creek Bar through a swash channel to Chester Creek. yacht basin in Middle Cove, northward of Thatchbed A sand shoal and a rocky reef, both bare at low water, are Island. In 2008, the small-boat channel had a reported north of Eustasia Island, between the main channel east midchannel controlling depth of 4½ feet to the marina at of the island and Chester Creek. the north end of the cove. (202) A rock, covered 3 feet, is on the south side of the (193) entrance to Chester Creek in about 41°24'24.1\"N., 72°25'46.6\"W. Small-craft facilities (194) There are several small-craft facilities at Essex. (203) The Chester-Hadlyme vehicular ferry crosses the river near Fort Hill, 2 miles above Eustasia Island. The The facilities provide berths and mooring, electricity, ferry operates from April through November. gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, marine supplies, pump- out facilities, storage and full repairs. The marina just (204) north of the entrance to Middle Cove has an approach depth of 8 feet and an alongside depth of 11 feet. Small-craft facilities (205) There are several small-craft facilities on Pratt Creek and Chester Creek. Berths and moorings, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, ice, marine supplies, a pump-out, storage and a launching ramp are available in the area. Lifts to 55 tons are available for complete hull, engine and electronic repairs. (206) Anchorages (207) Special anchorages are off Chester Creek and 2 miles up river at Lord Island and Eddy Rock Shoal.
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 ¢ 297 (See 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.55, Chapter 2, for limits and (221) regulations.) Anchorages (222) Special anchorages are along the north and east (208) On the east side of the river, the turret of the opera sides of the river, between Bodkin Rock and Portland. house at East Haddam, 13.3 miles above Saybrook (See 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.55(f) and (g), Chapter 2, for Point, is prominent. A marina is on the west side of the limits and regulations.) river just above the swing bridge between East Haddam and Tylerville. Limited guest berths, limited marine (223) supplies, electricity, water and ice are available. In 1990, a reported depth of 5 feet was available in the marina Caution basin. (224) Caution is recommended when rounding the point on (209) The shoal off the west side of the river, just north of the south side of the river, about 1.5 miles above Bodkin East Haddam, is reported to be increasing. Rock, to avoid a submerged crib that extends northward from the point. (210) Salmon Cove, on the east side of the river, 1 mile above East Haddam, is reported to be navigable only by small craft at high tide. The entrance to the cove is subject to shoaling. Considerable grass in the channel and cove (225) Portland, 26.3 miles above Saybrook Point, has makes boat operation difficult. several boatyards with marine railways; the largest railway can handle craft to 60 feet for engine and hull (211) Overhead power cables with a least clearance of 86 repairs. Gasoline, water, berths with electricity, ice, feet cross the cove about 1.2 miles above the mouth. storage facilities, marine supplies, a pump-out station, launching ramps and lifts to 50 tons are available at (212) Portland. In 1990, depths of 7 to 9 feet were reported available. Small-craft facility (213) A small-craft facility is on the west side of the river (226) Berthing and water are available at Harbor Park in Middletown, across the river from Portland. Depths of about 1.1 miles above East Haddam. Berths, electricity, 18 feet are reported to be available along the wharves. water, ice, a 10-ton mobile hoist and a launching ramp are available; hull and engine repairs can be made. In 1990, (227) Two small-craft facilities are on the east side of the a depth of 6 feet was reported at the facility. river at Gildersleeve, about 2.5 miles above Portland. Gasoline, diesel fuel, berths with electricity, water, ice, storage facilities, marine supplies, a launching ramp and 15- and 35-ton lifts are available, and hull and engine (214) Haddam Island divides the Connecticut River repairs can be made. about 3.2 miles above East Haddam. The main river channel leads eastward of the island through a dredged (228) FromBelamose,6.5milesabovePortland,northward cut known as Haddam Island Bar Channel. A pinnacle to Hartford, the land is much lower, and the Connecticut rock, covered 13 feet, is in the approach to Haddam Island River narrows, its curves become more pronounced, and Bar Channel in 41°29'31\"N., 72°30'49\"W. both of its shores have numerous wood-stake-and-rock groins. (215) The passage westward of Haddam Island is closed by a bare sand shoal lying between the island’s southerly (229) A marina on the east side of the river opposite tip and the westerly shore of the river. Belamose has gasoline, berths, electricity, water, ice, marine supplies and a 15-ton lift; engine and hull repairs (216) The shoal off the east side of the river opposite can be made. In 1983, the privately marked channel into Higganum Creek, 5.5 miles above East Haddam, is the marina basin had a reported controlling depth of 7 extending westward. feet. (217) A rock breakwater extends southward from the east (230) At Rocky Hill, 1 mile above Belamose, a seasonal side of the river, 1 mile above Higganum Creek. In 1969, vehicular ferry crosses the river to South Glastonbury. A the shoal, about 200 yards southward of the breakwater, small-craft launching ramp is just above the ferry landing. was found to be extending southward. (231) The cove at Crow Point, on the west side of the (218) A boatyard is on the north side of the river at Cobalt, river about 5.7 miles above Belamose, is used to obtain about 3.5 miles above Higganum Creek. Storage facilities land fill. Dredging in the cove is uneven, but the bottom and a 15-ton hoist are available. In 1990, a reported depth is soft ooze. In 1981, it was reported that the entrance of 7 feet could be carried to the facility. had shoaled to bare and could be used only by small outboards. (219) After passing through the channel in Paper Rock Shoal, 9.7 miles above East Haddam, favor the south side (232) A rock, covered 5 feet, is on the south side of the of the river to about 300 yards southeastward of Bodkin dredged channel about 0.8 mile above Crow Point in Rock, then cross to the north side and pass it close-to. about 41°42'43.0\"N., 72°37'46.5\"W.; and a shoal that bares is in 41°43'11\"N., 72°38'52\"W., on the west side (220) About 0.5 mile westward of Bodkin Rock, a dredged of Connecticut River, about 1.9 miles above Crow Point. section of the channel leads along the southerly shore of Connecticut River and southward of Mouse Island Bar. (233) Wethersfield Cove, on the west side of the river 14 miles above Portland, is entered through a narrow dredged
298 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 channel that leads to a dredged anchorage basin about (241) 0.3 mile above the entrance. (See Notice to Mariners and the latest editions of the charts for controlling depths.) ENCs - US5CN30M, US5CN20M The channel is marked by daybeacons. The Interstate 91 highway bridge over the entrance has a fixed span with Charts - 12375, 12372 a clearance of 38 feet. The speed limit in the channel and cove is 5 knots. Ice, transient berthing and some (242) Cornfield Point, 2 miles westward of Saybrook supplies can be obtained at the yacht club on the south Breakwater Light, is marked by a large red-roofed stone side of the cove. A town marina is on the east side of the building. Rocky shoals and foul ground extend 0.5 mile cove; a launching ramp is available at the facility. The south and 1.9 miles. Cornfield Point Shoal, a small Wethersfield harbormaster can be contacted through the rocky patch covered 3 feet, is about 0.4 mile south of the local police department or town hall. point. Westward of this shoal are Hen and Chickens, (234) The only remaining commercial docks at Hartford bare in spots at low water, and Crane Reef, an area of are the bulk fuel handling facility of the Hartford Electric broken ground with a least depth of 3 feet; these dangers Light Company’s powerplant on the west side of the river, are buoyed. About 0.5 mile west of the point is Halftide about 0.2 mile below the Charter Oak Bridge, and the Rock, surrounded by foul ground. Hartford Gas Company’s barge unloading facilities on the west side of the river, about 0.5 mile above the Charter (243) Oak Bridge. A public facility with floating docks is on the west side of the river just below the Founders Bridge. ENCs - US5CN16M, US5CN20M A flood control dike is along the west side of the river from just north of the Charter Oak Bridge to the Bulkeley Charts - 12374, 12372 Bridge. (235) Connecticut River above Hartford is practically (244) Westbrook Harbor is the western part of the open unimproved but is navigable about 30 miles to Holyoke bight between Cornfield Point and Menunketesuck for boats not exceeding 3-foot draft, when the river is not Island. It has many unmarked submerged rocks and is low. The channel is constantly shifting. seldom used as an anchorage; the anchorage in Duck Island Roads is better. The bight is characterized by (236) boulders. ENCs - US4NY1GM, US4NY1JM (245) Westbrook, a town on the north side of Westbrook Harbor, is marked on its east side by an elevated tank. Chart - 12354 A harbormaster is at Westbrook and can be contacted through the town hall. (237) Long Sand Shoal extends 6 miles westward from off the entrance of Connecticut River and has a greatest (246) Menunketesuck Island is the outermost of several width of nearly 0.3 mile; the shoal is constantly shifting. low narrow islands connected to the mainland at low water The general depths on the shoal are 4 to 15 feet; bottom on the west side of Westbrook Harbor. It has boulders at is hard and lumpy. Shoaling is abrupt on both sides, but the south end. A boulder reef extends nearly 0.5 mile especially on the south side, where the 30-foot curve is south-southeastward from the point to the 18-foot curve. only 100 yards from it in places. The shoal is marked at Tide rips frequently occur on this reef. A private seasonal its eastern end by a buoy and on the south side and west buoy is about 0.3 mile southeastward of Menunketesuck end by a lighted buoy and gong buoy, respectively. Island. (238) At the western end of Long Sand Shoal and 1 mile (247) Between Menunketesuck Island and Hammonasset southward is an area about 0.6 mile long with rocky and Point, about 4 miles westward, broken ground extends broken bottom and with a least found depth of 21 feet. about 1.5 miles offshore. A boulder reef extends 0.5 mile southward from Duck Island to the 18-foot curve and is (239) Sixmile Reef, about 3 miles southwestward of Long marked by a buoy. A rock with 1 foot over it is on this Sand Shoal, is an area of migrating sandwaves about 2.5 reef about 300 yards south of Duck Island. Tide rips have miles long in a west-northwesterly direction with depths been reported to extend from the vicinity of these rocks of 22 to 32 feet. Shoaling is abrupt in places. A lighted to the buoy. During strong flood currents and a southwest buoy is off the southerly edge of this reef. With extreme wind, tide rips extend from the shoal water southwest of low tides, due to northerly and westerly winds, this shoal Duck Island to the vicinity of Southwest Reef over 1 may be dangerous to vessels with 15-foot draft. Tide rips mile southwestward. Caution is advised when navigating occur on the reef whenever the direction of the tidal small boats in this vicinity during these conditions. currents is opposed to that of the wind. This is especially true during spring tides and a southwest wind. (248) Duck Island Roads, between Menunketesuck Island and Kelsey Point, is a harbor of refuge protected (240) A ridge with depths of 29 to 30 feet is near the middle by breakwaters 1,100 feet northward and nearly 0.5 mile of Long Island Sound southward of Sixmile Reef and 5 westward from Duck Island, with the added protection miles north-northwestward of Horton Point Light. The of Kelsey Point Breakwater on Stone Island Reef. A ridge is marked by a lighted whistle buoy on the east side. prominent landmark on Duck Island is a stone chimney. Both breakwaters extending from Duck Island are marked by lights.
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 ¢ 299 (249) The dredged anchorage enclosed by the breakwaters (257) A 6 mph speed limit is enforced on both rivers. extending northward and westward from Duck Island is (258) Kelsey Point Breakwater extends south- subject to shoaling. General depths of 3 to 8 feet are in the protected area, and 4 to 16 feet in the western end. southeastward from Stone Island and is marked by a light In addition to the area inside the breakwaters, a small on the outer end.The rocky, broken ground southwestward area northward and northeastward of Duck Island of the light has a least depth of 16 feet; the outer shoal North Breakwater Light can be used as an anchorage in is marked by a buoy. Tide rips occur frequently between southwesterly weather. the end of the breakwater and the buoy. Stone Island, at the north end of the breakwater, is mostly covered at high (250) The western entrance of Duck Island Roads is easy water. There are several rocks of unknown depth between of access and should be used by vessels with greater draft Stone Island and Kelsey Point. Anchoring should be than 8 feet. avoided in the area surrounding the breakwater as the bottom is broken and rocky. (251) (259) The bight at the entrance of Clinton Harbor and westward of Kelsey Point Breakwater affords anchorage Routes but is exposed to southeasterly and southwesterly winds. (252) Pass southward of Duck Island and keep the light on (260) Clinton Harbor, the bight westward of Kelsey Point Breakwater, is the entrance to Hammonasset River, the end of Kelsey Point Breakwater bearing northward a stream used chiefly by fishing and recreational craft. of 264° until Duck Island West Breakwater Light 2DI Wheeler Rock, awash at low water, is just outside the bar bears 010°, then steer northward. Approaching from and is marked by a lighted buoy. A dredged channel leads westward, the main dangers are 15- to 17-foot spots, north, around Cedar Island to the town dock at Clinton. south-southwestward of Kelsey Point Breakwater Light; The channel is marked by buoys to Cedar Island and the 15-foot spot is marked by a buoy. thence by seasonal private buoys to the anchorage basin at (253) The eastern entrance of Duck Island Roads is Clinton. Buoys are shifted often due to changing channel obstructed by a sand shoal with a least depth of 8 feet conditions. Local knowledge is advised. From opposite about 0.3 mile eastward of Duck Island and by boulder the basin to the upstream limit of the federal project, the reefs that extend about 0.2 mile off the western side of southwest and south side of the channel is obstructed by Menunketesuck Island. This entrance is easy of access a series of pilings. Boats may be moored between the for vessels drawing up to 8 feet. pilings; caution is advised. Above the dredged channel, (254) Anchorage, bottom generally sticky, can be had the midchannel controlling depth is about 2 feet in the between Duck Island West Breakwater Light 2DI and Hammonasset River to the overhead pipeline and bridge Kelsey Point. This anchorage is exposed to southerly crossing about 2 miles above Clinton. Private daybeacons winds. mark this section of the channel. (261) Several boatyards and marinas are in the harbor. Mooring facilities are available by arrangement with the town dockmaster, who can be contacted through the (255) Patchogue River, used chiefly by fishing and town hall or police department. A 6 mph speed limit is recreational craft, empties into Duck Island Roads just enforced in the harbor. The town maintains a fireboat at west of Menunketesuck Island. A dredged channel leads Clinton Harbor. The vessel can be contacted through the north from Duck Island Roads and into the river to just Clinton Police Department or the Coast Guard. below the first fixed highway bridge, about 0.6 mile (262) Northeastward of Cedar Island in Clinton Harbor above the mouth; an anchorage basin is adjacent to the are two narrow crooked channels close together, with east channel limit between Daybeacons 8 and 10. The depths of about 1 foot. The eastern one is usually marked approach channel is marked by lighted and unlighted by bush stakes; it leads to a marina and boatyard just buoys, and the river channel is marked by private inside the mouth of Hammock River. The western daybeacons. A light is on the outer end of the breakwater channel, marked by a private range, leads to a boatyard on the west side of the river mouth. Several small-craft on Indian River. facilities are on the river. (263) Hammonasset Point, on the southwest side of Clinton Harbor, is a low marshy area with many wooded knolls. The end of the point is a rocky knoll. Hammonasset State Park is marked by a conspicuous (256) Menunketesuck River, sharing the same entrance flagstaff and the buildings at the recreational center. In the channel as Patchogue River, is a shallow stream summer it is an active resort. Broken ground with rocky westward of Patchogue River. A shoal was reported irregular bottom and least depths of 10 to 11 feet extends extending south from shore at the junction of Patchogue 0.5 mile southward of Hammonasset Point. A reef, with a and Menunketesuck Rivers; caution is advised. The least depth of 3 feet and a groin on its inner part, extends junction is marked by a private seasonal buoy. Small- 0.4 mile southwestward from the point and is marked craft facilities on the river can provide berths, electricity, by a buoy, northeastward of which tide rips frequently gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, storage, marine supplies, a pump-out station and engine, hull and electronic repairs; a 12-ton mobile hoist and an 80-ton lift are available. The privately maintained channel in the river is reported to be marked by seasonal private aids; local knowledge is advised.
300 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 occur. When rounding the point, vessels should not pass and eastward of Guilford Point to a junction with Sluice between the buoy and Hammonasset Point. West Rock Creek and East River, about 0.6 mile above the channel is the outermost of the bare rocks that extend a short entrance. At the junction, the dredged channel leads distance off the east end of Hammonasset Point. northwesterly into Sluice Creek for about 0.1 mile and (264) Madison Reef, over 2 miles westward of northeasterly into East River for about 0.4 mile to an Hammonasset Point, extends over a mile east and west. anchorage basin. A lighted buoy marks the entrance to This reef consists of several rocky patches with depths the channel, and unlighted buoys mark the channel to the of 4 to 17 feet, with deeper water between them. Charles junction. Reef, with a least depth of 7 feet, is about 0.5 mile (272) At high water and with local knowledge, small boats southwest of Madison Reef and marked by a buoy. can go above the anchorage basin in East River to the (265) Kimberly Reef, about 1.9 miles southward of fixed railway bridge, about 1.3 miles above the basin. A Charles Reef, is an area of broken ground with a least town marina, just above the entrance to Sluice Creek, has depth of 12 feet. Rocks with a least depth of 20 feet, berths with electricity, water, ice and a launching ramp. marked by a lighted bell buoy, are about 0.2 mile south In 1993, depths of 1½ to 6 feet were reported alongside of the shoal. A bank with depths of 14 to 28 feet extends the marina. about 1.5 miles west of Kimberly Reef to Falkner Island. (273) A 5 mph speed limit is enforced in the harbor. (266) Vessels of 10-foot draft can anchor northward of (274) West River empties into the western side of Guilford Madison Reef but should proceed with caution to avoid Harbor 0.2 mile westward of Guilford Point. The entrance the rocky patches at lesser depths. channel is marked by buoys and a 321.3° lighted range. (267) Tuxis Island, northward of Madison Reef and 0.2 (275) There are two boatyards with several marinas and mile south of Middle Beach, is high and rocky. Between marine railways on West River. The largest marine railway the island and the shore the water is shallow and the can handle craft up to 40 feet; berths with electricity, ground foul. Rocks awash are 200 to 600 yards eastward water, ice, gasoline, diesel fuel, limited supplies, a 12- of the island, and an islet is 100 yards westward of the ton mobile crane, a 25-ton lift and complete engine and island. A steel bulkhead in ruins, the top of which is awash hull repairs are available. at high water, extends from shore to Gull Rock, a high (276) Falkner Island and Goose Islands, with Stony bare ledge about 300 yards east-northeastward of Tuxis Island to the southward, are about 3 miles south of Island. Guilford Harbor. Each is surrounded by reefs and rocks (268) Madison, a town on the railroad, has one landing that bare at low water. A depth of about 16 feet can be that bares alongside at low water and is in disrepair. A carried between Goose Islands and Falkner Island by few small craft moor in the cove on its north side. Rocks, staying in the middle of the passage and avoiding the bare at low water, are 100 yards eastward of the landing. 8-foot and 11-foot spots, about 0.35 mile 244° and 0.4 mile A beach club building, with a small stone landing, is 300° from the light on Falkner Island, respectively, and northward of Tuxis Island. A church with a prominent the shoals and reefs extending from the islands. Falkner tower and gilded dome is 0.8 mile northward of Tuxis Island Light (41°12'43\"N., 72°39'13\"W.), 94 feet above Island. the water, is shown from a 46-foot white octagonal tower near the center of Falkner Island. A lighted gong buoy (269) marks the shoal off the northern end of Falkner Island, and a lighted bell buoy is off the southern end of Stony ENCs - US5CN15M, US5CN20M Island. (277) From Indian Reef westward are rocky shoals and Charts - 12373, 12372 islets extending from 0.2 to 0.7 mile off Vineyard Point and Sachem Head. Chimney Corner Reef, about 0.3 (270) Guilford Harbor, a bight 5.5 miles westward of mile south of Sachem Head and marked by a buoy, is Hammonasset Point, is used only by small craft. East a rocky broken area on which the least depth is 9 feet. River and Sluice Creek empty into Guilford Harbor from Westward of it are Goose Rocks Shoals, on which are the northward. The approach to the harbor is obstructed Goose Rocks, the northerly of which is bare and the by rocks and foul ground. The outermost dangers are southerly one covered at high water. The outer limit of Half Acre Rock (41°15'17\"N., 72°39'10\"W.), Outer Goose Rocks Shoals is marked by a lighted bell buoy. To White Top (41°15'03\"N., 72°40'00\"W.) and Indian ensure clearing the westerly end of Goose Rocks Shoals, Reef (41°14'52\"N., 72°40'21\"W.), extending about 1 care must be taken not to round the buoy too closely. mile southwestward of Outer White Top. Indian Reef (278) Sachem Head Harbor, an anchorage for small craft is marked on its south side by buoys. Stakes and fish on the southwest side of Sachem Head, is 0.3 mile long traps may exist northward of Riding Rock (41°15'32\"N., and 0.1 mile wide and has depths of 3 to 8 feet at the 72°39'52\"W.) floats and in the moorings; it is sheltered except from westerly winds. The island forming the south point at the (271) The approach channel to Guilford Harbor, marked entrance is connected with the shore by a bridge. A yacht by buoys, leads along the southeasterly side of Indian clubhouse is on the island. From the north point of the Reef, thence westward of Half Acre Rock to a dredged channel about 0.5 mile northwestward of Half Acre Rock. The dredged channel leads northward through the harbor
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 ¢ 301 island a breakwater extends 100 yards in a northwesterly (287) Stony Creek, a village on the railroad, extends direction; a rock awash, marked by a private seasonal southward to Flying Point (41°15.5'N., 72°45.1'W.). A light, is off the end of the breakwater. A rock covered at dredged channel west of Flying Point leads north to a half tide is 50 yards off the southeast side of the harbor, turning basin at Stony Creek. The channel is marked by about 350 yards eastward of the end of the breakwater. buoys. Rocks were reported in the northwest corner of (279) The approach to Sachem Head Harbor for small craft the basin. Gasoline, marine supplies, inside storage, and from eastward is along the south side of the rocks making a small-craft launching ramp are available at marinas off from the south side of Sachem Head. Approaching eastward of the turning basin; small craft can be hauled eastward of Goose Rocks, give the rocks a berth of over out on a flatbed trailer for hull and engine repairs. The 300 yards. The approach from westward is clear between village dock is on the southeast side of the turning basin. Goose Rocks and Leetes Rocks. (280) Uncas Point, the western extremity of Sachem (288) Between the rocks westward of Rogers Island and Head, is marked by a rocky islet on its west side and Blackstone Rocks, a privately dredged channel, about a privately maintained seasonal light. Just northward of 0.9 mile westward of Flying Point, leads northeastward the islet a stone jetty with a bulkhead on its north side to a quarry wharf on the west side of a dredged basin. In extends about 100 yards in a northwesterly direction from 1995, the reported controlling depths were 14 feet from the shore. Vessels can anchor in the angle near the shore the channel entrance to the basin, thence a depth of 14 where the depth is about 4½ feet. feet was available in the basin except for lesser depths (281) Joshua Cove, northwestward of Sachem Head, is along the north and west edges. The entrance channel is little used, but affords good anchorage in its entrance for marked by a private 028° range consisting of a front and small vessels in northerly or easterly winds in 6 to 10 feet, middle light and a rear daybeacon. soft bottom. The approach from southwestward is clear between Goose Rocks and Leetes Rocks. (289) Thimble Island Harbor, in the western part of The (282) Leetes Rocks, midway between Sachem Head Thimbles, affords good shelter for small craft between and the north end of The Thimbles, are two rocks bare Pot Island and Money Island on the east and High at low water, with an area of broken ground around Island and West Crib on the west. Although open them. A 9-foot spot is about 200 yards southward of the southwestward, the sea from that direction loses much southerly rock, and a 3-foot spot is 0.3 mile northeast of of its force before reaching the inner harbor. A rock with the southerly rock. 3 feet over it and marked by a buoy is 80 yards off the (283) Leetes Island Quarry is a prominent feature on the east side of High Island, just above its south end. Vessels south side of Hoadley Point; on the north side of the cove sometimes anchor near midchannel, between this rock eastward of the point are the ruins of an old dock. and the north end of Pot Island in depths of 13 to 18 feet, (284) The Thimbles, about 1.6 miles west of Sachem soft bottom, but care should be taken to avoid the cables Head, comprise many islands, islets and rocks that bare. in the area. The harbor is easy of access between Outer All of the area, extending over 2 miles from Hoadley Island and Inner Reef. Point southwestward to East Reef, is foul with rocky bottom and many shoals. To lesser extent, the area from (290) Pine Orchard, about 3 miles westward of Sachem East Reef for 2 miles westward and northwestward to Head, is a summer resort extending northward and Branford Harbor entrance is dotted with islets and rocks. westward of Brown Point. A breakwater extending about The whole area is suitable only for small pleasure craft, 300 yards southeastward from Brown Point protects a which are very active here in summer. Many oyster stakes yacht basin entered through a privately dredged channel are encountered; these do not mark channels, and caution that leads from southward of St. Helena Island north- should be used to avoid fouling them. Caution also is northwestward to the basin. In 1994, the entrance channel advised to avoid fouling the pipelines and cables in the and basin had reported depths of 5 feet.The basin approach area. northward of St. Helena Island has depths of 3 to 5 feet. (285) The outermost of The Thimbles proper is Outer Gasoline, diesel fuel, ice and water may be obtained at Island, marked by a house chimney. A boat landing the yacht club landing. protected by a stone jetty is on the northeast side of this island, and an unmarked rock, bare at lowest tides, is 200 (291) From Brown Point to Branford Harbor, 2.5 miles yards eastward. The reefs southwestward of Outer Island, westward, bare rocks and shoals extend up to about 2 to and including East Reef and Browns Reef, are buoyed. miles offshore. A seawall extends westward from Brown (286) From eastward a buoyed channel leads through The Point, and the shore is thickly settled. A rock bare at half Thimbles. The channel passes between Wayland Island tide is 600 yards westward of Brown Point and 300 yards and a buoy marking the foul area southward of Cat Island. from shore. The channel extends between Davis Island and Dogfish Island, thence north of East Crib and West Crib into the (292) Rocks bare at low water are eastward of Haycock more open water westward of The Thimbles; it is good Point, and rocks that bare at half tide are off the southeast for about 13 feet. side and southwest end of Green Island. The foul ground extends about 0.6 mile south-southwestward from Haycock Point, including Foot Rocks which are partly above water. (293) Branford Reef, about 1.8 miles southward of Indian Neck and 5 miles eastward of New Haven entrance, is
302 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 marked by a light. This reef is surrounded by shoal water buoys marking Blyn Rock and Bird Rock to the buoyed for a distance of 150 to 450 yards from the light. channel in the harbor. (294) Deep water is between Branford Reef and Negro (302) Local craft pass northwestward of Cow and Calf Heads, a reef bare in one place at low water about 0.9 Shoal and midway between Johnson Point and Blyn mile northward. Shoreward of Negro Heads are Spectacle Rock. Island, Sumac Island and Clam Island, together with numerous rocks bare and covered. (295) A private boat landing is on the northwest side of Clam Island. Small craft can enter Maltby Cove between (303) Branford River, narrow and crooked, extends the bare rocks off the southwest end of Clam Island and northeasterly from Branford Harbor. At low water the Jeffrey Rock, favoring the northwest side of Clam channel above Branford Point is defined by bare shoals Island. Private markers are sometimes at the entrance. on each side. During the summer numerous stakes used The northwest side of the cove is foul, the principal as moorings mark both sides of the channel. A privately danger being a rock bare at low water near the middle, dredged channel and basin at a marina 0.5 mile east of northwestward of Clam Island; the rock is sometimes Branford Point had reported depths of 9 feet in 1999. marked by a seasonal private spindle. (296) Jeffrey Point, the eastern point at the entrance of (304) The principal waterborne commerce at Branford Branford Harbor, has a bare rock close to its western end. is in petroleum products. There are several marinas and (297) Branford Harbor is a shallow cove between boatyards on the river. Jeffrey Point and Johnson Point. Vessels up to 10-foot draft can select anchorage in the harbor southward of (305) A 5 mph speed limit is enforced on the river. the Mermaids in 10 to 14 feet, protected against all but (306) The harbormaster at Branford controls all moorings southerly and southwesterly winds. Boats up to 5-foot draft can select a well-sheltered anchorage in the upper and anchoring; he can be contacted through the small- part of the harbor above the Mermaids. The harbor is used craft facilities. chiefly for recreational boating and by the small local (307) Johnson Point is the western entrance point to lobster fishing fleet. Branford Harbor; a rock covered 2 feet is about 100 yards (298) The dangers in the approach and entrance to off its south side. A small privately dredged basin on the Branford Harbor either show above water or are marked southwest side of the point is well protected in all but by buoys. Cow and Calf, 1.3 miles southwestward of southerly winds. In 1971, it was reported that 4 feet could Jeffrey Point, are two boulders close together bare at low be carried to and in the basin. water. Boulders, reported covered 10 feet, are about 0.2 (308) Gull Rocks, about 0.3 mile westward of Johnson mile northward of Cow and Calf. Five Foot Rock, 0.5 Point, consist of small islets and submerged rocks that mile northeastward of Cow and Calf, has 5 feet over it. extend about 0.5 mile southwestward from shore on the Taunton Rock, 0.9 mile northeastward of Cow and Calf easterly side of the entrance to a large cove. A rock, bare near the middle of the entrance to Branford Harbor, is at half tide, is in the northwestern part of the cove about large but low and bare. Blyn Rock, midway between 350 yards southward of Short Beach. The northwest end Johnson Point and Taunton Rock, is covered at extreme of the cove has a yacht club landing with a reported depth high tide. Bird Rock, 0.2 mile northward of Blyn Rock, of 2 feet alongside. has 5 feet over it. (309) Farm River Gut, a small bight on the west side (299) Little Mermaid, showing a little above high water, of the cove, is a good anchorage for small craft. Depths and Big Mermaid, a high rock marked by a light, are range from 4 to 5 feet in the eastern part of the gut with near the middle of Branford Harbor. Two bare rocks are shoaling to bare in the northern and western parts. Two near the head of the harbor. A rock, bare at low water rocks awash are on the north side of the gut about 125 and usually marked by stakes, is about 100 feet north- yards inside the entrance. The gut offers good protection northeastward of the north end of Lovers Island. from all but easterly winds, mud bottom.Amarine railway at a boatyard on the north side of the gut can handle boats (300) to 36 feet for hull repairs; storage facilities are available. The yard can be reached only at high tide. Old Clump is Routes a bare rock about 400 yards south of the bight. (301) To enter Branford Harbor from eastward, pass (310) Farm River, locally known as East Haven River, about 1.5 miles westward of Branford Harbor, is used southward of the lighted buoy marking Negro Heads, by local craft. In 1981, it was reported that depths of steer about 306° heading for Taunton Rock, and enter 3 feet could be carried in the river to the fixed bridge between Taunton and Jeffrey Rocks; or a 333° course with a clearance of 4 feet about 1 mile above the mouth. with Branford Reef Light astern will lead into the harbor Several boatyards on the river provide gasoline, berths, between Jeffrey and Taunton Rocks. From westward, pass electricity, water, storage and limited marine supplies; southward and over 100 yards eastward of the lighted diesel fuel can be delivered by truck. A 10-ton mobile bell buoy marking Cow and Calf, thence westward of the hoist and a 12-ton crane can handle vessels for complete engine and hull repairs. (311) East Indies Rocks, about 0.4 mile south of the entrance to Farm River, cover at half tide and are marked
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 ¢ 303 by a buoy to the eastward; a rocky shoal with a least depth junction of Mill River and Quinnipiac River. The channel of 5 feet is 0.2 mile to the eastward. A small ledge, bare is well marked. (See Notice to Mariners and latest editions at low water, is midway between East Indies Rocks and of the charts for controlling depths.) the south side of Mansfield Point, the western entrance (321) West River, marked by buoys, is located on the west point to Farm River. Darrow Rocks, a group of bare side of the main channel about 3 miles above Southwest rocks, are on the east side of the entrance to the river. Ledge Light. A dredged channel leads west from the The westernmost rocky knoll is marked by a flagstaff. A main channel into West River; an anchorage area on the ledge, bare at low water, with a buoy off its southern end, south side of the channel is 0.9 mile above the entrance. is 200 yards south of the flagstaff. (See Notice to Mariners and latest editions of charts for (312) Mansfield Point and the shore westward of controlling depths.) Principal waterfront facilities are at the entrance to Farm River are thickly settled. Bus City Point. communication is available to New Haven. (322) Mill River, on the west side of Fair Haven about 4 miles above Southwest Ledge Light, is entered from (313) the main channel through a dredged entrance channel that branches into an east and west fork to the Grand ENCs - US5CN14M, US5CN20M Avenue Bridge, 0.6 mile above the mouth. (See Notice to Mariners and latest edition of the chart for controlling Charts - 12371, 12372 depth information.) (323) Quinnipiac River, on the east side of Fair Haven (314) New Haven Harbor, an important harbor of refuge, about 4 miles above Southwest Ledge Light, has a dredged is about 68 miles from New York, 179 miles from Boston channel to Grand Avenue Bridge, about 1 mile above the via Cape Cod Canal, and 171 miles from Nantucket mouth. (See Notice to Mariners and latest edition of the Shoals. It comprises all the tidewater northward of the chart for controlling depths.) breakwaters constructed across the mouth of the bay, including the navigable portions of the West, Mill, and (324) Quinnipiac Rivers. It is about 2 miles wide. The inner harbor, northward of Sandy Point and Fort Hale, is Anchorages shallow for the most part, except where the depths have (325) Inside West Breakwater and the southwest part of been increased by dredging. The main entrance channel, between Middle Breakwater and the East Breakwater, Middle Breakwater, anchorage is available for vessels leads northward to Tomlinson Bridge at New Haven. up to a 19-foot draft. Caution should be exercised to Anchorage basins for medium draft vessels are on the avoid the fish stakes in this area. Vessels anchoring in west side of the channel north of Sandy Point. Waterborne the area should also be aware that water levels may drop commerce in the harbor consists of petroleum products, significantly following a long continuous northwesterly scrap metal, lumber, automobiles, gypsum, paper and wind. pulp products, steel products, chemicals, rock salt and (326) Vessels may anchor northward of Southwest Ledge general cargo. Light in depths of 18 to 20 feet, soft bottom in places. Care should be taken to avoid the ledges northward of the (315) New Haven, at the head of the harbor, is an important East Breakwater. Deep-draft vessels awaiting berthing manufacturing city. assignments can anchor about 1 mile southward of the sea buoy; holding ground is excellent. (316) (327) Morris Cove, on the east side of the main channel just above Lighthouse Point, affords good anchorage and Prominent features is used by yachts but is rough in westerly and southerly (317) On the approach from well offshore in clear weather, winds. In 1981, isolated, uncharted 40-foot spots were reported in the cove. Caution is advised when anchoring. the prominent landmarks are: on East Rock (41°19.7'N., New Haven Coast Guard Station is on the north side of 72°54.4'W.), the Soldiers and Sailors Monument; in the jutting point, about 1.5 miles northward of Lighthouse New Haven, the Knights of Columbus Building, a tall Point. rectangular structure with circular pillars at its corners; (328) An anchorage basin on the west side of the main the lighted stack of the power plant on the east side of the channel southward of New Haven Long Wharf is harbor opposite City Point. The lights on the ends of the sometimes used, but considerable shoaling is gradually breakwaters, the aerolight at Tweed-New Haven Airport extending into the anchorage from westward. A sunken and the abandoned tower on Lighthouse Point are also barge with 5 feet over it is in this anchorage about 550 prominent. yards southward of New Haven Long Wharf. In 1985, (318) Southwest Ledge Light (41°14'04\"N., depths of 10 to 5 feet were available in the anchorage 72°54'44\"W.), 57 feet above the water, is shown from basin with lesser depths along the edges. a white octagonal house on a brown cylindrical pier at (329) Small craft and scows may anchor northward of the the westerly end of East Breakwater. A sound signal is New Haven Long Wharf (Naval Reserve Pier), northwest sounded at the light. (319) Channels (320) Afederal project for New Haven Harbor provides for an entrance channel 35 feet deep to a point just below the
304 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 (337) Structures over Tributaries of New Haven Harbor Clear Width of Clear Height above Draw or Span Mean High Water Name•Description•Type Location Opening (feet) (feet) Information West River Kimberly Avenue Bridge (fixed) 41°16'52\"N., 72°56'18\"W. 75 23 Quinnipiac River Tomlinson Bridge (vertical lift) 41°17'54\"N., 72°54'21\"W. 241 62 (up), 13 (down) Notes 1, 2 and 3 63 Note 2 Pearl Harbor Memorial/I-95 Bridges 41°17'56\"N., 72°54'16\"W. 478 96 25 Note 1 Overhead power cable 41°17'58\"N., 72°54'19\"W. 9 Note 1 7 Ferry Street Bridge (bascule) 41°18'07\"N., 72°53'34\"W. 101 Grand Avenue Bridge (swing) 41°18'33\"N., 72°53'18\"W. 70 Interstate 91 Bridge (fixed) 41°19'15\"N., 72°53'23\"W. 40 Mill River Chapel Street Bridge (swing) 41°18'13\"N., 72°54'20\"W. 72 8 Note 1 6 Grand Avenue Bridge (fixed) 41°18'30\"N., 72°54'21\"W. 39 86 Crosses West Branch of Mill River 80 Crosses West Branch of Mill River Overhead power cable 41°18'17\"N., 72°54'22\"W. 2 Crosses West Branch of Mill River Overhead power cable 41°18'26\"N., 72°54'30\"W. Grand Avenue Bridge (fixed) 41°18'31\"N., 72°54'27\"W. 30 Note 1 – See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 and 117.213 Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations. Note 2 – See 33 CFR 165.1 through 165.13 and 165.150 Chapter 2, for limits and regulations. Note 3 – Bridgetender monitors VHF-FM channel 13; call sign KXJ-688. of the main channel where depths range from about 5 (338) to 6 feet. (330) No special regulations prescribe the limits within Currents which vessels must anchor, except that the dredged (339) In the entrance between the breakwaters, the tidal channels must be kept clear. current has a velocity on flood of 1.4 knots and ebb 0.9 (331) knot. The flood sets 319° and the ebb 152°. In the draw of Tomlinson Bridge, the velocity is 0.4 knot. The flood sets Dangers 015° and the ebb 215°. Ebb velocities are increased by (332) Townshend Ledge, 2.7 miles southeastward of freshets. (Consult the Tidal Current Tables for predicted times and velocities of currents.) Southwest Ledge Light, has a least depth of 18 feet and is marked by a lighted buoy. (340) (333) Stony Islet, 2.2 miles eastward of Southwest Ledge Light, is low, bare and surrounded by ledges bare at low Ice water to a distance of about 100 yards. A partly bare ledge (341) Ice generally obstructs navigation to some extent is about 0.2 mile north-northwestward of Stony Islet. From this ledge and Stony Islet westward to the entrance for low-powered vessels from December to March and of New Haven Harbor, an area of foul ground with many sometimes extends to the mouth of the harbor. During rocks bare at low water extends about 0.5 mile offshore. severe winters the accumulation of ice is local. Except This area should be avoided. in severe weather, powered vessels can always enter and (334) Shoals with depths of 16 to 18 feet extend over 0.5 leave the harbor without much difficulty. In New Haven mile southeastward from the breakwaters on both sides Harbor northerly winds tend to clear the harbor of ice if of the dredged entrance channel. the formation is light; southerly winds are apt to force in (335) The bights on the west shore of New Haven Harbor drift ice from the sound. from Pond Point northward are shoal with bare rocks and foul ground in most of them. The shore is rocky at (342) Woodmont, about 2 miles northeastward of Pond Point. (336) Black Rock, bare at low water and marked by a Weather, New Haven and vicinity seasonal buoy, is 0.2 mile off the north end of Morris (343) New Haven’s climate is typical of coastal areas Cove. Opposite, on the west side, is a breakwater, partly covered, extending from Sandy Point and marked by a of southern New England. It is vigorous without being light. Shag Bank, a flat extending about 0.5 mile overly severe. New Haven is located at the widest part of northward from Sandy Point, has a sand tip about 0.1 mile Long Island Sound, and the tempering effect of the water long. is most pronounced in this vicinity. During the summer season, the sea breeze holds temperatures 5 to 15°F (3 to 8°C) lower in the afternoon; during the winter season, minimum temperatures in the southern section of the city are usually 5 to 10°F (3 to 6°C) higher than those reported from northern sections. The highest summertime temperatures occur with a moderate northerly wind.
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 ¢ 305 (348) CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA – NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT (41°16'N, 72°53'W) 23 feet (7 m) WEATHER ELEMENTS JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC YEAR YEARS OF RECORD TEMPERATURE (°F) 57.5 67.2 72.7 71.6 64.7 54.8 44.4 Mean 29.4 31.3 38.0 48.2 66.5 75.8 80.8 79.8 73.3 63.8 52.0 33.2 51.7 28 Mean daily maximum 36.6 38.7 45.4 56.9 48.0 58.1 64.1 62.9 55.6 45.4 36.2 40.3 59.7 28 Mean daily minimum 21.7 23.5 30.1 39.1 92 96 100 100 91 84 76 25.6 43.1 28 Extreme (highest) 65 67 73 87 32 40 51 43 34 24 14 65 100 28 Extreme (lowest) 17 28 PRECIPITATION (inches) -7 -5 5 3.4 2.9 3.0 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.9 -3 -7 Mean amount 6.4 12.6 8.7 10.9 7.9 10.0 8.5 29 Greatest amount 3.2 3.3 3.8 3.7 0.7 0.1 0.8 0.9 0.6 0.2 0.3 4.2 42.1 29 Least amount 8.3 4.7 10.7 6.5 2.3 5.2 4.5 3.6 5.0 3.8 4.3 7.8 57.2 29 Maximum amount (24 hours) 0.2 1.0 1.5 1.5 17 15 14 14 13 13 16 0.9 27.6 29 Mean number of days 2.6 2.7 3.7 2.3 2.9 5.2 14 SNOW 17 16 17 17 T 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.8 17 186 Mean amount T 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 5.0 29 Greatest amount 8.6 9.4 6.7 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.9 33.8 29 Least amount 21.9 25.3 26.9 19.3 T 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 5.0 18.8 63.9 29 Maximum amount (24 hours) 1.4 0.6 0.0 Miss 0 0 0 0 1 5 11.8 29 Mean number of days 13.9 16.1 T 17.1 T 17.1 14 VISIBILITY 19 18 13.0 0 0 0 Miss 0 0 0 14.2 77 Mean number of days with fog 15 4 15 14 Miss 0 Miss Miss Miss 1 T = trace (not measurable) amount of precipitation Miss or blank is a missing value The lowest winter readings also occur with a northerly (345) Prevailing wind direction varies with the seasons. wind. The average temperature for New Haven is 51.7°F From late spring until fall, winds are predominantly south (10.9°C). July is the warmest month with average to southwest due to the effect of the sea breeze. During extremes of 81°F (27.2°C) and 64°F (17.8°C). January is the winter, the prevailing winds are northerly. Strong the coldest month with average extremes of 37°F (2.8°C) southeast winds cause unusually high tides and some and 22°F (-5.6°C). The warmest temperature on record local flooding in low-lying coastal areas two or three is 100°F (37.8°C) recorded in August 1948 and again times a year. in July 1957. The coldest temperature on record is -7°F (-21.7°C) recorded in January 1961. (346) Since 1871, 17 tropical systems have passed within (344) Precipitation is quite evenly distributed throughout 50 miles of New Haven, Connecticut. The most infamous the year with only a 1.25 inch (32 mm) spread between perhaps was the hurricane of 1938. This storm passed the wettest and driest months. The annual average with 15 miles west of the city on September 21, raking precipitation is 42 inches (1067 mm). The wettest the city with 85-knot winds while moving at a forward month, December, averages 4.24 inches (108 mm) and speed in excess of 40 knots. Most recently, hurricane the driest month, June, averages 2.93 inches (74 mm). Gloria passed within 20 miles to the west on September The elevation of the land increases northward from 27, 1985. Highest winds at time of landfall were barely the station and results in somewhat higher amounts of hurricane strength, but two days prior, Gloria had precipitation in the northern suburbs as well as a few more been supporting winds in excess of 125 knots. Due to thunderstorms each year. During the winter, a variety of geographical orientation, all tropical systems approach precipitation is found in most storms. It is common to the coastline from the south or southwest. have rain along the shore, freezing rain and sleet a short distance inland and snow in the northern parts of the city. (347) The National Weather Service maintains an office at Heavy snow is rather uncommon in the immediate coastal the Tweed-New Haven Airport, about 3 miles southeast area and usually melts in a few days. Farther inland, the of the city. snow becomes progressively heavier and a layer of snow covers the ground most of the winter. Annual average (349) snowfall totals 34 inches (864 mm). February is the snowiest month, averaging over nine inches (229 mm). Routes Snow has fallen in each month October through May. (350) To enter New Haven Harbor from eastward, it is The 24-hour record snowfall is 17.1 inches (434 mm), recorded in April 1957. safer for large vessels to pass southward of Branford Reef and Townshend Ledge to the entrance channel. To enter from westward, pass northward of Stratford Shoal Light at a distance of 1.8 miles and head for the entrance channel. (351) The passage eastward of East Breakwater has boulder patches and is very broken but can be used by
306 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 small craft drawing less than 6 feet, taking care to avoid (365) The harbormaster at New Haven has charge of the the foul ground along the northeast side of the passage. anchoring of vessels; he can be contacted through the This passage is buoyed, and local vessels of 10- to 12- local police department. foot draft use it at high water. Avoid Quixes Ledge, which extends about 200 yards southeastward from the (366) The city police maintain a harbor patrol during the eastern end of the breakwater, and pass about 100 yards summer. eastward of the breakwater. The principal danger inside the breakwater is the reef, marked by a buoy, that extends (367) 300 yards southwestward from Lighthouse Point. Adams Fall, a rock with 5 feet over it and marked by Wharves a buoy, is 0.4 mile southwestward of Lighthouse Point. (368) The deep-draft facilities at the Port of New Haven are (352) along the north and east sides of the inner portion of New Haven Harbor. Facilities for smaller vessels and barges are Pilotage, New Haven along the sides of the harbor and in Mill, Quinnipiac and (353) Pilotage by state-licensed pilot is compulsory in West Rivers. Depths alongside the facilities in Quinnipiac River range from about 5 to 15 feet; Mill River, 12 to Long Island Sound for foreign flag vessels and U.S. 13 feet; and West River, about 12 to 18 feet. Only the vessels that are under register (i.e., engaged in foreign deep-draft facilities are described. The alongside depths trade). Such vessels can arrange for a state-licensed pilot for the facilities described are reported; for information by contacting the joint rotation administrator, Block on the latest depths contact the private operator. All the Island Pilots at 243 Spring Street, Newport, RI 02840; facilities have direct highway connections, and most have telephone 401–487–9050 (24 hours), 800–274–1216; railroad connections. Water and electrical shore power FAX 401–847–9052. Enrolled vessels (i.e., U.S. vessels connections are available at most piers and wharves. engaged in coastwise trade) may be required to have (369) General cargo at the port is usually handled by a U.S. Coast Guard federally licensed pilot unless the ship’s tackle; special handling equipment, if available, master has recency for the intended area. See Pilotage, is mentioned in the description of the particular facility. Long Island Sound (indexed as such), chapter 8. Cranes up to 250 tons and warehouses and cold storage (354) Pilot services are arranged in advance through ships’ facilities adjacent to the waterfront are available. agents or directly by shipping companies. (370) Wyatt Light Oil Pier: north end of harbor 0.35 mile northeastward of New Haven Long Wharf; 150-foot (355) face, 715 feet of berthing space with dolphins, 38 feet alongside; deck height, 11 feet; receipt and shipment of Towage petroleum products; owned and operated by Wyatt, Inc. (356) Tugs up to 1,800 hp are available at New Haven, and (371) Wyatt Heavy Oil Wharf: 50 yards east of Wyatt Light Oil Pier; west side 210 feet, 480 feet of berthing tugs to 4,000 hp can be obtained by prior arrangement. space with dolphins; 30 feet alongside; deck height, 11 Vessels usually proceed to the harbor without assistance. feet; receipt and shipment of petroleum products, receipt Large vessels normally require tugs for docking and of asphalt; owned and operated by Wyatt, Inc. undocking. Arrangements for tug service should be made (372) Gulf Refining and Marketing Co. Wharf: on each 24 hours in advance, usually through ships’ agents or side of harbor, 200 yards south of Tomlinson Bridge; 60- directly by shipping companies. The tugs monitor VHF- foot face, 735 feet of berthing space with dolphins; 35 feet FM channels 13 and 16 and use channel 19A as a working alongside; deck height, 13 feet; vessels normally moor frequency; call sign KEE-234. starboardside-to; receipt and shipment of petroleum (357) Launch service to ships at anchor is available. products; owned and operated by Gulf Oil Refining and Launches monitor VHF-FM channel 16 and use channel Marketing Co. 19A as a working frequency. (373) Gulf Refining and Marketing Co. Pier: 100 yards (358) New Haven is a customs port of entry. southward of Gulf Refining and Marketing Co. Wharf; north side 400 feet, 25 feet alongside; south side 380 (359) feet, 25 feet alongside; deck height, 10 feet; receipt and shipment of petroleum products; owned and operated by Quarantine, customs, immigration and agricultural Gulf Refining and Marketing Co. quarantine (374) ARCO Petroleum Products Co. Wharf: 300 yards (360) (See Chapter 3, Vessel Arrival Inspections, and southwestward of Gulf Refining and Marketing Co. Pier; Appendix A for addresses.) 110-foot face, 760 feet with dolphins; 35 feet alongside; (361) Quarantine is enforced in accordance with deck height, 15 feet; vessels normally moor starboardside- regulations of the U.S. Public Health Service. (See Public to; receipt and shipment of petroleum products; owned Health Service, Chapter 1.) and operated by ARCO Petroleum Products Co. (362) New Haven has many public and private hospitals. (375) New Haven Terminal, Scrap Metal Dock: 275 yards southward of ARCO Petroleum Products Co. Wharf; (363) 640-foot face; 35 feet alongside; deck height, 14 feet; Coast Guard (364) The Captain of the Port maintains an office in New Haven. The nearest vessel documentation office is in Bridgeport, CT. (See Appendix A for addresses.)
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 ¢ 307 two 30-ton traveling gantry cranes, crawler cranes to 250 (387) The Gulf, a bight betweenWelches Point and Charles tons; receipt and shipment of general and containerized Island, about 6.5 miles westward of New Haven Harbor cargo and steel products, shipment of scrap metal, receipt entrance, affords anchorage in 6 to 15 feet and is sheltered of copper, zinc, and lumber; owned and operated by New in all but southerly and southeasterly winds. The entrance Haven Terminal, Inc. is clear. The shoaling is gradual, and soundings are the (376) New Haven Terminal Pier: 50 yards southward best guide on the northwest side of the bight; the western of Scrap Metal Dock; north and south sides, 650 feet side of Welches Point and the reefs around Charles Island usable, can accommodate tankers up to 700 feet; 35 and extending to the mainland should be approached with 39 feet alongside, north and south sides, respectively; caution, as the shoaling is abrupt. deck height, 13 feet; cranes up to 50 tons; 36,000 square feet covered storage; receipt and shipment of general (388) Milford Harbor, comprising the lower portion of cargo, receipt of petroleum products, petrochemicals, the Wepawaug River, is entered at the mouth of the chemicals, copper, zinc, lumber and steel products; river between two jetties at the head of The Gulf. The owned and operated by New Haven Terminal, Inc. westerly jetty extends southward from Burns Point, (377) Exxon Co. Terminal Wharf: 175 yards southward and the easterly jetty is marked by Milford Harbor Light of New Haven Terminal Pier; 80-foot face, 700 feet with 10. The harbor is used chiefly for recreational boating dolphins; 35 feet alongside; deck height, 13 feet; vessels and occasionally for the receipt of shellfish and fish. A normally moor starboardside-to; receipt and shipment of dredged channel leads from The Gulf through the jettied petroleum products; owned and operated by Exxon Co., entrance to a point about 400 feet above the town wharf, U.S.A. 0.6 mile above Burns Point. The channel is marked by a lighted buoy at the entrance and unlighted buoys in the (378) approach. There are several small-craft facilities, and a 5 mph speed limit is enforced in the harbor. The National Supplies Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, (379) OilbunkeringterminalsatNewHavenaremaintained maintains a laboratory and research vessel base on the west side of the harbor, about 0.2 mile northward of Burns by the major oil companies. Fuel oil and diesel oil in Point. the usual commercial grades are obtainable. Barges are available for bunkering in the anchorages outside the breakwaters or at the piers; 24-hour advance notice is required, and arrangements should be made through (389) Charles Island, on the southwest side at the ships’ agents. Water, provisions and marine supplies can entrance to The Gulf, is low and partly covered with trees. be procured. The island is connected to the mainland by The Bar, a narrow neck about 0.5 mile long and surrounded by rocks (380) awash and shoals. A buoy marks the end of a shoal that extends 250 yards east-northeastward from the island, Repairs and a lighted bell buoy marks the end of a rocky area that (381) New Haven has no facilities for making major repairs extends 0.4 mile southward from the island. Northward of Charles Island is a good anchorage in 10 to 16 feet, or for drydocking deep-draft vessels; the nearest such sheltered from southerly to southwesterly winds. facilities are at Boston, MA, and New York. Machine shops in the area can make limited repairs to machinery (390) Between Charles Island and Stratford Point, about and boilers and fabricate shafts and other pieces of 3 miles southwestward, several summer resorts are along equipment. the shore, and the Housatonic River empties into Long Island Sound just above the point. The shoals that extend (382) southward from Stratford Point toward Stratford Shoal Light (see chart 12354) consist of narrow ridges of hard Small-craft facilities sand with deeper water between and have oyster beds (383) There are excellent facilities on the east and west marked with stakes. Depths of 12 feet or less extend 1 mile offshore. sides of the harbor and on West and Quinnipiac Rivers. (391) Stratford Point Light (41°09'07\"N., 73°06'12\"W.), (384) 52 feet above the water, is shown from a white conical tower, with dark red band midway of its height, from the ENCs - US5CN13M, US5CN10M southerly part of the point. Charts - 12370, 12364 (392) (385) Pond Point, about 5 miles southwestward of the ENC - US5CN13M New Haven Harbor entrance, has a rocky shoal with little depth over the greater part of it that extends about 0.3 mile Chart - 12370 southward. It is marked by a buoy. A prominent white mast is on the point. (393) Housatonic River rises in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts and Connecticut and empties (386) Welches Point, 0.8 mile westward of Pond Point, into Long Island Sound about 10 miles southwestward forms the east side of the entrance of the Gulf. A reef extends 0.2 mile southward from the point and is marked by a buoy. Several scattered rocks extend a southeasterly direction for about 0.5 mile from the buoy.
308 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 (400) Structures across Housatonic River Clear Width of Clear Height above Draw or Span Mean High Water Name•Description•Type Location Opening (feet) (feet) Information U.S. Route 1 Bridge (bascule) 41°12'01\"N., 73°06'38\"W. 125 32 Notes 1 and 2. Call sign KXJ-695 65 Bridge under construction Moses Wheeler/I-95 Bridge (fixed) 41°12'17\"N., 73°06'35\"W. 100 19 Notes 1 and 2. Call sign KU-6035 91* *Reported Metro-North/Devon Railroad Bridge (bascule) 41°12'18\"N., 73°06'36\"W. 83 79 79 Overhead power cable 41°12'20\"N., 73°06'36\"W. 34 17 Overhead power cables 41°13'46\"N., 73°06'35\"W. 30 Sikorsky/Route 15 Bridge (fixed) 41°14'47\"N., 73°05'27\"W. 100 Shelton-Derby Highway Bridge (fixed) 41°18'53\"N., 73°05'12\"W. 100 Railroad Bridge (fixed) 41°19'03\"N., 73°05'21\"W. 148 Shelton-Derby Highway Bridge (fixed) 41°19'09\"N., 73°05'28\"W. 84 Note 1 – Bridgetender monitors VHF-FM channel 13. Note 2 – See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 and 117.207, Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations. of the New Haven Harbor entrance. The river is joined remainder of the channel, thence 7 feet in the dredged by the Naugatuck River, which is not navigable, in the channel near Sow and Pigs Jetty. The channel is marked vicinity of Derby, CT. Housatonic River is navigable to a to a point about 2.5 miles below Derby and Shelton. point about 1 mile above Shelton, CT, where it is closed by a power dam. The head of navigation for all practical purposes is at the towns of Derby and Shelton, 11.5 miles above the entrance. Small vessels can anchor in the river (397) Stratford is a town on the west side of the river abreast of Stratford, where the channel has an available 2.3 miles above the entrance. The principal wharf has width of about 500 feet. The waterborne commerce on the a depth of about 9 feet at its end. The harbormaster river is principally in barge shipments of aggregate, fuel at Stratford controls anchorages and moorings and has oil to the power plant at Devon and seasonal commercial jurisdiction from the entrance of the river to the Shelton shellfishing. Navigation above Devon is limited to town line. Harbor regulations may be obtained from recreational boating. the harbormaster, who may be contacted through the (394) On the east side of the entrance to Housatonic River, Stratford police or at the Town Hall. Stratford has several a breakwater extends out from Milford Point across the small-craft facilities. bar and is marked at its south end by Housatonic River Breakwater Light 2A. The inner section of the breakwater (398) Devon is on the east side about 1 mile above Stratford. is awash at high water. Local small craft anchor near the east bank of the river, just north of the highway bridge, in depths up to 10 feet. A (395) 40-foot marine railway at a small-craft facility at Devon can haul out craft for engine and hull repairs; gasoline, Channels water, ice, marine supplies and storage are available. In (396) A federal project provides for an 18-foot dredged 1981, depths of 4 feet were reported alongside the facility. channel from Long Island Sound between the breakwater (399) Shelton, a town on the west side of the river about on the east and Stratford Point on the west upriver for 11.5 miles above the entrance is connected to Derby by about 4.3 miles to the lower end of Culver Bar. (See two bridges; the town has several important factories. In Notice to Mariners and the latest editions of the charts 1971, the wharves at Derby and Shelton were in ruins and for controlling depths.) Above the lower end of Culver unsuitable for craft of any size. Bar, the river channel extends through several dredged sections across river bars to the towns of Derby and (401) Shelton about 11.5 miles above the river entrance. In 2005, the controlling depths were 2.2 feet in the buoyed Tides channel from the lower end of Culver Bar and across (402) The mean range of tide is 5.5 feet at Stratford and 5 Mill Bar to the naturally deep river channel, thence 5.7 feet in the dredged channels across lower Oronoque Bar feet at Shelton. The time of the tide becomes later and the and 3.0 feet across upper Oronoque Bar, thence 5.5 feet range diminishes in progressing up the river. At Stratford across Camp Meeting Bar, thence 6.2 feet across Drews the tide is about 0.8 hour later than at the entrance, Bar except for shoaling to 3.9 feet in the lower part of whereas at Shelton high water is about 1.8 hours later the dredged channel along the left edge, thence 7 feet and low water about 2.8 hours later than at the entrance. across Mouthrops Bar and Hidelom Rock Bar, thence The river water is fresh about 6 miles above the entrance. 7 feet in the left outside quarter of the dredged channel across Twomile Island Bar with shoaling to bare in the (403) Currents (404) At the entrance near the end of the breakwater the flood has a strong westerly set. Between Milford Point and Crimbo Point, flood and ebb have a velocity of
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 ¢ 309 about 1.2 knots. The flood sets about 330° and the ebb curve is from 0.3 to 0.8 mile from shore, and the shoaling 135°. Just north of the draw of the railroad bridge above is generally abrupt. The outlying dangers are Orient Shoal Stratford, the velocity of flood is 1.1 knots and of ebb, 1.3 and the rocky patch northward of Horton Point. knots. In the openings of the bridge the flood current has (416) The prominent features are Browns Hills, a tower some easterly set, but the ebb sets fair with the openings. at Rocky Point, a tank and television tower at Greenport Between that bridge and Shelton the tidal current has a and Horton Point Light. velocity of about 1 knot. Because of the drainage flow (417) Several rocky shoals, including Orient Shoal with a of the river, the ebb is usually greater and the flood less least depth of 6 feet, are offshore in the vicinity of Rocky than 1 knot. (Consult the Tidal Current Tables for current Point, about 5 miles westward of Orient Point. The north predictions and further details.) end of Orient Shoal is marked by a buoy. (418) Several rocks can be found out to 0.6 mile offshore between Orient Point and Inlet Point. A wreck with a least depth of 29 feet is 0.4 mile north of Inlet Point. (405) Spring freshets at Shelton rise 10 feet or more above (419) Horton Point Light (41°05'06\"N., 72°26'44\"W.), mean high tide. 103 feet above the water, is shown from a white square tower attached to a dwelling on the northwest part of (406) Ice closes the river above Stratford during the winter the point. The former lighthouse tower is close by, and sometimes extends to the entrance. southwestward of the present light. (420) A rocky shoal with a least found depth of 29 feet (407) is 1.6 miles northward of Horton Point. The shoal is a ridge having a northeast-southwest direction, with abrupt Routes shoaling on its northwest and southeast sides. (408) The channel in Housatonic River is narrow and (421) From Horton Point for about 32 miles to Old Field Point, the shore is fringed with shoals that extend off a crooked, with little depth on either side, and across the greatest distance of 1.5 miles and rise abruptly from the bars in the channel are dredged cuts 100 feet wide. The deep water of Long Island Sound. Boulders are found tidal currents are strong, especially in the lower part of near the shore on the shoals that extend off 0.5 mile in the river, and strangers are advised to take a pilot. Small places. A sand shoal, about 0.5 mile in extent with a least craft, without a pilot, should proceed with caution and depth of 22 feet, is about 1.1 miles northwestward of preferably on a rising tide. Duck Pond Point. (409) When entering the river during a flood current, care (422) The bluffs begin about 1 mile westward of Goldsmith must be taken to avoid being set on the shoals on the Inlet and reach their greatest elevation just eastward of west side by strong westerly currents. In the vicinity of Duck Pond Point. A valley, formed by a break in the Milford Point care should be exercised to avoid a shoal bluffs, is just westward of the point; a bathing pavilion is that reportedly extends from Milford Point to the eastern on the beach. Boulders that bare at low water are on the edge of the channel. Care should also be exercised off shoals that fringe the shore between Duck Pond Point and the extreme northern end of Nells Island as a shoal is Mattituck Inlet. reported to have encroached into the channel. By steering a midchannel course no difficulty should be encountered. (423) ENCs - US5NY1IM, US5NY1KM (410) Pilots and tugs can be obtained at New Haven. Chart - 12358 (411) A 5 mph speed limit is enforced on the river near anchorage and mooring areas and near boat slips. (412) ENCs - US4NY1GM, US4NY1JM Chart - 12354 (413) Stratford Shoal Middle Ground, 5.4 miles south (424) Mattituck Inlet, 6.7 miles southwestward of Horton of Stratford Point and covered 9 to 18 feet, is marked by Point Light, is entered between two short jetties. The inlet Stratford Shoal (Middle Ground) Light (41°03'35\"N., is marked by a long break in the bluffs. The outer end of 73°06'05\"W.), 60 feet above the water and shown from the west jetty is marked by a light. A gong buoy about 1 a gray granite octagonal tower projecting from a house mile north of the jetty light marks the entrance of the inlet. on a pier, and by buoys that mark the outer ends of shoal The sides of the channel are sandy, and, although shoaling areas extending 1 mile north, 0.9 mile northeast and 0.5 is liable to occur at the entrance, strangers can enter the mile south of the light. A sound signal is at the light. inlet without great danger. A federal project provides for depths of 7 feet in the channel from the entrance of (414) Mattituck Creek to the turning basin at Mattituck. (See Notice to Mariners and the latest edition of the chart for North Shore of Long Island controlling depths.) The channel is marked by buoys and (415) From Orient Point (41°09.6'N., 72°14.0'W.), for private markers. The overhead power cable about 1 mile above the entrance has a clearance of 78 feet. about 11 miles to Horton Point, the south shore of Long Island Sound is generally bluff and rocky. The 10-fathom
310 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 (425) (439) Currents Communications (426) The tidal currents have an estimated velocity of about (440) Vessels transiting Long Island Sound or approaching 3 knots in the narrow parts of the entrance of Mattituck the facility may do so through a VHF-FM marine operator. Inlet. Slack waters occur possibly 1 hour after the time of Available marine operator stations’ name and channel high and low water. With northerly and westerly winds, are: the sea is rough in the entrance. The inlet is sometimes (441) Riverhead 28 closed by ice during portions of cold winters. (442) New Bedford 26 (443) New London 26 (444) Bridgeport 24. (445) Upon the approach of an incoming vessel, the (427) Several marinas and a boatyard are inside the inlet. A platform, voice call “TOSCO Corporation Offshore 70-ton mobile hoist at the boatyard can haul out craft for Platform,” or “Riverhead Platform,” or “TOSCO’s engine, hull and radio repairs. Marine supplies, gasoline, Riverhead Terminal,” monitors VHF-FM channels 16, diesel fuel, water and covered and wet storage can be 13 and 19A; works channel 19A. obtained. A transient dock, operated by the Mattituck Park Commission, is at the head of the inlet; depths of about 6 feet are at the dock. A dockmaster is at the dock; water is available. (446) Vessels calling at the platform are moored at any time, weather conditions permitting. The tidal current periods (428) Mattituck is a village on the railroad at the head of are substantially the same as at The Race. Strong winds the inlet. Provisions can be obtained. from the north and northwest are experienced during the winter and spring. Tidal currents during maximum ebb (429) Jacobs Point is about 11 miles southwestward of and flood may reach 3 knots. Horton Point Light. (447) Vessels awaiting berth at the platform will normally (430) anchor north of the platform. A vessel drawing more than 50 feet of water may wish to anchor in deeper water Riverhead Production Platform northwest of the platform. Pilots are familiar with the (431) An offshore platform for the delivery and receipt of best anchorages. Holding ground is good, and a scope of 8 shots (120 feet) is considered adequate. petroleum products is in open roadstead, off Northville, NY (and Riverhead, NY), about 1.2 miles northward of (448) Jacobs Point. (432) The facility consists of a 45 by 100-foot steel Pilotage, Riverhead Production Platform platform structure with breasting dolphins and mooring (449) Pilotage by a state-licensed pilot is compulsory dolphins providing two berths, one on the northeast side and one on the southwest side. The deck height is 24.5 in Long Island Sound for foreign flag vessels and U.S. feet. The northeast berth has depths alongside of 64 feet vessels that are under register (i.e., engaged in foreign and can accommodate tankers up to 225,000 DWT and trade). Such vessels can arrange for a state-licensed pilot up to 1,150-foot length, of 62-foot maximum draft. by contacting the joint rotation administrator, Block (433) The southwest berth has depths alongside of 50 feet Island Pilots at 243 Spring Street, Newport, RI 02840; and can accommodate tankers of up to 42,000 DWT and telephone 401–847–9050 (24 hours), 800–274–1216; up to 600-foot length, of 42-foot maximum draft. Barges FAX 401–847–9052. Enrolled vessels (i.e., U.S. vessels mooring in this berth must be at least 220 feet long. engaged in coastwise trade) may be required to have (434) A private sound signal is on the platform. Private a U.S. Coast Guard federally licensed pilot unless the lights are on the northeast and northwest corners, and two master has recency for the intended area. See Pilotage, lights mark the center of the platform. Lights are also on Long Island Sound (indexed as such), Chapter 8 and each of the dolphins. Pilotage, New York Harbor and Approaches, (indexed as such), Chapter 11. (435) (450) The pilot serves as docking master and remains on board on standby while the vessel is moored at the Wharf platform. Pilot services are arranged in advance through (436) An 800-foot barge pier is just east of Jacobs Point ships’ agents or directly by shipping companies. and southward of the platform. The pier is used for receipt (451) and shipment of petroleum products and has tank storage for 5¼ million barrels. Depth alongside is 13 feet. Lesser Tugs depths surround the area, and a shoal with depths of 10 (452) Tug service is available from New Haven, feet is in the recommended southwest approach to the west pier berth. Vessels with draft greater than 12 feet Providence, Brooklyn or Staten Island on advance notice. should exercise caution when approaching the pier and Normally two or three tugs are used for docking and one should endeavor to arrive or depart at high water. or two tugs for undocking. (437) Prominent feature (438) The numerous light green oil storage tanks on Jacobs Point are prominent.
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 ¢ 311 (453) submerged at high tide, and the adjacent east beach has receded, creating a breach between the jetty and land. A Launch service channel marked by private buoys leads eastward from the (454) J & H Launch Service, Port Jefferson (516–331– entrance to small-craft facilities on the north shore of the harbor. 5336), provides transfer service for vessels at anchor or (465) Small-craft facilities in the harbor can provide alongside the platform. transient berths, gasoline, diesel fuel, electricity, water, ice, marine supplies, pump-out facilities and launching (455) ramps. The minimum approach and alongside depths to the facilities is 10 feet. Supplies (456) Fueling of a ship alongside the platform is not permitted. A ship may fuel while at anchor from a barge. (466) A speed limit of 6 mph is enforced in the harbor by Water is not available from this facility. Stores may be the Suffolk County Police. brought on board via launch while alongside or at anchor. (467) Mount Misery, 180 feet high, between Mount Sinai Harbor and Port Jefferson, slopes off gradually toward the sound where the bluffs are about 60 feet high and (457) New York City is the quarantine, customs, very prominent. Sand banks dug out by sand and gravel immigration and agricultural quarantine port of entry companies are very conspicuous. for Northville. Officials are stationed in New York City. (See Appendix A for addresses.) Arrangements for such (468) Port Jefferson Harbor, on the south shore of Long inspections must be made by ships’ agents in advance, Island Sound eastward of Old Field Point, is entered usually not less than 24 hours Monday through Friday through a dredged channel that leads between two jetties and 48 hours on Saturday and Sunday. Officials will that are in ruins to a docking area near the southwestern board vessels in the anchorage prior to arrival within the end of the harbor; the jetties are each marked by a light. vicinity of the offshore mooring facility. The approach is marked by a lighted whistle buoy, about 1.1 miles northwest of the entrance. Three stacks on the (458) west side near the head of the harbor are conspicuous landmarks. A 12 mph speed limit is enforced in the main ENCs - US4NY1GM, US4NY1JM entrance channel, and a 5 mph speed limit is enforced at the head of the harbor in the vicinity of the mooring areas Chart - 12354 and wharves. (459) Between Mattituck Inlet and Port Jefferson the shore (469) A 121°–301° measured nautical mile is westward is fringed with rock shoals extending in places 1.5 miles of the entrance to Port Jefferson Harbor on Old Field offshore. The outer ends of the shoals are marked by Beach. The front markers are orange posts about 8 feet buoys. high; the rear markers are rectangles mounted on legs about 12 feet high, painted red with a 6-inch black vertical (460) Horse in Bank, 7.3 miles westward of Mattituck stripe in the middle. Inlet, is an area of white patches in the brush-covered bluff at Friars Head. The feature is at the western end of (470) The approach to Port Jefferson Harbor is clear, Roanoke Point Shoal and 14 miles westward of Horton taking care to avoid Mount Misery Shoal with depths Point Light. of 7 to 12 feet, about 0.8 mile north-northeast of the east jetty light. (461) The valley of Wading River, about 20 miles westward of Horton Point Light, forms a broad break (471) A federal project provides for a channel 26 feet deep in the high bluffs. The entrance to Wading River is from Long Island Sound to the south end of Port Jefferson protected by a short jetty on the west side. In 1981, a Harbor. (See Notice to Mariners and latest editions of reported depth of about 3 feet could be carried in the river charts for controlling depths.) The channel is marked by to a town launching ramp 0.1 mile above the entrance. lighted and unlighted buoys and a directional light with A small canal, about 350 yards westward of the entrance a 145.7°–147.3° white sector. to Wading River, leads southward to the site of a nuclear power station. The canal, closed to general navigation, (472) Shoals with little depth are on both sides of the had a reported depth of about 12 feet in 1989. channel from the entrance to Port Jefferson to Lighted Bell Buoy 5 inside the entrance. The ground from the (462) Tuttles White Bank is a high white bluff 0.6 mile east jetty to the lighted bell buoy is broken, with shoals westward of Wading River. covered 4 to 11 feet. The lighted bell buoy cannot be seen over the breakwater at low tide by small vessels (463) approaching the harbor. ENCs - US5NY17M, US5CN10M (473) Charts - 12362, 12364 Currents (474) In the channel between the jetties the velocity of the (464) Mount Sinai Harbor, 22.5 miles westward of Mattituck Inlet, is marked by a low break in the beach tidal currents is 2.6 knots on flood and 1.9 on ebb; flood nearly 1 mile long. The entrance is between two rubble mound jetties; caution should be exercised when near them. The jetties are each marked on the outer end by a private light. In 2015, the west jetty was reported partially
312 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 8 sets 151° and the ebb 323°. It is reported that on the ebb (482) Port Jefferson is a town at the southern end of there is a current with a velocity of 1 to 2 knots across the harbor. The principal industries of the port are the the entrance to the harbor. shipping of sand and gravel and the distribution of petroleum products. There are small-craft facilities and a (475) launching ramp along the waterfront. Ice (483) (476) Ice forms over the entire harbor and interrupts Wharves navigation in very cold weather but does not endanger (484) Depths ranging from 2 to 29 feet are reported shipping in the harbor. alongside the commercial wharves and piers at the head (477) of the harbor. The oil wharf on the west side of the harbor, about 400 yards from the head, has depths of 29 feet Pilotage, Port Jefferson alongside the face and 20 feet along the north side. The (478) Pilotage by a state-licensed pilot is compulsory power plant wharf, about 150 yards northwestward, has depths of 29 feet alongside. in Long Island Sound for foreign flag vessels and U.S. vessels that are under register (i.e., engaged in foreign (485) trade). Such vessels can arrange for a state-licensed pilot by contacting the joint rotation administrator, Block Communications Island Pilots at 243 Spring Street, Newport, RI 02840; (486) Port Jefferson is served by railroad and bus. A ferry telephone 401–847–9050 (24 hours), 800–274–1216; Fax 401–847–9052. Enrolled vessels (i.e., U.S. vessels operates to Bridgeport, CT. engaged in coastwise trade) may be required to have a U.S. Coast Guard federally licensed pilot unless the master has recency for the intended area. See Pilotage, Long Island Sound (indexed as such), Chapter 8 and (487) Conscience Bay is entered through a long, narrow Pilotage, New York Harbor and Approaches, (indexed as channel at the northwest end of Port Jefferson Harbor. such), Chapter 11. The bay and entrance have depths of 1 to 2 feet. Strangers (479) Pilot services are arranged in advance through ships’ should not attempt to enter as there are many rocks at the agents or directly by shipping companies. entrance. (480) (488) Setauket Harbor, on the western side of Port Jefferson Harbor, has a narrow crooked channel. In Tugs 1981, a reported depth of about 2½ feet was available (481) TugserviceisavailablefromNewHaven,Providence, in the channel to the boatyard at Setauket. The entrance from Port Jefferson is marked by private seasonal buoys. Brooklyn or Staten Island on advance notice. Normally, Gasoline, moorings and limited marine supplies are two tugs are used for docking and one for undocking. available at the boatyard; a flatbed trailer can haul out craft to 32 feet long. (489) Setauket is a village on the south shore of Setauket Harbor about 1 mile above the entrance.
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74°W 73°30'W 314 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 12363 12369 Bridgeport HUDSON CNOENWN Y O R K U T Norwalk E C T IC 12368 N NE W RIVER Stamford LONG ISLAND SOUND EW JE Y O RK 12367 Old Field Point R S EY Greenwich SMITHTOWN BAY 41°N 12364 12364 HUNTINGTON BAY MAMARONECK HARBOR OYSTER BAY New Rochelle 12342 12365 Port Washington HEMPSTEAD HARBOR EAST RIVER 12366 LONG ISLAND Manhattan 12339 12335 12338 New York City 12363 Brooklyn Chart Coverage in Coast Pilot 2—Chapter 9 NOAA’s Online Interactive Chart Catalog has complete chart coverage http://www.charts.noaa.gov/InteractiveCatalog/nrnc.shtml
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 315 Western Long Island Sound (1) This chapter describes the western part of Long Island small craft that, especially at night, should proceed with Sound along the north shore from Bridgeport to Throgs caution when crossing oyster areas. Neck, the south shore from Old Field Point to Willets Point and the East and Harlem Rivers. Also described (10) are the many bays and their tributaries that make into this part of the sound including Bridgeport Harbor, Stamford Anchorages Harbor, Captain Harbor, Mamaroneck Harbor, Norwalk (11) There is anchorage for large vessels in the bight Harbor, Eastchester Bay, Huntington Bay, Oyster Bay, Hempstead Harbor, Manhasset Bay, Flushing Bay and between the entrance channels of Bridgeport Harbor New Rochelle Harbor and the commercial and small-craft and Black Rock Harbor. Cockenoe Harbor is sometimes facilities found in these waters. used by small vessels, but Sheffield Island Harbor is preferred and is sometimes used by tows. Westward of (2) Norwalk Islands, seagoing vessels can anchor toward the north shore and, with good ground tackle, hold on in COLREGS Demarcation Lines northerly winds. Captain Harbor affords good shelter but (3) The lines established for Long Island Sound are is rarely used except by local vessels. On the south shore, Huntington Bay and Hempstead Harbor are available for described in 33 CFR 80.155, Chapter 2. large vessels; Oyster Bay is also used, and Manhasset Bay is available for light-draft vessels. City Island Harbor is a (4) fine resort for coasters. (12) Several general anchorages are in Long Island No-Discharge Zone Sound. (See 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.146, Chapter 2, for (5) The States of New York and Connecticut, with the limits and regulations.) approval of the Environmental Protection Agency, have (13) established a No-Discharge Zone (NDZ) covering all coastal waters described in this chapter east of the Hell Tides Gate Bridge (see charts 12339 and 12363). (14) The time of tide is nearly simultaneous throughout (6) Within the NDZ, discharge of sewage, whether treated or untreated, from all vessels is prohibited. Long Island Sound, but the range of tide increases from Outside the NDZs, discharge of sewage is regulated by about 2.5 feet at the east end to about 7.3 feet at the west 40 CFR 140 (see Chapter 2). end. Daily predictions of the times and heights of high and low waters are given in the Tide Tables. (7) (15) The effect of strong winds, in combination with the regular tidal action, may at times cause the water to fall ENC - US4NY13M several feet below the plane of reference of the charts. Chart - 12363 (8) Western Long Island Sound is that portion of (16) the deep navigable waterway between the shores of Connecticut and New York and the northern coast of Long Currents Island westward of the line between Bridgeport and Old (17) About 1.3 miles northward of Eatons Neck Light the Field Point. ebb runs about 5 hours longer than the flood. The current (9) This region has boulders and broken ground, with has a velocity of 1.4 knots; the flood sets 283° and the little or no natural change in the shoals. The waters are ebb sets 075°. well marked by navigational aids so that strangers should (18) The direction and velocity of the currents are affected experience no difficulty in navigating them. As all broken by strong winds that may increase or diminish the periods ground is liable to be strewn with boulders, vessels should of flood or ebb. Currents in East River are described in proceed with caution when in the vicinity of broken areas the latter part of this chapter. where the charted depths are within 8 feet of the draft. All of the more frequented places are entered through (19) dredged channels. During fog, vessels are advised to anchor until the weather clears before attempting to Weather,Western Long Island Sound and vicinity enter. The numerous oyster grounds in this region are (20) These waters are more protected than the eastern usually marked by stakes and flags. These stakes may become broken off and form obstructions dangerous to Sound resulting in fewer gales. However, winters are colder and summers warmer due to this sheltering effect. Fog is not so frequent either and tends to burn off quicker than farther east. Winter winds of 16 knots or more are likely about 12 to 15 percent of the time
316 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 and are predominantly from the west through northwest. vessels that are under register (i.e., engaged in foreign Harbors such as Cold Spring, Oyster Bay, Hempstead trade), Enrolled vessels (i.e., U.S. vessels engaged in and Manhasset offer additional shelter. In summer coastwise trade) may be required to have a U.S. Coast thunderstorms may develop on 4 to 5 days per month. Guard federally licensed pilot unless the master has These are most likely during the afternoon or evening. recency for the intended area. For vessels entering Long (21) In Long Island Sound the north and south shores are Island Sound from the east (from sea via Block Island equally subject to fog, except that on spring and summer Sound) see Pilotage, Long Island Sound (indexed as mornings, when there is little or no wind, fog will often such), Chapter 8. For vessels entering Long Island Sound hang along the Connecticut shore while it is clear offshore from the west (East River) see Pilotage, New York and and southward. Approaches to New York (indexed as such), Chapter 11. (22) In the western end of Long Island Sound, although fogs are liable to occur at any time, they are not (34) encountered so often nor do they generally last so long as farther eastward. ENCs - US5CN12M, US5CN10M Charts - 12369, 12364 (23) (35) Bridgeport Harbor, on the north side of Long Island Sound north-northwestward of Stratford Shoal Ice (Middle Ground) Light and about 52 miles from New (24) In ordinary winters the floating and pack ice in Long York, consists of two widely separated units. The main harbor and its branches serve the east and central portions Island Sound, while impeding navigation, does not render of the city of Bridgeport, and Black Rock Harbor and it absolutely unsafe. In exceptionally severe winters, its tributaries serve the western part. Black Rock Harbor waterways may become impassable for some vessels. and Cedar Creek are described under separate headings. (25) Drift ice, which is formed principally along the Waterborne commerce at Bridgeport consists mostly of northern shore of the sound under the influence of the petroleum products, lumber, sand and gravel, building prevailing northerly winds, drifts across to the southern materials and scrap iron. side and accumulates there, massing into large fields, and remains until removed by southerly winds that drive it (36) back to the northerly shore. (26) In ordinary winters ice generally forms in the western Prominent features end of the sound as far as Eatons Neck; in exceptionally (37) The large red and white horizontally banded stack severe winters ice may extend to Falkner Island and farther eastward. of a powerplant on Tongue Point is the most prominent landmark in this area. Other prominent landmarks include (27) several church spires, the radio towers at Pleasure Beach and Bridgeport Harbor Light 7. An aerolight about 1.3 Effects of winds on ice miles northwestward of Stratford Point can be seen from (28) In Long Island Sound northerly winds drive the ice to offshore. the southern shore of the sound and southerly winds carry it back to the northern shore. Northeasterly winds force the ice westward and cause formations heavy enough to (38) Bridgeport Harbor Light 7 (41°09'24\"N., prevent the passage of vessels of every description until 73°10'47\"W.), 50 feet above the water, is shown from a the ice is removed by westerly winds. These winds carry black skeleton tower with small white house, on a black the ice eastward and, if of long enough duration, drive it base, on the west side of the entrance channel near the through The Race into Block Island Sound, from where end of the west breakwater. it goes to sea and disappears. (29) In Bridgeport Harbor winds from north to northwest (39) clear the harbor of drift ice, and those from southeast through south to southwest force the ice into the harbor Channels from the sound. The outer buoys may be carried out of (40) From deep water in Long Island Sound the dredged position by heavy ice during severe winters. (30) Additional information concerning ice conditions in channel extends north-northeastward between two the waters adjoining Long Island Sound is given under converging breakwaters into the main harbor, and thence the local descriptions. into the three tributaries; Johnsons Creek, Yellow Mill Channel and Pequonnock River. (See Notice to Mariners and latest edition of the chart for controlling depths.) (41) A power plant is at Tongue Point. A privately (31) Vessel Traffic Service, New York, operated by the dredged channel leads from the main channel to the U.S. Coast Guard, serves New York Harbor. (See 33 CFR power plant’s offshore oil wharf on the south side of the 161.1 through 161.25, Chapter 2, for regulations). point. In 1980, the channel, except for a 17-foot depth on the southwesterly side of the widener, had a reported (32) controlling depth of about 26 feet; depths of 31 to 37 feet are reported alongside the wharf. Another privately Pilotage,Western Long Island Sound dredged channel, used by barges, leads from the main (33) Pilotage by a state-licensed pilot is compulsory in Long Island Sound for foreign flag vessels and U.S.
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 317 (45) Structures across Tributaries of Bridgeport Harbor Clear Width of Clear Height above Draw or Span Mean High Water Name•Description•Type Location Opening (feet) (feet) Information Johnsons Creek Highway Bridge (swing) 41°09'58\"N., 73°10'03\"W. 65 7 Yellow Mill Channel Stratford Avenue Bridge (bascule) 41°10'36\"N., 73°10'35\"W. 82 11 Note 1 39 Interstate 95 Bridge (fixed) 41°10'42\"N., 73°10'33\"W. 105 Pequonnock River Interstate 95 Bridge (fixed) 41°10'38\"N., 73°11'08\"W. 134 60 150 Overhead power cable 41°10'38\"N., 73°11'10\"W. 8 (down), 68 (up) 26 Stratford Avenue Bridge (vertical lift) 41°10'45\"N., 73°11'09\"W. 103 160 Notes 2 and 3 Note 2 Peck Railroad Bridge (bascule) 41°10'58\"N., 73°11'09\"W. 105, 65 (open) – 4 Draw spans removed Overhead power cables 41°10'58\"N., 73°11'11\"W. Note 2 Congress Street Bridge 41°11'01\"N., 73°11'15\"W. – East Washington Avenue Bridge (bascule) 41°11'10\"N., 73°11'21\"W. 69 Note 1 – See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 and 117.225, Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations. Note 2 – See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 and 117.219, Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations. Note 3 – Bridgetender monitors VHF-FM channel 13; call sign KU-6033. channel to the powerplant’s facilities on the east side of (48) A general anchorage is in Johnsons Creek. (See the point. In 2009, the controlling depth in the channel 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.148, Chapter 2, for limits and was 13.5 feet. regulations.) (42) Johnsons Creek, northward of Pleasure Beach, is entered eastward of Tongue Point through a marked (49) dredged channel leading to anchorage basins, two on the west side, and one at the head of the creek. Private yacht Dangers clubs and two oil-receiving piers are on the creek. (50) The entrance is clear, and the only dangers are the (43) Yellow Mill Channel is entered through a dredged channel that leads for about 0.8 mile north-northeastward previously discussed shoals on the east, south of Stratford from just above the first bend in the main channel to the Point, and on the west, the Penfield Reef shoals. head of the creek. Flats, largely bare at low water, are on both sides of the channel. Depths at the wharves are 8 to (51) 15 feet. (44) Pequonnock River, the most westerly of the Currents tributaries, is easily followed by small craft, but larger (52) The velocity of flood or ebb is about 0.7 knot in the vessels may need the assistance of a tug to get around the sharp bends. The river is entered through a dredged entrance between the breakwaters. (See the Tidal Current channel that leads northward from the main channel just Tables for predictions.) Inside the harbor the currents are below Connecticut Turnpike bridge to the head of generally weak. navigation just below the Berkshire Avenue Dam, about 1.1 miles above the entrance. Depths at some of the (53) wharves are 10 to 15 feet. Ice (46) (54) Ice does not interfere seriously with navigation in Anchorages Bridgeport Harbor, although its tributaries are closed at (47) Bridgeport Harbor has three anchorage areas inside times. The winds from the north and northwest clear the harbor of drift ice, and those from the southeast through the breakwaters. An anchorage is on the east side of the southwest force the ice into the harbor from the sound. the main channel northwestward of Pleasure Beach. A The outer buoys may be carried out of position by heavy second is on the west side of the channel south of Tongue ice during severe winters. Point, and a third runs parallel to the west side of the main channel from Tongue Point to Steel Point. The rest (55) of the harbor area consists of broad and shallow sand flats. Vessels seeking shelter from strong northerly winds Weather, Bridgeport and vicinity sometimes anchor off the entrance; the holding ground is (56) The terrain of the mainland is of glacial origin and good. rises in a rolling, mostly wooded manner to the foothills of the Berkshires, 30 miles to the north, and the Catskills, about 60 to 70 miles to the northwest. There is some foehn effect (chinook) with north and northwest winds, and the upslope effect with the approach of a coastal low is quite pronounced. The most pronounced topographical effect, however, is that of the land-sea breeze that is most pronounced in the spring, summer, and early autumn. The
318 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 land-sea breeze effect during this period will inevitably a U.S. Coast Guard federally licensed pilot unless the cause a shift in the wind direction, even with a moderately master has recency for the intended area. See Pilotage, strong isobaric flow. Long Island Sound (indexed as such), Chapter 8. See (57) As a result of the sea breeze, mean monthly also Pilotage, Narragansett Bay and Other Rhode Island temperatures during the summer average 3 to 5 degrees Waters (indexed as such), Chapter 6, and Pilotage Pickup (2 to 3°C) lower than nearby inland stations. Likewise, Locations Off Montauk Point (indexed as such), Chapter temperatures during the fall and winter are moderated 7. several degrees owing to the proximity of Long Island (64) Pilot services are generally arranged in advance Sound. The average annual temperature at Bridgeport is through ships’ agents or directly by shipping companies. 52°F (11.1°C). The average high is 60°F (15.6°C) and the average low is 44°F (6.7°C). July is the warmest (65) month with average extremes of 82°F (27.8°C) and 66°F (18.9°C). January is the coolest with average extremes Towage of 37°F (2.8°C) and 23°F (-5°C). The record high (66) Tug service is available from New Haven, temperature is 103°F (39.4°C) set in July 1957 while the all-time low temperature is -7°F (-21.7°C) recorded in Providence, Brooklyn or Staten Island on advance notice. January 1984. Deep-draft vessels usually require tugs for mooring in (58) Precipitation is slightly heavier than at nearby Bridgeport Harbor. inland stations the year around since coastal low-pressure (67) Launch service is available to vessels at anchor. systems move quite consistently on a track to the south of (68) Bridgeport is a customs port of entry. Bridgeport. One of the greater hazards along the coastal areas in the vicinity of Bridgeport is the accumulation of (69) water (especially during periods of high tide) with the approach of a slowly moving, deepening, low-pressure Quarantine, customs, immigration and agricultural system from the south. Severe storms occasionally cause quarantine inundation of 4 to 5 feet (1.2 to 1.5 m). The average annual (70) (See Chapter 3, Vessel Arrival Inspections, and precipitation is 41 inches (1041 mm). Precipitation is Appendix A for addresses.) evenly distributed throughout the year with the difference (71) Quarantine is enforced in accordance with the between the wettest (March) and driest month (February) regulations of the U.S. Public Health Service. (See Public averaging only 0.89 inches (23 mm). Snowfall averages Health Service, Chapter 1.) 26 inches (660 mm) per year and has fallen from October (72) Bridgeport has several hospitals. through May. The greatest 24-hour snowfall on record was 16 inches (406 mm) recorded in February 1969. (73) (59) Bridgeport has been directly affected by many tropical storms since 1871. Tropical storm Belle passed Harbormaster over the site in August 1976. Highest winds were only 60 (74) The control of the port is vested in the harbormaster, knots. One day earlier, Belle was packing winds of 105 knots. In September 1985, Hurricane Gloria passed about who maintains an office at the Bridgeport City Hall and five miles west of the Bridgeport weather station placing can also be contacted through the Bridgeport Police the site in the roughest sector of the storm. Highest gusts Department. approached 75 knots and highest sustained winds were 64 knots. Two days earlier, Gloria had supported winds (75) of 125 knots. (60) The National Weather Service maintains an office at Wharves the Bridgeport Municipal Airport; barometers may be (76) Bridgeport has three principal privately owned and compared here. operated deep-draft facilities; one is on the south side of (62) Tongue Point and the other two are on the east side of the harbor opposite Tongue Point. Facilities for smaller Pilotage, Bridgeport vessels and barges are along the sides of the harbor and on (63) Pilotage by a state-licensed pilot is compulsory Johnsons Creek, Yellow Mill Channel and Pequonnock River. Most of the facilities at Bridgeport are of the in Long Island Sound for foreign flag vessels and U.S. marginal-type wharf, particularly those in the constricted vessels that are under register (i.e., engaged in foreign tributaries. Only the deep-draft facilities are described. trade). Such vessels can arrange for a state licensed pilot The alongside depths for the facilities described are by contacting the joint rotation administrator, Block reported; for information on the latest depths contact the Island Pilots at 243 Spring Street, Newport, RI 02840; private operators. All of these facilities have highway telephone 401–847–9050 (24 hours), 800–274–1216; connections, and most have water connections. FAX 401–847–9052. Enrolled vessels (i.e., U.S. vessels (77) Cargo in the port is usually handled by ship’s tackle; engaged in coastwise trade) may be required to have special handling equipment, if available, is mentioned in the description of the particular facility. (78) United Illuminating Co. Fuel Oil Dock: on the south side of Tongue Point; an offshore wharf with 345-foot breasting face, 900 feet with dolphins; 31 to 37 feet alongside; deck height, 20 feet; receipt of fuel oil; owned and operated by United Illuminating Co. (79) Shell Oil Co. Dock: on the east side of the harbor opposite Tongue Point; 190-foot face, 700 feet with
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 319 (61) CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA – BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT (41°10'N, 73°08'W) 26 feet (7.9 m) WEATHER ELEMENTS JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC YEAR YEARS OF RECORD SEA LEVEL PRESSURE (station pressure reduced to sea level) Mean (millibars) 1018.0 1017.5 1016.0 1014.9 1016.0 1015.1 1015.8 1016.9 1018.9 1019.5 1018.1 1018.7 1017.1 40 TEMPERATURE (°F) 47 47 Mean 30.1 31.3 38.7 48.9 58.8 68.2 74.2 73.0 65.9 55.7 45.6 34.6 52.2 47 47 Mean daily maximum 36.8 38.3 46.0 57.1 67.3 76.7 82.2 80.9 74.0 64.0 52.9 41.3 59.9 47 Mean daily minimum 22.8 23.8 30.8 40.1 49.9 59.3 65.7 64.7 57.2 46.9 37.8 27.4 44.0 47 Extreme (highest) 65 67 84 91 92 96 103 100 99 85 78 65 103 32 32 Extreme (lowest) -7 -5 4 18 31 41 49 44 36 26 16 -4 -7 32 32 RELATIVE HUMIDITY 47 Average percentage 55.3 50.0 34.5 24.4 35.2 26.4 33.4 43.8 63.5 69.9 55.8 62.4 46.5 47 47 CLOUD COVER 47 39 Percent of time clear 24.5 25.2 23.5 20.9 17.8 18.6 16.6 19.4 23.5 28.8 22.8 24.2 22.2 47 Percent of time scattered 14.8 15.5 15.2 15.5 17.3 20.6 22.7 23.9 20.2 19.2 17.3 15.3 18.1 47 47 Percent of time broken 13.4 13.0 14.3 16.3 17.8 19.8 22.5 20.6 17.2 15.8 14.3 12.8 16.5 47 39 Percent of time overcast 43.2 42.0 42.9 41.7 41.2 34.7 31.8 29.8 33.4 31.4 40.7 43.6 38.0 40 PRECIPITATION (inches) 40 Mean amount 3.1 2.9 3.8 3.6 3.6 3.0 3.5 3.7 3.1 3.2 3.7 3.5 41.4 40 40 Greatest amount 11.2 6.6 9.4 10.7 9.5 17.7 12.8 13.2 7.4 10.7 10.2 7.8 73.9 40 40 Least amount 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.7 0.7 0.3 0.3 0.3 23.0 40 40 Maximum amount (24 hours) 4.3 2.3 4.2 3.1 3.2 6.1 5.9 4.6 4.4 4.7 3.1 3.6 6.1 40 40 Mean number of days 17 16 17 17 17 15 14 14 13 13 16 17 186 40 40 SNOW 7.4 7.7 4.8 0.4 T 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 4.9 25.9 40 Mean amount 40 40 Greatest amount 26.2 27.9 21.8 6.0 T 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 6.6 20.8 59.8 40 40 Least amount 0.5 T T 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 T 6.8 40 40 Maximum amount (24 hours) 15.7 15.9 11.1 6.0 T 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 6.2 15.0 15.9 40 Mean number of days 11 10 8 2 Miss 0 0 0 0 Miss 2 9 42 40 40 WIND 40 40 Percentage with gales 0.21 0.21 0.15 0.09 0.02 0.02 0.00 0.04 0.06 0.12 0.16 0.13 0.15 40 40 Mean wind speed (knots) 11.0 11.4 11.4 11.0 9.9 9.1 8.6 8.6 9.5 10.1 10.7 10.9 10.2 40 40 Direction (percentage of observations) 40 40 North 7.7 7.7 7.9 6.1 4.9 4.4 4.7 5.9 7.8 8.5 7.7 8.4 6.8 40 40 North Northeast 5.1 5.2 4.7 4.0 3.6 3.3 3.3 5.0 7.0 6.6 5.9 5.6 4.9 40 40 Northeast 7.9 7.0 6.3 5.2 5.3 4.0 3.6 5.4 8.2 8.9 8.3 8.7 6.6 40 East Northeast 5.6 6.4 6.9 6.5 6.8 4.3 3.3 3.7 4.7 4.7 4.5 5.3 5.2 39 East 2.9 4.5 6.8 7.1 9.0 6.6 4.6 4.3 4.3 4.0 3.2 2.4 4.9 East Southeast 1.4 2.1 3.6 4.4 5.4 5.0 4.3 3.7 3.7 2.9 2.1 1.5 3.3 Southeast 0.9 1.5 2.1 2.8 3.4 3.9 3.4 3.4 3.1 2.4 1.8 1.2 2.5 South Southeast 0.8 1.0 1.6 2.6 3.3 3.5 4.2 3.8 3.4 2.5 1.7 1.3 2.5 South 1.5 2.1 3.0 4.8 5.6 6.4 7.3 7.1 5.3 3.9 2.9 1.7 4.3 South Southwest 2.0 2.4 3.9 5.6 7.5 8.8 10.6 9.1 6.6 4.2 3.3 2.0 5.5 Southwest 4.7 5.8 7.0 9.2 10.7 15.0 15.3 14.1 10.8 8.4 6.4 4.4 9.3 West Southwest 8.4 8.3 6.6 8.6 10.4 13.4 13.6 11.1 8.2 8.6 8.7 7.7 9.5 West 12.3 9.3 6.8 6.6 5.6 6.3 6.6 6.2 5.9 8.7 10.8 11.9 8.1 West Northwest 13.4 11.1 9.1 7.6 4.6 4.0 4.3 4.3 5.6 8.2 11.6 13.4 8.2 Northwest 13.4 12.9 11.4 8.6 5.9 4.7 4.6 5.1 6.4 7.9 10.2 11.5 8.6 North Northwest 9.3 10.0 9.9 8.0 5.6 4.5 4.6 5.3 6.4 7.6 8.3 9.6 7.4 Calm 3.0 3.1 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.2 2.1 2.8 2.6 2.4 2.6 3.5 2.6 Direction (mean speed, knots) North 9.9 10.5 11.2 10.8 9.7 9.1 7.7 7.5 8.4 9.2 8.8 9.5 9.4 North Northeast 10.0 10.9 10.7 10.2 10.2 9.0 7.7 8.2 9.1 9.2 9.2 9.5 9.5 Northeast 10.8 11.3 11.1 11.1 10.2 9.5 8.1 8.7 9.9 10.4 10.3 10.9 10.3 East Northeast 10.6 12.2 12.3 12.4 10.5 10.3 9.1 9.5 11.0 11.4 11.1 10.8 11.1 East 9.6 10.8 12.0 11.5 10.4 9.1 8.3 9.2 10.3 10.7 11.4 9.7 10.4 East Southeast 8.9 9.7 9.9 10.6 9.1 9.1 8.5 9.4 10.1 10.6 11.1 11.2 9.7 Southeast 8.6 9.1 9.0 8.7 8.8 8.0 8.0 8.1 9.4 9.5 10.9 9.4 8.8 South Southeast 8.2 9.8 9.4 8.9 8.3 7.7 7.7 7.8 8.9 9.1 10.1 10.3 8.6 South 8.5 8.9 9.0 9.3 9.2 8.6 8.4 8.0 8.8 8.7 9.3 9.2 8.7 South Southwest 10.8 9.1 10.8 11.1 10.6 9.7 9.6 9.4 10.3 10.8 12.4 11.0 10.2 Southwest 10.7 10.6 10.5 10.8 10.2 9.4 9.3 9.4 10.6 11.3 11.9 11.8 10.3 West Southwest 11.6 10.9 10.4 10.1 9.6 8.9 8.8 9.4 10.4 11.4 11.4 11.8 10.2 West 12.2 11.6 11.5 10.1 9.0 8.3 7.8 8.1 9.4 10.6 11.6 11.9 10.5 West Northwest 12.6 13.6 14.0 13.4 11.4 10.4 9.2 8.9 9.6 10.8 12.0 12.5 12.0 Northwest 12.6 13.7 13.9 14.0 12.5 11.3 9.5 9.5 9.7 10.8 11.6 12.2 12.2 North Northwest 11.6 12.4 12.7 12.5 11.2 10.5 9.3 8.8 9.3 10.1 10.8 11.4 11.1 VISIBILITY Mean number of days with fog 12 12 14 14 16 16 16 17 15 14 13 13 172 T = trace (not measurable) amount of precipitation Miss or blank is a missing value
320 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 shore moorings; 35 feet alongside; deck height, 13 feet; the entrance, northeast of the bar that makes out from vessels usually moor portside-to; receipt and shipment of Shoal Point to Black Rock. Small craft drawing less than petroleum products; owned by Shell Oil Co. and operated 6 feet can select anchorage on either side of the dredged by Shell Oil Co. and International Petroleum Terminals channel as far as the yacht club on the east side of Grover Co. Hill. (80) Cilco Terminal Co. Wharf: 0.3 mile northwestward (91) Depths of 8 to 18 feet are reported alongside some of Shell Oil Co. Dock; 930-foot face; 33 feet alongside; of the wharves in Black Rock Harbor. deck height, 13 feet; 90,000 square feet covered storage, (92) To avoid a shoal off the point separating East Branch 16 acres of open storage; receipt and shipment of general and West Branch at the head of Cedar Creek, enter East cargo; receipt of lumber, steel products, and pumice, and Branch, pass about 100 feet off the wharf on the southeast shipment of scrap metal; owned and operated by Cilco side below the entrance and head up the middle. To enter Terminal Co., Inc. the West Branch, pass 100 feet off the wharves on the (81) The city-owned recreational pier, seldom used for southeast side of the branch. mooring vessels, is on the northwest end of Pleasure (93) Fayerweather Island, on the eastern side of the Beach; the end of the pier has depths of about 20 feet. entrance of Black Rock Harbor, is marked at its south (82) The municipal dock, a marginal-type wharf, is on the end by the white tower of an abandoned lighthouse. A west side of Pequonnock River, just below the Interstate breakwater and a seawall connect its northern part with 95 Bridge. A ferry to Port Jefferson ties up at the dock. the shore eastward. (94) Burr Creek, northward of the town of Black Rock, (83) on the west side of the channel, is the site of a large marina. Berths, gasoline, diesel fuel, electricity, water, ice, a lift Supplies and repair facilities are available. In 1986, depths of about (84) Diesel oil, diesel fuel, gasoline, lubricants, water, 4 to 5 feet were reported at the face of the gasoline dock and alongside the boat slips. Burr Creek has many shoals; provisions and marine supplies can be obtained at mariners are advised to seek local knowledge before Bridgeport. entering. (95) AshCreek,about0.7milewestwardofFayerweather (85) Island, is entered through a privately dredged channel protected on its southwest side by a jetty. The entrance Repairs channel is marked by private buoys and a private seasonal (86) Bridgeport has no facilities for making major 314° lighted range. The channel leads northwestward to a marina. In 2012, depths of 6 feet were reported in the repairs or for drydocking deep-draft vessels; the nearest entrance channel, with 5 feet reported in the basin. A 5 facilities are at the ports of Boston, MA and New York, mph speed limit is enforced in the creek. NY. Bridgeport, however, does have facilities for making (96) Penfield Reef, on which there are rocks bare at low above- and below-the-waterline repairs to fishing boats, water, is about 1.4 miles south of Black Rock Harbor and tugs and recreational craft and hull and engine repair 1.3 miles eastward of Shoal Point, to which it is joined facilities for small craft. The largest marine railway in by a bar that bares at low water. Black Rock, marked the area can handle vessels to 120 feet and 400 tons. A by a daybeacon, is the outermost danger of this reef. A 10-ton crane is available. dangerous submerged rock, reported covered 1 foot, is about 40 yards southward of the daybeacon. The Little (87) Cows, about 0.2 mile northward of Black Rock, consist of rocks awash, and is marked by a buoy. Communications (97) Penfield Reef Light (41°07'02\"N., 73°13'20\"W.), (88) Bridgeport is served by air, rail and bus. Ferry 51 feet above the water, is shown from a white tower on a granite dwelling on a pier, on the south side of the service to Port Jefferson is available year round. reef, south of the entrance to Black Rock Harbor. A sound signal is at the light. (98) A reef, partly bare at low water and with little depth over any part of it, extends over 0.5 mile southward from (89) Black Rock Harbor, part of Bridgeport Harbor, Pine Creek Point, 1.1 miles southwest of Shoal Point. A although not connected with it other than by Long Island lighted bell buoy is off the south end of the shoal. Sound, is entered through a dredged channel about 2 miles (99) Southport Harbor, about 1 mile westward of Pine westward of the main harbor entrance to Bridgeport. The Creek Point, comprises the lower portion of Mill River and channel leads northward through Black Rock Harbor, and is used primarily for recreational boating. A breakwater, thence to the head of Cedar Creek where it divides into marked at its end by a light, is off the east side of the East Branch and West Branch. Black Rock Harbor and Cedar Creek are the approach by water to the large factories of the western part of the city of Bridgeport. The federal project depth in the dredged channel is 18 feet from the entrance to the head of the project. (See Notice to Mariners and latest edition of the chart for controlling depths.) The channel is marked by buoys and lights for about 1.7 miles above the entrance. (90) Anchorage in depths of 18 to 22 feet and exposed to southeasterly and northeasterly winds can be found off
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 321 entrance to the harbor. The harbor is entered through a facilities is in the basin. Gasoline, berths, electricity and dredged channel that leads from Long Island Sound to a water are available at the landing. harbor basin and anchorage, about 1.1 miles above the (108) A yacht club in a privately dredged basin on the west channel entrance. The channel is marked on its west side side of Bluff Point has berths with electricity, gasoline by a light and by buoys up to the breakwater. Caution is and ice. advised to avoid oyster stakes in the area southeastward (109) Duck Creek, on the west side of the river about 0.6 of the harbor entrance. A 5 mph speed limit is enforced mile above Bluff Point, is the site of a private yacht club. in the harbor. The reported controlling depth in the creek was about 7 (100) Southport is a village on the west side of the harbor. feet in 1981. The entrance and basin are privately marked. A yacht club landing and the town dock are on the west (110) Bermuda Lagoon, southward of Duck Creek, is a side of the harbor; depths of about 6 feet are alongside the large privately owned and maintained basin for the use town dock and about 6 to 8 feet alongside the yacht club of the residents in the immediate area. landing. Gasoline, diesel fuel, ice, water and some marine (111) Saugatuck, a village in the town of Westport, is 2.5 supplies can be obtained. Minor engine repairs can be miles above the entrance. Commercial traffic consists made. The harbormaster can be contacted through the mostly of barges that call at a sand and gravel company Fairfield Police Department. at Saugatuck; depths at the wharf are about 5 feet. (101) Frost Point, 1 mile westward of Southport entrance, (112) At Saugatuck the river is crossed by a railroad is marked by many residences and several private piers in bridge having a bascule span with a clearance of 13 feet. disrepair on its southeast side. A reef partly bare at low Overhead power cables at the bridge have a clearance water extends about 0.4 mile southward from the point. of 192 feet. The Connecticut Turnpike Bridge, 0.1 mile (102) Sherwood Point, a mile westward of Frost Point, above, has a fixed span with a clearance of 59 feet. About is marked by a bare boulder on the reef which extends 0.1 mile farther up is a highway swing bridge with a about 250 yards off the point. A rocky patch, on that the clearance of 7 feet. (See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 least depth found is 11 feet, is about 0.8 mile southward and 117.221, Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations.) of the point. (113) Westport is a town at the head of navigation on the Saugatuck River, about 1.4 miles above Saugatuck. (103) (114) There are several small-craft facilities on the river in the vicinity of the bridges. Gasoline, water, marine ENCs - US5CN11M, US5CN10M supplies and a 3-ton lift are available; hull and engine repairs can be made. Depths of 6 feet are reported Charts - 12368, 12364 alongside the facilities. (115) Norwalk Islands, privately owned with the (104) Saugatuck River, 6miles westward of Penfield Reef exception of Shea and Grassy Islands, which are owned Light and northward of Cockenoe Island, has its entrance by the city of Norwalk, and Cockenoe Island, which is between Cedar Point on the east and Bluff Point on the owned by the town of Westport, are 1 to nearly 2 miles west. The river is shallow, full of ledges and boulders, off the north shore of Long Island Sound and extend and is used chiefly for receipt of petroleum products, sand from Georges Rock to Greens Ledge Light, a distance and gravel and for recreational boating. Freshets do not of 6 miles. Cockenoe Harbor and Sheffield Island appreciably affect the height of the water in the navigable Harbor, the two approaches to Norwalk River, are good part of the river. During the winter, ice usually covers the anchorages for drafts of 9 to 12 feet and are easily made. entire river to its mouth. The bottom is very irregular around the islands and rocks in the group; vessels should proceed with caution (105) Anchorage exposed to southeasterly winds can be when crossing shoal areas and avoid all broken ground. had in the entrance to Saugatuck River in 12 to 22 feet, In the vicinity are some oyster stakes and spars, which about 0.4 mile southward of Cedar Point. occasionally are towed under or broken off; caution is recommended, especially at night, for small craft. (106) The channel in Saugatuck River is narrow and (116) Cockenoe Island, at the eastern end of Norwalk crooked; vessels should proceed with caution, preferably Islands, is marked on its south side by two knolls; the on a rising tide. In 2001, a reported depth of about 4 remainder of the island is low and level. A bar, dry in feet could be carried in the river from the entrance to places at low water but with general depths of 1 to 2 feet, about 0.7 mile above the Connecticut Turnpike Bridge connects the island with the mainland at Seymour Point. at Saugatuck. The 4-foot channel to Westport had a (117) Cockenoe Shoal is an extensive and dangerous area controlling depth of 1 foot, with shoaling to bare in the that extends 1.3 miles eastward and east-southeastward east branch. The channel is buoyed to Stony Point, about from Cockenoe Island. The entire area is exceedingly 1.9 miles above the entrance. A 5 mph speed limit is broken and should be avoided by strangers, even in small enforced on the river. craft. Cockenoe Reef extends about 0.5 mile eastward from the northern end of Cockenoe Island. Georges (107) Compo Yacht Basin is in the bight about 0.3 mile Rock, with a least depth of 2 feet, is at the eastern end of northwestward of Cedar Point. In 1995, the privately dredged channel that leads to the basin had a reported depth of 8 feet with 7 feet reported in the basin. The channel is marked by private buoys and a private lighted entrance range. A yacht club with landing and mooring
322 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 the shoal; a lighted buoy is off the northeast side of the 20 feet can be found northwestward of Sheffield Island. rock. A lighted bell buoy marks the southeast end of the The shoal flats on the north side of the harbor have rocks shoal. and boulders in places. (118) Channel Rock, covered 1½ feet, is about 0.2 mile (129) Norwalk River empties through Norwalk Harbor southwestward of Cockenoe Island and is marked by a into the north side of Long Island Sound, northward of the buoy to the southward. Peck Ledge, on the western side Norwalk Islands and about 40 miles east of New York. of Cockenoe Harbor entrance, is marked by Peck Ledge Light and Norwalk East Approach Buoy 5. (130) (119) Cockenoe Harbor, westward of Cockenoe Island, is marked by Peck Ledge Light. The best anchorage is in Channels depths of 9 to 12 feet, northward and northwestward of (131) Norwalk Harbor and River are entered through a the light. dredged channel that extends 3 miles northeasterly from (120) Sheffield Island Harbor between Manresa Island on the west and White Rock and numerous islets and foul Routes ground on the east, to the first highway bridge at South (121) To enter Cockenoe Harbor from the eastward, pass Norwalk, and thence northerly for another 1.3 miles to the basin at the head of navigation at Norwalk. The tall southward of Cockenoe Island Shoal Lighted Bell Buoy stack on Manresa Island, marked on top by red lights, is 24, steer 254° until Peck Ledge Light bears northward of very prominent and can be seen for many miles from sea. 285°, then steer for the light until up with Norwalk East (132) A federal project provides for a depth of 12 feet from Approach Buoy 4 that marks Channel Rock, and then Sheffield Island Harbor to the State Route 136 bridge, pass eastward and northward of the light at a distance of thence 10 feet to a 10-foot basin at the head of navigation 200 to 300 yards. at Norwalk; an anchorage basin opposite Fitch Point has a (122) To enter Cockenoe Harbor from the westward, give project depth of 10 feet. (See Notice to Mariners and latest the edge of the shoals southward of the Norwalk Islands editions of charts for controlling depths.) The channel a good berth until Peck Ledge Light bears westward of is marked by buoys and lights to the South Anchorage 348°, and then steer north and pass 400 yards eastward Basin. of the light and midway between Norwalk East Approach Buoy 4 that marks Channel Rock and Norwalk East (133) Approach Buoy 5. Caution (134) Chemically contaminated material has been buried (123) The islands and rocks on the west side of Cockenoe in the navigation channel off Oyster Shell Point about Harbor include Calf Pasture Island, with several houses 140 yards below Interstate Route 95 bridge. The material and a few trees; Sheep Rocks, which uncover 2 feet; East is covered with a layer of noncontaminated dredged White Rock, high and white; and Grassy Hammock material not less than 3 feet thick. Rocks, which uncover and are marked by a light. (135) (124) The larger islands southwestward are in general hilly and partly settled. Chimon Island is marked by several Bridges houses; Copps Island by large boulders that extend east (136) Three bridges cross Norwalk River between South from it; and Sheffield Island, the westernmost of the group, by an abandoned lighthouse tower. Norwalk and Norwalk. The first, State Route 136 highway bascule bridge at South Norwalk, has a clearance of 8 (125) Rocks that uncover extend nearly 0.3 mile feet. The second, a railroad swing bridge just above the southwestward of Sheffield Island. highway bridge, has a clearance of 16 feet; an overhead power cable with a clearance of 203 feet crosses the river (126) Greens Ledge is a rock and sand ridge that extends near the railroad bridge. The third, a turnpike highway 1.1 miles southwestward from Sheffield Island. Depths fixed bridge, about 0.6 mile above the railroad bridge, has of 10 to 15 feet extend about 400 yards westward and a clearance of 60 feet. (See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 southwestward from Greens Ledge Light. Greens Ledge and 117.217, Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations.) Light (41°02'30\"N., 73°26'38\"W.), 62 feet above the The bridgetenders at the State Route 136 bridge and the water, is shown from a conical tower, the upper half white railroad bridge monitor VHF-FM channel 13; call signs and lower half brown, on a black cylindrical pier on the KXJ-707 and KU-6035, respectively. north side of the west end of the ledge; a sound signal is at the light. (127) Cable and Anchor Reef covers an area about 0.4 (137) Tavern Island, with several houses and foul ground mile in diameter about 2 miles southeastward of Greens on all sides, is just northwestward of the dredged channel Ledge Light. The least found depth is 25 feet. A lighted entrance to Norwalk Harbor. bell buoy marks the southern side. (138) Gregory Point, marked by a clubhouse and wharf, (128) Sheffield Island Harbor, entered between Greens is on the east side of Norwalk Harbor 1.9 miles above the Ledge and the mainland, is the main approach to Norwalk channel entrance. The boat basin immediately eastward Harbor and Norwalk River. Anchorage in depths of 12 to of Gregory Point, locally known as Norwalk Cove, is entered through a privately maintained channel. In 1987, the controlling depth was 8 feet in the channel, thence in
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 323 1981, 6 feet in the eastern part of the basin. A 220-yard- FAX 401–847–9052. Enrolled vessels (i.e., U.S. vessels long detached timber breakwater is on the north side of engaged in coastwise trade) see Pilotage, Long Island channel entrance. Sound (indexed as such), Chapter 8. (139) East Norwalk Harbor, at the town of East Norwalk, is on the east side of the river about 2 miles above the (149) main channel entrance. The harbor is entered through a dredged channel that leads westward of Fitch Point to Small-craft facilities the head and to North Anchorage Basin on the westerly (150) There are excellent small-craft facilities at South side of the harbor. A federal project provides for a depth of 6 feet from Fitch Point Light 1 to and in an anchorage Norwalk and East Norwalk and in Norwalk Cove. basin at East Norwalk. (See Notice to Mariners and latest editions of charts for controlling depths.) The channel is (151) marked to near the southern end of the basin. (140) South Norwalk is an important commercial and Communications manufacturing city on the west side of Norwalk River, (152) Rail and bus lines serve the city and area. about 3 miles above the channel entrance. The depths at the wharves below the bridges range from 5 to 10 feet. Commercial traffic is mainly in building materials, petroleum products and shell fishing. (153) Wilson Cove, on the north side of Sheffield Island (141) Norwalk, 1.3 miles above South Norwalk, is a Harbor, is entered about 0.6 mile northwestward of the city on both sides of the river at the head of navigation. dredged channel entrance to Norwalk Harbor between The wharves have depths of about 7 feet alongside. The Wilson Point on the north and Bell Island on the channel from South Norwalk to Norwalk is winding, southwest. The ruins of a former oil-receiving pier are on with extensive flats on both sides, and requires local the southwestern extremity of Wilson Point. A yacht club knowledge to follow it even at high water. is on the east side of the cove, about 150 yards northward (142) Local regulations provide penalties for exceeding of the wharf ruins, and a marina is at the head of the cove. the posted 5 mph speed limit or for dumping refuse in Gasoline, limited marine supplies, ice, an 18-ton crane, a the harbor. These regulations are enforced by the Marine 20-ton mobile hoist and engine and hull repair facilities Division of the Norwalk Police Department. Police patrol are available at the marina. boats operate the year round and are equipped to handle radio traffic on VHF-FM channel 16 (156.80 MHz). (154) Noroton Point, at the southern end of Bell Island, (143) The harbormaster at Norwalk can be reached is marked by a flagpole and a prominent house with a through the police department. cupola. Rocks, bare at low water, are about 300 yards northward of the point. Pine Point, just westward of (144) Noroton Point, has a wharf in ruins at its southern end. A shoal with depths of 8 to 12 feet extends about 0.3 mile Currents from the shore westward of Noroton Point. The bottom (145) The tidal currents in Long Island Sound off Norwalk is broken with boulders in places, and small vessels crossing the shoal should proceed with caution. Ballast have a velocity of about 1 knot. In Norwalk River, off Reef, about 0.2 mile westward of Pine Point and off the Gregory Point, the velocity of current is about 0.6 knot. southeast side of the entrance to Fivemile River, is almost The currents in the harbor follow the direction of the bare at low water and extends 300 yards off Roton Point; channel, the ebb current being somewhat stronger than a buoy marks the outer end of the reef. the flood. (See the Tidal Current Tables for predictions.) (155) Fivemile River is a narrow inlet about 0.6 mile westward of Noroton Point and about 0.9 mile northward of Greens Ledge Light. A federal project provides for (146) The channel up to South Norwalk is navigable a depth of 8 feet to a point about 1 mile up the river. throughout the year. The harbor and river above South (See Notice to Mariners and latest edition of charts for Norwalk are covered with ice during a part of the winter. controlling depths.) The river is shallow except in the A channel is ordinarily kept open to the highway bridge, dredged channel and rocks exposed 2 feet at low water but the East Norwalk Channel and the channel in the river have been reported on the east side of the channel near are usually closed for about 6 weeks each winter. the channel edge in about 41°03'37\"N., 73°26'47\"W. The channel is marked by buoys. (147) (156) In 1981, depths of 2 to 5 feet were reported alongside Pilotage, Norwalk the small-craft facility wharves on the east side of the (148) Pilotage by a state-licensed pilot is compulsory river. The river is used chiefly by pleasure craft. in Long Island Sound for foreign flag vessels and U.S. (157) A special anchorage is in Fivemile River. (See vessels that are under register (i.e., engaged in foreign 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.55a, Chapter 2, for limits and trade). Such vessels can arrange for a state-licensed pilot regulations.) by contacting the joint rotation administrator, Block Island Pilots at 243 Spring Street, Newport, RI 02840; (158) Rowayton is a village at the head of Fivemile River. telephone 401–847–9050 (24 hours), 800–274–1216; Several small-craft facilities are on the east side of the river. (159) Scott Cove, about 0.8 mile westward of Fivemile River and about a mile northwest of Greens Ledge Light, is a rocky shelter with a channel good for about 6 feet to
324 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 the shallow area northward. There are rocks and broken Stamford Harbor Ledge Obstruction Light to the west ground in the entrance. The channel into Zieglers Cove, shore north of Greenwich Point. The harbor is shoal, and just west of Scott Cove and south of Great Island, is the approach is obstructed to a large extent by ledges and good for about 9 feet. A rock, covered 4 feet, lies almost rocks. Shippan Point, the eastern point at the entrance, in mid-entrance to this cove. Local knowledge is required is surrounded by rocks which show at low water. Barges to navigate both coves. and small coastal tankers constitute the main waterborne (160) Long Neck Point, about 2 miles southwestward of traffic in the harbor. Petroleum products, scrap metal, Fivemile River, has many summer residences and boat sand and gravel and crushed rock are the principal landings on both of its sides. Shoals extend about 0.3 mile products handled in the harbor. off the point. Numerous obstructions exist up to 1.2 miles (167) Stamford is a manufacturing city on the peninsula west-southwest of Long Neck Point. at the head of the harbor. (161) From Long Neck Point to Shippan Point, about 2.6 miles to the southwestward, there are many reefs and (168) boulders, and the bottom is very broken, necessitating caution. This area is the approach to several shallow Prominent features coves, none of which is commercially important. (169) Stamford Harbor Ledge Obstruction Light (162) Goodwives (Darien) River is a small and shallow stream on the west side of Long Neck Point. Foul ground (41°00'49\"N., 73°32'34\"W.), 80 feet above the water, with rocks bare at low water extends nearly 200 yards off shown from a white conical tower on a red cylindrical the west side of Long Neck Point, about 0.3 mile above pier, is a private light visible from a considerable the south end of the point.Aprivate seasonal, 342° lighted distance offshore. Also prominent are a microwave tower range and buoys mark the best water to a yacht club and westward of the city and the large brown office buildings basin on the southeast side of Noroton Neck. In 2002, locally known as Harbor Plaza on Ware Island. Stamford a depth of 4.5 feet could be carried to the yacht club Harbor West Breakwater Light 3 (41°00'54\"N., landing thence in 1981, 3 feet through The Gut to the 73°32'17\"W.), 37 feet above the water, is shown from a boat club landing just above Peartree Point. Above the tower with a square green dayboard at the east end of the boat club landing, the river is practically dry at low water. west breakwater. Stamford Harbor East Breakwater Goodwives River and its entrance is a special anchorage. Light 4 (41°00'54\"N., 73°32'06\"W.), 21 feet above the (See 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.56, Chapter 2, for limits and water, is shown from a skeleton tower with a triangular regulations.) A 5 mph speed limit is enforced on the river. red dayboard at the west end of the east breakwater. (163) Smith Reef, about 0.9 mile southwestward of Long Neck Point, consists of two rocks that uncover 2 feet. The (170) south end of the reef is marked by a lighted buoy. Bold Rock, which uncovers 4 feet, is on the east edge of the Channels rocky ridge extending northward from the reef. Many (171) Stamford Harbor is entered through a dredged oyster stakes are on the ridge. (164) Cove Harbor, northward of Smith Reef and about 1 entrance channel that leads northward from Long Island mile westward of Long Neck Point, has depths of about 5 Sound between two detached breakwaters. About 1 mile to 10 feet. Local knowledge is necessary to avoid several above the entrance, the channel divides into East Branch rocky areas in the approach to the harbor and to the basin and West Branch. (See Notice to Mariners and latest at the northwestern end of the harbor at Cove Mills. A edition of charts for controlling depths.) The channels depth of about 1 foot can be carried across the bar at are marked by buoys and a 356.8° lighted range. the entrance to the basin; private buoys, one of which (172) The 100-foot-wide channel in East Branch is is a seasonal speed limit buoy, mark the approach. A constricted to 90 feet by a hurricane barrier crossing the municipal marina is in the basin. channel about 300 yards northward of Ware Island. The (165) Westcott Cove, just westward of Cove Harbor, has 90-foot gated opening in the barrier will be kept in the a dredged channel marked by buoys that leads along open position during fair weather but will be closed on the its westerly side to a basin 0.5 mile above the channel approach of a storm or unusually high tides. A red light entrance, thence for 0.2 mile through the south arm of the marks the channel end of each breakwater. A lighted sign basin. The east side of the entrance to the basin is protected on either side of the barrier is used to indicate whether by a jetty. A yacht club is in the northwesterly arm of the the barrier is in the open or closed position. A flashing basin and a municipal marina is in the southeasterly arm. red light is shown from the control tower when the gate A marina on the west side of the south arm of the basin is about to be closed. can provide gasoline, diesel fuel and water. (166) Stamford Harbor, on the north side of Long Island (173) Sound about 33 miles east of New York, comprises the bay north of a line from Shippan Point on the east through Anchorages (174) A dredged anchorage area with depths of 10 to 18 feet is north of the breakwaters and just westward of the line of the range lights, about 0.1 mile eastward of Highwater Rock. Small craft can anchor off the yacht club and southward or southeastward of Rhode Island Rocks in depths of 5 to 7 feet. All anchorages in the outer harbor are exposed to southerly and southwesterly winds.
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 325 (175) (189) Dangers ENCs - US5NY16M, US5CN10M (176) The Cows comprise a cluster of rocks, almost bare Charts - 12367, 12364 at low water, about 0.8 mile south-southeast of Shippan Point. Between them and the point is an area of foul (190) Captain Harbor, on the north shore of Long Island ground and rocks bare and awash that extends 0.4 mile Sound westward of Greenwich Point and northward of southward of Shippan Point. A lighted bell buoy is about Great and Little Captain Islands, affords shelter from all 0.2 mile south of The Cows. Harbor Ledge, about 200 winds for vessels drawing 12 feet or less. The depths at yards south of the west breakwater, consists of rocks and the anchorage in the deeper part of the harbor, about 0.5 a ledge marked by a private light. mile northward of Great and Little Captain Islands, are 15 to 30 feet. Vessels of less than 7-foot draft anchor on (177) the flats. The bottom is soft, but the entire harbor and entrances are characterized by boulders. Strangers should Currents proceed with caution, especially on the flats and other (178) The flood current at the entrance to the harbor has a shoal areas. The eastern entrance to Captain Harbor, between Flat Neck Point and Little Captain Island, is the velocity of 0.4 knot and sets 329°; the ebb has a velocity clearer and better one for strangers. The western entrance, of 0.8 knot and sets 134°. Inside the harbor the currents northwestward of Great Captain Island, is easy of access, have little velocity and usually set fair with the channel. but the broken ground there requires caution. (179) (191) Greenwich Point, 1.7 miles southwestward of Stamford Harbor West Breakwater Light 3, is Ice characterized by a low grassy hill. Reefs extend 0.3 mile (180) The channel in West Branch is usually navigable southeastward from Greenwich Point. Woolsey Rock near the easterly end of the reefs is covered 2 feet. A throughout the year, but in East Branch it is closed by buoy marks these dangers. ice for several weeks during severe winters. Ice forms in the harbor during most winters and usually extends to a (192) Flat Neck Point, the western end of Greenwich point just northward of the breakwaters. The channels are Point, is wooded. A reef with bare and submerged rocks kept open as far as practicable by passing traffic. extends nearly 0.3 mile southwestward and westward from Flat Neck Point. About 0.2 mile northwestward of the point, the boiler of a wreck, marked by a private seasonal buoy, shows above high water. (181) Prevailing winds are from the south and southwest in the summer and from northeast during the winter season. (193) Greenwich Cove opens into Captain Harbor from eastward, north of Flat Neck Point. The cove is used for (182) No particular directions are required. The range mooring local craft. Depths decrease from 8 feet in the favors the west side of the channel and does not outer cove to less than 3 feet in the eastern part of the show plainly until eastward of Stamford Harbor West cove. Old Greenwich is on Greenwich Cove. Breakwater Light 3. In East Branch, caution is advised when making the turn abreast Ware Island to avoid a rock (194) Cos Cob Harbor is on the northeast side of Captain nearly awash at high water, eastward of the channel line. Harbor. A dredged channel, with its entrance 0.2 mile north of Lowther Point, extends 1.3 miles northward (183) The harbormaster at Stamford can be contacted through Mianus River to the head of navigation at through the Stamford Police Department. A police boat Mianus. Shoaling is reported to be abrupt along both makes routine patrols of the harbor during the boating edges of the channel. The channel is buoyed to the first season. A 6 mph speed limit is enforced in the harbor. bridge; above this point the channel may be followed by steering a midchannel course between the marsh banks. (184) (195) Wharves (185) The commercial wharves along East Branch and Anchorages (196) Special anchorages are in Cos Cob Harbor. (See West Branch are of the bulkhead and apron type, all are privately owned, and some are open to the public. Spur 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.58, Chapter 2, for limits and tracks from the railroad serve the facilities in East Branch. regulations.) (186) Small-craft facilities (197) There are several dangers off the entrance of Cos (187) There are excellent facilities for small craft in both Cob Harbor that must be avoided; most are buoyed. These include Newfoundland Reef, covered 4 feet, a East and West Branches. mile northeastward of Little Captain Island; Red Rock, which uncovers 7 feet, 0.5 mile west of Newfoundland Reef; Hitchcock Rock, awash at low water, 0.3 mile (188) Dolphin Cove, 0.6 mile west of the entrance channel to Stamford Harbor, is a privately owned Lagoon and marine facility. No anchoring is allowed.
326 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 (207) N Greenwich Harbor, Connecticut Image courtesy of Airphoto/Jim Wark (2004) northwestward of Newfoundland Reef; and Pecks Rock, point. The yacht club on the point usually maintains lights bare at low water, 0.2 mile north of Hitchcock Rock. on a flagstaff during the summer. The depth is about 7 feet (198) The Riverside Yacht Club, on the east side of Cos at the landing of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club. Cob Harbor and about 0.5 mile below the first bridge, is (204) Greenwich Harbor, on the north side of Captain prominent. Harbor and northeastward of Field Point, is entered (199) Mianus River is crossed by a railroad bascule through a dredged channel that leads northward 1.2 miles bridge with a clearance of 20 feet, and by a highway to the head. The channel is buoyed for about 0.8 mile. A fixed bridge with a clearance of 45 feet, about 0.4 mile 5 mph speed limit is enforced in the harbor. to the northward. (See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 and (205) Greenwich is a city on the railroad at the head of the 117.209, Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations.) harbor. The wharves are along the point on the east side of (200) Several marinas and boatyards are along the west Greenwich Harbor. The harbormaster at Greenwich can side of the river from above the railroad bridge to the be contacted through the Greenwich Police Department. head of navigation. A police boat patrols the harbor during the summer (201) Mianus, at the head of navigation on the river, is the season. site of an abandoned sand and gravel wharf. (206) Several private yacht and boat clubs are in Greenwich (202) Indian Harbor is a narrow inlet on the north side of Harbor. Gasoline and diesel fuel are available at a small- Captain Harbor, about 1 mile west of Cos Cob Harbor. A craft facility on the west side of the harbor at Grass Island. channel with a depth of about 7 feet passes about 200 feet During the summer, a ferry operates from the town westward of Tweed Island and follows the west bank to landing at the head of the harbor to Little Captain Island, the bulkhead on the west side of the cove 300 yards above Great Captain Island and Calf Islands. the entrance. Small craft can anchor in the channel just (208) Byram Harbor, a bight used by small craft, is at above this point, favoring the bulkhead.Alarge prominent the northwest end of Captain Harbor, just northward of white residence with red roof and adjacent white clock Calf Islands. Wilson Head, 2 feet high, on a reef that tower is on the point separating Smith Cove and Indian uncovers, is in the middle of the entrance of the bight and Harbor. A 5 mph speed limit is enforced in the harbor. is marked by a buoy off the eastern end. The entrance to (203) Depths of 6 feet or less extend 250 yards southward Byram Harbor from eastward lies between Otter Rocks from the point separating Smith Cove and Greenwich and Bowers Island. Otter Rocks, which uncover 3 feet, Harbor. Bare ledges extend 200 feet southward of the are marked by a lighted buoy about 150 yards to the
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 327 southward; a submerged rock is close northward of the (218) buoy. Bowers Island, just eastward of Calf Islands, is marked by a clump of trees and surrounded by a drying Ice reef; a buoy marks the north end of the reef. A rocky ledge (219) Ice forms in the winter in all the coves and over the makes out from the point 300 yards northwestward of Otter Rocks and is marked by a buoy. Private small-craft greater part of Captain Harbor. It sometimes extends out facilities are on the west side of the harbor. of the line of Little and Great Captain Islands. (209) The southeastward approach to Byram Harbor is buoyed. A narrow channel also leads to the harbor (220) from southwestward, passing southward of Huckleberry Islands and between the northwest one of the Calf Islands Routes and the two nearest rocks, which are sometimes marked (221) From eastward, a course of about 298° midway by a private daybeacon. The rocks 90 yards off the southwest end of Huckleberry Islands are bare at low between the buoys marking the shoals off Flat Neck Point water. on the east and Wee Captain Island on the west will bring (210) Grassy Rocks, 0.3 mile westward of the southerly a vessel to a point 0.2 mile north of Hen and Chickens tip of Calf Islands, uncover 7 feet. The four large ledges Buoy 1A. From here a heading of 250°, with the southerly northwestward and westward of Grassy Rocks generally tip of Calf Islands ahead, will lead to anchorage off the show at low water. entrance of Greenwich Harbor. (211) Jones Rocks, partly bare at high water, are at the (222) From westward, a course of 014° for Jones Rocks southeast end of the foul ground that extends over 0.2 Light 3 will lead into the Captain Harbor anchorage. mile southeastward from the south end of Calf Islands. Proceed with caution when crossing the broken rocky The rocks are marked by a light. area on which the least found depth is 12 feet, extending (212) Cormorant Reef, northward of Great Captain 0.4 mile westward from the western end of Great Captain Island, partly bare at high water, has a rock 4 feet high Island. Vessels should pass 100 yards southeastward of on the eastern end. A buoy is off the southern end of the Jones Rocks Light 3 and over 100 yards northward of the reef. buoy northwestward of Cormorant Reef and steer 070° in (213) Great Captain Island, 2.6 miles southwestward of the harbor. Greenwich Point, is 0.4 mile long, fringed with reefs and (223) Port Chester Harbor, about 1.2 miles westward of marked near its southeast end by a light. A municipal Great Captain Island, is the entrance to Byram River that bathing beach and ferry landing are on the island. The leads to the city of Port Chester and the town of Byram landing has reported depths of about 3 feet. A buoy marks (East Port Chester). The harbor entrance is between the the reef making off 0.3 mile from the southwestern end. breakwater that extends southward from Byram Point The passage between Great and Little Captain Islands is on the north and North Manursing Island on the south; foul and not recommended. a light is on the outer end of the breakwater. The lower (214) Great Captain Island Light (40°58'57\"N., section of the river forms the boundary between New 73°37'23\"W.), 62 feet above the water, is shown from York and Connecticut. a skeleton tower with a red and white diamond-shaped (224) The harbor is entered from Long Island Sound dayboard on the southeast part of the island. A sound through a dredged channel that leads northward for 1.2 signal is at the light. miles to a turning basin in Byram River, and thence (215) Little Captain Island, a summer resort about 0.6 for another 0.15 mile to just below the Mill Street fixed mile northeast of Great Captain Island, has a municipal bridge, the head of practical navigation on the river. A bathing beach and ferry landing. The landing has federal project provides for a depth of 12 feet in the reported depths of about 8 feet. A reef extends about 250 anchorage area and 12 feet in the channel to just landward yards northeasterly to Wee Captain Island. An area of of the Yacht Club, thence 10 feet to the basin, thence 3 feet boulders and broken ground extends 0.4 mile eastward to the head of the project about 30 yards below the second and northeastward from the island and is marked by a fixed bridge (Mill Street fixed bridge). (See Notice to lighted gong buoy. Hen and Chickens, a group of rocks Mariners and latest edition of chart 12367 for controlling and boulders about 0.4 mile northeastward of Little depths.) The channel is marked to a point about 0.3 mile Captain Island, is marked by a buoy on the north side. above the entrance. (225) The New England Thruway fixed bridge, with a (216) clearance of 60 feet, crosses the river about 0.8 mile above the channel entrance. Currents (217) The tidal current in the entrance between Little (226) Captain Island and Flat Neck Point has a velocity of about Routes 0.7 knot. Between Jones Rocks and Cormorant Reef the (227) The approach to Port Chester is obstructed by rocks estimated velocity is 1 knot. but is not difficult with the aid of the chart. From southward it is safer to pass eastward of Bluefish Shoal. Fourfoot Rocks may be passed on either side, remembering that the buoy is at the south end of the rocks. Entering the harbor, pass westward of Great Captain Rocks, eastward of Manursing Island Reef and 150 feet southward of
328 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 Port Chester Light 4 on the end of the breakwater. The craft. It is protected from all but southwesterly winds. channel in Byram River is fairly well defined at low water The harbor depths decrease from 8 feet between Scotch but requires local knowledge for the best water; strangers Caps and the southwest end of Hen Island to 6 feet abreast should take it on a rising tide and proceed with caution. Milton Point. (238) Foul ground is on the northwest side near Hen Island; otherwise the principal danger in the harbor is a rock bare at low water and marked by a buoy a little northward of (228) Principal commerce is in building materials, fuel oil midway between Milton Point and the northeast end of and petroleum products, carried in vessels drawing 5 to Hen Island. The best entrance is between the buoys 0.4 14 feet. Barges discharge oil cargoes at a terminal with mile southwestward of Scotch Caps. reported depths of 12 feet alongside. (239) A yacht club and landing are near the southwest end of Milton Point. Near the clubhouse is a prominent white (229) flagstaff from which lights are exhibited from sunset to sunrise during the summer. Small-craft facilities (240) A dredged channel, marked by buoys, leads through (230) There are several small-craft facilities in Port the harbor from about 400 yards northward of Milton Point to the city boat basin and marina below Mill Pond. Chester Harbor and on the Byram River at Port Chester Two boatyards are in the harbor. The largest marine and Byram. railway can handle craft up to 40 feet in length; gasoline, water, ice, marine supplies, and complete engine and hull repairs are available. The city harbormaster is at the boat basin. (231) The area from Great Captain Island southwestward (241) Mamaroneck Harbor, an open bight between Hen is fringed with rocks, bare and submerged, and foul Island and Delancey Point, is exposed to southerly winds ground. Great Captain Rocks, part of a reef 0.3 mile but affords shelter against northerly weather. Depths in southeastward of Port Chester Light 4, uncover 5 to 6 the outer harbor range from 7 to 12 feet. Important dangers feet; a buoy marks the southern end of the reef. Transport are buoyed; these include Outer Steamboat Rock, near Rock, about 0.3 mile south-southwestward of Manursing the dredged channel entrance, and Ship Rock, about 0.5 Island, is part of several ledges generally bare at high mile southeastward of Outer Steamboat Rock. water that extend some 0.3 mile offshore. An opening (242) About 1 mile northwest of Outer Steamboat Rock suitable for small craft leads to Rye Beach; it is buoyed. is the incinerator tower, a red brick building with a large glass tower, which is a prominent landmark. (232) Playland, a recreational center at Rye Beach, about 2.4 miles southwest of Great Captain Island, has (243) prominent twin towers at the entrance that are conspicuous from a southeasterly direction. Westward and close to the Channels north breakwater is a former ferry landing in disrepair. A (244) A federal project provides for a 10-foot channel breakwater extends eastward from the south end of Rye Beach. The area between the former ferry landing and the entering the harbor and leading about 0.5 mile west- south breakwater is reserved for swimming. northwestward to the intersection with two dredged branch channels leading to basins northward and westward of (233) Forbes Rocks, about 0.4 mile south of the Rye the junction. The channel leading northward to the east Beach breakwater, are partly bare at low water, on a basin has a project depth of 10 feet, thence 6 feet in the reef with depths of 4 to 11 feet that extends 250 yards main anchorage area; to the west of the junction, the to the southward and eastward. A buoy marks the east channel and anchorage area have a project depth of 6 end of the reef. A channel good for a depth of 9 feet feet. (See Notice to Mariners and the latest edition of the leads southward of buoyed Forlies Rocks to the ruins of chart for controlling depths.) The entrance channel and a wharf at Oakland Beach. Another channel with a least the branch channel to the northern basin are marked by depth of 8 feet leads southward from Oakland Beach to lighted and unlighted buoys. The basins are usually filled the sound. with moorings of local craft. (234) Porgy Shoal, about 0.8 mile south of the Rye Beach (245) breakwater, has a least found depth of 5 feet; it is marked by a lighted buoy. Caution (246) A pipeline covered about 6 feet crosses the western (235) Scotch Caps are three rocky islets 1.4 miles southwestward from Porgy Shoal and on the northwest branch channel about 50 yards above the junction. side of the extensive reefs that make out 0.9 mile Mariners are advised to exercise caution and reduce southwestward of Milton Point. The southerly end of speed while transiting this area. the reefs is marked by a lighted bell buoy about 0.6 mile southward of Scotch Caps. The entire area of the reef northward and northeastward of the lighted bell buoy is very broken and should be avoided even by small craft (247) The harbormaster has an office on the south side in the absence of local knowledge. of Harbor Island. The harbormaster controls all moorings and can be contacted on VHF-FM channel 16; call sign (236) West Rock, just south of the south end of Scotch Caps, is marked by a buoy. (237) Milton Harbor, between Peningo Neck and Hen Island, is used as a summer anchorage by small pleasure
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 329 (253) N Larchmont Harbor, New York Image courtesy of Airphoto/Jim Wark (2004) WZX-8038. A speed limit of 5 mph is enforced in the the harbor is full of mooring buoys for small yachts. The harbor. A village police boat patrols the harbor during rocks on the west side are marked, whereas unmarked the summer season. shoals extend 200 yards from the eastern shore. The (248) The town of Mamaroneck extends from both sides anchorage for larger vessels is westward of the of the harbor. Petroleum products, carried by barges, are breakwater. the main commerce in the harbor. (254) Umbrella Rock, marked by a buoy, is 250 yards eastward of Umbrella Point. A few rocks of a breakwater, (249) which was started on Umbrella Rock, are awash at high water. North Ledge, bare at half tide, is near the western Supplies and repairs shore southeastward of the yacht club; it is marked by a (250) There are numerous boatyards and marinas in private daybeacon. The principal landing, with a reported depth of about 6 feet alongside, is on the southeast side Mamaroneck Harbor. of the yacht club and is lighted from sunset to sunrise. (255) Larchmont Harbor may be entered on either side of Hen and Chickens. The easterly entrance, about 100 yards southwestward of the end of the breakwater, is (251) Foul ground extends southwesterly from eastward about 300 yards wide and has a depth of about 15 feet. of Delancey Point to the Larchmont Harbor breakwater (256) Horseshoe Harbor is a small cove just westward of off Edgewater Point, on the east side of the harbor Larchmont Harbor. A prominent gray building is at the entrance; a light is on the end of the breakwater. Hen head. The cove is used as a small-boat anchorage. and Chickens, a reef bare at low water in places, lies off (257) Echo Bay, about 1 mile southwestward of Umbrella the harbor entrance; surrounding depths are 8 to 17 feet Point and 2 miles northwestward of Execution Rocks on the outer parts of the reef. About 0.3 mile westward of Light, is the principal approach to New Rochelle. The the breakwater light is Dauntless Rock, covered 8 feet bay is entered between Premium Point on the northeast and surrounded by depths of 14 to 16 feet. These dangers and Davenport Neck on the southwest. Hicks Ledge, are buoyed. about 0.5 mile off the entrance, is covered 6 feet and marked on the south side by a buoy. (252) Larchmont Harbor is between Edgewater Point and Umbrella Point and about 2.5 miles northward of Execution Rocks Light. The harbor is the headquarters of the Larchmont Yacht Club. Anchorage depths range from about 12 feet in the entrance to 5 feet near Great Knob, an islet in the north central part of the harbor. In summer
330 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 (258) Middle Ground, an extensive shoal with a reef that of it. Columbia Island has been improved by a seawall, uncovers 6 feet, lies about 0.5 mile south-southwestward making it about 150 feet square, with a pier 150 feet long of Hicks Ledge. Emerald Rock, covered 9 feet, is off on the west side. the west side of the shoal and marked by a buoy. A buoy (269) An obstruction, covered 17 feet, has been reported marks the north end of the shoal. in about 40°52.4'N., 073°45.4'W. about 0.3 mile south- southeastward of Pea Island. Mariners are advised to (259) Bailey Rock, which uncovers 4 feet, is near the end exercise caution while navigating in this area. of a reef that extends about 200 yards off the point of (270) Execution Rocks, about 1.4 miles eastward of Davenport Neck. The rock is marked by a lighted buoy. Davids Island, consist of many boulders and shoals of considerable extent, marked by a light and buoys. Broken (260) The bay is an anchorage for small craft and generally bottom, covered 5 to 19 feet, extends about 0.7 mile is fully occupied during the summer. Depths range from 4 northward from the light. to 15 feet. Small craft can anchor in the shallow cove on the (271) ExecutionRocksLight(40°52'41\"N.,73°44'16\"W.), northeast side of the harbor, entering between Harrison 62 feet above the water, is shown from a white stone Island and the rocky, grassy islet off the northwest side tower with a brown band midway of its height, attached of Echo Island. Vessels should not anchor near the sewer to a granite dwelling. A racon is at the light. outlet in the middle of the bay. A special anchorage is in (272) Middle Reef, 0.5 mile southward of Davids Echo Bay. (See 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.60, Chapter 2, for Island, has some boulders that show at high water. East limits and regulations.) Nonations and South Nonations are rocks that uncover 4 feet between Middle Reef and Hart Island. South (261) A 4 mph speed limit is enforced in Echo Bay. Nonations is marked on its south side by a lighted bell (262) A dredged channel, on the northwest side of Echo buoy. (273) Aunt Phebe Rock, 300 yards west of Davids Island, Bay, leads to a municipal wharf and turning basin at is bare at half tide and marked by a light. In 1976, an Beaufort Point. The channel is marked by buoys to the obstruction covered 4 feet was reported about 400 yards turning basin. In 1985, the controlling depth was 8½ feet northwestward of the light. Mariners are advised to at midchannel to the basin, with 6½ to 7 feet in the basin. exercise caution while navigating in this area. (263) The area northward of the turning basin, locally (274) Goose Island, between Davids Island and Glen known as Ferris Creek, is shoal with extensive mud flats Island, is almost completely surrounded by a rock that bare at low water. Southwesterly of the turning basin, breakwater and has several bare rocks to the westward the depth varies from 9 feet to bare at the head of the and southward. A house on pilings is prominent on the harbor. island. (264) New Rochelle is a city on the western shore of Echo (275) Glen Island, west of Davids Island, is a public park. Bay. Special permits are required prior to using the launching (265) The municipal wharf is on the northeast side of ramp on the island. A light is on the north end of the Beaufort Point. The city police patrol boats usually island. A beach protected by two jetties is on the southeast moor alongside the wharf. A small-craft facility and a end of the island. The channel between Glen Island and municipal marina are in the northern part of Echo Bay. Davenport Neck is frequently used as an anchorage Berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice and by small craft; a no wake speed limit is enforced. The lifts to 25 tons are available; hull and engine repairs channel between Glen Island and Hunter Island is marked can be made. The municipal marina monitors VHF-FM by buoys and is entered just northwest of Hog Island. channel 16. A special anchorage is on the east side of Glen Island. (266) Pine Island, between Davenport Neck and Middle (See 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.60, Chapter 2, for limits and Ground, is rocky, covered with brush and occupied by regulations.) several cottages. A small private landing is on the west (276) New Rochelle Harbor lies between the mainland, side of the island. Two bare rocks and a long bare ledge and westward of Davenport Neck, and Glen Island; it are southwestward of the island. is off the southerly part of the city of New Rochelle. However, the main access of New Rochelle is through (267) Echo Bay, previously discussed. (277) New Rochelle Harbor is entered between Glen Island ENCs - US5NY15M, US5CN10M and Davenport Neck. An approach channel, with a depth of about 13 feet, leads from south-southwest of Davids Charts - 12366, 12364 Island northward to a point abreast the former ferry wharf on the island, thence through deeper natural water (268) Davids Island, southward of Davenport Neck, is between Aunt Phebe Rock and Corning Rock northward owned by the city of New Rochelle. Reefs, partly bare at to the entrance to the harbor. A reef, bare at low water, low water and marked by a lighted buoy, extend about 0.2 makes off the west side of Davids Island opposite the mile northward of the island. Davids Island is surrounded buoy marking Corning Rock. Another approach channel, on its east and south sides by a foul area of islands and rocks, the passages between which should not be used by strangers, even in small craft. Huckleberry Island, at the eastern end of the group, is wooded. Pea Island, about 0.3 mile southeastward of Davids Island, is grass covered, and rocks bare at low water are southeastward
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 331 through deeper water, leads from the northeast between the bridge is reported to bare about 1 foot at low water. A Davids Island and Davenport Neck to the entrance. Both 528-foot-high radio tower, marked on top by red lights, channels are well marked. In 1990, the narrow dredged is prominent on High Island. channel in the harbor had a controlling depth of 6 feet at midchannel to within 100 yards of the dam at the head. (289) (278) Anchorages (290) The usual anchorage for deep-draft vessels is Anchorage (279) Anchorage is not recommended in the harbor southeastward of City Island, southward of a line joining the south ends of Hart and City Islands. When anchoring, because of its congestion. A general anchorage extends avoid Deep Reef, a small rocky patch covered 29 feet. to the south from the harbor entrance to City Island and Other general and special anchorages are in the vicinity. Locust Point. (See 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.155, Chapter (See 33 CFR 110.1, 110.60, and 110.155, Chapter 2, for 2, for limits and regulations.) limits and regulations.) (280) Several yacht clubs, marinas and boatyards are in (291) A long pier in ruins and a wide stone pier, the top of New Rochelle Harbor. which is used as a parking area, are at the south end of City Island at Belden Point. The western shore of Hart (281) A bascule bridge connecting Glen Island with Island and the wharves on City Island should be given a Neptune Island has a clearance of 13 feet. (See 33 berth of about 150 yards. CFR 117.1 through 117.49, Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations.) Just south of the bridge is a yacht club on (292) The channel between City Island and Rodman Neck the east side of Neptune Island. is used extensively as an anchorage by small pleasure craft during the summer. A no wake speed limit is (282) Orchard Beach, about 1 mile southwestward of enforced. Boat clubs and railways for small craft are on Davids Island, is a park developed by the State of New the northwest side of City Island. The shores are generally York on the filled-in area between Hunter Island, to the fringed with boulders and should be approached with north, and Rodman Neck, to the south. The inshore water caution. The north shores of High Island and City Island areas off the crescent beach are a swimming area and northeastward of the bridge are very foul, and boats are closed to general navigation. The swimming area is should avoid the shoals with depths less than 12 feet on marked by private buoys.Abathing pavilion and a flagstaff that side. are prominent. Chimney Sweeps, two prominent bare rocks, are about 0.4 mile east of the beach. (293) City Island is connected with Rodman Neck by a highway swing bridge, kept in the closed position, with (283) Hart Island, about 1.8 miles southwest of Execution a clearance of 12 feet. The bridge is under construction Rocks Light, is the site of a New York Department of (2016). Currents at the bridge are variable and at times Correction facility. A stack on the southern part of the exceed 1.5 knots. (See the Tidal Current Tables.) island and the buildings on the island are prominent. A reef extends about 200 yards southeastward from the (294) City Island Harbor, also called Hart Island south end of the island and is marked by a light. Caution Roads, is between Hart Island and City Island. It is well is advised to avoid the 9-foot obstruction and the wreck sheltered from easterly and westerly winds and is an with 13 feet over it that are 0.3 mile west of the light. important anchorage for coasting vessels in the western end of Long Island Sound. Besides serving as a harbor (284) Rat Island is a high bare rock about 0.4 mile west of of refuge, it is often used by vessels desiring pilots or Hart Island. The Blauzes, 13 feet high, are a part of the towboats or awaiting orders. A spire in the center of City reef that extends 0.3 mile northwestward from the north Island and a steeple in the northerly part of the island are end of Hart Island. conspicuous objects. (285) City Island, on the northeast side of Eastchester (295) Bay, is narrow and over 1 mile in length. It is thickly settled and has a commercialized appearance. The west Currents side is residential and the east side is industrialized with (296) The tidal current has a velocity of about 0.3 knot. several shipyards and other marine-related facilities. (297) (286) Ice Pilotage, City Island (298) Ice seldom interferes with navigation of powered (287) A pilot boat of United New York New Jersey Sandy vessels. Hook PilotAssociation moors at City Island. See Pilotage, New York Harbor from Long Island Sound (indexed as (299) such), Chapter 11. (288) High Island is 200 yards northeastward of the north Supplies end of City Island to which it is connected by a fixed (300) Gasoline, lubricants and marine supplies of all kinds footbridge with a clearance of 11 feet. The ground under are available at City Island. Water is piped to some of the wharves; ice, electrical connections, guest moorings and dry and wet storage are readily available.
332 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 (308) Structures across Hutchinson River Clear Width of Clear Height above Draw or Span Mean High Water Name•Description•Type Location Opening (feet) (feet) Information Pelham Parkway Bridge (bascule) 40°51'44\"N., 73°48'58\"W. 59 13 Notes 1 and 2 Call sign KU-9758 and KU-6095 Amtrak Bridge (rolling lift) 40°51'48\"N., 73°49'06\"W. 68 8 Notes 1 and 2 Overhead power cable Call sign KXS-298 Hutchinson River Parkway Bridge (bascule) 40°52'09\"N., 73°49'18\"W. 130 130 New England Thruway/I-95 Bridge (fixed) 40°53'08\"N., 73°49'13\"W. 100 30 Note 1 Boston Post Road Bridge (fixed) 40°53'16\"N., 73°49'27\"W. 121 50 Overhead pipeline 40°53'34\"N., 73°49'23\"W. 50 South Fulton Avenue Bridge (bascule) 40°53'38\"N., 73°49'22\"W. 80 130 6 Note 1 Note 1 – See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 and 117.793, Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations. Note 2 – Bridgetender monitors VHF-FM channel 13. (301) 20 feet at the south end to about 4 feet at the north end. A yacht club and marina are in the cove. A marina at the Communications head of the cove has a mobile hoist that can handle craft to 30 tons for engine and hull repairs. Gasoline, water, ice (302) Buses serve the subway system of New York City. and marine supplies are available at the marina; depths of about 7 to 10 feet are reported at the wharf. (312) The northern approach viaduct of the Throgs Neck Bridge crosses the cove from Locust Point to Throgs (303) Eastchester Bay, between City Island and Throgs Neck. The fixed spans of the viaduct have a minimum Neck, has general depths of 7 to 10 feet in the lower part clearance of 123 feet. and 3 to 5 feet in the upper part. The shores of the bay are fringed with boulders, and there are many shoals and (313) several wrecks. Caution is essential, especially where the depths are not more than 3 feet greater than the drafts. Currents (314) Tidal currents have a velocity of 0.4 knot in the (304) Hutchinson River empties into the north end of Eastchester Bay. A dredged channel marked by buoys vicinity of Big Tom and 0.8 knot at Pelham Bridge. leads from the river mouth for about 2.5 miles to the head of navigation at the city of Pelham. (315) (305) Special anchorages are in Eastchester Bay. (See 33 ENCs - US4NY13M, US5CN10M CFR 110.1 and 110.60(d), (e), and (f), Chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) Charts - 12363, 12364 (306) A safety and security zone has been established (316) Old Field Point, about 5 miles southward of Stratford in Eastchester Bay surrounding much of the shoreline Shoal (Middle Ground) Light, is a low bluff with a light of Rodman Neck. (See 33 CFR 165.169, Chapter 2, for and an abandoned tower on its summit. Boulders extend a limits and regulations.) short distance off the point, and the light should be given a berth of about 0.3 mile, even by small craft. A gong buoy (307) The dangers in Eastchester Bay include Big Tom on is 0.6 mile northward of the point. Depths of 14 to 18 feet the east side near the entrance, covered 2 feet and marked are found about 0.4 mile northward of the light. by a buoy on the east end, and Cuban Ledge, covered at half tide and marked by a daybeacon and Cuban Ledge (317) Crane Neck Point, 2 miles westward of Old Field Lighted Buoy 2 close southwestward. Numerous rocks Point, is a bare conspicuous bluff about 90 feet high and and shoals are on both sides of the channel near the covered on top with brush. entrance to Hutchinson River. (318) Smithtown Bay, a broad open bight on the south (309) Eastchester is a village on the west side of the side of the sound, extends 7 miles westward from Crane Hutchinson River about 1.5 miles above the Pelham Neck Point. Rocky shoals extend 1 mile in places from the Parkway Bridge. Commerce on the river to Eastchester shore, the water shoaling abruptly from 51 feet in places. is in building materials, fuel oil and petroleum products. A good summer anchorage in 30 to 50 feet sheltered from Pelham is on the east side of the river above Eastchester. easterly winds is found about 1 mile southward of Crane Neck Point. (310) Weir Creek is a bight on the west side of the bay near the entrance. (319) Stony Brook Harbor is a narrow shallow bay in the southeastern part of Smithtown Bay. The approach to the (311) Locust Point is about 0.8 mile southeastward of harbor from the bay is over a bar that extends 0.8 mile Weir Creek. A cove just southwestward of the point off the entrance; the outer end of the bar is marked by a provides small-boat shelter. Rocks, bare at low water, are on the north side of the approach. The entrance has a depth of about 5 feet. Inside the cove, depths range from
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 333 seasonal lighted buoy and the approach to the harbor is jetty. The four stacks of a power and light company on marked by private lighted buoys. In 1981, 3½ feet was the east side of the basin are prominent. A town launching reported over the bar. Two branch channels lead from ramp is in the basin. the entrance into the harbor; one leads southwestward to (328) An aquaculture site, marked by a private buoy, a steel bulkheaded yacht club wharf and pavilion at the is about 1.2 miles northwestward of the entrance to village of Stony Brook, 0.5 mile inside the entrance, and Northport Basin. the other, Porpoise Channel, leads westward to a yacht club at the northwestern end of the harbor; gasoline is (329) available at both clubs. In 1994, a depth of 6 feet was reported in both the southwesterly channel and Porpoise Offshore Terminal, Northport Channel. The channels are marked by private seasonal (330) An offshore platform for the receipt of oil is off lighted and unlighted buoys. The buoys are periodically moved to mark the best water. Northport. The terminal is owned and operated by (320) A speed limit of 5 mph is enforced in Stony Brook National Grid Generation LLC. The platform, with off- Harbor and Porpoise Channel. lying mooring buoys, is about 1.6 miles northward of the entrance to Northport Basin and about 2.4 miles eastward (321) of Eatons Neck Light. Submerged pipelines extend from the shore to the platform. The platform is marked at its Small-craft facilities eastern end by a private light and at the western end by a (322) Small-craft facilities are in the harbor. private light and sound signal. (331) Upon the scheduled approach of an incoming vessel to the platform, voice call “Northport Power Station.” Northport Power Station control room monitors VHF- (323) The railroad station is about 1 mile from the wharf FM channel 19. at Stony Brook. (332) (324) A high bluff is between Stony Brook Harbor and Nissequogue River, another between Nissequogue Pilotage, Offshore Terminal, Northport River and Sunken Meadow Creek, and bluffs in places (333) Pilotage by a state-licensed pilot is compulsory between Sunken Meadow Creek and Northport Bay. in Long Island Sound for foreign flag vessels and U.S. (325) Nissequogue River, a shallow crooked stream about vessels that are under register (i.e., engaged in foreign 4 miles westward of the entrance to Stony Brook Harbor, trade). Such vessels can arrange for a state-licensed pilot is entered through a privately dredged channel that leads by contacting the joint rotation administrator, Block southward from Smithtown Bay for about 1.4 miles into Island Pilots at 243 Spring Street, Newport, RI 02840; the river. In 1995, the channel had a reported controlling telephone 401–487–9050 (24 hours), 800–274–1216; depth of 8 feet. Rocks and shoals, bare at low water, are FAX 401–847–9052. Enrolled vessels (i.e., U.S. vessels on the bar outside the entrance. Private seasonal lighted engaged in coastwise trade) may be required to have a buoys mark the channel. Strong tidal currents are reported U.S. Coast Guard Federally licensed pilot unless the in the channel. A speed limit of 5 mph is enforced on master has recency for the intended area. See Pilotage, the river. Guest moorings, gasoline, water and limited Long Island Sound (indexed as such), Chapter 8 and supplies are available at a marina on the west side of Pilotage, New York Harbor and Approaches (indexed as the river, about 0.9 mile above the channel entrance. In such), Chapter 11. 1995, a depth of 3 feet was reported alongside the marina. A state hospital, a group of buildings with green roofs, (334) and two large red brick chimneys are prominent about 0.5 mile southwestward of the river entrance. Farther Tugs westward, a brick building and a stack are also prominent. (335) Tug service is available from New Haven, The railroad station is at Kings Park. Providence, Brooklyn or Staten Island on advance notice. (326) ENCs - US5NY14M, US5CN10M (336) Eatons Neck is a prominent wooded headland with Charts - 12365, 12364 elevations of 100 feet or more and marked at its north end by a light and tower of Eatons Neck Coast Guard (327) Northport Basin, about 10.5 miles westward of Station. Old Field Point Light and 2.7 miles southeastward of Eatons Neck Point, is a small privately maintained basin (337) Eatons Neck Light (40°57'14\"N., 73°23'43\"W.), with general depths of 7 to 15 feet and formed by gravel 144 feet above the water, is shown from a white stone dredges working into the high bank. In 2012, the privately tower on the north end of Eatons Neck. dredged entrance channel had a controlling depth of 12 feet. The channel is marked by a private lighted buoy (338) The northwest end of the neck is a spit in the form and unlighted buoys; submerged jetties extend northward of a hook that encloses Eatons Neck Basin. Eatons Neck from the east and west sides of the entrance. A dangerous Coast Guard Station is at the head of the basin. The basin rock is close northward of the seaward end of the west is entered through a privately dredged cut between two small riprap jetties about 0.5 mile southwestward of the light; the jetties are covered at half tide. The channel between the jetties is buoyed, and there are buoys farther inside the basin. The basin is subject to frequent changes
334 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 and the buoys in the basin are not charted because they are (350) An amber light, maintained at the public landing by frequently shifted in position. In 1994, depths of 10 feet the town of Northport, is a conspicuous mark at night for could be carried through the entrance. An obstruction is in vessels making the wharves at Northport. the entrance channel around 40°56'50\"N., 73°24'06\"W. (351) A privately dredged channel at the eastern end of (339) Northport Bay leads to a dredge basin formerly used by a sand and gravel company on the north side of Bluff Point. Caution Several private landings and moorings are in the basin. (340) Eatons Neck Basin Channel is maintained expressly (352) Northport Harbor is at the southeastern end of to enhance the Eatons Neck Coast Guard Station’s rescue Northport Bay and is entered by a dredged channel that response. Further, Eatons Neck Basin has become one leads along the waterfront of Northport and an anchorage of the most congested small-boat anchorages in the basin west of the village. The channel is marked by area in the summer. Mariners are cautioned that heavy private seasonal buoys. In 2015, the controlling depth wakes from rescue craft departing the station may be was 6.5 feet in the channel with 6 feet available in experienced by small craft anchoring in this area. the anchorage basin. A channel leads from the town (341) Shoals with depths of 4 to 18 feet extend about 0.9 landing to a boatyard and marina at the southeast end mile northward of Eatons Neck, and broken ridges extend of the harbor and is marked by private seasonal buoys. northward for another 1.8 miles. The northern end of each In 1995, reported depths of 5 feet were available in the area is marked by a buoy. channel. The boatyard channel is marked by buoys and by a lighted buoy at the entrance; these aids are seasonal and privately maintained. An alternate channel, marked by private buoys, with a reported controlling depth of 2 (342) Huntington Bay, just westward of Eatons Neck, is feet in 1990, leads from opposite the public landing along the approach to Northport Bay and Harbor, Centerport the west side of the harbor to the head. A 5 mph speed Harbor, Huntington Harbor and Lloyd Harbor. The bay, limit marker is in the entrance to the harbor. protected against all but northerly winds, is an excellent anchorage for large vessels. Depths range from 25 to 36 (353) Bird Island, a bird sanctuary in the southern part of feet, fairly close to its southern end, and anchorage can the harbor, is a low, grass-covered man-made island. be selected according to draft and wind direction. (354) (343) A 017°56'–197°56' measured half nautical mile is on the west side of Eatons Neck. Triangular orange shore Ice ranges mark the ends of the course. (355) During severe winters, ice may close the harbor for (344) Anchorage with shelter from northwesterly winds about 2 months. can be had for small vessels at the southwesterly end of Huntington Bay, 0.4 mile northeastward of Huntington (356) Harbor Light, in 18 to 36 feet. The arms of the bay provide secure harbors; Northport Bay is used generally by the Anchorage larger vessels. (357) Vessels select anchorage according to draft in the (345) harbor; bottom is soft. (358) A special anchorage is in Northport Harbor. (See Currents (346) In Huntington Bay the velocity of the tidal current is 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.60 (a-2), Chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) 0.5 knot off East Fort Point and 0.4 knot in the entrance to Northport Bay. (See the Tidal Current Tables for predictions.) (359) Northport is a village with bus communications on the eastern shore of Northport Harbor. Depths at the principal wharves are about 6 to 8 feet. The greatest depth (347) Duck Island Harbor is a shallow cove on the that can be taken to Northport is about 14 feet at high north side of Northport Bay westward of Duck Island water. Bluff. Depths range from 6 to 9 feet in the entrance. The south side of Duck Island Bluff and the southeast side (360) of Winkle Point should be given berths of 300 and 400 yards, respectively, to avoid shoal water and inshore Small-craft facilities rocks. (361) Several small-craft facilities are on the east side and (348) A 5 mph speed limit is enforced in Duck Island the head of the harbor, and a yacht club is on the west Harbor. side. (349) Northport Bay, which opens off the southeast end of Huntington Bay, provides good anchorage in 20 to 50 feet in its western part and in 8 to 11 feet in the eastern (362) Centerport Harbor is a shoal bight on the south half. The entrance to the bay is marked by a lighted buoy, shore of Northport Bay just eastward of the entrance. and the entrance channel, privately dredged to about 12 The harbor serves the small-boat interests of the village feet, is buoyed. of Centerport. In 1981, a reported depth of about 7 feet could be taken through the privately dredged channel to the spit extending southwesterly from Little Neck, thence about 3 feet to a boatyard on the west side of
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 335 the harbor just below the bridge. The channel is marked (377) by private seasonal buoys. Berths, moorings, electricity, water, storage, marine supplies and a launching ramp are Small-craft facilities available. A flatbed trailer can haul out craft to 32 feet; hull and engine repairs can be made. (378) There are several marinas, boatyards and private boat clubs in Huntington Harbor. (363) Anchorage (364) A special anchorage is in Centerport Harbor. (See (379) Lloyd Harbor extends westward from Huntington Bay nearly to Oyster Bay, from which it is separated by 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.60 (a-1), Chapter 2, for limits and a narrow strip of land. Vessels can anchor just inside the regulations.) entrance, in depths of 7 to 11 feet. The entrance to the harbor is marked by buoys. A speed limit of 5 mph is enforced in the harbor. (365) Huntington Harbor, at the southwest end of (380) Oyster Bay, on the south side of Long Island Huntington Bay, is entered through a marked channel that Sound about 5 miles westward of Eatons Neck Light, leads to an anchorage off Huntington Town Dock, about lies between Lloyd Neck and Rocky Point and is the 2 miles above the channel entrance. A depth of about 8 approach to Cold Spring Harbor and Oyster Bay Harbor. feet can be carried in the channel. Huntington Harbor The harbor is marked by Cold Spring Harbor Light Light (40°54'39\"N., 73°25'52\"W.), 42 feet above the (40°54'51\"N., 73°29'35\"W.), 37 feet above the water, and water and shown from a square concrete tower attached shown from a skeleton tower on a caisson with a red to a dwelling on a rectangular pier, is on the west side of and white diamond-shaped dayboard. The entrance and the entrance to Huntington Harbor and on the south side harbor are characterized by extensive shoals, boulder reefs of the entrance to Lloyd Harbor. A sound signal is at the and broken ground making off from the shores. Vessels light. should proceed with caution if obliged to approach or cross shoal areas. The bay south of Cold Spring Harbor (366) The channel is marked by a light and by lighted, Light is a secure harbor, available for vessels of less than unlighted and private unlighted buoys. Some of the 18-foot draft. private buoys are seasonal. (381) Lloyd Neck, between Huntington and Oyster Bays, (367) The wharf just southward of Huntington Town is high and wooded and has a high, yellow bluff on its Dock South is used by sand and gravel barges. The north side 0.8 miles eastward of Lloyd Point. Many bay constable has an office at the head of the harbor patches of boulders having least depths of 2 to 8 feet immediately southward of Huntington Town Dock North. extend 0.2 to 0.5 mile offshore from East Fort Point to Lloyd Point. Small craft skirting this shore should keep (368) A boulder reef, on the west side of the entrance, well outside the line of buoys. extends out to Huntington Harbor Light. An obstruction, reported covered 4½ feet, is 0.35 mile eastward of the (382) Lloyd Point, the north end of Lloyd Neck, is a low light. spit. A rocky shoal extends 0.5 mile north-northeastward from Lloyd Point. A seasonal lighted gong buoy about 1 (369) In 1991, a dangerous wreck was reported between mile northward of Lloyd Point marks the northern limit Buoys 9 and 11 in about 40°53'54.9\"N., 73°25'46.1\"W. of the 30-foot curve in this vicinity. (370) (383) Morris Rock, about 0.5 mile eastward of Lloyd Point, is covered by a least depth of 2 feet. The rock is Currents marked by a buoy. (371) The tidal currents in the entrance channel have an (384) The long jetty, about 0.6 mile southwestward of estimated velocity of 2 knots. Lloyd Point, forms the southern entrance point to The Sand Hole, a pond that has been dredged into the spit by (372) a sand and gravel company. The pond is state controlled and may be entered by steering a midchannel course Anchorage through the entrance. It is used considerably by local (373) A special anchorage is in Huntington Harbor. (See boats as an anchorage and harbor of refuge. The holding ground is good. 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.60, Chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) (385) In 1981, reported depths of about 12 feet were in the entrance channel and about 4 to 22 feet in the basin. (386) Rocky Point, the northern promontory of Centre (374) A 5-mph speed limit is enforced in the harbor. Island, is a small bluff on whose summit is a large (375) Huntington and Halesite are villages at the head prominent house. An extensive foul area with depths of 2 to 17 feet extends about 1 mile northward of Rocky of the harbor. The yacht club landing on the east side Point. A bell buoy marks the northern end of this foul of the harbor has a depth of about 10 feet alongside. area. This area is dangerous and should be avoided. Gasoline, diesel fuel, berths, electricity, water and ice can be obtained here. Yachts may anchor off the landing but must keep clear of the channel. (376) Coindre Hall, a large brick building with a red roof and numerous chimneys at the entrance to the harbor, and Huntington Hospital, well lighted at night, at the head of the harbor are prominent.
336 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 (387) A shoal area with depths of 4 to 11 feet extends of less than 7-foot draft can anchor in the bight between eastward from Rocky Point nearly across Oyster Bay and Cove Neck and the wharf at Oyster Bay and also in West is marked near its eastern end by Cold Spring Harbor Harbor, the large bight on the northwest side of Centre Light. Small craft with local knowledge cross the shoal Island. at a distance of about 0.4 mile westward of the light, but (400) A speed limit of 5 mph is enforced in the harbor. strangers should not attempt it. (401) The village of Oyster Bay, on the shore south of Oyster Bay Harbor, has rail communication. A channel, (388) marked by private seasonal buoys, leads southwestward from deep water in Oyster Bay Harbor to an oyster wharf Currents in about 40°52'37\"N., 73°31'32\"W., thence west to a boat (389) About 0.4 mile northwest of Cold Spring Harbor basin. The oyster wharf has reported depths of about 10 feet along the face and southeast side. Parallel to and Light the velocity is about 0.5 knot; about 0.2 mile north about 200 feet off the northwest side of the wharf is a of Cove Point, 1.2 miles southwestward, it is about 0.8 row of sunken barges. An oil receiving wharf is about knot. For predictions, the Tidal Current Tables should be 125 yards southward of the oyster wharf. consulted. (402) Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge, a Marine Protected Area (MPA), includes the waters of Oyster Bay (390) and Mill Neck Creek. Ice (403) (391) During severe winters ice has been known to extend Small-craft facility the full length of the bay during part of January and (404) Two small-craft facilities are at Oyster Bay, one in February. the basin and the other just east of the entrance to the basin. Berths and moorings, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, pump-out facilities, a launching ramp, (392) Plum Point, the easternmost point of Centre Island, storage and full repairs are available. is marked at its south end by a small stone tower; boat landings are on the southwest side of the point. A yacht club with a prominent flagstaff is about 0.3 mile west of Plum Point. The yacht club landing has reported depths (405) Brickyard Point, about 0.5 mile westward of Moses of about 9½ feet. Point, should be given a berth of at least 0.2 mile off its westerly side to avoid several dangerous rocks to (393) Cooper Bluff, at the northeast end of Cove Neck the northwestward of the point. None of these rocks is is prominent. A boulder reef extends nearly 0.3 mile marked. Extensive privately owned oyster beds, marked northward from Cove Point at the northwest end of Cove by stakes, are in this area. Neck, and is marked by a seasonal lighted buoy. (406) Mill Neck Creek, at the northwest end of Oyster (394) Cold Spring Harbor, the southeasterly end of Bay Harbor, is crossed by a highway bridge having a Oyster Bay, extends about 2.3 miles southward of Cooper bascule span with a clearance of 9 feet. (See 33 CFR 117.1 Bluff. The tower on top of a dome of a seminary on the hill through 117.59 and 117.800, Chapter 2, for drawbridge of West Neck, on the east side of the harbor, is prominent. regulations.) A marina, with an approach depth of 6 feet, A depth of about 14 feet can be carried to near the head of is on the north side of the river near the bridge. The marina the harbor by giving the shores a berth of about 0.3 mile. can provide gasoline, diesel fuel, electricity, water, ice, pump-out, marine supplies, launching ramp and full (395) The village of Cold Spring Harbor is on the eastern repairs. shore near the head of the harbor. An oil company pier at the village has a depth of about 13 feet alongside. A small- (407) Oak Neck Creek, northwest of Mill Neck Creek, is craft facility is on the east side of the cove at the head entered at high water as the creek is practically bare at of Cold Spring Harbor. Gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, low water. marine supplies, berthings and dry storage are available. A reported depth of about 3 feet is available alongside the facility. A town launching ramp is available in the harbor. (396) A speed limit of 5 mph is enforced in the harbor. (397) (408) Anchorages ENCs - US5NY16M, US5CN10M (398) Special anchorages are in Cold Spring Harbor and Charts - 12367, 12364 Oyster Bay Harbor. (See 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.60(t), (u), (u-2) and (u-3), Chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) (409) Oak Neck Point (40°54.9'N., 73°34.1'W.), 4 miles west-southwestward of Lloyd Point, is marked by many large residences. Several stone jetties extend a short distance from the shore just westward of the point. (399) Oyster Bay Harbor, a long, crooked arm in the A shoal, strewn with boulders and marked by a buoy, western side of Oyster Bay, has a channel with a depth extends 0.3 mile from the shore for part of the distance over 30 feet leading into the area westward of Moses between Oak Neck Point and Matinecock Point to the Point. Good anchorage is available southward of Moses westward. Point. West of this point, the channel is narrow and suitable only for vessels drawing less than 10 feet. Vessels
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 337 (410) Frost Creek, locally known as Guthries Creek, 2 at its end by a light. The anchorage behind the breakwater miles westward of Oak Neck Point, has a channel at the has depths ranging from 18 to 22 feet behind its outer half entrance that is well defined when the water is below half and 7 to 9 feet near shore. A ramp is located north of the tide. The creek is protected by a stone jetty that extends Glen Cove Creek entrance. a short distance from the shore about 50 yards eastward (421) Glen Cove Creek, 0.6 mile southward of the of the channel. The channel has a reported depth of about breakwater, is entered through a dredged channel from 1 foot near the entrance. The creek is not recommended Mosquito Cove. An overhead power cable near the head without local knowledge. of the creek has a clearance of 65 feet. The entrance is marked by buoys. There are several small-craft facilities (411) Peacock Point is just west of Frost Creek. A stone in Glen Cove Creek. jetty to protect a private boat landing extends a short distance from the west side of the point. (412) Matinecock Point, 1.1 miles westward of Frost (422) A dredged channel, entered between Bar Beach and Creek, is marked on its western side by a stone pier in Glenwood Landing, leads alongside Glenwood Landing ruins. A shoal extends about 600 yards off the point and is to South Glenwood Landing at Motts Cove. In 1991, the marked at its end by a lighted gong buoy that is removed controlling depth in the dredged channel was 7 feet. A if endangered by ice. natural channel continues south through extensive flats for about 0.5 mile with a depth of about 5 feet. Local (413) knowledge is advised. ENCs - US5NY15M, US5CN10M (423) Sea Cliff is a village on the steep hill on the south side of Glen Cove Creek. From Sea Cliff southerly to the Charts - 12366, 12364 northerly wharves at Glenwood Landing, a shoal extends 300 yards from the east side of the harbor and is marked (414) Hempstead Harbor, 4 miles wide at the entrance by a buoy at the north end and a light at the south end. A between Matinecock Point and Prospect Point, is free dredged entrance channel, marked by two private lights, from dangers if the shores, between the entrance and leads from deep water in the harbor northeastward to a Mosquito Cove, are given a berth of 0.3 mile. It is municipal marina just north of Glenwood Landing. In much used by vessels seeking shelter in any but strong 1999, the reported controlling depths were 8 feet in the northerly winds and affords excellent anchorage with entrance channel, thence 7 feet in the marina basin. good holding ground. Vessels can anchor in any part of the harbor according to draft and direction of wind. A (424) Glenwood Landing is a village on the eastern good anchorage for vessels drawing less than 20 feet is shore abreast Bar Beach. The stacks of a power plant are just inside a line from Mott Point to the breakwater at prominent. A private light is shown from the outer end Glen Cove Landing. Small vessels can anchor behind of an unloading boom when the boom is in operation. An the breakwater. Vessels should avoid anchoring in the overhead power cable crossing from the power plant to pipeline area between Glenwood Landing and Bar Beach. Bar Beach has a clearance of 90 feet. Depths of about 8 to On the western shore above and below Bar Beach are 10 feet are available at the Glenwood Landing wharves. large sand and gravel plants. On the eastern shore are several villages. (425) A boatyard, reached only at high water, is at South Glenwood Landing. Craft to 30 tons can be hauled out (415) A 5 mph speed limit is enforced in the harbor. for minor hull repairs. (416) Waterborne commerce in the harbor is in sand, (426) gravel, petroleum products and building material. Vessels engaged in this commerce usually draw from 3 to 12 feet. Currents (427) In the channel west of the breakwater the tidal (417) currents are weak and variable. At Bar Beach the tidal Anchorage currents have a velocity of about 0.8 knot through the (418) A special anchorage is in Hempstead Harbor. (See narrow channel. (See the Tidal Current Tables for predictions.) 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.60, Chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) (428) Ice (429) In severe winters ice has been known to close (419) Weeks Point, on the eastern side near the entrance, is marked by a breakwater that protects a private boat navigation for about 6 weeks during January and February. landing. Nearly 0.5 mile southward of Weeks Point is the entrance to a basin protecting a private wharf that has a reported depth of 8 feet at the end. The basin shoals to the head, and there are rocks bare at low water near the (430) The shore between Prospect Point and Mott Point northern end. (40°51.4'N., 73°40.6'W.), to the southeastward, is marked by prominent bluffs. A shoal with boulders extends 0.2 (420) Glen Cove is a city with rail and bus communication mile from shore between the points and for a short on Glen Cove Creek, about 1 mile back from the eastern distance south of Mott Point. Buoys mark the limits of the shore of the bay. The breakwater extends 500 yards west- shoal eastward and northeastward of Mott Point. Picket southwestward from Glen Cove Landing and is marked Rock, with 2 feet over it, is 350 yards offshore northward
338 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 of Mott Point. An obstruction covered 16 feet is about 0.7 docks at Port Washington, thence through the unmarked mile north-northwestward of the point in 40°52'05.5\"N., channel along the east side of the bight to its north end 73°40'59.1\"W. northeastward of Toms Point. In 1979, shoaling to 1½ feet (431) Prospect Point, marked by prominent houses on was reported in the approach to the wharves east of Toms the bluff, has a rocky shoal making out nearly 0.4 mile Point in about 40°50'04\"N., 73°42'17\"W. In 1981, depths northward from it. The shoal rises abruptly from a depth of 5 feet were reported on the north side of the town dock of 60 feet. The north end of the shoal is marked by a with 2 and 4 feet on the west and south sides, respectively. lighted gong buoy that is 0.8 mile eastward of Execution Depths at the other wharves are reported to range from 4 Rocks Light. About 0.2 mile eastward of the buoy are to 9 feet. The town’s Bay Constable monitors VHF-FM rocky patches with depths of 17 to 18 feet. An obstruction channels 9 and 16 from the town dock. with 23 feet over it is east-northeastward from the buoy. (432) Sands Point, 0.7 mile west of Prospect Point, is (441) marked by a daybeacon. A boulder reef extends about 0.3 mile off the point and is marked by a lighted buoy. Small-craft facilities The boulders show at low water for a distance of about (442) There are extensive small-craft facilities at Port 300 yards from shore. A stone tower is a prominent object on this point. Washington and to the eastward and westward of Toms (433) Barker Point, about 1 mile south-southwest of Point at Manorhaven. Sands Point, is a high bluff on the northeast side of the entrance of Manhasset Bay. Gangway Rock, marked by a light and gong buoy, is at the northwesterly end of a broken line of rocks and shoal water that extends 0.6 (443) Hewlett Point (40°50.3'N., 73°45.2'W.) is on the mile northwestward from Barker Point. Success Rock, west side of the entrance to Manhasset Bay. A boulder awash at low water and marked by a buoy, is about 0.2 reef, mostly bare at low water and marked by a lighted mile southeastward of the light. buoy at its northern end, extends about 0.2 mile northward (434) Manhasset Bay, between Barker Point and Hewlett from the point. Point, affords excellent shelter for vessels of about 12 feet or less draft and is much frequented by yachts in the (444) summer. The depths in the outer part of the bay range from 12 to 17 feet and 7 to 12 feet in the inner part inside Anchorages Plum Point. The extreme south end of the bay is shallow (445) A special anchorage is north of Elm Point. (See with extensive mudflats. Depths of about 6 to 2 feet can be taken through a natural channel almost to the head of 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.60, Chapter 2, for limits and the bay. A 5 mph speed limit is enforced. regulations.) (435) Waterborne commerce is in petroleum products, carried in vessels drawing 6 to 10 feet. (436) (446) Stepping Stones Light (40°49'28\"N., 73°46'29\"W.), 46 feet above the water, is shown from a red brick Anchorages structure on a granite pier, with a white horizontal band (437) Special anchorages are in Manhasset Bay. (See on the southwest face, 1.3 miles southwest of Hewlett Point. The Stepping Stones, a dangerous boulder reef 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.60, Chapter 2, for limits and that dries in places, extend 0.8 mile southeastward from regulations.) The bottom is soft and affords good holding the light to the Long Island shore. In 1976, a submerged ground. rock, covered 18 feet, was reported 100 yards west- northwestward of Stepping Stones Light. (447) Kings Point Coast Guard Station is located at the (438) A seaplane restricted area is off Manorhaven. (See northern end of the Kings Point boat basin. 33 CFR 162.15, Chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) (448) Kings Point, marked by a private light, is 1.6 miles (439) Plum Point is a low spit extending southward from south-southwestward of Hewlett Point and is the site of the eastern shore about 0.6 mile southward of Barker the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. The 172-foot Point. A seasonal lighted entrance buoy is about 150 unguyed steel flagpole at the academy is said to be the yards southward of Plum Point. The bight eastward of country’s tallest; the top of the pole is 216 feet above the Plum Point is shoal. water. A boat basin, partially enclosed by an L-shaped pier, is at the point. In 1991, the basin had reported depths (440) PortWashingtonisavillagewithrailcommunication of 12 to 14 feet. on the south side of a shoal bight about 1.2 miles southeastward of Plum Point. An apartment complex on (449) Little Neck Bay is entered between Kings Point Toms Point, 0.9 mile east of Plum Point, is prominent. and Willets Point, 1.2 miles to the south-southwestward. Depths of about 8 feet can be carried in the buoyed Depths are 10 to 12 feet in the entrance, decreasing approach from the lighted buoy off Plum Point to the gradually to the head, about 2 miles inland, where the bay divides into two branches that almost dry; there are boulders in places close to the shores. (450) The shores of Little Neck Bay are thickly settled, and there are many private boat landings. A much used anchorage, in depths of 2½ to 7 feet, is in the cove midway along the east side of the bay.
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 339 (451) (463) Small-craft facility Anchorages (452) A small-craft facility is on the west side of the bay. (464) Several general and special anchorages are in East Water, ice and limited marine supplies are available. In River. (See 33 CFR 110.1, 110.60, and 110.155, Chapter 1981, the facility had a reported depth of 4 feet alongside. 2, for limits and regulations.) (453) (465) Anchorages Currents (454) A special anchorage is in Little Neck Bay. (See (466) In East River the flood current sets eastward and 33 CFR 110.1 and 110.60, Chapter 2, for limits and the ebb sets westward. Note: this is the direct opposite regulations.) of conditions in Long Island Sound where the flood is generally westward and the ebb eastward. (455) (467) The velocity of current is 0.7 knot at Throgs Neck, 1.6 knots at Port Morris, 4 knots in Hell Gate, 3 knots ENCs - US5NY15M, US5NY12M, US5NY1DM at Brooklyn Bridge, and 1.5 knots north of Governors Island. In Hell Gate (off Mill Rock) the velocity is 3.4 Charts - 12366, 12339, 12335 knots for the eastward current and 4.6 knots for the westward current. (456) East River is a 14-mile-long tidal strait that (468) The direction and velocity of the currents are connects Long Island Sound with New York Upper Bay affected by strong winds that may increase or diminish and separates the western end of Long Island from the the periods of flood or ebb. The currents generally set New York mainland. The Sound entrance is between with the channel, but heavy swirls are found in Hell Gate. Throgs Neck and Willets Point; the Upper Bay entrance is between The Battery and Governors Island. Hell Gate, (469) about halfway between Throgs Neck and The Battery, is noted for its strong tidal currents. Harlem River extends Currents northward from Hell Gate to the Hudson River. Both (470) See the Tidal Current Tables for the daily predictions sides of the East River, from The Battery to Port Morris, a distance of 9 miles, present an almost continuous line of of slack water and times and velocities of strengths of wharves except where shoals or currents prevent access. currents in Hell Gate and at other places on the East River. Mariners should exercise caution and discretion in the use (457) of published tidal current predictions. Channels (471) (458) A federal project provides for main-channel depths Pilotage, East River of 35 feet from Throgs Neck to the inactive New York (472) See Pilotage, New York Harbor from Long Island Naval Shipyard, about 2 miles from the western entrance, and thence 40 feet to deep water in New York Upper Bay. Sound (indexed as such), Chapter 11. (See Notice to Mariners and the latest edition of the chart for controlling depths.) (473) (459) Towage (474) Vessels intending to employ a tug should arrange to Caution (460) Mariners transiting East River in the vicinity of do so before proceeding westward of Rikers Island. Rikers Island and/or South Brother Island Channel are (475) advised of the following: (461) East River Main Channel Lighted Buoy 5 has been ENCs - US5NY15M, US5CN10M established northeast of Rikers Island in 40°47'47\"N., 73°51'57\"W. to ensure that no vessel penetration of Charts - 12366, 12364 air space exists over that portion of the East River that coincides with the glide path of the northeast-southwest (476) Throgs Neck, on the northwest side of the entrance runway of La Guardia Airport. Vessels with mast heights to East River, is marked by a light. Throgs Neck Light in excess of 125 feet shall pass 100 yards to the north of (40°48'16\"N., 73°47'26\"W.), 60 feet above the water, this buoy so as to avoid interference with the glide path. is shown from a skeleton tower with a black and white (462) Vessels transiting South Brother Island Channel diamond-shaped dayboard on the outer end of the neck. and using the turning basin at its southern terminus shall The shoal ground that extends 0.1 mile southward and ballast prior to entry and are cautioned that mast heights eastward from the light is marked by a lighted bell buoy. in excess of 125 feet may penetrate the glide path to the northwest-southeast runway to La Guardia Airport. (477) Fort Schuyler, on the outer end of Throgs Neck, is If mast heights cannot be lowered below 125 feet, La used as a base for the New York Maritime College. The Guardia Air Traffic Control Tower shall be notified at 550-foot-long wharf, on the southwest side of the fort, is 212–779–0242 prior to terminal departure or channel used to moor the school’s training ship. Depths of about entry. 25 feet are reported alongside the face. (478) Throgs Neck Bridge, a highway suspension bridge with a channel clearance of 138 feet and 152 feet at the center, crosses East River from Throgs Neck to the Long Island Shore.
340 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 (483) East River and Bronx-Whitestone Bridge N Image courtesy of Airphoto/Jim Wark (2004) (479) Willets Point, 0.7 mile southeastward across the by the prominent tanks of the NYC DEP Water Pollution entrance to East River from Throgs Neck, is marked by Control Plant. Fort Totten, the granite walls of which are prominent. (485) Old Ferry Point is on the north side of East River Little Bay, westward of Willets Point, has general depths 2 miles westward of Throgs Neck. The bight between of 6 to 10 feet and is used by local small craft. Depths Throgs Neck and Old Ferry Point affords anchorage, of about 9 feet can be taken in the buoyed channel to the with good holding ground, in depths of 15 to 35 feet; the piers on the Little Bay side of Willets Point. water shoals abruptly from 18 feet, 0.3 mile from shore, to depths of 4 to 5 feet. Several private landings are on (480) The southern approach viaduct of the Throgs Neck the north side of this bight. Tug and barge companies Bridge crosses the west part of Little Bay. The fixed spans maintain unlit commercial mooring buoys in Anchorage of the viaduct have a minimum clearance of 30 feet. Ground 6 for their own vessels. (486) Numerous obstructions exist in East River between (481) Whitestone Point, 2 miles westward of Willets Throgs Neck and the entrance to Westchester Creek. Point, is a small bluff marked by a light. The town of Mariners are advised to use the chart as a guide. Whitestone is between Little Bay and Whitestone Point. (487) Westchester Creek, on the north side of East River, Several private boat clubs are at Whitestone. In 1981, is entered through a dredged channel that leads northward reported depths alongside the boat club docks ranged through a shallow bight between Old Ferry Point and from ½ to 6 feet. Clason Point (chart 12339), 0.7 mile to the westward, to the head of navigation at Westchester, about 2.3 miles (482) TheBronx-Whitestone Bridgeis i a suspension above the channel entrance. The channel is buoyed to a structure that crosses East River from Old Ferry Point on point about 1 mile above the entrance. Waterborne traffic the Bronx side to a Long Island landing 0.4 mile on the creek consists chiefly of petroleum products, sand, southwestward of Whitestone Point. The bridge has a gravel and crushed rock. clearance of 130 feet with 135 feet at the center; a (488) Several highway bridges, three fixed and one traveling maintenance platform reduces vertical bascule, cross Westchester Creek at Unionport, 1.5 clearances by 14 feet when in operation. miles above the channel entrance. The Bruckner Expressway bascule bridge has a clearance of 14 feet, (484) Powell Cove, between the Long Island end of the and the fixed bridges have a least clearance of 52 feet. Bronx-Whitestone Bridge and Tallman Island, 0.6 mile to the westward, has general depths of 2 to 5 feet. Pier ruins are on the east side of the cove entrance. Tallman Island, now joined to the Long Island shore, is marked
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 341 (See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 and 117.815, Chapter (501) A 0.6-mile-long dike, covered at high water, runs 2, for drawbridge regulations.) The bridgetender at the close along the west side of the channel to within 0.3 mile Bruckner Expressway bridge monitors VHF-FM channel of the head of the bay. The dike is marked by lights at the 13; call sign KX-8289. ends and by lighted buoys along its length. (489) (502) The L-shaped pier at the head of Flushing Bay partially encloses a small-boat basin. Inside the small- Small-craft facilities boat basin, depths of about 7 feet were reported in 1981. (490) There is a small-craft facility on the west side of the The marina to the westward has a reported depth of about 5 feet inside. Gasoline, diesel fuel, berths, electricity, creek at Unionport. Water, limited supplies and storage water, ice, storage and a 30-ton hoist are available; facilities are available. limited electronic and engine repairs can be made. (491) (503) ENC - US5NY12M Ice (504) Ice generally obstructs navigation in Flushing Bay Chart - 12339 and Flushing Creek during a part of January and February. (492) Clason Point (40°48.3'N., 73°50.9'W.) is on the north side of East River about 3 miles west of Throgs Neck. Pugsley Creek, which empties into Westchester Creek and East River along the east side of Clason Point, (505) The fixed spans of the Whitestone Expressway is very shallow and should not be entered without local highway bridges over Flushing Creek, 0.2 mile above knowledge. Small boats anchor on the flats west of Clason the mouth, have a clearance of 34 feet. The Van Wyck Point. Expressway fixed highway bridge, also 0.2 mile above the mouth, is under construction (2005). The Northern (493) College Point is on the Long Island side of East Boulevard Bridge, 0.4 mile above the mouth, has a fixed River opposite Clason Point. College Point Reef, span with a clearance of 35 feet. covered 6 feet and marked by a light, is 0.2 mile north- northeastward of the point. (506) Flushing is on the east side of Flushing Creek. Waterborne traffic consists chiefly of sand, gravel, (494) The town of College Point is south of the point crushed rock and petroleum products. Drafts of inbound and on the east side of the entrance to Flushing Bay. and outbound vessels seldom exceed 12 feet. Vessels The wharves on the west side of the town have depths must go directly to the marginal wharves because the alongside ranging from ½ to 10 feet. The shallow bight creek has no room for anchorage. north of the town has depths of 2 to 5 feet and is used as a small-boat anchorage. (507) The east entrance to Rikers Island Channel, between Rikers Island and the mainland, is obstructed (495) by a lighted runway approach to La Guardia Airport. The approach to Bowery Bay is from westward of Rikers Small-craft facilities Island. (496) Several small-craft facilities are at College Point. (508) Bronx River, on the north side of East River, has Marine railways to 45 feet, mobile cranes to 35 tons, a project depth of 10 feet and is subject to shoaling water, ice, marine supplies, storage and hull and engine throughout. It is entered through a dredged channel repairs are available. that leads north-northwestward through a shallow bight between Clason Point and Hunts Point, 1.1 miles to the westward, to the head of river navigation at East 172nd Street, about 2.3 miles above the channel entrance. (497) Flushing Bay extends southeast between the town (See Notice to Mariners and latest editions of charts for of College Point and La Guardia Airport, 0.6 mile to the controlling depths.) southwest. Flushing Creek flows into the east side of the head of the bay. A dredged channel extends from the East (509) Waterborne traffic on the Bronx River consists River into the creek; the channel is marked by lighted and chiefly of sand, gravel and crushed rock. unlighted buoys. A turning basin is on the west side of the dredged channel west of the entrance to Flushing Creek (510) Bronx River is crossed by four bridges to East 172nd and a small-craft anchorage area is on the northwest side Street. Bruckner Expressway Bridge, 1.7 miles above the of the turning basin. Flushing Bay is mostly shallow, with entrance, has a bascule span with a clearance of 27 feet. depths of less than 6 feet outside the channel. (See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 and 117.771, Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations.) Westchester Avenue (498) Bridge, 2 miles above the entrance, has a fixed span with a clearance of 18 feet. The elevated railway structure Anchorages over Westchester Avenue Bridge has a fixed span with a (499) General and special anchorages are in Flushing clearance of 61 feet. The railroad bridge, 2.1 miles above the entrance, has a rolling-lift span with a clearance of Bay. (See 33 CFR 110.1, 110.60 and 110.155, Chapter 8 feet, but the draw is no longer opened. (See 33 CFR 2, for limits and regulations.) Small-craft anchor south of 117.771(b), Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations.) College Point in depths of 4 to 8 feet. (500) A restricted area is in a portion of the southern part of the channel through Flushing Bay. (See 33 CFR 162.20, Chapter 2, for limits and regulations.)
342 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 The Bruckner Expressway Bridge is equipped with (521) radiotelephone. The bridgetender can be contacted on VHF-FM channel 13; call sign KX-8189. Caution (511) Hunts Point is on the north side of East River about 4 miles west of Throgs Neck. A marginal wharf extends (522) Vessels transiting South Brother Island Channel 0.3 mile northeastward from the point; depths of 17 to 24 and using the turning basin at its southern terminus shall feet are reported alongside. Small craft anchor in depths ballast prior to entry and are cautioned that mast heights of 9 to 17 feet on the flats east of the wharf. in excess of 125 feet may penetrate the glide path of (512) Rikers Island, in the middle of East River between the northwest-southeast runway of La Guardia Airport. Hunts Point and La Guardia Airport, is partly occupied by If mast heights cannot be lowered below 125 feet, La buildings of the Department of Correction of New York. Guardia Air Traffic Control Tower shall be notified at The island is about a mile long, southeast to northwest, 212–779–0242 prior to terminal departure or channel and 0.6 mile wide. The larger part of the island, southeast entry. of the buildings, is used as a trash dump. (513) East River main channel leads northward of Rikers Island. A much-used general anchorage, with depths of 21 to 30 feet, is between the south side of the channel (523) Bowery Bay, across Rikers Island Channel from and the flats off the north side of the island. (See 33 CFR Rikers Island, has depths of about 10 feet. A special 110.1 and 110.155(b)(6) and (1), Chapter 2, for limits and anchorage is in the west part of the bay. (See 33 CFR regulations.) 110.1, 110.60(n) and 110.155(b)(5) and (1), Chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) A pipeline area is in the (514) southeast part of the anchorage area. A fixed highway bridge crosses Rikers Island Channel and Bowery Bay Caution and connects Rikers Island with the Borough of Queens, (515) East River Main Channel Lighted Buoy 5 has been New York; clearance over the channel is 52 feet for a width of 125 feet. established northeast of Rikers Island in 40°47'47\"N., 73°51'59\"W. to ensure that no vessel penetration of (524) Bowery Bay may be approached from the East River air space exists over that portion of the East River that main channel from the northward through South Brother coincides with the glide path of the northeast-southwest Island Channel and from the northwestward through a runway of La Guardia Airport. Vessels with mast heights 100-yard-wide channel that leads between the ledges in excess of 125 feet shall pass 100 yards to the north of that make off from Lawrence Point on the southwest and this buoy so as to avoid interference with the glide path. South Brother Island on the northeast. The controlling depth in the 100-yard-wide channel is about 19 feet. Caution is advised in the northwestern approach as the channel is narrow, the bottom is rocky and uneven and (516) North Brother Island, 0.3 mile northwest of Rikers tidal currents are strong. Island, is occupied by the ruins of former municipal buildings. East River main channel leads northward and (525) Lawrence Point, on the southeast side of East River westward of the island; a light marks the main channel 0.7 mile westward of Rikers Island, is occupied by an side of the island. extensive gas and electric plant. A light marks the outer part of the ledge, partly bare at low water, which extends (517) The buoyed channel between North Brother Island 0.3 mile northeastward from the point. and South Brother Island, 0.1 mile to the southward, has a controlling depth of about 25 feet. Shoaling to (526) Randalls Island and Wards Island are on the 16 feet exists on the south side of the channel in about northwestern side of East River between Port Morris 40°47'54\"N., 73°53'47\"W. The channel is marked by and Hell Gate, separating that river from Harlem River, a light off the north side of South Brother Island. The which is described later. The islands provide recreational channel is narrow and subject to strong currents and facilities for the residents of the city of New York. should not be used by vessels of limited maneuverability. (527) Bronx Kill, which separates Randalls Island from (518) A ledge, partly bare at low water, extends 0.2 mile Port Morris, is a narrow passage that extends westward southward from South Brother Island; the outer part of from the East River to the Harlem River. A fixed railroad the ledge is marked by a light. bridge with a clearance of 68 feet and a fixed highway bridge with a clearance of 51 feet cross the passage. (519) Port Morris, 0.2 mile westward across East River Bronx Kill is navigable but not recommended as a route main channel from North Brother Island, has rail terminals of travel. It is shoal and obstructed throughout. to and from which car floats are taken through East River. (528) Sunken Meadow is the reclaimed area now joined (520) South Brother Island Channel, project depth 35 to the northeast end of Wards Island and southeast end of feet, leads from deep water east of North Brother Island Randalls Island. and along the west side of Rikers Island to a turning basin on the west side of Bowery Bay. The channel is marked (529) Little Hell Gate, which formerly separated Wards by lighted and unlighted buoys. (See Notice to Mariners Island from Randalls Island and formed a passage from and the latest editions of charts for controlling depths.) East River to Harlem River, has been mostly filled in and together with Sunken Meadow joins Wards Island with Randalls Island.
U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 ¢ 343 (539) Structures across Harlem River Clear Width of Clear Height above Draw or Span Mean High Water Name•Description•Type Location Miles* Opening (feet) (feet) Information 103rd Street Bridge (lift) 40°47'10\"N., 73°56'14\"W. 0.0 300 55 (down) Notes 1 and 3 Triborough Bridge (lift) 40°48'02\"N., 73°55'42\"W. 1.3 204 136 (up) Call sign KIL-820 Willis Avenue Bridge (swing) 40°48'14\"N., 73°55'45\"W. 1.5 109 54 (down) Notes 1 and 3 136 (up) Call sign KGW-326 25 Note 1 Third Avenue Bridge (swing) 40°48'27\"N., 73°55'57\"W. 1.9 118 27 Note 1 Metro North Railroad Bridge (lift) 40°48'41\"N., 73°56'00\"W. 2.1 225 Notes 1, 2 and 3 25 (down) Call sign KAW-326 Madison Avenue/138th Street Bridge (swing) 40°48'51\"N., 73°55'59\"W. 2.3 104 135 (up) Note 1 149th Street Bridge (swing) 40°49'10\"N., 73°55'59\"W. 2.8 104 Note 1 Macombs Dam Bridge (swing) 40°49'41\"N., 73°56'02\"W. 3.2 164 25 Note 1 High Bridge (fixed) 40°50'35\"N., 73°55'50\"W. 4.3 322 30 Note 1 Alexander Hamilton Bridge (fixed) 40°50'44\"N., 73°55'43\"W. 4.5 366 Note 1 27 Washington Bridge (fixed) 40°50'48\"N., 73°55'40\"W. 4.6 354 Notes 1, 2 and 3 University Heights Bridge (swing) 40°51'46\"N., 73°54'53\"W. 6.0 85 77 Call sign KU-9797 Broadway Bridge (lift) 40°52'25\"N., 73°54'40\"W. 6.8 288 102 (center) Henry Hudson Bridge (fixed) 40°52'40\"N., 73°55'20\"W. 7.2 418 79 103 (center) Spuyten Duyvil Railroad Bridge (swing) 40°52'42\"N., 73°55'32\"W. 7.9 100 134 25 24 (down) 135 (up) 53 142 (center) 5 * Distance is in nautical miles proceeding from the East River Note 1 – See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 and 117.789, Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations Note 2 – bridge is kept in the open to navigation position except for the passage of trains or maintenance Note 3 – bridgetenders monitor VHF-FM channel 13 (530) Hell Gate Bridge, which crosses East River from of Negro Point and southwestward of Hallets Point, the Wards Island to Long Island 7.1 miles from The Battery, customary port passings are made. has a fixed railroad span with a clearance of 134 feet. (535) Mill Rock, on the northwestern side of the main channel through Hell Gate, is 0.2 mile southwest of (531) Negro Point is the southernmost point of Wards Wards Island and the same distance northwest of Hallets Island.Triborough Bridge, which crosses East River Point. The islet is marked by lights on its north and south from Negro Point to Long Island 6.8 miles from The ends. Battery, has a highway suspension span with a clearance of 138 feet. (536) (532) Holmes Rock and Hog Back are two bare rocks, ENCs - US5NY12M, US5NY1FM which are on the eastern and northern parts, respectively, of a reef in the bight on the south side of Wards Island Charts - 12339, 12342 westward of Negro Point. The western extremity of this reef is marked by a light. (537) Harlem River, which joins East River in Hell Gate between Wards Island and Manhattan Island, extends (533) Hallets Point, on the Long Island side of East River northward about 7 miles and connects with Hudson River about 0.3 mile southwestward of Negro Point, is marked through Spuyten Duyvil Creek. The channel through by a light. There are main-channel depths close to the Harlem River is narrow, tortuous, and navigable only point. for powered vessels. By taking care to avoid several isolated 11- to 13-foot spots, a depth of about 14 feet can (534) Hell Gate is the part of East River between Wards be carried to the Hudson River; the chart is the guide. Island and Roosevelt Island, 0.7 mile to the southwest. The crooked channel, the strong tidal currents, and the (538) Traffic is heavy in Harlem River. Vessels with heavy traffic in Hell Gate require extra caution on the part heights too great to pass under the closed drawbridges of the navigator to avoid accident or collision. Vessels should make the passage against the current. navigating Hell Gate on a rising tide sometimes find it necessary to pass starboard-to-starboard because of the (540) strong currents between Negro Point and Hallets Point. This situation may arise when one of the vessels does not Currents maneuver readily or is handling a tow. Northeastward (541) The tidal currents in Harlem River run southward from Hudson River to East River while the east-going
344 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 9 (555) Structures across Newtown Creek and Tributaries Clear Width of Clear Height above Draw or Span Mean High Water Name•Description•Type Location Opening (feet) (feet) Information Newtown Creek 40°44'21\"N., 73°57'09\"W. 150 46 (center) Notes 1 and 2 Pulaski Bridge (bascule) 39 (fenders) Call sign KX-8178 30 (center) Notes 1 and 2 Greenpoint Avenue Bridge (bascule) 40°44'00\"N., 73°56'25\"W. 149 24 (fenders) Call sign KX-8182 Bridge under construction Kosciusko Memorial Bridge (fixed) 40°43'40\"N., 73°55'45\"W. 249 125 English Kills 40°42'51\"N., 73°55'52\"W. 81 Notes 1 and 2 Metropolitan Avenue Bridge (bascule) 10 (center) Call sign KX-8179 Montrose Avenue Bridge (fixed) 40°42'33\"N., 73°55'50\"W. 46 4 Notes 1 and 2 East Branch Call sign KX-8187 Grand Avenue Bridge (swing) 40°42'59\"N., 73°55'22\"W. 88 (west draw) 8 Note 2 Dutch Kills 2 Note 2 14 Long Island Railroad Bridge (swing) 40°44'17\"N., 73°56'44\"W. 46 4 Note 2 83 Long Island Railroad Bridge (bascule) 40°44'19\"N., 73°56'39\"W. 50 5 Borden Avenue Bridge (retractable span) 40°44'20\"N., 73°56'34\"W. 49 Queens Midtown Expressway Bridge (fixed) 40°44'22\"N., 73°56'30\"W. 90 Hunters Point Avenue Bridge (bascule) 40°44'26\"N., 73°56'26\"W. 50 Note 1 – Bridgetender monitors VHF-FM channel 13. Note 2 – See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 and 117.801, Chapter 2, for drawbridge regulations. current is running in Hell Gate, and the reverse. The power cables crosses the main channel immediately north south-going current in Harlem River is considered the of the bridge. The low point of travel of the cabin is not flood. The times of slack water are subject to variations less than 135 feet. depending upon freshet conditions in Hudson River. The velocity of the current is 2 knots or more in the narrower (547) parts of the channel. (See the Tidal Current Tables for predictions.) ENC - US5NY1DM Chart - 12335 (542) (548) Roosevelt Island Reef (Welfare Island Reef), with bare islets, rocks awash and submerged rocks, extends 0.3 ENC - US5NY12M mile southwestward from the island. Belmont Island, near the southwest end of the reef, is marked by a light. Chart - 12339 (549) (543) Roosevelt Island (Welfare Island), 1.6 miles long and 0.1 mile wide, is in the middle of East River southwest ENC - US5NY11M of Hell Gate. A gray stone tower is on the north end of the island. Chart - 12338 (544) The currents on both sides of Roosevelt Island are (550) Newtown Creek is entered on the eastern side of strong, and caution is advised while navigating in these East River 3.6 miles from The Battery. The creek extends areas. 3.3 miles eastward and southward and has several short tributaries or basins. Traffic is fairly heavy and consists (545) The 36th Avenue highway bridge that crosses the chiefly of petroleum products, sand, gravel and crushed eastern channel from Roosevelt Island to Long Island rock; drafts of vessels navigating the creek seldom exceed 5.6 miles from The Battery has a vertical-lift span 15 feet. with clearances of 40 feet down and 99 feet up. (See 33 CFR 117.1 through 117.59 and 117.781, Chapter 2, (551) Tributary basins are Dutch Kills, on the north side for drawbridge regulations.) The bridgetender monitors of Newtown Creek 0.8 mile from East River; Whale VHF-FM channel 13; call sign KX-8184. Creek, on the south side opposite Dutch Kills; Maspeth Creek, on the east side 2.2 miles from East River; East (546) Queensboro Bridge, which crosses from Manhattan Branch, on the east side 2.5 miles from the river; and Island to Roosevelt Island and thence to Long Island 5.0 English Kills, which extends westward and southward miles from The Battery, has fixed spans with clearances from the East Branch entrance and forms the last 0.8 mile of 131 feet over the main channel and 133 feet over the of Newtown Creek. eastern channel. An overhead cable car with overhead
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