Narragansett Bay I Chapter 6 I 243 Narragansett Bay (1) This chapter describes the Sakonnet River, traffic lanes separated by a defined traffic separation Narragansett Bay, Mount Hope Bay, and Taunton and zone, and two precautionary areas, one at the southern Providence Rivers. Also discussed are the ports of New- end and the other at the northern end of the directed port, Fall River, and Providence, as well as the numer- traffic lanes and separation zones. The Scheme is rec- ous other yachting and fishing centers in this area. ommended for use by vessels approaching or departing from Narragansett Bay, but is not necessarily intended COLREGS Demarcation Lines for tugs, tows, or other small vessels which tradition- (2) The lines established for this part of the coast are ally operate outside of the usual steamer lanes or close inshore. described in 80.145, chapter 2. (7) The Traffic Separation Scheme has been designed to aid in the prevention of collisions at the approaches Charts 13221, 13218 to major harbors, but is not intended in any way to su- persede or alter the applicable Navigation Rules. Sepa- (3) Narragansett Bay, opening into the north side of ration zones are intended to separate inbound and Rhode Island Sound 17 miles westward of Buzzards outbound traffic lanes and be free of ship traffic, and Bay entrance, is the approach to the cities of Newport, should not be used except for crossing purposes. Mar- Providence, Fall River, and Taunton, as well as numer- iners should use extreme caution when crossing traf- ous towns and villages. Rhode Island, the largest island fic lanes and separation zones. (See Traffic Separation in the bay, forms the eastern shore of the bay proper. Schemes, chapter 1, for additional information.) The entrance is between Brenton Point, the southwest- (8) The southern precautionary area in the southwest ern part of Rhode Island, on the east, and Point Judith part of Rhode Island Sound has a radius of 5.4 miles Neck on the west. The bay is about 18 miles long from centered on 41°06'06\"N., 71°23'22\"W., excluding those the entrance to the mouth of Providence River. Naviga- areas of the circle bounded by imaginary lines extend- tion of the bay is easy during day or night in clear ing between the outer limits of the inbound and out- weather as it is marked by navigational aids. The large bound traffic lanes. (Note that the southern Conanicut Island and Prudence Island, and several precautionary area is common to the Traffic Separation smaller islands, divide the bay into two passages. Schemes for the approaches to both Narragansett Bay Sakonnet River, although not a part of Narragansett and Buzzards Bay.) The Traffic Separation Scheme for Bay, is included with it in the following discussion. the approach to Buzzards Bay is described in chapter 5. (9) The separation zone is a 2-mile-wide zone centered (4) East Passage is good for a least depth of about 60 upon the following positions: feet for about 11 miles up the marked channel to the (10) (i) 41°22'39\"N., 71°23'22\"W., entrance of the dredged channel to Providence. West (11) (ii) 41°11'07\"N., 71°23'22\"W. Passage is the approach to Dutch Island Harbor, (12) The inbound traffic lane is a 1-mile-wide lane with Wickford, Greenwich Bay, and Providence River. Ves- a length of about 11.5 miles. Entering the traffic lane at sels of over 16-foot draft rarely go above Dutch Island a point in about 41°11'06\"N., 71°21'24\"W., a course of Harbor without a pilot, but vessels of 16-foot draft or 000° follows the centerline of the traffic lane to a junc- less should have no difficulty in going to the head of the tion with the northern precautionary area. bay and Providence River. Sakonnet River is good for a (13) The outbound traffic lane is a 1-mile-wide lane depth of 18 feet from the mouth to Mount Hope Bay. with a length of about 11.5 miles. Entering the traffic lane at a point in about 41°22'39\"N., 71°25'24\"W., a (5) Traffic Separation Scheme Narragansett Bay has course of 180° follows the centerline of the traffic lane been established in the approach to Narragansett Bay to a junction with the southern precautionary area. through Rhode Island Sound. (See charts 13223, 13221, (14) The northern precautionary area has a 3.55-mile 13218, 12300.) radius centered on a point in about (41°25'35\"N., 71°23'22\"W.), excluding those areas of the circle (6) The Scheme is composed basically of directed traf- fic lanes each with one-way inbound and outbound
244 I Chapter 6 I Coast Pilot 2 bounded by imaginary lines extending between the the Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone outer limits of the inbound and outbound traffic lanes. Regulations (33 CFR 26) (see chapter 2). These volun- (15) A 2-mile-wide restricted area extends from the tary procedures consist of Security calls to be made by northern limits of the Narragansett Bay Approach traf- vessel masters, pilots, or operators on VHF-FM channel fic separation zone to 41°24.7'N. This restricted area 13 (156.65 MHz) at designated points. The procedures within the precautionary area will only be closed to ves- are designed to give notice of unseen vessels, give no- sel traffic by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Divi- tice of intended movement, clear channel 13 of traffic sion, Newport, during periods of daylight and optimum unrelated to navigation, give each vessel information weather conditions for torpedo range use. The closing on all others in the immediate vicinity, and to do so at of the restricted area will be indicated by the activation little cost and with as little radiotelephone traffic as of red flashing lights on naval vessels supporting the possible. These recommendations do not relieve a mas- torpedo range activities. There would be no vessel re- ter, pilot, or operator of any requirements of law or reg- strictions expected during inclement weather or when ulation. There is no guarantee that every vessel will the torpedo range is not in use. follow them. (16) The Traffic Separation Scheme is not buoyed. A (22) Inbound vessels should make Security calls when group of buoys within the separation zone and the pre- abeam of Narragansett Bay Entrance Lighted Whistle cautionary area mark the torpedo range; these buoys Buoy NB, when off Castle Hill Light, and when at the are not related to the Scheme. south end of Prudence Island (state whether bound for (17) Narragansett Bay Entrance Lighted Whistle Buoy Providence or Fall River). The call at Castle Hill Light NB (41°23'00\"N., 71°23'24\"W.) is at the north end of alerts outbound vessels so that they can pass East Pas- the separation zone and is equipped with a racon. sage Lighted Bell Buoy 11 close aboard, as during ebb (18) A safety zone has been established about 2 miles current they tend to be set toward the center of the northward of Buoy NB for Liquefied Petroleum Gas channel. Vessels bound for Providence should make ad- (LPG) vessels. (See 165.20, 165.23, and 165.121, ditional Security calls when off Popasquash Neck and chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) when approaching Bullock Point Light BP. Vessels bound for Fall River should call Brightman Street (19) Recommended Vessel Route (Narragansett Bay) Bridge when they enter Mount Hope Bay to allow suffi- has been established in the approach to Narragansett cient time for opening of the bridge. Bay through Rhode Island Sound. (23) Vessels outbound from Providence should make Security calls when leaving their dock and when off (20) The U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port, Provi- Popasquash Neck. Vessels outbound from Fall River dence, in cooperation with the Southeastern Massa- should make calls when leaving their dock, when ap- chusetts and Rhode Island Port Safety and Security proaching Mount Hope Bridge, and when off Gould Is- Committees, has established a Recommended Vessel land. Route for deep draft vessels and tugs/barges transiting Rhode Island Sound, Narragansett Bay, and Buzzards Anchorages Bay. Deep draft vessels and tugs/barges are requested to (24) The principal anchorages for vessels seeking shel- follow the designated routes. These routes were de- signed to provide safe, established routes for these ves- ter are Newport Harbor in the East Passage and Dutch sels, to reduce the potential for conflict with Island Harbor in the West Passage. These harbors af- recreational boaters, fishing gear, and other small ford anchorage with good holding ground for craft, and to reduce the potential for grounding or col- deep-draft vessels, and are sometimes used by coasting lision. Vessels are responsible for their own safety and vessels on the passage between Vineyard Sound and are not required to remain inside the route nor are fish- Long Island Sound. Good anchorage will be found al- erman required to keep fishing gear outside the route. most anywhere in the bay under the lee of islands or the Small vessels should exercise caution in and around shore, where vessels becalmed or at night frequently the Recommended Vessel Routes and monitor VHF anchor. Point Judith Harbor of Refuge is just west of channels 16 or 13 for information concerning deep Point Judith. General and explosives anchorages are in draft vessels and tugs/barges transiting these routes. Narragansett Bay. (See 110.1 and 110.145, chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) Security Broadcast System, Narragansett Bay (21) In conjunction with various maritime interests, Routes (25) Vessels approaching from eastward should shape the Coast Guard has developed a system of recom- mended radiotelephone procedures for Narragansett their approach to pass well south of Seal Ledge and and Mount Hope Bays that is designed to supplement Brenton Reef. Brenton Reef and other dangers on the
Narragansett Bay I Chapter 6 I 245 easterly side of the entrance will be avoided by keeping sometimes be free from fog while the entrance is com- Castle Hill Light bearing eastward of 003° and passing pletely shut in. westward of the lighted whistle buoy and the gong buoy (29) Navigation of the bay and its tributaries is some- off Brenton Reef and the bell buoy off Butter Ball Rock. times impeded by floating ice and in severe winters by Approaching from westward, from a position with packs of field ice. The ice which breaks up in Provi- Point Judith Light bearing 344° distant 2 miles, vessels dence River and Mount Hope Bay is set by north and may steer 028° for about 9 miles to a position 0.5 mile northeast winds down the bay through East Passage. If west of Castle Hill Light, thence follow the navigational there is much ice, a gorge is sometimes formed at Fort lights in the bay. The recommended route, however, for Adams, but it is of short duration. The passages are deep-draft vessels is via the Narragansett Bay Approach rarely closed for any length of time below Gould Island Traffic Separation Scheme, which is described earlier in the East Passage and Dutch Island in the West Pas- in this chapter. sage. During January and February, Mount Hope Bay, Bristol Harbor, Warren, Providence River, Greenwich Tides Bay, and Wickford are usually closed to sailing vessels (26) The tidal movement in Narragansett Bay with its unaided by power. The inner harbor of Newport is also sometimes closed during these months with the excep- vertical and horizontal constituents–tide and current, tion of a channel kept open by vessels. It can get nasty respectively–is a continuation of the tide wave of the at the mouth of Narragansett Bay when strong winds Atlantic Ocean. This wave sweeps into the three en- oppose the currents. Rounding Point Judith can be trances between Sakonnet Point and Point Judith and rough or interminable, due to the confluence of tidal continues up the bay and into each of its tributaries un- currents. Also local wind conditions can cause the tide til stopped by rapids or other obstructions. As is usual to turn earlier or later than predicted in the tables. when oceanic tidal movements enter inland waterways, the nature of the movement is modified by the hydro- North Atlantic Right Whales graphic features encountered. In this area the local fea- (30) Endangered North Atlantic right whales may occur tures are such that the current movement in particular is subject to considerable distortion. The mean range of in the Narragansett/Buzzards Bay Traffic Separation the tide varies from about 3.5 feet at the entrance to 4.6 Scheme (peak season: March through April and Sep- feet at Providence. (See the Tide Tables for predictions.) tember through October). The Northeast Marine Pilots distribute educational material to mariners in an effort Currents to reduce right whale ship strikes. (See North Atlantic (27) The flood current in Narragansett Bay frequently Right Whales, indexed as such, chapter 3, for more in- formation on right whales and recommended mea- has two maximums of velocity separated by a minimum sures to avoid collisions with right whales.) velocity which at times becomes an ebb flow. Over the (31) The Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Re- greater part of the bay, the usual maximum flood or ebb search Reserve, a Marine Managed Area (MMA), in- velocity is from 0.2 knot in the broad portions of the cludes the waters around Prudence, Patience, Dyer, waterways to 1.5 knots in the more constricted sec- and Hope Islands in Narragansett Bay. Cape Cod South tions. Velocities of about 1.4 knots occur at the bridges Closure Area includes inshore waters of Narragansett in Seekonk River, a velocity of about 1.7 knots in the Bay and offshore Federal waters of the south coasts of narrows at the mouth of Kickamuit River, and a veloc- Massachusetts and Rhode Island. (See MMAs 6-1 and ity of 2.3 to 2.7 knots at the bridges in Sakonnet River. 5-1, Appendix C, for additional information.) In Sakonnet River, from the highway bridge to its mouth, current velocities are small, being generally Pilotage, Narragansett Bay and Other Rhode less than 0.5 knot. (See the Tidal Current Tables for pre- Island Waters dictions, and the Tidal Current Charts, Narragansett Bay, (32) Pilotage is compulsory for foreign vessels and U.S. for hourly velocities and directions of the current.) vessels under register when entering and departing Narragansett Bay and all ports of the waters of the State Weather, Narragansett Bay and vicinity of Rhode Island. (28) In the entrance to the bay and its approaches, fogs (33) Pilots for Narragansett Bay are available from Northeast Marine Pilots, Inc., Newport, RI; are more prevalent from April to October. The fogs are (34) telephone 401-847-9050 (24 hours), 800-274-1216, brought in by winds from east through south to south- (35) FAX 401-847-9052, west and are cleared off by northerly and westerly (36) email: [email protected]. winds. The usual duration of the fog is 4 to 12 hours, but periods of 4 to 6 days have been known with only short clear intervals. The head of the bay will
246 I Chapter 6 I Coast Pilot 2 (37) Pilots board vessels about 1.5 miles eastward of Rhode Island. The width of the river varies from 0.7 to 2 Narragansett Bay Entrance Lighted Whistle Buoy NB miles except at its northern end where a least width of within an area bounded by 0.3 mile is found. The river is little used except by fish- ing vessels and small craft. A private light (41°27'11\"N., (38) 41°23.6'N., 71°22.4'W., 71°12'09\"W.) is on the eastern side of the southern en- (39) 41°22.6'N., 71°22.0'W., trance and marks the western end of the foul ground (40) 41°24.2'N., 71°20.0'W., west-southwest of Sakonnet Point. (41) 41°22.6'N., 71°20.6'W. This pilot boarding area is (49) The channel of Sakonnet River is good for a depth of 18 feet from the mouth to Mount Hope Bay. There southward of a line extending from Point Judith to are numerous shoals and outlying rocks, but the dan- Sakonnet Point. Vessels arriving from sea should ap- gers are well marked by buoys. Except for the breakwa- proach this boarding station via the Narragansett Bay ter light off Sakonnet Harbor, no lighted aids are in the Traffic Separation Scheme inbound traffic lane. river, and strangers should not attempt to navigate it at (42) Vessels bound for Long Island Sound ports may night. board pilots at any point south or east of the Point Ju- (50) Good anchorage for vessels drawing up to 17 feet dith Pilot Station, centered on 41°17.0'N., 071°30.5'W., can be had in midriver just below High Hill Point in and outside the waters of the State of Rhode Island. depths of 21 to 28 feet. Although open to the south- (43) Pilots board from the Northeast Marine Pilots, Inc. ward, a heavy sea seldom reaches as far as this anchor- pilot boats NORTHEAST II, NORTHEAST III and age. In southeasterly gales the water is comparatively NORTHEAST IV. NORTHEAST II is a 47-foot boat and smooth inside the mouth of the river. Fishermen seek- NORTHEAST IV is a 52-foot boat; both have unpainted ing shelter frequently anchor on the flats in the bight aluminum hulls and superstructures with the word northward of Fogland Point in depths of 10 to 14 feet. PILOT in red on both sides. NORTHEAST III is a (51) Sakonnet Point, at the eastern entrance to 33-foot boat with black hull and white superstructure. Sakonnet River, is surrounded by bare and submerged A vessel should confirm her ETA by VHF-FM radio at rocks. Several islets and islands are south of the point. least 2 hours before arrival. All Northeast pilot boats Schuyler Ledge, with a least depth of 8 feet, is about 0.8 monitor VHF-FM channels 16, 13 and 10, and work on mile southward of the point, and is marked by a bell 10. buoy. A seasonal fishtrap area marked by private buoys (44) Pilots for Narragansett Bay serving U.S. enrolled is about 0.7 mile southwest of the point. vessels in coastwise trade are available from the Con- (52) Cormorant Rock, a bare dark rock off the western necticut State Pilots (a division of Interport Pilots side of the entrance to the river, is about 0.8 mile south Agency, Inc.), address: State Pier, New London, CT, tele- of Sachuest Point, the southeastern extremity of phone 800-346-4877 or 908-787-5554 (24 hours), cable Rhode Island. Vessels should not pass between Cormo- PORTPILOTS Port Monmouth, NJ. rant Rock and Cormorant Reef, 0.3 mile southward of (45) Connecticut State Pilots board vessels from the pi- the rock. The least depth on the reef is 4 feet; it is lot boat CONNECTICUT PILOT, 65 feet long with blue marked by a bell buoy. hull and white superstructure, and from pilot boat (53) The mean range of tide at Sakonnet Point is 3.1 CONNECTICUT PILOT II, 47 feet long with blue hull feet. (See the Tide Tables for predictions.) and white superstructure. The boats monitor VHF-FM (54) The two bridges and the remains of the abandoned channels 16 and 13, 2 hours prior to the vessel’s sched- highway bridge at the north end of Sakonnet River act uled ETA, and work on channel 10. The pilots meet as dams to maintain the water at different levels on ei- ships bound for Narragansett Bay at any point south or ther side of them, causing dangerous currents through east of the Point Judith Pilot Station, centered on the openings. The currents change with great rapidity 41°17.0'N., 071°30.5'W., and outside the waters of the both in velocity and in direction, and are characterized State of Rhode Island. by a double flood. (See the Tidal Current Tables for pre- (46) Vessels to be boarded should provide a ladder 3 feet dictions, and the Tidal Current Charts, Narragansett above the water on the lee side. Bay, for hourly velocities and directions of the current.) (47) Pilot services are generally arranged at least 24 Vessels usually pass through the draws near the times hours in advance through ships’ agents or directly by of slack water. shipping companies. (55) The river north of Fogland Point is usually closed by ice for short periods each winter. Ice packs occur at Chart 13221 the railroad bridge. (56) Vessels proceeding up Sakonnet River should fol- (48) Sakonnet River, on the easterly side of Narragansett low a midriver course to the constricted part of the Bay, is between the mainland and the eastern shore of
Narragansett Bay I Chapter 6 I 247 river, thence follow the channel marked by buoys into northern shore; several rocks are off the southern Mount Hope Bay. shore. The currents have considerable velocity. The (57) Sakonnet Harbor, a small-boat harbor on the northern part of the pond has depths up to 26 feet; the northerly side of Sakonnet Point, about 2 miles north- remainder has depths of about 3 feet. eastward of the entrance lighted whistle buoy, is pro- (62) The Cove, on the western side of the river south of tected by an 800-foot breakwater extending in a the bridges, has a depth of about 9 feet in the entrance; northerly and easterly direction from Breakwater the 31-foot-wide fixed highway bridge across the en- Point. A light marks the outer end. In 2001, the harbor trance has a clearance of 25 feet. Depths are generally 3 had a controlling depth of 6.7 feet except for shoaling to to 4 feet in the cove. 4.8 feet along the southern edge and 1.5 feet along the (63) Tiverton is a town on the eastern bank of Sakonnet NW edge. The holding ground in the harbor is reported River north and south of the bridges. Oil tankers call at to be poor. A marina on the southwest side of the har- Tiverton. The oil piers northward of the bridges have bor provides berths, gasoline, diesel fuel, and electric- reported depths of about 32 to 35 feet alongside. ity. In August 1981, depths of 6 feet were reported (64) Small-craft facilities at Tiverton and at Almy Point alongside the berths. on the west side of Sakonnet River across from Tiverton (58) The western shore of Sakonnet River from the en- can provide berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, wa- trance to Sandy Point should be given a berth of 0.4 ter, ice, storage, marine supplies, a launching ramp, mile to avoid shoals with depths of 7 to 17 feet. Rocks and hull and engine repairs. Marine railways on both extend up to 500 yards offshore between Sachuest sides of the river, at Tiverton and Almy Point, can han- Point and Flint Point, about 1 mile northward. Flint dle craft to 55 feet. Mobile hoists to 35 tons are available Point Ledge, about 0.5 mile north-northeast of Flint at Almy Point. Point, has a least depth of 7 feet; a buoy marks the (65) The channel at the north end of Sakonnet River, 0.6 ledge. Black Point is a rocky bluff on the western side of mile above Gould Island, is restricted to a width of 100 the river, 2.6 miles northward of Flint Point. Sandy feet between the abutments of a former highway Point and McCorrie Point, low and backed by high bridge. The fixed highway bridge, 0.8 mile to the north- land, are 3.9 and 5.4 miles, respectively, northward of ward, has a clearance of 65 feet. About 200 feet north of Flint Point. the highway bridge, a railroad bridge across the river (59) The channel passes eastward of Gould Island, a has a swing span with a clearance of 12 feet in the west high wooded island, 2.5 miles north-northeastward of opening. (See 117.1 through 117.49, chapter 2, for McCorrie Point. This Gould Island should not be con- drawbridge regulations.) In July 1991, the bridge was fused with one of the same name in East Passage. A reported to be maintained in the open position. The rock with a depth of 1 foot is northwestward of the is- overhead power cable at the railroad bridge has a clear- land and is marked by a buoy. ance of 81 feet. (60) The eastern side of Sakonnet River is bolder than the western side. The east shore should be given a berth Chart 13223 of 0.7 mile from Sakonnet Point to Church Point, a flat point with bluffs at the water, about 2.8 miles north- (66) The southern shore of Rhode Island is rocky with ward of Sakonnet Point. Old Bull, with a depth of 1 numerous offlying rocks and ledges. Numerous promi- foot, is about 0.5 mile southward of Church Point and nent residences are on the eastern side of Newport marked by a buoy. A church spire at Little Compton, Neck, the southwestern part of Rhode Island. A large about 1.7 miles east of Church Point, is prominent. brick residence with several towers is on the southeast- High Hill Point, about 3 miles north of Church Point, ern point of Newport Neck. Easton Point is about 1.3 is a prominent small hill with bluffs at the water. miles eastward of Newport Neck. A stone tower with a Fogland Point, about 0.9 mile northward of High Hill short spire at each corner can be seen from offshore, Point, is a projecting prominent point; the westerly and about 0.7 mile northward of Easton Point. Westward of northerly sides should be given a berth of over 200 Easton Point is a bathing beach with a prominent pavil- yards. Almy Rock, bare at low water, is 0.3 mile south- ion. Several private landings are northward of Goose- west of Fogland Point. The broad bights between berry Island, a small islet south of Newport Neck. Local Fogland Point and the bridge are shoal. knowledge is required to proceed to the landings. (61) Nannaquaket Pond, on the east side of Sakonnet (67) East Passage, the principal passage in Narragansett River eastward of Gould Island, has a narrow entrance 8 Bay, extends between Rhode Island on the east and feet deep crossed by a fixed bridge with a clearance of 12 Conanicut and Prudence Islands on the west. It is the feet. The deeper water in the entrance is along the
248 I Chapter 6 I Coast Pilot 2 most direct route to Newport, Bristol, Providence, islet has a tall house on it, covering almost the entire Mount Hope Bay, and Taunton River. islet. (68) The Newport Bridge, a fixed highway suspension (76) Fort Adams is on a peninsula off the north side of bridge, crosses East Passage about 3.6 miles above the Newport Neck. The buildings and masonry of the fort entrance, between Jamestown and Newport. Clear- are prominent on the western slope of the peninsula. A ances through the 1,500-foot center span are 213 feet dock extending northward from the fort is marked by a at the center, 205 for the mid 1,000 feet, and 194 feet for light and fog signal. the remainder of the center span. A privately main- (77) Newport Harbor, on the western shore of Rhode Is- tained fog signal is sounded at the bridge. land and the eastern side of East Passage, 3.5 miles (69) Brenton Point is the southwestern extremity of above Beavertail Light, is an important harbor of ref- Rhode Island and the eastern entrance point of East uge for coasters, tows, and yachts. Its approach is well Passage. marked by navigational aids, and the harbor is of easy (70) Brenton Reef, bare in places, extends 0.5 mile access day and night. A State regulatory buoy in the en- south-southwestward of the point and is marked by a trance to the inner harbor marks a “5 mph no wake” gong buoy. Another reef extends 0.5 mile offshore just zone. Goat Island, 0.6 mile long in a north-south direc- eastward of the point; Seal Rock is at the southeastern tion, is a major pleasure boating center and divides end of the reef. Newport Harbor into an outer and inner harbor. The (71) Seal Ledge, about 0.5 mile south of Seal Rock, has outer harbor, on the western side of Goat Island, is depths of 12 to 30 feet and is marked by a bell buoy. northward of The Dumplings and southward of Gould Haycock Ledge, 0.4 mile eastward of Seal Rock, has a Island. The inner harbor is on the eastern side of Goat least depth of 11 feet. Island and extends along the western front of Newport. (72) Beavertail Point is the southern extremity of (78) A marina, hotel, recreational and service facilities, Conanicut Island, on the western side of the entrance and marine supplies are available on Goat Island. to East Passage. Beavertail Light (41°26'58\"N., (79) Newport, a city on the inner harbor, is one of the 71°23'58\"W.), 64 feet above the water, is shown from a principal summer resorts on the Atlantic Coast. Some square granite tower attached to a white dwelling at coastwise traffic uses the port, but few foreign vessels Beavertail Point. A fog signal is at the light. Several an- enter it. A Naval Education and Training Center is here, tennas and radar towers are north of the light. Newton from which several Navy ships operate. Rock, a covered rock, is about 0.1 mile southward of the point; a bell buoy is about 0.2 mile southwestward Prominent features of the rock. (80) The following objects are prominent when ap- (73) Hull Cove, about 1 mile northeastward of Beavertail Light, is rocky and exposed to southerly proaching Newport Harbor either from the southward winds. Castle Hill, the westernmost point of Rhode Is- or northward: a hotel on Goat Island; a white building land, is marked by Castle Hill Light; a fog signal is at of the yacht club near Ida Lewis Rock in the southerly the light. Castle Hill Coast Guard Station is close east part of the harbor; church spires in the town; and the of the light. Butter Ball Rock, about 0.2 mile south of buildings of the Naval Education and Training Center the light and marked by a bell buoy, uncovers 1 foot. and Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island in the (74) Mackerel Cove indents the southern shore of north part of the harbor. To the westward on Conanicut Conanicut Island about 1.6 miles northeastward of Island are several large hotels and a standpipe. Numer- Beavertail Light. A house with a cupola is prominent on ous navigational aids mark the passages through the Southwest Point, the eastern entrance point of the harbor. cove. The cove is exposed to southerly weather and is (81) The entrance to the outer harbor from the south- seldom used. The Jamestown Bridge shows promi- ward is unobstructed; the entrance from northward, nently over the bar at the head of the cove on entering passing either side of Gould Island, is clear, but the pas- East Passage. Kettle Bottom Rock, about 0.2 mile sage eastward of Rose Island is partly obstructed by the southeastward of Southwest Point, is bare and marked rocks and ledges between Rose and Coasters Harbor Is- by a gong buoy. lands. (75) Bull Point, the southeastern point of Conanicut Is- (82) The inner harbor has two entrances north and land, is rugged and rocky, and fringed by shoals which south of Goat Island. A fixed highway bridge with a are marked by buoys. Fort Wetherill is on the point. 40-foot span and a clearance of 14 feet connects the The Dumplings, northeast of Bull Point, are numerous Newport mainland to the northern part of Goat Island. bare and covered rocks and islets. The most southerly This bridge limits the size of vessels that can enter the inner harbor from the northern approach.
Narragansett Bay I Chapter 6 I 249 (83) General anchorages are in the outer and inner har- clearance cross the harbor 0.1 mile north of the north- bor and, except in emergencies, vessels must anchor in ern bridge. these areas. (See 110.1 and 110.145, (a) (1), (a) (3) (91) The western portion of the outer harbor is gener- through (a) (5), and (d), chapter 2, for limits and reg- ally free of dangers northward of The Dumplings. ulations.) Special anchorages are in Brenton Cove and in the inner harbor east and northeast of Goat Island. Tides (See 110.1, 110.1a, and 110.46, chapter 2, for limits (92) The mean range of tide is 3.5 feet. (See the Tide Ta- and regulations.) Vessels of more than 18-foot draft an- chor in the outer harbor in depths of 36 to 100 feet with bles for predictions.) good holding ground. Currents (84) Good anchorage is in Brenton Cove, the bight east- (93) In the entrance off Bull Point the flood current is ward of Fort Adams, which is used frequently by yachts. When entering, the western shore should be given a often irregular. There may be a long period of slack wa- berth of 200 yards. ter preceding the flood, or there may be a double flood. The flood reaches a strength of about 1.2 knots; the ebb (85) In 1981, the harbormaster requested that transient is regular and averages 1.5 knots at strength. craft anchor only in the northern part of the Brenton (94) Northward of Bull Point, tidal current velocities Cove anchorage and in the anchorage northeast of Goat seldom exceed 1 knot. In the inner harbor they are usu- Island. ally less than 0.5 knot. (See the Tidal Current Tables for predictions, and the Tidal Current Charts, Narragansett (86) Shoals with little water over them make out nearly Bay, for hourly velocities and directions of the current.) 300 yards from the southern shore of the inner harbor to Ida Lewis Rock and Little Ida Lewis Rock; the latter Weather, Newport and vicinity is marked by a daybeacon. (95) The prevailing winds are southwesterly in the sum- (87) Goat Island is marked by a light at its northern end mer and northwesterly in the winter. The heaviest gales and a lighted bell buoy at its southern end. Buoys mark are usually from the northwest and northeast. the shoals along the southeasterly and southwesterly (96) The harbor and its approaches are navigable sides of the island. throughout the year, although in severe winters ice may interfere with navigation in the inner harbor for (88) Rose Island, privately owned, is surrounded by a short periods. Vessels and tugs keep ice well broken up shoal with little water over it. The shoal extends about in the main channel through the inner harbor. 0.4 mile northeastward of the island where it rises (97) July is the warmest month with an average maxi- abruptly from deep water. A rocky area extends south- mum of 79°F (26.1°C) and average minimum of 63°F ward from Rose Island and is marked by a buoy. A pri- (17.2°C). January is the coldest month, having normal vate light marks the southwest point of the island. mean temperatures near freezing, that is, average max- Mitchell Rock, with a depth of 14 feet and marked by a imum of 38°F (3.3°C) and average minimum of 23°F gong buoy, is about 0.1 mile southeast of the dock on (-5°C). The extreme maximum temperature for New- the southeast side of the island. Citing Rock, 2 feet port is 98°F (36.7°C) recorded in August 1975 while the high, is 350 yards east of the north end of the island and extreme minimum is -9°F (-22.8°C) recorded in Janu- on the edge of the shoal surrounding Rose Island. ary 1982. Tracey Ledge, covered 10 feet, is about 0.3 mile east- (98) Precipitation is fairly evenly distributed through- ward of Rose Island and marked by a buoy. out the year averaging about 45 inches (1143 mm) in any given year. The wettest month is November averag- (89) Gull Rocks are about midway between Rose Island ing 4.57 inches (116 mm) and the driest month is July and Coasters Harbor Island. Buoys mark the ends of the averaging only 2.94 inches (75 mm). Total snowfall for shoals and rocks that extend northward and southward the winter season averages about 20 inches (508 mm); of the rocks. There is deep water between Gull Rocks, however, melting is usually rapid and snow cover rarely Rose Island, and Coasters Harbor Island. A rock, cov- lasts more than a few days. The greatest snowfall in a ered 17 feet and marked by a buoy, is about 0.3 mile 24-hour period was 20.0 inches (508 mm) in February north-northwestward of Gull Rocks. 1978. January is the snowiest month averaging over seven inches (178 mm). Snow is absent from May (90) Off the northern and southern sides of Coasters through September. An average of only five days each Harbor Island are numerous rocks and ledges. A pri- year has snowfall amounts greater than 1.5 inches (38 vate light marks an obstruction in the channel south of mm). the island. St. Patrick Rock, covered 5 feet, is about 0.3 mile southeastward of the island. The island has nu- merous buildings. Two highway bridges connecting the island to Newport have 31-foot fixed spans with clear- ances of 3 feet. Overhead power cables of unknown
250 I Chapter 6 I Coast Pilot 2 (99) (See page 431 for the Newport climatological ta- (112) Jamestown is a town on the east side of Conanicut ble.) Island in a bight on the west side of East Passage. A standpipe in the southern part of the town and a hotel Pilotage, Newport near the waterfront are prominent. The bight is a popu- (100) See Pilotage, Narragansett Bay and Other Rhode Is- lar summer anchorage for local craft. A marina basin protected by a detached breakwater is in the center of land Waters (indexed as such), early this chapter. the bight. Jamestown has two boatyards. The largest marine railway can handle craft to 80 feet, and the larg- Quarantine, customs, immigration, and agricultural est lift is 50 tons. Berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel quarantine fuel, water, ice, some marine supplies, and complete (101) (See chapter 3, Vessel Arrival Inspections, and ap- hull, engine, and electronic repairs are available. pendix for addresses.) (102) Quarantine is enforced in accordance with regula- (113) Potter Cove is about 1 mile above the marina basin tions of the U.S. Public Health Service. (See Public just north of Taylor Point. This cove should not be con- Health Service, chapter 1.) fused with the Potter Cove off Prudence Island. About 1 (103) Newport is a customs port of entry. mile north of Taylor Point are the ruins of a pontoon (104) The Coast Guard vessel documentation office at pier. Providence serves Newport. (See appendix for address.) (114) Coddington Point is about 0.5 mile northward of Harbor regulations Coasters Harbor Island on the east shore of East Pas- (105) The harbormaster, under the supervision of the sage. Bishop Rock Shoal, 0.6 mile southwestward of the point, is covered 9 feet and marked by a lighted bell Recreation Department, is charged with the enforce- buoy. The Sisters, rocks awash westward of the point, ment of harbor regulations, the movement of vessels, are marked by a buoy. and assignment of moorings and anchoring. The harbormaster may be contacted through the Police De- (115) Coddington Cove, eastward of Coddington Point, is partment. The speed limit inside the harbor is 5 mph. protected on its north side by a curving breakwater 0.7 mile long, marked at its end by a light and fog signal. Wharves Two long finger piers are inside the cove; the north side (106) Facilities include a city wharf and numerous pri- of the northerly pier is used by the Navy, and the south- erly pier is used by a shipyard. Depths of 30 feet are re- vate piers. The depths alongside the principal piers ported alongside both piers. Navy buildings on shore range from about 7 to 18 feet. and buildings at the shipyard are conspicuous. Supplies Restricted Area (107) Gasoline, diesel oil, diesel fuel, water, provisions, (116) Coddington Cove is within a naval restricted area. and marine supplies may be obtained at Newport. (See 334.81, chapter 2, for limits and regulations). (108) Launch services are available in the harbor. Danger Zone Repairs (117) A prohibited area surrounds Gould Island and ex- (109) Newport has a commercial shipyard specializing in tends north to include waters between Conanicut Is- repair, construction, and conversion of steel and alumi- land and Prudence Island. (See 334.80, chapter 2, for num vessels. The marine railway is at the shipyard in limits and regulations.) the inner harbor and can handle vessels to 330 feet long, 63 feet wide, and 21.6 feet in draft. Cranes to 60 (118) Gould Island, a military reservation, is about 2 tons are available. miles north of Rose Island and 0.8 mile east of Conanicut Island. A light is on the south end of the is- Small-craft facilities land. The island is sparsely wooded. In August 1986, a (110) There are numerous facilities in Newport harbor. submerged obstruction was reported about 0.7 mile northeast of the island in about 41°32'37\"N., Mobile hoists up to 60 tons are available. Complete 71°19'52\"W; caution is advised. small-craft hull and engine repairs can be made. (119) Halfway Rock and Fiske Rock are about 1.8 miles Communications northeastward of Gould Island, on a small ledge bare at (111) Newport has bus and rail transportation. In the its southern end. Halfway Rock is marked by a daybeacon and Fiske Rock by a buoy. Strangers should summer the ferry between Block Island and Providence not pass between these aids. calls at Newport.
Narragansett Bay I Chapter 6 I 251 (120) An elevated tank on the high ground near the the bay. The approach from the Sakonnet River, previ- southerly end of Prudence Island is prominent from ously discussed, is little used. The approach from East East Passage. Passage is well marked, and with care 34 feet can be carried in the channel into the bay. (121) A mussel farming area is about 1.3 miles northeast (129) Fall River, on the eastern shore of the mouth of of the breakwater at Coddington Cove in the vicinity of Taunton River and head of Mount Hope Bay, is an im- the pier at Lawtons. Submerged equipment and nu- portant manufacturing center as well as distribution merous buoys extend several hundred yards offshore point of petroleum products. Principal products han- and for about 0.5 mile north of the pier. Caution is ad- dled through the port are petroleum products, latex, vised in the area. shellac, cotton, and some lumber. (130) Somerset, about 5.3 miles, and Dighton, about 7.5 (122) Dyer Island, about 0.8 mile eastward of the south- miles above the Fall River, are towns on the west side of ern portion of Prudence Island, is low and brush cov- Taunton River. Taunton, a manufacturing city, is at the ered. A reef, partly bare, extends 0.4 miles southward head of navigation about 12.5 miles above Fall River. and southwestward of the island, and is buoyed. Be- (131) Mount Hope Bridge crosses the entrance to Mount tween the shoal area south of Dyer Island and Rhode Is- Hope Bay between Bristol Point and Rhode Island. The land is a bar with depths of 9 to 17 feet over it. North of bridge has two lighted towers which are visible for Dyer Island is a reef with depths of 6 to 18 feet. many miles in clear weather and a racon. It is a high- level suspension highway bridge with a clearance of (123) Melville, a military fueling facility, is on the west 135 feet. shore of Rhode Island, east of Dyer Island. Depths (132) Mount Hope is a prominent hill on the western side alongside the fuel piers range from 40 to 45 feet. An ele- of the bay 2 miles northeastward of the suspension vated spherical tank, about 0.6 mile south-southeast- bridge. The eastern and western slopes are wooded. ward of the fuel facility, is prominent. Spar Island is a small, low island near the center of Mount Hope Bay. (124) A small-craft facility is in a basin at Coggeshall (133) Borden Flats, the shoal area northward of the Point, just north of Melville. Berths, gasoline, diesel channel in Fall River Harbor, is marked by a light fuel, electricity, water, ice, complete marine supplies, equipped with a fog signal. and a 50-ton mobile hoist are available; engine, hull, (134) Three shallow streams that empty into the north- and electronic repairs can be made. In July 1981, ern part of Mount Hope Bay are entered only by local depths of 9 to 15 feet were reported in the basin. small craft. Kickamuit River, the westerly one, has a narrow buoyed entrance through which the currents (125) Near Arnold Point, about 2 miles north of Melville have considerable velocity. The buoyed channel has a on Rhode Island, is a large prominent lumber mill with depth of about 6 feet. Cole River, the middle of the a conspicuous stack. A privately dredged channel with a three, is buoyed on the east side of the entrance. South reported depth of about 29 feet in July 1981 leads to a Swansea, on the west shore of Gardners Neck, has a 600-foot pier at the mill. In July 1981, the pier was not boatyard with a 25-ton mobile hoist and a marine rail- in use and was reported to be in disrepair. way that can handle craft up to 50 feet for hull, engine, and electronic repairs or storage. Berths, electricity, Chart 13224 gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, and marine supplies are available. In August 1981, a reported depth of 6 feet (126) Hog Island, about 1 mile north of Arnold Point, lies could be carried to the boatyard. in the entrance to Bristol Harbor, dividing the waters (135) A highway bridge, about 1.5 miles above the en- into two channels. The island has a rolling wooded ter- trance, has a 41-foot fixed span with a clearance of 7 rain on which are a few houses and cottages. Shoal wa- feet. Lee River, the easterly stream, is navigable to a ter surrounds the island extending as much as 0.4 mile fixed bridge about 1.2 miles above the entrance. A shoal southward and 0.8 mile northward. The shoal area is in midchannel just north of the narrow opening marked by lights and buoys. through the fill, 0.8 mile above Brayton Point, has a depth of 1 foot. (127) About 0.6 mile east-northeastward of Hog Island Shoal Light is Musselbed Shoals, marked on the outer Channels end by a light. From the light structure a directional (136) A Federal project provides for a channel 35 feet light is shown to mark the channel to Mount Hope Bay. deep through Mount Hope Bay to about 0.9 mile above Charts 13221, 13227 the Brightman Street Bridge across Taunton River at (128) Mount Hope Bay, in the northeastern part of Narragansett Bay, is the approach to the city of Fall River and Taunton River. There are two approaches to
252 I Chapter 6 I Coast Pilot 2 Fall River. (See Notice to Mariners and latest editions of Weir Bridge, has a clearance of 9 feet. (See 117.1 the charts for controlling depths.) through 117.59 and 117.619, chapter 2, for draw- (137) A dredged side channel, about 0.2 mile north of bridge regulations.) The overhead power cables cross- Common Fence Point (41°39.3'N., 71°13.3'W.) at the ing Taunton River have least clearances of 145 feet at north end of Rhode Island, leads eastward from the Fall River and 65 feet near Taunton. main channel into North and South Branch channels. In April-June 2004, the side channel had a reported Caution controlling depth of 33.1 feet, with 20.7 feet available in (143) The fender protection on the southeast side of the the North Branch channel, along the North Tiverton waterfront, and 23.7 feet available in the South Branch Brightman Street bridge has been destroyed, and the channel. Captain of the Port, Providence, has ordered that out- (138) A privately dredged side channel, about 3.3 miles bound barges in excess of 1,000 gross tons pass northeastward of Common Fence Point and marked by through the bridge only on the flood tide. buoys and a 326° private lighted range, leads northwestward from the main channel to a powerplant Tides wharf on the east side of Brayton Point. In July 1998, (144) The mean range of tide is 4.4 feet at Fall River and the channel had a reported controlling depth of 34 feet, except for shoaling to 33 feet in the entrance widening 2.8 feet at Taunton. (See the Tide Tables for predic- and 24 feet along the west edge of the widening. tions.) (139) A dredged channel in Taunton River leads from Somerset to Peters Point, 6.7 miles above the Currents Brightman Street Bridge, thence to Taunton, 12.5 (145) In Taunton River the currents generally follow the miles above Fall River. In May 2001, the channel had a controlling depth of 6.4 feet to Peters Point, thence 4 direction of the channel and, except at bridges, do not feet was reported to be available to Taunton. Local hinder navigation. The ebb is usually stronger than the knowledge is required from Dighton to Taunton. Buoys flood. (See the Tidal Current Tables for predictions, and mark the channel to about a mile beyond the Berkley the Tidal Current Charts, Narragansett Bay, for hourly Bridge, about 3.5 miles below Taunton. velocities and directions of the current.) Anchorages Weather, Narragansett Bay and vicinity (140) Fall River Harbor has no designated anchorages. (146) The prevailing winds are northeasterly for all but Vessels may anchor on either side of the dredged ap- the summer months, when the direction is southwest- proach channel in the outer harbor or at any locality in erly. The heaviest gales are usually from the northwest. Mount Hope Bay where depth and bottom are suitable; The approach channel and harbor are generally free the chart is the best guide. from ice and are navigable throughout the year. Taunton River is commonly closed from December to Bridges March. During severe winters the harbor and Mount (141) At Fall River, two highway bridges cross Taunton Hope Bay are occasionally frozen over, but the chan- nels to the principal wharves are kept open by vessels River. The first, a fixed bridge at State Pier, has a clear- and tugs operating in the harbor. ance of 135 feet; a privately maintained fog signal is sounded from the bridge. The second, Brightman Pilotage, Fall River Street Bridge, about 1.1 miles above the fixed bridge at (147) See Pilotage, Narragansett Bay and Other Rhode Is- State Pier, has a bascule span with a clearance of 27 feet. The bridgetender monitors VHF-FM channel 16 land Waters (indexed as such), early this chapter. and works on channel 13; call sign WQA-833. In Octo- ber 2000, a replacement bascule bridge was under con- Towage struction about 0.2 mile above the existing Brightman (148) Tugs to 2,200 hp are available at Fall River and tugs Street Bridge with a design clearance of 60 feet. (142) Between Fall River and Taunton, the river is to 3,300 hp are available from Providence for use at Fall crossed by three bridges. The highway bridge at River. Vessels are usually met 2 miles below their berth. Berkley, about 5 miles above Fall River, has a swing Large vessels normally require tugs for docking and span with a clearance of 7 feet. Weir Bridge, the fixed undocking. Arrangements for tug service should be highway bridge at Taunton, has a clearance of 10 feet; made at least 6 hours in advance, usually through the fixed railroad bridge, about 0.2 mile upstream from ships’ agents or directly by shipping companies. Tugs are dispatched 24 hours a day. The tugs monitor VHF-FM channels 10, 13, 16, and 18A, and use channel 7A as a working frequency.
Narragansett Bay I Chapter 6 I 253 Quarantine, customs, immigration, and agricultural alongside; deck height, 10 feet; receipt of latex and quarantine caustic soda; owned by Tillotson Co. and operated by (149) (See chapter 3, Vessel Arrival Inspections, and ap- Borden and Remington Corp. pendix for addresses.) (162) State Pier: 0.2 mile northeast of Borden and (150) Fall River is a customs port of entry. Remington Corp. Wharf; 398-foot face, 18 to 35 feet (151) Quarantine is enforced in accordance with regula- alongside; lower side 620 feet long, 35 feet alongside; tions of the U.S. Public Health Service. (See Public deck heights, 17 feet; 85,000 square feet covered stor- Health Service, chapter 1.) Fall River has several hospi- age, about 7 acres of open storage; receipt and ship- tals. ment of general and roll-on/roll-off cargo; owned by (152) The Coast Guard vessel documentation office at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, operated by Fall New Bedford, Mass., serves Fall River. (See appendix for River Line Pier, Inc. address.) (163) The battleship USS MASSACHUSETTS, World (153) The harbormaster can be contacted through Fall War II memorial, and three other U.S. Navy vessels are River City Hall. berthed just northward of the State Pier. (164) Shell Oil Co. Wharf: about 2 miles above State Pier; Wharves 570-foot face, 700 feet with dolphins; 30 feet alongside; (154) The piers and wharves at Fall River are along the deck height, 13 feet; receipt and shipment of petroleum products, receipt of naphtha; owned and operated by Taunton and Sakonnet Rivers and in Mount Hope Bay. Shell Oil Co. Only the deep-draft facilities are described. For a com- (165) Facilities on west side of Taunton River (chart plete description of the port facilities refer to Port Se- 13227): ries No. 4, published and sold by the U.S. Army Corps of (166) Brayton Point Station Dock: (41°42'33\"N., Engineers. (See appendix for address.) The alongside 71°11'21\"W.); 1,017 feet long; 34 feet alongside; deck depths are reported; for information on the latest height, 15 feet; coal unloading tower serves conveyor depths contact the operator. All the facilities described belt system, unloading rate 1,000 tons per hour; receipt have highway connections. Fresh water is available at of fuel oil and coal; owned and operated by New Eng- most of the piers and wharves. Cargo in the port is usu- land Power Co. ally handled by ship’s tackle. (167) Montaup Electric Co. Wharf: about 2.5 miles above (155) The speed limit is 5 knots in the channel off the Brayton Station Dock; 645 feet long, 34 feet alongside; piers and wharves. deck height, 10 feet; two coal unloading towers serve (156) Facilities at Tiverton, R.I. (chart 13221): conveyor belts, combined unloading rate 1,200 tons (157) Texaco Inc. Tiverton Terminal: (41°38'50\"N., per hour; receipt of coal and fuel oil; owned and oper- 71°12'40\"W.); 50-foot face, 721 feet with dolphins; 35 ated by Montaup Electric Co. feet alongside; deck height, 11 feet; receipt of petro- leum products; owned by Texaco, Inc.; not being oper- Supplies ated in 1983. (168) Provisions, marine supplies, gasoline, diesel fuel, (158) Northeast Petroleum Corp., Pier 1: about 250 yards north of Texaco Inc. Terminal; 120-foot face, 700 feet and water can be obtained in Fall River. Water is avail- with dolphins; 32 feet alongside; deck height, 9 feet; re- able at most of the berths. ceipt of petroleum products; owned and operated by Northeast Petroleum Corp. Repairs (159) Northeast Petroleum Corp., Pier 2: about 250 yards (169) Fall River has no drydocking or major repair facili- north of Northeast Petroleum Corp., Pier 1; 40-foot face, 700 feet with dolphins; 34 feet alongside; deck ties for deep-draft vessels; the nearest such facilities are height, 9 feet; receipt of petroleum products; owned at Boston, Mass. and operated by Northeast Petroleum Corp. (170) Fall River has two small shipyards, on the west side (160) Fuel Storage Co., Tiverton Terminal Pier: east side of the harbor about 0.6 mile above the fixed bridge and of Mount Hope Bay, 1.5 miles northward of Northeast on the east side of the harbor about 0.9 mile below the Petroleum Corp., Pier 2; 50-foot face, 795 feet with dol- fixed bridge. The northerly shipyard has a marine rail- phins; 35 feet alongside; deck height, 9 feet; receipt of way that can handle vessels to 100 feet long with drafts petroleum products; owned and operated by Fuel Stor- of 7 feet forward and 13 feet aft. The yard can make re- age Co. pairs to wooden, steel, and aluminum vessels at their (161) Facilities at Fall River, east side of Taunton River berths. The southerly yard specializes in the construc- (chart 13227): Borden and Remington Corp. Wharf: tion and conversion of steel vessels. Cranes to 250 tons (41°42'10\"N., 71°10'09\"W.); 380-foot face, 28 feet are available for hauling out vessels. In August 1981, depths of 22 to 23 feet were reported alongside.
254 I Chapter 6 I Coast Pilot 2 Small-craft facilities (181) Potter Cove, on the northeast side of Prudence Is- (171) Small-craft facilities are at Fall River, Somerset land, is a small nearly landlocked harbor. Buoys mark the entrance channel off Gull Point. In November opposite Fall River, Taunton, and at Dighton. Berths, 2002, a sunken wreck in about 41°38.2'N., 71°19.2'W. electricity, gasoline, water, ice, storage, launching was about 0.75 mile southeast of the entrance to Potter ramps, marine supplies, and hull and engine repairs Cove. The north and south ends of Prudence Island are are available. The largest marine railways, at Dighton, a State park. Ohio Ledge, about 2.5 miles northward of can handle craft to 55 feet; mobile hoists to 35 tons are Potter Cove, has a least depth of 8 feet and is marked on also available at Fall River. its southeast side by a bell buoy. Communications (182) Warren River, emptying into the head of (172) Fall River has railroad freight service and bus ser- Narragansett Bay westward of Bristol Neck, is the ap- proach to the towns of Warren and Barrington, and vice. Barrington River, which joins Warren River at Warren. A church spire in Warren is prominent. Chart 13224 (183) From the bay, the channel to Warren passes be- (173) Bristol Harbor, between Bristol Neck on the east tween numerous shoals and rocks and is crooked and end and Popasquash Neck on the west, is in a cove winding, but well marked. A depth of about 9 feet is in about 2 miles long and 1.3 miles wide at its southern the channel to the lower wharves at Warren, and the end, narrowing to 0.4 mile wide at its northern end. same depth is in Barrington River to the fixed highway The harbor proper, the northern part of the cove, has bridge about 0.5 mile above the entrance. depths of 15 to 17 feet. (184) In November 2002, a sunken wreck in about (174) Bristol is a town on the eastern side of the harbor. 41°43.65'N., 71°17.25'W. is on the west side of Warren In approaching the harbor the most prominent mark is River. Mount Hope Bridge. Also prominent are the navigation lights, a stone tower, a stack, and an elevated tank on (185) A State regulatory buoy, about 0.9 mile above the high ground back of the town. The town has bus ser- mouth of Warren River, marks a “Slow no wake” zone. vice. A ferry operates daily from Bristol to Prudence Is- land, and summer ferry service is available to Hog (186) An excellent anchorage may be found at the mouth Island. of the Warren River about 0.2 mile from the eastern shore in depths of 14 to 15 feet, soft bottom. There is (175) Hog Island is in the middle of the entrance to Bris- not room for anchorage in the river for any but small tol Harbor. A natural channel with depths of 19 to 25 craft. Abreast the lower end of Warren the channel is feet extends on each side of the island. Excellent an- about 0.1 mile wide, with depths of 13 to 17 feet in chorage may be found in the harbor abreast the town in midchannel, and small vessels can anchor temporarily depths of 15 to 17 feet, soft bottom. A general anchor- at this point. age is in Bristol Harbor. (See 110.1 and 110.145 (c) and (d), chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) (187) Vessels approaching the river must take care to avoid Rumstick Shoal, which extends nearly 0.6 mile (176) Usher Rocks, about 0.7 mile northeastward of south of Rumstick Point, the southernmost point of Popasquash Point, are bare at low water. A buoy is east- Rumstick Neck and the western entrance point of the ward of the rocks and on the western side of the west- river. The shoal has depths of 2 to 12 feet and is marked ern passage to the harbor. by buoys. Rumstick Rock, 6 feet high, and Rumstick Ledge, with rocks that uncover 1 to 5 feet, are on the (177) The mean range of tide at Bristol is 4.1 feet. westerly side of the shoal. (178) Depths alongside the piers and wharves range from (188) About 0.5 mile above the mouth of Barrington 9 to 13 feet. River is a fixed highway bridge with a clearance of 9 (179) A Coast Guard vessel is moored at Bristol. The feet. In 2004, the highway bridge was being demol- ished; a new fixed highway bridge with a design clear- Coast Guard pier is marked by a light. ance of 10 feet was under construction at the same (180) A marina and yacht club are on the west side of the location, upon completion it will replace the demol- ished bridge and a temporary highway bridge. The tem- harbor. Guest moorings, electricity, water, ice, marine porary highway bridge is in use just south of the supplies, and hull and engine repairs are available. A demolished bridge, and has a clearance of 9 feet. About mobile hoist at the marina can handle craft to 42 feet 100 yards upstream from the highway bridge is a fixed long. Launching ramps are available on the east side of bicycle bridge with a 30-foot span on the east side of the the harbor. In 1993, a reported depth of about 8 feet river and a clearance of 5 feet. In 1978, rocks were re- could be carried to the marina. ported under the bicycle bridge.
Narragansett Bay I Chapter 6 I 255 (189) The mean range of tide at Warren is 4.6 feet. The rock awash was in about 41°45'25\"N., 71°23'10\"W., on tidal current off the town of Warren has a velocity of the west edge of the anchorage basin. A 12-foot-high about 1 knot. Strong currents may be encountered in protective dike along the east side of the anchorage ba- Barrington River. sin extends southward from Marsh Island, on the south side of the entrance channel, to Rock Island. (190) The harbormaster controls docking, mooring, and Pawtuxet is a village on the west side of the cove. anchoring, and can be contacted through the Warren (197) The harbormaster in the cove controls anchoring Police Department. and berthing; he can be contacted through the Warwick City Hall. Berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel (191) A shipyard on the east side of the Warren River at fuel, water, ice, marine supplies, and a 15-ton mobile Warren has a hydraulic lift that can handle vessels to hoist are available. A flatbed trailer can haul out craft to 300 tons or 130 feet long. In August 1981, a reported 50 feet long for complete hull and engine repairs. depth of 7 feet could be carried to the shipyard. (198) A yacht club is on the west side of Providence River about 1 mile northward of the entrance to Pawtuxet (192) Berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, Cove. Gasoline and guest berths are available. and marine supplies are available in Warren. Depths re- (199) A privately dredged channel leads from the main ported alongside the major wharves range from 7 to 20 channel in Providence River, eastward of Pawtuxet, to a feet. A yacht club is on the point near the confluence of small-craft facility about 0.45 mile southwestward of the two rivers. Several boatyards are in the vicinity; Fields Point (41°47.2'N., 71°22.9'W.). The channel is mobile hoists to 25 tons are available. Covered storage marked by buoys and, in December 1998, had a re- and complete engine, electronic, and hull repairs are ported controlling depth of 8 feet. The ruins of the piers available. of a former Naval Reserve facility are on the south side of Fields Point immediately eastward of the yacht club; Charts 13224, 13225 this area should be avoided. (200) Bullock Cove, on the east side of Providence River (193) Providence River, which empties into the head of 2 miles north of Conimicut Point, is the scene of con- Narragansett Bay between Nayatt Point and Conimicut siderable pleasure boat activity. A dredged channel Point, is the approach to the city of Providence, numer- leads from the Providence River to a mooring basin on ous towns and villages, and to Seekonk River. the east side of Bullock Point, thence northward 0.5 mile to a mooring and turning basin. In March 2002, (194) Providence is at the head of navigation on the Prov- the controlling depths were 0.2 feet in the east half and idence River, about 7 miles above the entrance, at the 6.1 feet in west half of the entrance channel to the junction of the Providence and Seekonk Rivers. The mooring basin east of Bullock Point, thence 3.3 to 6 port area includes both sides of the upper navigable feet in the basin, thence 3.8 feet to the upper basin and channel of the river. The port’s chief waterborne com- 1.3 to 3.9 feet in the basin. The entrance channel is merce is in petroleum products, cement, lumber, steel marked by buoys and daybeacons. In September 1982, a scrap metal, general cargo, and automobiles. sunken wreck was reported on the west side of the channel at Bullock Point. There are numerous (195) Occupessatuxet Cove, on the west side of the river small-craft facilities in Bullock Cove. The largest ma- north of Conimicut Point, is a shallow bight south of rine railway, on Bullock Neck about 300 yards north- Gaspee Point. The cove is frequented only by small ward of Bullock Point, can handle craft up to 60 feet; craft with local knowledge. berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, stor- age, launching ramps, marine supplies, a 45-ton mo- (196) Pawtuxet Cove, used by pleasure and fishing craft, bile crane, a 60-ton mobile hoist, and hull and engine on the west side of Providence River, is entered about 1 repairs are available. Sail and electronic repairs can be mile northward of Gaspee Point through a dredged arranged nearby. channel. The entrance channel leads westward to the (201) Seekonk River, which branches off northeasterly cove, thence the channel turns northward and leads to from Providence River at Providence, is the approach a turning basin at the head of the cove. An anchorage to Phillipsdale and Pawtucket. The head of navigation basin extends southward from the entrance channel. is at Pawtucket, 5 miles above the mouth. Commerce The entrance channel is marked by lighted and on the river is chiefly in petroleum products. A marina unlighted buoys. A State regulatory buoy, at the junc- at Pawtucket can provide berths, electricity, water, gas- tion of the entrance channel and the channel to the oline, storage facilities, marine supplies, and hull and head, marks a slow-no-wake zone. In February 2006, engine repairs. A flatbed trailer at the marina can haul the controlling depths were 6 feet in the entrance channel, thence 3.9 feet (6 feet at midchannel) to the turning basin at the head of the cove with 4.7 to 6 feet in the basin; 3.6 to 6 feet was available in the anchorage basin southward of the entrance channel. In 1976, a
256 I Chapter 6 I Coast Pilot 2 out craft to 40 feet long. In July 1981, a reported depth in the area where a portion of Green Jacket Shoal was of 12 feet was available alongside the marina berths. removed. Preferred small-craft anchorages are in Bull- ock Cove and Pawtuxet Cove. Prominent features (202) Conimicut Light (41°43'01\"N., 71°20'42\"W.), 58 Dangers (207) Numerous rocks and ledges border Providence feet above the water, is shown from a white conical tower on a brown cylindrical pier on the west side of the River Channel on either side. Navigational aids mark entrance to Providence River. A fog signal is sounded at the shoal areas off Bullock Point, about 1.5 miles above the light station. An abandoned lighthouse on Nayatt the mouth; off Sabin Point, about 3 miles above the Point is also prominent in the approach to the river. Mouth; off Pomham Rocks, about 3.5 miles above the mouth; off Fuller Rock, about 5 miles above the mouth Channels and Green Jacket Shoal, east of Fox Point about 7.4 (203) The Federal project for Providence River provides miles above the mouth. for a channel 40 feet deep from just below Prudence Is- (208) Providence River channel, between Narragansett land Light to Fox Point near the junction of Provi- Bay Entrance Lighted Whistle Buoy NB and Fox Point, dence and Seekonk Rivers. (See Notice to Mariners and is a regulated navigation area. (See 165.1 through latest editions of the charts for controlling depths.) The 165.13, and 165.122, chapter 2, for limits and regula- channel is well marked with navigational aids. tions.) (204) A hurricane barrier crosses the Providence River about 200 yards above Fox Point. The barrier includes Bridges three gates which normally will be kept in the opened (209) There are no bridges over Providence River be- position until the approach of hurricane weather. The clearances at each of the three river gates are: horizon- tween the mouth and the principal wharves. In Novem- tal, 20 feet; vertical (gate fully opened), 21 feet at mean ber 2003, a fixed highway bridge with a design high water; and depth over the gate sill, 12.9 feet at clearance of 35 feet was under construction close south mean low water. Red lights mark the channel ends of of the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier. Point Street Bridge, each gate. about 0.3 mile above Fox Point, has a fixed span with a (205) Seekonk River empties into the easterly side of clearance of 7 feet. Two overhead power cables cross Providence River at Fox Point. A marked dredged chan- the river between this bridge and the Fox Point Hurri- nel leads from Cold Spring Point, about 1.3 miles cane Barrier; least clearance is 60 feet. A fixed highway above Fox Point, to a point about 150 yards southward bridge about 300 yards north of Point Street Bridge has of Division Street Bridge at Pawtucket, about 2.9 miles a clearance of 26 feet. above Cold Spring Point. The lower section of the river, (210) In Seekonk River, an overhead power cable cross- from Fox Point to Cold Spring Point, is crooked and ing at India Point, 0.5 mile above the mouth, has a winding and marked by buoys. Local knowledge and clearance of 130 feet. Just above India Point several use of the chart are required to carry the best water. bridges cross the river within 0.9 mile. The name of the Three areas of submerged boulders with angle iron bridge, type, and clearance follows: Washington Bridge protrusions, the remains of the approaches and pivot South, bascule span maintained in closed position, 40 pier of a former swing bridge, are in the river channel feet; Washington Bridge North, fixed span, 42 feet; Tun- at Cold Spring Point in about 41°49'36\"N., 71°22'49\"W., nel Bridge, bascule span, 17 feet; and New Red Bridge, 41°49'36.5\"N., 71°22'50\"W., and 41°49'37\"N., 71°22'51\"W. fixed span, 42 feet. Just below the State Pier at The shoreward areas have a least depth of 3½ feet, and Pawtucket are overhead power cables with clearances the area at about midchannel has a least depth of 12 of 125 feet. (See 117.1 through 117.49, chapter 2, for feet. In May-August 1999, the controlling depths were drawbridge regulations.) 4.3 feet (8.1 feet at midchannel) to Buoy 27, thence 2.4 feet (4.2 feet at midchannel) to the head of the project Tides just below Division Street Bridge. A 5 mph no wake (211) The mean range of tide at Providence is 4.6 feet, zone, marked by State regulatory buoys, is in the en- trance channel and above Cold Spring Point. and the maximum range due to the combined effect of wind and other causes may reach 8 feet or more at Anchorages times. (206) Vessels anchor as directed by the harbormaster on Currents the edge of the channel between Fields Point and Fox (212) Tidal currents are weak in the approach channel Point. Eastward of Fox Point, a few vessels may anchor and the harbor, except in the constricted parts of
Narragansett Bay I Chapter 6 I 257 Seekonk River. At India Street Bridge the tidal currents seven days each year have snowfall greater than 1.5 have velocities of about 1.4 knots. In Seekonk River the inches (38 mm). double flood is very pronounced. The velocity near the (218) In early fall, severe coastal storms of tropical origin middle of the flood period is generally less than 0.5 sometimes bring destructive winds to this area. Even at knot and is sometimes in an ebb direction. (See the other times of the year, it is usually coastal storms that Tidal Current Tables for predictions, and the Tidal Cur- produce the most severe weather. Since 1871, twelve rent Charts, Narragansett Bay, for hourly velocities and tropical storms have come within 25 miles of Provi- directions of the current.) dence. The most recent was Hurricane Bob in August 1991. Hurricane Bob passed within 20 miles east of the Weather, Providence and vicinity city with 85-knot winds. Only twelve hours earlier, Bob (213) The proximity of Narragansett Bay and the Atlantic was packing winds in excess of 100 knots. In September 1960, Hurricane Donna passed about 20 miles west of Ocean plays an important part in determining the cli- the city. At the time, Donna had maximum winds of 90 mate for Providence and vicinity. In winter, the temper- knots. Coastal areas of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and atures are modified considerably, and a good many of Long Island were raked with winds in excess of 100 the major storms drop their precipitation in the form knots compliments of Hurricane Donna. of rain, rather than snow. In summer, many days that would otherwise be uncomfortably warm are cooled by Ice refreshing seabreezes. At other times of the year, sea (219) The approach channel and the harbor are generally fog may be advected over land by onshore winds. In fact, most cases of dense fog are produced in this way; free of ice and navigable throughout the year. During but the number of such days is few, averaging 2 or 3 severe winters, the harbor and several miles of Provi- days per month. dence River and Upper Narragansett Bay are occasion- (214) The temperature for the entire year averages ally broken over, but the ice is usually broken up in the around 51°F (10.6°C). January is the coldest month av- channels to the principal wharves by the traffic in the eraging 29°F (-1.7°C), and July the hottest month aver- harbor. aging 73°F (22.8°C). Freezing temperatures occur on (220) The National Weather Service maintains an office the average about 117 days per year and the days with at the T.F. Green State Airport; barometers may be minimums below 5°F (-15°C) average six each year. An compared here. (See appendix for address.) average nine days each year record maximums in ex- (221) (See page 432 for the Providence climatological ta- cess of 90°F (32.2°C). The all-time maximum for Provi- ble.) dence is 104°F (40°C) recorded in August 1975 and the all-time minimum is -13°F (-25°C) recorded in January Pilotage, Providence 1976. (222) See Pilotage, Narragansett Bay and Other Rhode Is- (215) Measurable precipitation occurs on about 178 days each year. November is the wettest month averaging land Waters (indexed as such), early this chapter. 4.48 inches (114 mm) and June the driest averaging 2.89 inches (74 mm). Average annual precipitation is Towage 45.12 inches (1144 mm). (223) Tugs up to 3,300 hp are available at Providence. (216) Thunderstorms are responsible for much of the rainfall from May through August. They usually pro- Large vessels normally require tugs for docking and duce heavy, and sometimes even excessive, amounts of undocking. Arrangements for tug service should be rainfall; but since the duration is relatively short, dam- made 4 hours in advance, and usually through ships’ age is ordinarily light. The summer thunderstorms are agents or directly by shipping companies. Tugs are dis- frequently accompanied by extremely gusty winds, patched 24 hours a day. Tugs monitor VHF-FM chan- which may cause some damage to property, especially nels 10, 13, 16, and 18, and use channel 7A as a working small pleasure and fishing craft. frequency. (217) The first measurable snowfall of winter usually co- (224) Providence is a customs port of entry. mes in October. The month of greatest snowfall is usu- ally February which averages about ten inches (254 Quarantine, customs, immigration, and agricultural mm). It is unusual for the ground to remain well cov- quarantine ered with snow for any long period of time. The average (225) (See chapter 3, Vessel Arrival Inspections, and ap- annual snowfall total is 45 inches (1143 mm). Snow has pendix for addresses.) fallen in every month, October through May. About (226) Quarantine is enforced in accordance with regula- tions of the U.S. Public Health Service. (See Public Health Service, chapter 1.) (227) Providence has several hospitals.
258 I Chapter 6 I Coast Pilot 2 Coast Guard (238) Municipal Wharf, Berths 1, 2, 3, and 4: immediately (228) A marine safety office is in Providence. (See appen- NW of Berths 5 and 6; 2,190-foot face, 35 to 40 feet alongside; deck height, 10½ feet; cranes to 200 tons; dix for addresses.) 47,000 square feet of covered storage; 12 acres open (229) Harbor regulations are enforced by the harbor- storage; electrical shore power connections; receipt and shipment of general cargo, lumber, paper products, master/port director, whose headquarters are at the automobiles, petroleum products, liquefied petroleum municipal wharf. The harbormaster regulates the gas, scrap metal, pig iron, and caustic soda; owned by movement and anchoring of vessels in the harbor. The city of Providence; various operators. speed limit in the harbor is 5 knots. (239) New England Bituminous Wharf: about 500 yards Wharves above Municipal Wharf; 384-foot face, 30 feet along- (230) The piers and wharves of the port of Providence are side; deck height, 10½ feet; receipt of asphalt; owned and operated by New England Bituminous, Division of along both sides of the Providence River below Fox John J. Hudson, Inc. Point. Only the deep-draft facilities are described. For a complete description of the port facilities refer to Port (240) Lehigh Portland Cement Co. Wharf: about 600 Series No. 4, published and sold by the U.S. Army Corps yards above Municipal Wharf; 350-foot face, 20 feet of Engineers. (See appendix for address.) The alongside alongside; deck height, 10½ feet; receipt of bulk ce- depths are reported; for information on the latest ment; owned by city of Providence, operated by Lehigh depths contact the operator. All the facilities described Portland Cement Co. have highway connections, and most have rail connec- tions. Water is available at most of the piers and (241) Lone Star Industries Wharf: about 750 yards above wharves. Cargo in the port is usually handled by ship’s Municipal Wharf; 210-foot face, 28 to 30 feet alongside; tackle. Cranes to 200 tons are available. deck height, 12 feet; receipt of bulk cement; owned and (231) Facilities on the east side of Providence River: operated by Lone Star Industries, Inc. (232) Mobil Oil Corp. Wharf: (41°46'56\"N., 71°22'19\"W.); 1,225-foot face, 700 feet of berthing space; 20 to 38 feet (242) Algonquin LNG Wharf: about 0.4 mile above Mu- alongside; deck height, 8 feet; pipelines to storage nicipal Wharf; 450-foot face, 25 feet alongside; deck tanks; receipt and shipment of petroleum products, height, 12 feet; receipt of liquefied natural gas; owned bunkering vessels; owned and operated by Mobil Oil by Providence Gas Co., operated by Algonquin LNG, Corp. Inc. (233) Amoco Oil Co. Wharf: at Kettle Point about 0.9 mile above Mobil Oil Corp. Wharf; 500-foot face, 700 feet (243) Texaco U.S.A., Harbor Junction Pier: about 0.7 mile with dolphins; 36 feet alongside; deck height, 12 feet; above Municipal Wharf; 80-foot face, south side 1,040 receipt and shipment of petroleum products, bunker- feet long, 720 feet usable, 32 feet alongside; north side ing vessels; owned by Amoco Oil Co., operated by 1,040 feet long, 600 feet usable, 25 feet alongside; deck Amoco Oil Co. and Atlantic Richfield Co. height, 9 feet; receipt and shipment of petroleum prod- (234) Wilkes-Barre Pier: about 2 miles above Mobil Oil ucts, bunkering vessels; owned and operated by Texaco, Corp. Wharf; 75-foot face, 700 feet of berthing space Inc. with dolphins; 40 feet alongside; deck height, 9 feet; re- ceipt of petroleum products and naphtha; owned by (244) Promet Marine Services Pier: about 1 mile above Providence and Worcester Railroad Co., operated by Municipal Wharf; 120-foot face, 37 to 31 feet alongside; Union Oil Co. of California, Getty Refining and Mar- south side 596 feet long, 22 feet alongside; north side keting Co., and Astroline Corp. 596 feet long, 37 feet alongside; deck height, 12 feet; (235) In January 1982, fill operations and pier construc- cranes to 100 tons; 11 acres of open storage; receipt and tion were in progress at the site of the future rail/ship shipment of general cargo and dry bulk materials; re- cargo terminal just south of the Wilkes-Barre Pier. pairs to vessels; owned and operated by Promet Marine (236) Facilities on the west side of Providence River: Services Corp. (237) Municipal Wharf, Berths 5 and 6 (41°47'25\"N., 71°22'54\"W.); 1,283-foot face; 35 to 40 feet alongside; (245) Northeast Petroleum Corp. Pier: about 1.2 miles deck height, 10½ feet; two 45-ton container cranes; 60 above Municipal Wharf; south side 620 feet long, 600 acres open storage; electrical shore power connections; feet of berthing space; 30 feet alongside; deck height, receipt and shipment of general and containerized 11 feet; receipt of petroleum products; owned and oper- cargo and heavy equipment; owned by city of Provi- ated by Northeast Petroleum Corp. dence, operated by Cranes Associates. (246) C. H. Sprague & Son Co. Pier: about 1.25 miles above Municipal Wharf; north side 500 feet long, 520 feet with platforms, 37 feet alongside; deck height, 12 feet; receipt and shipment of petroleum products; bunkering vessels; owned and operated by C. H. Sprague & Son Co.
Narragansett Bay I Chapter 6 I 259 (247) The principal wharves at Pawtucket have depths of ahead. On the southward approach from off Point Ju- 9 to 14 feet alongside. dith Light, a north-northeasterly course will bring the vessel to the lighted gong buoy off Whale Rock. (See Supplies also chart 13218). At night a careful study of the light (248) Gasoline, diesel fuel, diesel oil, bunker fuels, provi- characteristics is necessary as the lights marking East Passage will be seen on the starboard bow when ap- sions, and marine supplies of all kinds are available. Oil proaching from Point Judith. bunkering facilities, for deep-draft vessels, are available (253) The course should pass westward of, and 500 yards at most of the petroleum companies facilities in Provi- off, Dutch Island; thence through the James- dence. Fuel tank barges are also available for bunkering town-North Kingston Bridge opening; and thence vessels anywhere in the harbor. Water is available at northerly until about 0.8 mile westward of, and abeam, most of the wharves and piers. the south tangent of Hope Island. From here a north-northeasterly course will make the buoys mark- Repairs ing the entrance of the natural channel westward of (249) Providence has no facilities for drydocking deep- Pine Hill Point on Prudence Island. Then a heading to- ward Warwick Light until abeam the lighted bell buoy draft vessels; the nearest such facilities are at Boston, off Northwest Point on Patience Island will bring the Mass. Repairs to boilers, machinery, electrical equip- vessel in position to swing northeasterly and easterly to ment, and hull can be obtained in the port. Several the dredged channel to Providence. well-equipped machine and welding shops are also (254) Narragansett Pier, on the west side of West Passage available. Some of these concerns also maintain porta- about 3 miles west-southwestward of Beavertail Point, ble equipment for making above-waterline repairs to is a summer resort. The large hotels and a square gran- vessels at their berths. ite tower are prominent. A municipal bathing beach and pavilion at the Upper Pier are prominent from an Small-craft facilities easterly direction. (250) Small-craft facilities at Bullock Cove and Pawtuxet (255) River Ledge, about 0.9 mile northeastward of Narragansett Pier, has a least depth of 9 feet and is have been discussed earlier in this chapter. A marina on marked by a buoy. Whale Rock, on the western side of the west side of Providence River between Pawtuxet the passage about 0.8 mile northeast of River Ledge, is and Fields Point can provide berths, electricity, gaso- marked by a lighted gong buoy to the eastward. Little line, diesel fuel, water, ice, storage, marine supplies, Whale, covered 4 feet, is about 200 yards north of Whale and hull and engine repairs; a flatbed trailer can haul Rock. Strangers should pass eastward of the lighted out craft to 60 feet long. In July 1981, 10 feet was re- gong buoy off Whale Rock. ported in the approach to the marina, with 3 to 6 feet (256) Bonnet Shores Beach is on the north shore of the alongside. bight formed by Bonnet Point, the point about 1.5 miles north of Whale Rock. A bathing pavilion at the Communications beach is prominent from a southeasterly direction. (251) Providence is served by rail, bus, and air. A ferry op- (257) The Bonnet, a prominent hill with the shoreward face bold and rocky, is north of Bonnet Point. The shore erates daily in the summer to Newport and Block Is- between Bonnet Point and South Ferry, 1.3 miles land. northward, should be given a berth of 400 yards. Pil- ings extend 130 yards eastward just south of the old Chart 13223 pier at South Ferry. A 200-foot L-shaped pier of the Uni- versity of Rhode Island is about 150 yards southeast- (252) West Passage, between Conanicut and Prudence ward of the old pier. In July 1981, depths of 20 feet were Islands on the east and Boston Neck on the west, is the reported along the outer face with 10 feet reported approach to Dutch Island Harbor, Wickford, Quonset along the inner face. The buildings of the university, a Point, and East Greenwich. Vessels may also go to Prov- church spire, and a standpipe are prominent from idence by West Passage, although the route through southward to north of Dutch Island. East Passage is deeper and generally used. The follow- (258) Fox Hill, on the southern side of the entrance to ing directions for West Passage to Providence River are Dutch Island Harbor, 2.5 miles north of Beavertail good for a draft of 19 feet, but local knowledge is re- Point, is a point which terminates to the northward in quired for a draft greater than 12 feet. Approaching Beaverhead, a bluff rocky face. from the eastward, pass clear of Brenton Reef Light and steer for the lighted gong buoy off Whale Rock until southwest of Beavertail Light, and thence lay down a northerly course in midchannel with Dutch Island
260 I Chapter 6 I Coast Pilot 2 (259) Dutch Island Harbor is in the West Passage of aforementioned highway bridge. The northerly fixed Narragansett Bay about 3 miles north of Beavertail highway bridge will replace the current southerly fixed Light. The harbor is a semicircular indentation 0.5 by 1 highway bridge at an unspecified future date. mile in extent in the west side of Conanicut Island. (268) From the bridge northward, Great Ledge extends along the west shore of Conanicut Island for about 1.5 (260) A boatyard in the southeastern part of the harbor miles. This ledge is from 175 to 500 yards offshore, cul- has a marine railway that can handle craft up to 50 feet minating in America Ledge at its northern end. Nu- for hull and engine repairs. Berths, electricity, gaso- merous rocks are on Great Ledge. Between Plum Beach line, diesel fuel (by truck), water, ice, storage, a launch- and Rome Point, on the west side of the passage, 1.2 ing ramp, some marine supplies, and a 20-ton lift are miles north of the bridge, are several rocks, including available. Red Rock and Old Sergeant. Bare and covered rocks are northeastward and eastward of Rome Point. (261) Dutch Island, a State park about 3.2 miles north of (269) Fox Island, 0.4 mile northeast of Rome Point and Beavertail Point, is surrounded by shoals and foul southward of Wickford Harbor, is small and low. A shoal ground. A bell buoy is off the northern end of the island with numerous submerged rocks including Seal Rock and a lighted gong buoy is off the southern end. A extends southward of the island. A narrow channel, square white tower on the southern end of the island is suitable only for small craft, is between this shoal and prominent. the shoals extending northeastward of Rome Point. Halfway Ledge with a depth of 18 feet is about 0.5 mile (262) Dutch Island Harbor may be approached from east of Fox Island. northward or southward. The southward entrance is (270) Wickford Harbor, on the western side of good for a depth of about 28 feet; the northern entrance Narragansett Bay 8 miles above Beavertail Light, com- has an extensive shoal with depths of 15 to 18 feet. As prises an outer and an inner harbor. The outer harbor is the harbor is of easy access, it is frequently used as a a broad bight between Quonset Point on the north and harbor of refuge. Excellent anchorage may be had in Wild Goose Point, about 0.6 mile westward of Fox Is- depths of 12 to 48 feet, sticky bottom. A harbormaster land, on the south. The entrance is about 2 miles wide. controls all mooring and berthing. Vessels of over Depths in the middle and southern parts of the outer 18-foot draft seeking anchorage should give the eastern harbor average 13 to 17 feet. The inner harbor entrance shore of the harbor a berth of at least 0.4 mile. The east- is between Poplar Point, 1.3 miles northwest of Fox Is- ern shore of Dutch Island should be given a berth of land on the south, and Sauga Point, about 0.4 mile 100 yards. north of Poplar Point, on the north. The harbor is used chiefly by recreational craft, and by oyster and lobster (263) General anchorages are in West Passage of boats. The town of Wickford is on the southwestern Narragansett Bay. (See 110.1 and 110.145 (b) and (d), side of the inner harbor. chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) (271) Several prominent landmarks are visible when ap- proaching Wickford Harbor. A standpipe at North (264) A bell buoy marks the shoal area off the northern Kingston (chart 13221), and a church spire in Wickford side of Dutch Island. The piers off the east side of the is- may be seen for many miles. An abandoned lighthouse land are in ruins. A shoal extends about 200 yards west- on Poplar Point and the light off the point are promi- ward and 350 yards northward of Beaverhead. At its nent. northern extremity this shoal rises abruptly from (272) The channel to the inner harbor, marked by buoys, depths of about 40 feet to a depth of 8 feet; a buoy marks is restricted to a width of about 150 yards by the break- the shoal. The southeastern part of the harbor has a waters and the shoals off Sauga and Poplar Points. The shallow cove. north breakwater is marked by a light. The channel leads to the junction of three coves, Fishing Cove to (265) Tidal currents of from 1 to 1.5 knots may be en- the northward, Mill Cove to the northwestward, and countered in the vicinity of Dutch Island. Elsewhere in Wickford Cove to the southwestward. A State regula- West Passage velocities are usually less than 1 knot. tory buoy just inside the jetties marks a “Slow no (See the Tidal Current Tables for predictions, and the wake” zone. Tidal Current Charts, Narragansett Bay, for hourly ve- (273) Wickford Cove is the scene of considerable plea- locities and directions of the current.) sure-boat activity. A dredged channel in the cove ex- tends between flats, many of which are dry at low water, (266) Saunderstown is on the western shore of West Pas- to a highway bridge about 0.9 mile above the breakwa- sage abreast Dutch Island. A former ferry dock off the ters. Numerous piles, used as moorings, border the town is in ruins. A yacht club is at Saunderstown. (267) The Jamestown-North Kingstown Bridge crossing the passage from just north of Plum Beach has a fixed span with a clearance of 134 feet; a private fog signal is sounded from the west pier of the main channel open- ing. A replacement fixed highway bridge with a clear- ance of 135 feet is about 300 feet north of the
Narragansett Bay I Chapter 6 I 261 channel for about 0.35 mile below the highway bridge. depths of 30 feet are reported alongside the pier. In De- In March 2001, the channel had a controlling depth of cember 1965, the controlling depth in the channel to 5.3 feet. Davisville was 31 feet, thence 27 feet in the turning ba- (274) A marked dredged channel in Mill Cove leads to an sin or 28 feet for a middle width of 800 feet through the anchorage basin about 0.7 mile above the breakwaters. basin to the piers; depths of 29 feet were available on In March 2001, the channel had a controlling depth of the southwest side of Pier 1 and in the slip between 11.3 feet to the dock off of Cedar Tree Point, thence 6.6 Piers 1 and 2. feet to the head of the project except for gradual shoal- (280) Hope Island, about 1.6 miles north of Conanicut ing to bare in the north half of the channel between Point, has low grassy hills with a few trees. The island is Cornelius Island and Point Wharf. The anchorage basin a State estuarine sanctuary and is off limits to visitors had depths of 4½ to 6 feet. during the bird nesting season. Bare and submerged (275) Good anchorage may be had in the middle and rocks surround the island for about 0.2 mile. Despair southern parts of outer Wickford Harbor in depths of Island is on the outer end of a rocky ledge extending 0.2 14 to 17 feet. The northern part of the outer harbor has mile northeastward of Hope Island; a buoy is off the numerous rocks and ledges with a depth of 6 feet. Gen- northeast side of the ledge. Scup Rock and Round Rock eral Rock, with a depth of 9 feet over it, is the southerly are off the eastern side of Hope Island, and Gooseberry limit of this shoal, 0.9 mile north-northeastward of Fox Island and Seal Rock are off the western side. A hazard- Island. A rock with a depth of 8 feet over it is about 500 ous reef with piles and a boiler awash on it is about 0.4 yards westward of General Rock. Brig Ledge, about 0.5 mile southwestward of the southwest point of Hope Is- mile north of General Rock, is covered 9 feet. The land; a lighted buoy marks the area. southern shore of the outer harbor is foul. Charles (281) Allen Harbor is 2 miles north of Quonset Point. Rock, with a depth of 4 feet, is just inside of the north- The harbor is entered through a buoyed channel which ern breakwater and marked by a buoy. has a depth of about 8 feet. Depths of 8 to 10 feet are in- (276) Vessels approaching Wickford Harbor from the side. southward, after passing through the main span of the (282) Calf Pasture Point is on the north side of the en- Jamestown-North Kingston Bridge, steer 340°. When trance to Allen Harbor. Abreast the point and for some northeastward of Fox Island, steer for Wickford Harbor distance northward of it, a shoal extends 0.5 mile from Light on any bearing between 313° and 290°, anchor- shore. ing 0.2 mile or more southeastward of the light in depths of 13 to 15 feet, soft bottom. Chart 13224 (277) In severe winters the inner harbor is closed by ice, but the outer harbor is usually open although drift ice (283) Potowomut River, entering the west side of West is occasionally encountered. Passage, 1.7 miles north of Calf Pasture Point, is sepa- (278) Wickford has several small-craft facilities and rated from Greenwich Bay on the north by Potowomut boatyards. The largest marine railway, on the east of Neck. A dredged channel leads through the entrance of Wickford Cove, can handle craft up to 60 feet. Berths, the river. In December 2004, the channel had a control- electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, marine sup- ling depth of 2.7 feet. Caution is necessary to avoid plies, a launching ramp, mobile hoists to 30 tons, and rocks with depths of 1 foot over them in the entrance. hull, engine, and electronic repairs are available; wet Strangers should not enter the river. and dry storage is also available. In July 1981, a re- ported depth of about 7 feet could be carried to the ma- (284) Round Rock, about 0.7 mile eastward of Potowomut rine railway at Wickford Cove. River entrance, uncovers 3 feet and is marked by a sea- (279) Quonset Point, on the north side of Wickford Har- sonal lighted buoy close eastward. Several other rocks, bor, is marked by elevated tanks. Near the eastern end awash and submerged, lie between Round Rock and the of the point are the conspicuous buildings of the Quon- entrance to the river; caution is advised. set Point Industrial Park. The piers at Quonset Point, and at Davisville, about 1.5 miles northward, are usu- (285) The natural channel of West Passage extends be- ally approached from East Passage until north of tween the shoal area eastward of Round Rock and the Conanicut Island, thence through a buoyed dredged shoal area westward of Patience Island. The channel channel to a turning basin off the point from which a has depths of 21 to 70 feet. Buoys mark the entrance channel leads to the piers at Davisville. A depth of about from the southward, and a lighted bell buoy marks the 33 feet can be carried in the channel to the turning ba- northwestward edge of the shoal off Patience Island. sin. With the exception of 27- and 30-foot spots, depths The channel is the approach from southward to Green- of 32 to 35 feet are available throughout the basin; wich Bay, Warwick Point, and the channel from West Passage to Providence River.
262 I Chapter 6 I Coast Pilot 2 (286) Patience Island, 0.2 mile west of the northern end bridge. The anchorage basin had depths of 4½ to 5½ of Prudence Island, is surrounded by shoals and foul feet. In 1979, depths of less than 1 foot were above the ground. The island is a State park and estuarine sanctu- bridge. There are several small-craft facilities in the ary. cove and at the west end of Greenwich Bay just south- westward of the entrance channel to the cove. Berths, (287) Warwick Point, the southernmost point of Warwick electricity, gasoline, water, ice, storage facilities, Neck, 0.7 mile northwest of Patience Island, is marked launching ramps, mobile hoists up to 35 tons, and ma- by a light and fog signal. rine supplies are available; hull and engine repairs can be made. The berths and anchorage in Apponaug Cove (288) Greenwich Bay, at the northwestern end of are under the control of a harbormaster; he can be con- Narragansett Bay, is entered between Warwick Neck tacted through the Warwick City Hall. and Potowomut Neck. Shoal water borders the shore of (293) Chepiwanoxet Island, on the western side of the the bay, but the general depths are 10 feet or more. bay northward of the entrance to Greenwich Cove, is a small neck of land with a yellow bluff facing eastward. (289) Warwick Cove, between Warwick Neck and Horse From this island, shoals with little water over them ex- Neck, is in the northeastern part of Greenwich Bay. A tend about 500 yards northward and 300 yards east- marked dredged channel leads from the bay to an an- ward and southeastward. Shoals extend about 300 chorage basin at the head of the cove; other anchorage yards northward and westward of Long Point, the basins in the cove are on the west side of the channel, northwestern extremity of Potowomut Neck. 0.5 mile above the channel entrance, and on each side (294) Greenwich Cove, in the southwest end of Green- of the channel 0.7 mile above the channel entrance. A wich Bay, is about 1.3 miles long and 300 to 600 yards State regulatory buoy off Horse Neck marks a 5 m.p.h. wide. Buoys mark the entrance channel into the cove. speed limit. In August-September 2003, the control- State regulatory buoys at the entrance mark a “Slow ling depths were 3.5 feet (6.0 feet at midchannel) from no wake” zone. On the western shore is the town of the entrance to the anchorage basin at the head of the East Greenwich. Depths of about 7 to 11 feet are avail- cove, except for shoaling to 0.8 foot in the left outside able in the cove to about 0.5 mile from the head. Good quarter of the channel just above Buoy 5. The anchor- anchorage may be had off some of the small-craft facili- age basin, 0.5 mile above the entrance, had depths of ties on the west side of the cove in depths of 8 to 11 feet. 4.7 to 6.0 feet and the two anchorage basins, 0.7 mile (295) The mean range of tide is 4.0 feet. above the entrance, had depths of 5.6 feet to 6.0 feet. (296) The cove has several boatyards. Berths, electricity, The anchorage basin at the head of the cove had a depth gasoline, water, diesel fuel, ice, marine supplies, wet of 5.1 feet with gradual shoaling to 2.2 feet towards the and dry storage, launching ramps, lifts to 21 tons, and northeast end. The cove is the scene of considerable complete engine and hull repairs are available. The pleasure boat activity. harbormaster in the cove controls anchoring and berthing; contact can be made through the Warwick (290) The harbormaster in the cove controls berthing City Hall. and anchorage; contact can be made through the (297) From Sandy Point, the eastern extremity of Warwick City Hall. The cove has several marinas and Potowomut Neck, shoals with depths of 2 to 9 feet ex- boatyards. Berths, electricity, gasoline, water, ice, stor- tend northeasterly for about 0.6 mile. Extensive shoals age, launching ramps, marine supplies, and hull and extend off the eastern side of Warwick Neck to Ohio engine repairs are available. The largest mobile hoist, Ledge. Rocky Point is on the eastern side of the neck, on the west side of the cove about 0.8 mile above the 1.7 miles north-northeastward of Warwick Point. mouth, can handle craft up to 20 tons. (298) The natural channel between the shoals off Warwick Neck and the shoals northward of Patience (291) Brush Neck Cove, about 0.5 mile west of Warwick and Prudence Islands has depths of 19 to 50 feet. A buoy Cove, is fronted by a flat with a general depth of about 2 marks the shoal off Providence Point, the northern- feet. This channel is used by small local craft at high most point of Prudence Island. water as far as the pier at Oakland Beach. Oakland Beach, on Horse Neck, between Brush Neck and Warwick Chart 13218 Coves, is a summer resort with bus communication. (299) The shoreline of Point Judith Neck between West (292) Apponaug Cove, in the northwestern part of Green- Passage and Point Judith should be given a berth of at wich Bay, is entered through a marked dredged chan- least 0.6 mile. From Narragansett Pier to Black Point, a nel that leads from the bay to an anchorage basin on the southwest side of the channel just below a fixed railroad bridge about 0.7 mile above the channel en- trance. A State regulatory buoy at the entrance to the cove marks a 5 mph speed zone. In 1996, the control- ling depth was 6 feet to buoy 8, thence 3½ feet to the head of the channel, about 150 yards below the railroad
Narragansett Bay I Chapter 6 I 263 rocky promontory 1.9 miles southward, the shoreline is a rugged rocky ledge with deep water close inshore. The waters between Black Point and Point Judith are boulder-strewn and shoal up gradually. (300) Three very prominent landmarks are Point Judith Light, the elevated water tank 1.7 miles north of Point Judith, and Hazard’s Tower, a high, square stone tower 0.5 mile south of Narragansett Pier. Closer inshore the stone bathing pavilion at the State-operated Scar- borough Beach, 0.5 mile south of Black Point, and an open stone tower on a house 0.4 mile north of Black Point are prominent.
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Block Island Sound I Chapter 7 I 265 Block Island Sound (1) This chapter describes Block Island Sound, Fishers vessels. The shoreline is marked by many indentations Island Sound, Gardiners Bay, Little Peconic Bay, Great and shallow harbors. These waters are much used by Peconic Bay, and the ports and harbors in the area, the commercial fishing vessels and small pleasure craft be- more important of which are Point Judith Harbor, cause of the protection afforded and the many anchor- Great Salt Pond, Stonington, Mystic Harbor, and ages. Greenport. (8) Recommended Vessel Route (Block Island Sound) COLREGS Demarcation Lines has been established for Block Island Sound. (2) The lines established for this part of the coast are (9) The U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port, Provi- described in 80.150 and 80.155, chapter 2. dence, in cooperation with the Southeastern Massa- chusetts and Rhode Island Port Safety and Security Charts 13205, 13215 Committees, has established a Recommended Vessel Route for deep draft vessels and tugs/barges transiting (3) Block Island Sound is a deep navigable waterway Rhode Island Sound, Narragansett Bay, and Buzzards forming the eastern approach to Long Island Sound, Bay. Deep draft vessels and tugs/barges are requested to Fishers Island Sound, and Gardiners Bay from the At- follow the designated routes. These routes were de- lantic Ocean. The sound is a link for waterborne com- signed to provide safe, established routes for these ves- merce between Cape Cod and Long Island Sound. It has sels, to reduce the potential for conflict with two entrances from the Atlantic; an eastern entrance recreational boaters, fishing gear, and other small from Rhode Island Sound between Block Island and craft, and to reduce the potential for grounding or col- Point Judith, and a southern entrance between Block lision. Vessels are responsible for their own safety and Island and Montauk Point. The sound is connected are not required to remain inside the route nor are fish- with Long Island Sound by The Race and other pas- erman required to keep fishing gear outside the route. sages to the southwestward, and with Fishers Island Small vessels should exercise caution in and around Sound by several passages between rocky reefs from the Recommended Vessel Routes and monitor VHF Watch Hill Point to East Point, Fishers Island. channels 16 or 13 for information concerning deep draft vessels and tugs/barges transiting these routes. (4) The north shoreline of Block Island Sound and Fishers Island Sound from Point Judith to New London (10) Block Island North Reef is a sand shoal with is generally rocky and broken with short stretches of depths of 14 feet or less extending 1 mile northward sandy beach. Many inlets and harbors, especially in the from Sandy Point at the north end of Block Island. The vicinity of Fishers Island, afford harbors of refuge for shoal should be avoided by all vessels; its depths change vessels. Most of the rocks and shoals near the channels frequently, and its position is also subject to a slow are marked with navigational aids. change. It is practically steep-to on all sides, so that soundings alone cannot be depended on to clear it. A (5) The southern part of Block Island Sound is lighted bell buoy is 1.5 miles northward of the point. bounded by Block Island on the east, the eastern ex- tremity of Long Island, and Gardiners Island on the (11) Southwest Ledge, 5.5 miles west-southwestward of west. Plum Island and Fishers Island are at the western Block Island Southeast Light, has a least known depth end of the sound. of 21 feet and is marked on its southwest side by South- west Ledge Lighted Whistle Buoy 2. Rocky patches with (6) The deep water in the central part of Block Island least depths of 27 and 29 feet extend 1.5 miles north- Sound will accommodate vessels of the greatest draft. eastward from the ledge. The sea breaks on the shoaler places on the ledge in heavy weather. (7) Westward of Gardiners Island, enclosed between the northeastern and eastern ends of Long Island, are (12) Several other dangers that must be guarded Gardiners Bay, Shelter Island Sound, Little Peconic against are northward and westward of Southwest Bay, and Great Peconic Bay. This area is well protected Ledge Lighted Whistle Buoy 2. These dangers are: but generally shallow, and is not suited for deep-draft
266 I Chapter 7 I Coast Pilot 2 37-foot sounding, marked by a lighted buoy, about 2.2 (19) The tidal currents throughout Block Island Sound miles 280° from the lighted whistle buoy, and two rocks have considerable velocity; the greatest velocities oc- covered 21 and 22 feet, about 0.75 mile north of the cur in the vicinity of The Race and in the entrances be- lighted whistle buoy. tween Montauk Point, Block Island, and Point Judith. (13) The deepest passage in the southern entrance to Soundings alone cannot be depended upon to locate Block Island Sound is just westward of Southwest the position; the shoaling is generally abrupt in ap- Ledge and has a width of over 2 miles; this is the best proaching the shores or dangers. passage for deep draft vessels. The area between South- west Ledge Lighted Whistle Buoy 2 and Block Island (20) In the middle of the passage between Point Judith Sound South Entrance Obstruction Lighted Buoy BIS and Block Island, the velocity is 0.7 knot. The flood sets is known locally as Montauk Channel. Mariners should westward, and the ebb eastward. keep in mind that vessels with a draft in excess of 38 feet will not be allowed to transit this area. Further, pi- (21) In the passage between Block Island and Montauk lots using Montauk Channel shall consider draft, sea Point, the flood sets generally northwestward and the and swell, wind, visibility, current and vessel traffic. ebb southeastward. In the middle of the passage the ve- When these conditions pose a threat to the safety of any locity is 1.5 knots on the flood and 1.9 knots on the ebb. person, vessel, prudent navigation or safety of the envi- About 1.2 miles eastward of Montauk Point, the flood ronment, Montauk Channel shall not be used. sets 346°, ebb 162°, with a velocity of 2.8 knots. (14) Between the inner patch of rocks and the shoals, which extend 0.9 mile from Block Island, is a channel (22) In Block Island Sound and in the eastern part of 1.3 miles wide, with a depth of about 34 feet. Vessels us- Long Island Sound, fogs are generally heaviest with ing this channel should round the southwest end of southeast winds. In these waters the usual duration of a Block Island at a distance of 1.5 miles. It is not advis- fog is from 4 to 12 hours, but periods of from 4 to 6 days able to use this passage during heavy weather. have been known with very short clear intervals. In the (15) The entrance between Point Judith and Block Is- autumn, land fogs, as they are termed locally, some- land is used by vessels coming from the bays and times occur with northerly breezes, but are generally sounds eastward to Long Island Sound. The route gen- burned off before midday. erally used is through The Race. Tows of light barges and vessels of 14 feet or less draft sometimes go (23) The Race may be said to be the only locality where through Fishers Island Sound, especially during day- tidal currents have any decided influence on the move- light with a smooth sea. This entrance is clear with the ments of the ice. Large quantities of floe ice usually exception of Block Island North Reef and the numerous pass through The Race during the ebb, especially if the large boulders extending about 4 miles south-south- wind is westerly, and in severe winters this ice causes eastward of Point Judith. The coast from Point Judith some obstruction in Block Island Sound and around nearly to Watch Hill should be given a berth of over 1 Montauk Point. These obstructions are the most exten- mile, avoiding the broken ground with depths less than sive around the middle of February. 30 feet. Weather, Block Island Sound and vicinity Tides and currents (24) Land influences the weather only at the northern (16) (Full tidal information, including daily predic- edge of the Sound, with a northerly wind. Otherwise tions, is given in the Tide Tables.) the waters are open, similar to the nearby ocean. Winds (17) The effect of strong winds, in combination with the from all other directions have ample time to increase in strength and the Sound can be as turbulent as any wa- regular tidal action, may at times cause the water to fall ter off the coast. Wind speeds can be double those found several feet below or rise the same amount above the on the coast, especially in winter, when average speeds plane of reference of the chart. The mean range of tide of 16 to 17 knots are common. Gales occur up to 5 per- throughout Block Island Sound varies from about 3 cent of the time in winter and are most likely from the feet at Point Judith to 2 feet at Montauk Point. west and northwest. Seas built by winds from the (18) Tidal current data for a number of locations in southeast through southwest are usually highest since Block Island Sound are given in the Tidal Current Ta- there is no land to interfere with the fetch. Seas of 10 bles. Current directions and velocities throughout the feet (3 m) or more are likely 5 to 7 percent of the time in sound for each hour of the tidal cycle are shown on winter. Tidal Current Charts, Block Island Sound and Eastern (25) Because of relatively cold water, summer fog oc- Long Island Sound. curs two to three times more often in these waters than in either Narragansett or Buzzard Bays. For example, in June visibilities drop below ½ mile nearly 9 percent of the time.
Block Island Sound I Chapter 7 I 267 North Atlantic Right Whales average 32°F (0°C). The island is too small to build up (26) Endangered North Atlantic right whales may occur cumulonimbus clouds, and local thunderstorms do not occur. Fog occurs on one out of four days in the early in Block Island Sound, in particular in the summer, when the ocean is relatively cold and foggy Narragansett/Buzzards Bay Traffic Separation Scheme. days average about 22 each year. They may also occur 30 nautical miles south of Block (32) Winters are distinguished for their comparative Island Sound (peak season: March through April and mildness; maximums average 36°F to 42°F (2.2°C to September through October). The Northeast Marine 5.6°C) and minimums average 26°F (-3.3°C) in January Pilots distribute educational material to mariners in an and February. Since the surface winds are usually east- effort to reduce right whale ship strikes. (See North At- erly when snow begins it soon changes to rain or melts lantic Right Whales, indexed as such, chapter 3, for rapidly after it piles up. The ocean temperatures are of more information on right whales and recommended course always somewhat above freezing and not far off measures to avoid collisions with whales.) shore are relatively high. (33) The ocean has a dampening effect on hot winds in Pilotage: Block Island Sound and Long Island summer and an accelerating effect on cold winds from Sound the mainland in the winter. Katabatic winds from (27) Pilotage is compulsary for foreign vessels under Narrangansett Bay and Long Island reach as high as 35 register in Block Island Sound and Long Island Sound. knots when anticyclonic conditions prevail on the A vessel traversing Block Island is enroute to or from mainland in winter. The wind velocity averages 15 Long Island Sound. See Pilotage, Long Island Sound knots for the year, but the mean is 17 knots in the win- (indexed as such), chapter 8. Vessels bound for Long Is- ter, when gales are frequent. In the early fall most of the land Sound ports may board pilots at any point south or tropical storms moving up the coast affect the island to east of the Point Judith Pilot Station, centered on some extent. Since 1871, 13 storms have come within 41°17.0'N., 071°30.5'W., and outside the waters of the 25 miles of Block Island. The most recent was Hurri- State of Rhode Island, and at any point south of the cane Bob in August 1991. The center of Hurricane Bob Montauk Point Pilot Station, centered on 41°02.0'N., passed about ten miles to the west of the island with 85- 071°42.0'W. knot winds. (34) (See page 433 for Block Island climatological ta- Chart 13217 ble.) (28) Block Island, 5 miles long, is hilly with elevations Communications up to about 200 feet. The shore of the island is fringed (35) A ferry operates daily from Galilee to Great Salt in most places by boulders and should be given a berth of over 0.5 mile even by small craft; the shoaling is gen- Pond or Old Harbor, carrying mail, passengers, freight, erally abrupt in approaching the island. and vehicles. There is summer ferry service from Old Harbor to Providence, via Newport, and to New Lon- Weather, Block Island and vicinity don. The island has telephone service to the mainland. (29) Block Island, formed by glaciers, consists of nearly Air service is also available. 7,000 acres (2,830 hectares) and lies in the Atlantic (36) Block Island Southeast Light (41°09'10\"N., Ocean about 12 miles east-northeast of Long Island and 71°33'04\"W.), 261 feet above the water, is shown from a about the same distance south of Charlestown, RI. red-brick octagonal, pyramidal tower attached to a Hence, the climate is typically maritime, but under dwelling to Mohegan Bluffs on the southeast point of conditions of extreme cold or heat the effect is felt on the island. the island as well as on the mainland. Temperatures of -10°F (-23.3°C, February 1992) and 95°F (35°C, August (37) About 0.2 mile southeast of the light is the wreck of 1948) have been recorded. the large tanker SS LIGHTBURNE. The wreck is (30) Summers are usually dry. Recorded rainfall for any marked by a buoy. At Clay Head, on the northeast side one month ranges from a trace to 11.51 inches (292 of Block Island, is a lone white house on top of the bluff. mm). November is the wettest month averaging 4.08 Two nearby silos are conspicuous. inches (104 mm) and June is the driest averaging 2.46 inches (64 mm). (38) Block Island North Light (41°13'39\"N., 71°34'33\"W.), (31) The warmest month is July with an average high of 58 feet above the water, is shown from a brown tower 76.5°F (24.7°C) and an average low of 63.7°F (17.6°C). on a gray granite dwelling on Sandy Point at the north The coolest months are January and February. Each end of the island. (39) Old Harbor, frequently used as a harbor of refuge, is an artificial harbor formed by two breakwaters on the
268 I Chapter 7 I Coast Pilot 2 east side of Block Island, 1.4 miles northward of Block No-Discharge Zone Island Southeast Light. In May 2006, the controlling (47) The State of Rhode Island, with the approval of the depths were 8.4 feet in the entrance channel, thence 8.4 to 15 feet in the anchorage basin, with lesser depths Environmental Protection Agency, has established a along the edges. Depths of 8.4 to 15 feet were available No-Discharge Zone (NDZ) in Great Salt Pond. The in the inner harbor. The harbor is occupied by pleasure NDZ includes all waters east of a line from the landward craft during the summer. The eastern part of the inner end of the jetty located at the northwestern channel en- harbor is left clear for the passage of the ferry to the trance to the red marker located approximately 600 feet wharf. The basin in the southeast corner of the inner northwest of the United States Coast Guard facility harbor is usually occupied by fishing boats and local dock (see chart 13217 for limits). craft which tie up along the sides. Gasoline, diesel fuel, (48) Within the NDZ, discharge of sewage, whether and berths are available. The harbormaster has an of- treated or untreated, from all vessels is prohibited. fice at the Old Harbor town dock. Outside the NDZ, discharge of sewage is regulated by (40) The east breakwater extends about 300 yards 40 CFR 140 (see chapter 2). northward of the entrance of the inner harbor, and is marked at its end by a light and fog signal. A bell buoy is Chart 13219 0.55 mile northward of the breakwater. A light marks the end of the breakwater on the west side at the en- (49) Point Judith Light (41°21'42\"N., 71°28'54\"W.), 65 trance to the inner harbor. feet above the water, is shown from an octagonal tower, (41) Great Salt Pond (New Harbor), on the west side of 51 feet high, with the lower half white, upper half Block Island, is the best harbor in Block Island Sound brown. The station has a fog signal. About 100 yards for vessels of 15-foot draft or less. In easterly gales north of the light is Point Judith Coast Guard Station. when the sea is too heavy to enter Old Harbor, a landing A lighted whistle buoy is about 2.4 miles southward of can be made at Great Salt Pond. The entrance, about 2 the light. (See chart 13218.) miles south-southwestward of Block Island North Light, is a dredged cut through the narrow beach. The (50) The area around Point Judith, including the ap- southwestern side of the entrance is protected by a proaches to Point Judith Harbor of Refuge, is irregular jetty, which is marked by a light and a fog signal at its with rocky bottom and indications of boulders. Caution outer end. is advised to avoid the shoal spots, even with a smooth (42) In September 2005, the midchannel controlling sea, and to exercise extra care where the depths are not depth was 5.8 feet, with shoaling to bare in the right more than 6 feet greater than the draft. outside quarter just shoreward of the inner end of the breakwater. Local knowledge is advised before enter- (51) Point Judith Harbor of Refuge, on the west side of ing. Point Judith, is formed by a main V-shaped breakwater (43) The usual anchorage in Great Salt Pond is near the and two shorearm breakwaters extending to the shore. southeast end, off the ferry landing, in 15 to 48 feet, The harbor is easy of access for most vessels except with taking care to leave a fairway to the landing. A channel a heavy southerly sea. It is little used by tows. The only with a reported depth of about 8 feet in July 1981 leads soft bottom in the harbor is found in the southern part to Trim Pond, where local fishing craft are moored. of the deeper water enclosed by the main breakwater. (44) Small-craft facilities in Great Salt Pond can provide On the north side the shoaling is gradual; the 18-foot berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, and curve is about 0.3 to 0.5 mile offshore. marine supplies. The marina about 0.3 mile westward of the ferry landing had a reported depth of 16 feet at (52) Near the central part of the harbor are two shoals; the face of the dock in July 1981. Sail and engine re- the northernmost one has depths of 14 to 18 feet, and pairs are available nearby. the southernmost one has depths of 14 to 16 feet and is marked by a buoy. Tides and currents (45) The mean range of tide is about 2.6 feet. (53) The area within the V-shaped breakwater affords (46) Tidal currents in the entrance to Great Salt Pond protected anchorage for small craft. The breakwater should be given a berth of 200 yards to avoid broken have a velocity of 0.3 knot. (See Tidal Current Tables for and hard bottom; a rocky shoal area about 100 yards predictions.) wide, paralleling the west side of the main breakwater northward from the angle should be avoided. A good berth for a vessel is on a line between Point Judith Har- bor of Refuge East Entrance Light 3 and Point Judith Harbor of Refuge West Entrance Light 2, midway be- tween them in 22 to 30 feet. This position falls on the
Block Island Sound I Chapter 7 I 269 edge of the east-west thorofare used by pleasure craft anchorage areas westward of Galilee and southward of and fishing boats. Little Comfort Island. (54) In August 1984, a submerged obstruction was re- (62) In March 2003, the controlling depths were 11 feet ported about 270 yards southeast of Point Judith Har- (12.9 feet at midchannel) to the junction with the Gali- bor of Refuge West Entrance Light 2 in about lee branch channel, thence 9.1 feet to the State Pier at 41°21'37\"N., 71°30'40\"W. A dangerous wreck, covered Jerusalem, thence 1.0 foot to the turning basin at 4½ feet, is about 450 yards westward of Point Judith Wakefield with 5.5 to 6 feet in the basin; deeper water Harbor of Refuge East Entrance Light 3 in 41°21.6'N., can be carried in the channel from Jerusalem to 71°29.1'W. Wakefield, however, local knowledge is advised. In (55) The southern entrance to the Harbor of Refuge, March 2003, the east branch channel had a controlling known locally as the East Gap, is 400 yards wide; in July depth of 12.2 feet to the State Pier at Galilee, thence 1981, it had a reported controlling depth of about 24 11.2 feet to the end of the project at Buoy 3 southward feet with deeper water in the western half of the chan- of Little Comfort Island; the anchorage westward of nel. Galilee had depths of 10 feet. (56) The western entrance to the Harbor of Refuge, known locally as the West Gap, is 500 yards wide; in Tides and Currents July 1981, it had a reported controlling depth of about (63) The mean range of tide in the pond is 2.8 feet and 18 feet, with lesser depths on the north side of the en- trance. occurs later than in the Harbor of Refuge by about 10 minutes just inside the entrance and 30 minutes at the Tides and Currents north end. The tidal currents in the entrance have a ve- (57) The mean range of tide in the Harbor of Refuge is locity of 1.8 knots on the flood and 1.5 knots on the ebb, and cause slight rips and overfalls at changes of tide. 3.1 feet. The tidal currents have a velocity of about 0.7 Higher current velocities are reported to occur. (See knot at the south entrance. The currents off the west Tidal Current Tables for predictions.) entrance are rotary, with a velocity at strength of 0.5 (64) Several boatyards and marinas are at Galilee, Jeru- knot. (See Tidal Current Tables for predictions.) salem, Wakefield, and at Snug Harbor, on the west side (58) Considerably stronger currents have been reported of the pond about 0.8 mile above the entrance. Berths, to develop especially when the tide is ebbing. electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, marine sup- plies, storage, launching ramps, and hull and engine (59) Point Judith Pond is a saltwater tidal pond entered repairs are available. The largest marine railway in the between two rock jetties at The Breachway in the area, at the southern end of the waterfront at Snug northwestern part of Point Judith Harbor of Refuge. Harbor, can handle craft up to 150 feet long or 400 tons. The east jetty is marked near its seaward end by a In July 1981, a reported depth of 12 feet could be car- daybeacon. The pond extends 3.3 miles northerly to the ried to the railway. town of Wakefield. It is used extensively by small fish- (65) Daily ferry service is available to Block Island from ing vessels and pleasure craft, and numerous fish Galilee. Daily bus service is operated to Providence. wharves are inside the entrance. The north end of Point (66) Potter Pond, shallow and landlocked, is joined with Judith Pond affords good anchorage for boats of 4 feet Point Judith by a narrow channel near Snug Harbor. draft or less during a heavy blow. Local knowledge should be obtained before using this channel, which has depths of 2 to 4 feet and is crossed (60) The village of Galilee on the east side of the en- by overhead power and telephone cables with a clear- trance and Jerusalem on the west side at Succotash ance of 30 feet at the channel entrance and by a fixed Point have State piers and numerous small piers highway bridge with a clearance of 5 feet about 0.4 mile chiefly used by fishermen. A State fisheries laboratory above the entrance. A current of more than 3 knots de- is just above the State pier at Jerusalem. A State pier velops through the channel on the ebb. The mean superintendent controls the State piers at Galilee and range of tide in the pond is about 1 foot, and it occurs Jerusalem; his office is at the head of the Galilee State about 2.5 hours later than in the Harbor of Refuge. Pier. Chart 13215 (61) A channel with three dredged sections marked by buoys and a daybeacon extends from Point Judith Har- (67) From Point Judith to Watch Hill the shore is low bor of Refuge along the west side of the pond to the and for the most part consists of sandy beaches which State Pier at Jerusalem, and thence northerly to the are broken by several projecting rocky points. Back turning basin at Wakefield. A branch channel, on the east side, extends northeasterly from the entrance to the pond to the State Pier at Galilee, and into
270 I Chapter 7 I Coast Pilot 2 Courtesy of U.S. Power Squadron, District 1 from the immediate shore are areas of cultivation in- (70) Quonochontaug, 10.8 miles westward of Point Ju- terspersed with rolling grass-covered or wooded hills. dith, is a summer settlement at the outlet of Except for Point Judith Pond, most pond outlets are Quonochontaug Pond. In July 1981, a reported depth used only by small local craft. The coast is fringed by of about 3 feet could be carried in Quonochontaug broken ground and boulders in places, which should be Breachway, with depths of 15 to 20 feet reported in the avoided by deep-draft vessels where the depths are less pond. Vessels favor the west side of the entrance to than 36 to 42 feet. avoid rocks in the easterly half of the entrance. (68) Matunuck is a summer resort about 3 miles west of Point Judith. Southwest of Matunuck Point is Ne- (71) Weekapaug Point, 12.5 miles west of Point Judith, braska Shoal, a patch of boulders covered 18 feet and is bold, rocky, and prominent from the southwest and marked by a buoy. The shoal is at the south end of bro- southeast. Two stone jetties, 1,500 feet long, protect ken ground, with depths less than 30 feet offshore; the the entrance to Winnapaug Pond just westward of the water deepens abruptly around the patch. point. In July 1981, a reported depth of about 5 feet (69) Charlestown Breachway, 4.5 miles westward of could be carried in Weekapaug Breachway to the pond; Matunuck Point, is a narrow inlet which leads to vessels favor the west side of the breachway above the Ninigret Pond, also known as Charlestown Pond, to bridge. Reported depths in Winnapaug Pond vary from the westward, and the village of Charlestown to the bare to 10 feet. There are numerous shoals and sand- northward. In 1994, a reported depth of about 1½ feet bars. Southerly winds cause breakers at the ends of the could be taken in the inlet, with depths of about 3 to 6 jetties; extreme caution is advised. The fixed bridge feet inside. The southern part of Ninigret Pond is over the entrance has a clearance of 6 feet. mostly mud flats. Local knowledge is required in enter- ing and moving about inside. A small-craft facility is at (72) Old Reef, with a depth of 5 feet over it, is about 1.5 Charlestown, and one is at the western end of Ninigret miles west of Weekapaug Point and about 0.5 mile off- Pond; berths, gasoline, electricity, marine supplies, and shore. launching ramps are at both facilities.
Block Island Sound I Chapter 7 I 271 Courtesy of U.S. Power Squadron, District 1 Chart 13214 (78) Sugar Reef Passage, between Watch Hill Reef and Sugar Reef, has a width of 0.3 mile; the least depths are (73) Watch Hill, about 17.5 miles west of Point Judith, about 22 feet. is a high bare bluff on its easterly side with several large hotels and summer houses. (79) Sugar Reef, some 500 to 600 yards in extent, is cov- ered 2 to 12 feet and should be avoided; it is marked by a (74) Watch Hill Light (41°18.2'N., 71°51.5'W.), 61 feet buoy off its north side. above the water, is shown from a square gray granite tower, 45 feet high, attached to a white building with a (80) Catumb Passage, between Sugar Reef and Catumb red roof, on Watch Hill Point. Rocks, has a width of 150 yards; its least depth is 13 feet. (75) Gangway Rock, awash at low water, is part of a (81) Catumb Rocks, the highest of which are awash, are boulder reef extending about 0.2 mile southward from marked by buoys on the north, southeast, and south- Watch Hill Light. A lighted bell buoy marks the south west sides. Rocks covered 1 to 18 feet extend 0.8 mile end of the reef. A submerged rock is about 50 yards westward of Catumb Rocks to the buoy that marks the northward of the buoy. east side of Lords Passage. This passage, about 0.3 mile wide, has a least depth of 16 feet. (76) Watch Hill Passage is the principal entrance to Fishers Island Sound from eastward, and the only one (82) Wicopesset Rock, on the northwesterly side of used by strangers. It has a least depth of about 17 feet. A Lords Passage, is the easterly part of foul ground ex- spot with 12 feet over it in the passage is marked by a tending about 0.3 mile to Wicopesset Island, which is buoy; the best channel is northward of this buoy, giving low and rocky. it a berth of about 150 yards. (83) Wicopesset Passage, between Wicopesset Island (77) Watch Hill Reef, on the southwest side of Watch and East Point, is narrow and is obstructed by a rock in Hill Passage, has rocks that bare and is marked by a the middle marked by a buoy; it is suitable only for gong buoy. small craft and should not be used by strangers. A bell buoy marks the southern entrance. Extreme caution is recommended when using the passage as the ebb cur- rent is apt to set boats on the foul ground.
272 I Chapter 7 I Coast Pilot 2 Courtesy of U.S. Power Squadron, District 1. (84) Information about the tides and tidal currents in 9 feet over them. The passage between the buoy and the passages is given with the discussion of Fishers Is- Race Rock Light has very irregular bottom; the least land Sound. depth is about 20 feet. It is suitable only for small ves- sels with a comparatively smooth sea. Charts 13214, 13212 (87) Race Rock, on the northeast side of The Race, is nearly 200 yards in diameter, with a depth of 8 feet. A (85) Fishers Island, 6 miles long, is hilly and sparsely ridge with a least depth of 28 feet extends about 120 wooded. Chocomount, 136 feet high, is the highest yards SSW of Race Rock. Another ridge, extending in a point on the island. East Point, at the east end of the is- north-south direction with a least depth of 38 feet is land, is marked by several large houses. The former about 320 yards east of Race Rock. Coast Guard station at East Harbor, about 1 mile from (88) Race Rock Light (41°14'37\"N., 72°02'49\"W.), 67 East Point of Fishers Island, is prominent; numerous feet above the water, is shown from a granite tower at- buildings on the western part of Fishers Island and a tached to a dwelling on a granite pier on the rock. A fog large yellow hotel building are conspicuous. The radar signal is sounded at the station. The fog signal is re- antenna on Mount Prospect, near the west end of the ported at times to be inaudible when a vessel is ap- island, south shore, is the most prominent landmark proaching from eastward and is close southward of on Fishers Island from seaward. The south side of the Fishers Island. island is fringed with foul ground which rises abruptly from depths of 42 to 48 feet; but by giving the shore a Charts 13209, 13212 berth of 0.5 mile, all dangers will be avoided. (89) The Race, the main entrance to Long Island Sound (86) Race Point Ledge, partly bare at low water, extends from eastward, extends between Fishers Island and Lit- about 0.2 mile southwestward from Race Point, the tle Gull Island, between which is a width of about 3.5 southwest extremity of Fishers Island, and is marked at its end by a buoy. Inside the buoy are boulders with 2 to
Block Island Sound I Chapter 7 I 273 miles. The only dangers are Valiant Rock, nearly in the is 2.6 knots on the flood, and 3.2 knots on the ebb; flood middle, and Little Gull Island with its reefs. sets 299°, and ebb 133°. Considerably higher velocities occur at times, and tide rips are very bad in heavy Current weather. Boulders covered 3 to 10 feet are between Old (90) In the middle of The Race, the flood sets 295° and Silas Rock and Plum Island. Old Silas Rock is awash at high water. Middle Shoal Rock, 0.3 mile northeastward the ebb 100°, with average velocities of 2.9 knots and of Old Silas Rock, has a depth of 8 feet. 3.5 knots, respectively. There are always strong rips and (98) Bedford Reef is broken ground, on which the least swirls in the wake of all broken ground in The Race, ex- found depths are 14 to 16 feet, extending about 1.5 cept for about one-half hour at slack water. The rips are miles southward from broken ground lying between exceptionally heavy during heavy weather, and espe- Great Gull and Plum Islands. It should be avoided. Con- cially when a strong wind opposes the current, or the stellation Rock, on the southeasterly extension on this current sets through against a heavy sea. (Predicted broken ground, has 17 feet over it, is marked by a buoy, times of slack water and times and velocities of and lies 1.9 miles southward of Little Gull Island Light. strength of current are given in the Tidal Current Ta- bles.) (91) During the flood stage of the tide, a significant eddy Chart 13209 exists on the northwest side of Valiant Rock. (99) Montauk Point, the easterly extremity of Long Is- (92) Little Gull Reef, with little depth and foul ground, land, is a high sandy bluff, on the summit of which is extends 0.3 mile east-northeastward from Little Gull the light. The land is grass covered, with a height of 165 Island and is marked at the northeast end by a buoy. feet at Prospect Hill, 2 miles westward of the point. The Mariners are advised that the buoy is sometimes sub- south side of the point is bold, the 10-fathom curve is merged by the strong current and deep-draft vessels about 0.5 mile from shore; depths of 24 feet and less ex- should avoid this locality. Little Gull Island Light tend 0.8 mile off the northeast side of the point. (41°12'23\"N., 72°06'25\"W.), 91 feet above the water, is shown from a gray granite tower, 81 feet high, attached (100) Montauk Point Light (41°04'15\"N., 71°51'26\"W.), to a red dwelling on a pier. A fog signal is at the light. 168 feet above the water, is shown from a white octago- The light and Race Rock Light are the guides, as nal, pyramidal tower with a brown band midway of its soundings cannot be depended upon. height and a covered way to a gray dwelling. A fog sig- nal is at the light. (93) In passing north of Valiant Rock, vessels should keep from 0.5 to 0.8 mile southwestward of Race Rock (101) Surrounding Montauk Point for about 4 miles is a Light, and craft passing southward of Valiant Rock shoal area that has been closely surveyed (see also chart should hold to a course about 1 mile northeastward of 13215); the bottom is very broken, and extra caution Little Gull Island Light. should be observed where the depths are less than 10 feet greater than the draft. In general, the shoals are a (94) Cerberus Shoal, 6 miles southeast of Race Rock series of long narrow ridges, in places only a few yards Light, is about 0.4 mile in diameter, with a least depth wide, and their positions are indicated by the rips over of 19 feet on a small rocky patch near its north end. The them at the strength of the tidal currents. seas break on this shoal during heavy swells. It is marked by a lighted gong buoy. Near the shoal, tide rips (102) Montauk Shoal, about 2.5 miles south-southeast- are unusually strong. ward of the light, has least depths of 30 feet. Great East- ern Rock, 1.5 miles east-northeast of the light, has a (95) Great Gull Island, 0.6 mile southwest of Little Gull least depth of 25 feet. Phelps Ledge, just northerly of Island, was formerly a military reservation, but is now Great Eastern Rock, is covered by 24 feet. Endeavor privately owned. The pier on the north side is in ruins. Shoals, about 2.3 miles northeast of the light, are cov- A lookout tower on the island is conspicuous. ered by 19 to 24 feet on a narrow ridge about 0.4 mile long. A lighted gong buoy is off the eastern end of the (96) Valiant Rock, with a least depth of 20 feet, is sur- ridge. rounded by shoal area, and the 10-fathom curve sur- rounding the rock marks the area which should be (103) Vessels drawing up to 20 feet can avoid the dangers avoided by deep-draft vessels and preferably all vessels, eastward and northeastward of Montauk Point in on account of the heavy swirls and rips. A lighted whis- smooth weather by giving the point a berth of over 1 tle buoy is northward of the rock. mile and avoiding Great Eastern Rock. (97) The Sluiceway, the passage between Great Gull Is- (104) Broken ground with rocky bottom and boulders ex- land and Plum Island, has several known dangers and tends about 2 miles off the north coast west of Montauk very irregular bottom with boulders, and should be Point. Shagwong Reef, with a least depth of 8 feet and avoided. The velocity of the tidal current in the passage
274 I Chapter 7 I Coast Pilot 2 marked by a lighted bell buoy, is the northern limit of caution is advised in selecting anchorage because this area. Shagwong Rock, with a least depth of 7½ feet lesser depths may be found. A privately marked channel and marked by a lighted buoy, and Washington Shoal, with a reported controlling depth of 7 feet in June 1999, with a least depth of 15 feet, are between the shore and leads from the yacht basin to the southern part of Lake Shagwong Reef. The principal danger outside Shagwong Montauk where there are depths of 6 to 8 feet in the Reef is a shoal with a depth of 30 feet, 5.3 miles center. northwestward of Montauk Point. COLREGS Demarcation Lines Pilotage Pickup Locations Off Montauk Point (110) The lines established for Montauk Harbor are de- (105) Pilots generally, or by prearrangement, meet a ship scribed in 80.155, chapter 2. “off Montauk Point”. The following pilot associations meet vessels “off Montauk Point” at the location indi- Tides and Currents cated. For telephone number, FAX number, cable ad- (111) The mean range of tide is 1.9 feet. dress, description of the boat, frequencies, etc., consult (112) Tidal currents at the entrance to Montauk Harbor the name of the association under Pilotage, Narra- ganset Bay and Other Rhode Island Waters (indexed as have a velocity of 1.2 knots on the flood and about 0.5 such), chapter 6; Pilotage, Long Island Sound (indexed knot on the ebb. They are reported to decrease rapidly as such), chapter 8; and Pilotage, New York Harbor and after entering the harbor and are practically negligible Approaches (indexed as such), chapter 11. near the yacht club landing on the east side of Star Is- (106) Pilots boarding vessels for Block Island Sound in- land. (See Tidal Current Tables for predictions.) clude: Sound Pilots, Inc. (Division of Northeast Marine Pilots, Inc.), Connecticut State Pilots and the Constitu- (113) Montauk Coast Guard Station is at the northern tion State Pilots Association. They will board vessels at end of Star Island. any point south of Montauk Point Pilot Station, cen- tered on 41°02.0'N., 071°42.0'W. Small-craft facilities (107) Mariners are also reminded that vessels with a draft (114) There are several small-craft facilities on both sides in excess of 38 feet will not be allowed to transit the Montauk Channel (as defined by the area between of the entrance to Montauk Harbor, and a yacht club Southwest Ledge Lighted Whistle Buoy 2 and Block Is- and several marinas are on the east side of Star Island. land Sound South Entrance Obstruction Lighted Buoy Gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, marine supplies, and BIS). Further, pilots using Montauk Channel shall con- space for transients are available. Lifts to 80 tons can sider: draft, sea and swell, wind, visibility, current and handle craft for complete engine and hull repairs. Gro- vessel traffic. When these conditions pose a threat to ceries and other supplies may be obtained at the village the safety of any person, vessel, prudent navigation or of Montauk. safety of the environment, Montauk Channel shall not be used. (115) Fort Pond Bay is a semicircular bight about 1 mile wide on the north side of Long Island, 5 miles westward (108) Montauk Harbor, in the northern part of Lake of Montauk Point. The bay is free of dangers, but flats Montauk, is entered through a dredged channel on the with 8 to 12 feet over them make out 0.2 mile from its northern shore about 3 miles west of Montauk Point. eastern shore. The bay affords anchorage in 40 to 50 The entrance is protected by jetties, each of which is feet, soft bottom, but is exposed to northerly and north- marked by a light, and the west jetty has a fog signal. A westerly winds; the shoaling is abrupt on its east and lighted bell buoy, about 0.3 mile north of the entrance, south sides. marks the approach to the harbor. In November 2004, the controlling depths in the channel were 11.9 feet (12 (116) Montauk, a summer resort at the southeast end of feet at midchannel) to the yacht basin east of Star Is- the bay, is the terminus of the Long Island Railroad. A land. In March 2004, the boat basin northwestward of depth of 10 feet was reported alongside the commercial Star Island had depths of 8.9 to 10 feet. The channel is pier on the east side of the bay. There are no public marked by private seasonal buoys. piers available. (109) Star Island, just inside Montauk Harbor, is con- (117) Napeague Bay, 8 miles westward of Montauk Point, nected to the mainland by a causeway. A private light is is shallow in the western and southwestern part. Prom- shown from the eastern side of the island. Depths of 3 ised Land Channel, the buoyed passage southward of feet closer to shore to 12 feet in the middle are reported Gardiners and Cartwright Islands, has a least center- in the yacht basin off the eastern side of the island; line depth of about 14 feet; however, the depth is con- tinually changing due to the shifting shoals. (118) The tidal currents have a velocity of about 1.5 knots through all the channels between the shoals. It is not
Block Island Sound I Chapter 7 I 275 advisable for vessels drawing more than 10 feet to at- (127) Gardiners Bay is at the western end of Block Island tempt the passage without local knowledge, and then Sound from which it is separated by Gardiners Island. only when the buoys can be seen. The bay is an excellent anchorage easily entered day or (119) Napeague Harbor, a small-craft refuge in the night, and is the approach to Shelter Island Sound and southwest part of Napeague Bay, can be entered the Peconic Bays. The principal entrance is northward through privately dredged channels northward and of Gardiners Point. The entrance from Long Island southward of Hicks Island. In June 1981, the reported Sound is through Plum Gut. The entrance southward controlling depths were 4 feet in the northerly and of Gardiners Island is used by fishing vessels. southerly entrances. Depths in the central part of the harbor range from 1½ to 7 feet; the chart is the best (128) The principal guides for the entrance to Gardiners guide. The harbor is especially useful in northeasterly Bay from Block Island Sound are the lighted gong buoy weather when the adjoining bays are unsafe. There are north of Gardiners Point, Little Gull Light, and Orient no landings in the harbor. Point Light. The white church spires at Orient and Sag (120) Promised Land is a former fishing village on the Harbor are prominent. When past the lighted gong southwest side of Napeague Bay. A depth of about 4 feet buoy north of Gardiners Point, vessels can select the can be carried to the landing at the yacht club, 1.3 anchorage in Gardiners Bay which affords the best lee miles westward of Promised Land. in the prevailing winds. (121) Gardiners Island, 11 miles westward of Montauk Point, is partly wooded and has an elevation of 130 feet (129) The principal dangers in approaching Gardiners near its middle. Cartwright Island is narrow, low, and Bay from the northward are the broken ground be- sandy, and extends 1 mile in a southerly direction off tween Constellation Rock and Plum Island, and the the south tip of Gardiners Island. Its size and shape are shoal making out to Gardiners Point. In the bay, Crow subject to considerable change by storms. Shoal should be avoided. In general, the shoaling is (122) Crow Head is the high bluff at the western end of rather abrupt in approaching these dangers and grad- Gardiners Island. Shoal water with depths of 9 to 16 ual in approaching the shoals on the western side of the feet extends 1.8 miles southwestward from Cherry Hill bay. Point, the westerly end of Gardiners Island, and termi- nates at Crow Shoal. The shoal has depths of 3 to 11 No-Discharge Zone feet and is marked by a buoy. An obstruction covered 12 (130) The State of New York, with the approval of the En- feet is 200 yards eastward of the buoy. (123) The bight between the southern part of Gardiners vironmental Protection Agency, has established a Island and Crow Shoal is Cherry Harbor. It has depths No-Discharge Zone (NDZ) in the Peconic Estuary. The of 24 to 27 feet with mud bottom and affords shelter NDZ includes all open waters, harbors and creeks of the from northeasterly winds. Bostwick Bay is the bight on Peconic Estuary west of a line from Orient Point to the northwest side of Gardiners Island. It affords excel- Montauk Point (see chart 13209 for limits). lent anchorage in easterly winds in depths of about 25 (131) Within the NDZ, discharge of sewage, whether feet, but is exposed to all westerly winds. treated or untreated, from all vessels is prohibited. (124) Gardiners Point, a low spit, is at the northerly end Outside the NDZ, discharge of sewage is regulated by of a very shoal bar which extends 1.5 miles north- 40 CFR 140 (see chapter 2). northwestward from Gardiners Island. This shoal is steep-to on its north and west sides and is marked by a (132) Plum Island, about 2 miles westward of Great Gull lighted gong buoy. A rock with a depth of 2 feet over it is Island, is 2.5 miles long, hilly, and bare of trees except about 0.8 mile eastward of the north point of Gardiners near the southwest end, and has several large build- Island and is marked by a buoy. ings, a prominent tank and flagpole, and is marked on (125) The Ruins, a concrete structure on Gardiners its western point by Plum Gut Light. The island is a Point, is Government property and formerly a naval Government reservation and closed to the public. aircraft bombing target; it is prohibited to the public. The Ruins and the area within 300 yards radius of it is (133) The bight in the southeast side of Plum Island is dangerous due to the possible existence of undetonated foul to Plum Island Rock, which is 0.5 mile from shore explosives. abreast of the middle of the island, has 1 foot over it and (126) A restricted anchorage for U.S. Navy submarines is is marked by a buoy. about 3 miles eastward of Gardiners Island. (See 110.1 and 110.150, chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) (134) Plum Gut Harbor, on the southwest side of Plum Island, has an entrance between jetties with private seasonal lights on dolphins off the outer ends. The lights are shown daily from sundown to 0130. A private fog signal at the west jetty light is sounded occasionally when Department of Agriculture vessels are navigating in the area. A depth of about 14 feet is in the entrance.
276 I Chapter 7 I Coast Pilot 2 Small yachts seeking shelter in an emergency lie 1981, a reported depth of about 6 feet could be carried alongside the wharves. The harbor is under the super- to the facility. vision of the Department of Agriculture and the Coast Guard, and may be used only with permission. (142) Acabonack Harbor, at the southeast end of Gardiners Bay, is entered through a privately maintained and COLREGS Demarcation Lines marked channel with a reported controlling depth of (135) The lines established for Plum Gut Harbor are de- 2½ feet in the entrance in June 1981. There is deeper water inside. scribed in 80.155, chapter 2. (143) Hog Creek Point, on the southerly side of (136) Plum Gut, the entrance to Gardiners Bay from Gardiners Bay, is generally flat, with bluffs approxi- Long Island Sound, is nearly 0.6 mile wide and has suf- mately 25 feet in height. Lionhead Rock, off the point ficient water for vessels of the deepest draft; in the pas- and marked by a buoy, is awash at high water. Fishtraps sage are several rocks with depths of 17 to 19 feet over are westward of the point. them. In December 2002, an obstruction in 64 feet of water, marked with three orange floats, was reported in (144) Threemile Harbor, on the south side of Gardiners about 41°10'06\"N., 72°12'54\"W. Tidal currents set Bay 1.7 miles southwestward of Hog Creek Point, is en- through the passage with great velocity. Steamers, or tered through a channel with two privately dredged sailing vessels with a strong favorable wind, should sections. In September 1980, a portion of the wooden have no difficulty in passing through. bulkhead on the west side of the entrance collapsed into the channel. In 1981, it was reported that by favor- (137) Velocities of the current on flood and ebb are 3.5 ing the east side of the entrance channel a depth of 8 and 4.3 knots, respectively. The flood sets northwestward feet could be carried to a point opposite Maidstone and the ebb southeastward. Heavy tide rips occur. In Park, thence in 1996, a reported depth of 6 feet could be November 1983, NOAA Ships RUDE and HECK re- carried to the basin at the head of the harbor. The ap- ported that during the flood a countercurrent normally proach to the harbor is marked by a seasonal lighted develops along the north shore of Plum Island. This bell buoy, and the channel is marked by lighted and countercurrent is most prevalent within 0.5 mile of the unlighted buoys. The jetties at the harbor entrance are island. Caution is recommended when using this pas- marked on the outer ends by private lights. A public sage. commercial landing with reported depths of 8 feet is on the east side of the channel about 0.6 mile above the en- (138) Oyster Pond Reef, extending about 0.5 mile east- trance. A 5 mph speed limit is enforced in the harbor. northeastward from Orient Point, is marked by a light and fog signal. Caution is recommended regarding the Anchorage fog signal, as it may be difficult to hear at times, partic- (145) Anchorage is available in Threemile Harbor in ularly with an easterly wind. Numerous boulders and little depth are between the light and Orient Point. depths of 9 to 14 feet with soft bottom and good holding Midway Shoal, about 0.5 mile east of the light, has 17 ground; this is a good anchorage during strong winds. feet over it and is marked by a buoy. Tides and currents (139) When using Plum Gut it is well to give Plum Island (146) The range of tide in the entrance to the harbor is and Orient Point Light a berth of 0.2 mile. The best wa- ter in the passage will be found on a 295° course, pass- 2.4 feet. The tidal current has a velocity of about 3 ing Pine Point and the buoy marking Midway Shoal at a knots through the entrance. distance of 350 yards and passing midway between Ori- ent Point Light and Plum Gut Light on the western end Small-craft facilities of Plum Island. (147) Small-craft facilities on the east and south sides of (140) A channel, with a reported controlling depth of 7 Threemile Harbor can provide berths, electricity, gaso- feet in 1999, leads to a research basin operated by the line, diesel fuel, water, ice, launching ramps, storage, U.S. Department of Agriculture on the south side of lifts to 40 tons, and hull and engine repair. Provisions Orient Point, about 1 mile southwest of Orient Point can be obtained at the town of East Hampton, 3.5 miles Light. A ferry operates between here, Plum Island and south of Threemile Harbor. New London. (148) In June 1989, the public pier maintained by the town of East Hampton at the head of the harbor had re- Small-craft facility ported depths of 7 feet at its face and 4 feet on its west (141) A small-craft facility is about 0.1 mile westward of side. the wharf. Berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, wa- ter, ice, and a launching ramp are available. In June
Block Island Sound I Chapter 7 I 277 COLREGS Demarcation Lines A marina and boatyard are in the harbor. A mobile hoist (149) The lines established for Threemile Harbor are de- at the boatyard can haul out craft up to 35 tons; gaso- line, water, ice, diesel fuel, marine supplies, sewage scribed in 80.155, chapter 2. pumpout, berths, guest moorings, storage facilities, and complete engine and hull repairs are available. In Chart 12358 June 1981, a reported depth of 5½ feet could be carried to the marina and boatyard. In August 2003, a danger- (150) Shelter Island Sound and Peconic Bays extend ous rock was reported about 250 yards south of Buoy 10 westward from Gardiners Bay about 22 miles to River- at 41°04'11.5\"N., 72°18'22.5\"W. Care should be taken to head, the head of navigation on Peconic River. They are avoid this hazard. much frequented by yachts and other small craft in the (158) A special anchorage is in Coecles Harbor. (See summer. Fishtraps and oyster stakes are on many of the 110.1 and 110.60(y), chapter 2, for limits and regula- shoals. tions.) (151) A depth of about 26 feet can be carried through the COLREGS Demarcation Lines channel north of Shelter Island and through Little (159) The lines established for Coecles Harbor are de- Peconic Bay as far as Robins Island, and about 13 feet through the channel south of Shelter Island. Across the scribed in 80.155, chapter 2. bar between Little and Great Peconic Bays about 13 feet can be carried. With local knowledge greater depths (160) Extensive flats make off from Ram Head and the can be carried in the channels and across the bar. A shore between it and Hay Beach Point, the northern- depth of about 6 feet can be taken to South Jamesport most point of Shelter Island, which is a low flat with a and Riverhead. clump of scrub at its end and backed by wooded high- land. Long Beach Point is a low spit eastward of Hay Tides and currents Beach Point. A bar with little depth extends southwest- (152) The mean range of tide is about 2.5 feet. The tidal erly from Long Beach Point to the ruins of a former lighthouse of which only the 10-foot concrete founda- currents have considerable velocity wherever the chan- tion remains. A private light marks the ruins. nel is narrowed. The velocity in the narrower places is about 1.8 knots. (161) Shoals with depths of 10 to 12 feet extend 0.5 mile eastward from Long Beach Point. The south and west (153) Ice obstructs navigation in the coves and shallow sides of this shoal have depths of 12 to 15 feet, and rise harbors during January and February. In severe win- abruptly from the channel. The limits of the shoal ters, drift ice is reported to interfere with navigation for south of the point are marked by buoys. The bar has ex- short periods of time. In the south arm of Shelter Is- tended southward enough to be a real danger to small land Sound, the ice is heavy enough at times to destroy craft. structures exposed to it. COLREGS Demarcation Lines (154) Diesel fuel, gasoline, ice, water, marine supplies, (162) The lines established for the Long Island bays are and other provisions can best be obtained at Greenport and Sag Harbor. Several boatyards, shipyards, marine described in 80.155, chapter 2. railways, and enclosed basins with excellent repair fa- cilities are at Greenport. (163) Orient Harbor, about 4 miles northwestward of Ram Head, is an excellent anchorage; the depths range (155) Ram Head is a prominent sandy bluff on the west- from over 20 feet in its southern part to 16 feet at its ern shore of Gardiners Bay. A lower bluff is nearly 1.5 northern end. Orient is a village at the northeast end of miles westward of Ram Head with numerous houses Orient Harbor. At the end of the main wharf the depth along the top. A shoal with 7 to 17 feet over it extends is 8½ feet. The eastern part of Orient Harbor has depths about 2.4 miles southeastward from Ram Head. of 7 to 9 feet. Fish traps are on the shoals. (156) A boulder with 1 foot over it is 230 yards from shore (164) About 0.4 mile northeastward of Cleaves Point, at about 0.3 mile northeastward of the northern point of the southwest end of Orient Harbor, the shore has been the entrance to Coecles Harbor. Other boulders with cut through to a small pond which is used as a private little depth are between this boulder and Ram Head. basin for small craft. The entrance, between two jetties, has a depth of about 3 feet over the bar, with about 6 (157) The entrance to Coecles Harbor is at the south end feet in the basin. Permission is required before anchor- of Ram Head; the channel is marked by private seasonal ing in the basin. Rocks are 0.2 mile south of the en- buoys and a private seasonal light. In April 1996, the re- trance. ported controlling depth in the privately maintained entrance channel was 8 feet. The speed limit is 5 mph.
278 I Chapter 7 I Coast Pilot 2 (165) Hallock Bay makes eastward from Orient Harbor with a reported depth of 4 feet in June 1981 that ex- on the north side of Long Beach Point. A channel, tends from the southwestern entrance point to near marked by uncharted private daybeacons, leads into the disposal area; caution is advised. In April 1989, it the bay. The bay is shallow and dangers and shoaling was reported that about 10 feet could be carried into have been reported. Local knowledge is advised prior to the harbor with local knowledge. Depths of 10 to 14 feet entering. are available in the central part of the harbor, with much lesser depths around the edges. Moorings and (166) Gull Pond is 0.3 mile westward of Cleaves Point at float landings for small craft are in the bight at the the southwest end of Orient Harbor. In July 1981, a re- southwest end of the harbor. Vessels too large to enter ported depth of 4 feet could be carried through the en- can anchor outside the harbor in depths of 14 to 30 feet. trance, with depths of 10 to 15 feet reported in the The speed limit is 5 mph. pond. A State launching ramp is available in the pond. Small-craft facilities (167) Greenport is an important town and the terminus (174) Small-craft facilities, on the west side of the harbor, of a branch of the Long Island Railroad. The white church spires, near the northern end of town, and a can provide berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, wa- tank and TV radio tower in the center of town are prom- ter, ice, marine supplies, sewage pumpout, and hull and inent. outboard engine repairs. A launching ramp is also available. (168) Greenport Harbor is formed on the northeast by a 5-foot-high breakwater, which extends 0.2 mile south- (175) Shelter Island Heights is on the southwestern side eastward from Youngs Point, nearly to the 18-foot of Dering Harbor. curve, and is marked at its outer end by a light. The depths at the wharves range from 5 to 20 feet. The rail- (176) Fanning Point is on the north shore at the south- road wharf on the south side of the waterfront can ac- west end of Greenport. A shoal extends 300 yards off the commodate a vessel up to 100 feet. point and is marked by a seasonal lighted buoy. Four dolphins, part of a former oil facility, are northward of (169) Stirling Basin, on the northeast side of Greenport, the point. Currents of 2 knots, running fair with the is a part of Greenport Harbor. In July 1981, the reported channel, have been reported in the vicinity of Fanning controlling depth was 8 feet in the entrance channel Point. with 10 to 12 feet in the mooring areas. The entrance channel is marked by private seasonal buoys. Two (177) Conkling Point, on the north shore 1 mile south- smaller privately dredged channels with depths of westward of Fanning Point, is low and sandy at the end about 9 feet reported are in the northeastern part of the and has deep water as close as 150 yards. A marina on basin. the southwest side of the point had a reported depth of 5½ feet in the approach in July 1981. Berths, electric- (170) The harbormaster for Greenport Harbor controls ity, gasoline, marine supplies, storage, a launching mooring and berthing in the basin. The speed limit is 5 ramp, and a 30-ton mobile hoist are available. Hull and mph. engine repairs can be made. Small-craft facilities (178) Mill Creek is the entrance to Hashamomuck Pond, (171) Small-craft facilities at Greenport can provide about 1.1 miles westward of Conkling Point. In July 1981, the privately dredged entrance channel into the berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, stor- creek had a controlling depth of 4 feet, thence 3½ feet age, marine supplies, and hull and engine repairs. The was reported in the channel along the northwest shore largest marine railway, at a shipbuilding company at of Mill Creek. The entrance channel is marked by pri- the southeast end of the waterfront, can handle craft up vate seasonal buoys. About 400 yards eastward of the to 500 tons and 15 feet in draft. Mobile hoists to 50 tons creek is a small bight entered through a channel with a are available. A well-equipped machine shop is also in depth of about 4 feet and marked by private seasonal the town. lights and buoys. In May 1992, severe shoaling was re- ported across the entrance. (172) A ferry operates between Greenport and Shelter Is- land. During the summer, bus service is available from (179) Jennings Point, the western end of Shelter Island, Greenport to Orient Point where there is ferry service is high and wooded. Rocks are off the point close-to, to New London. and it should be given a berth of over 150 yards. A lighted buoy is off the point. A gazebo on the point is (173) Dering Harbor, southward of Greenport and at the prominent. northwest end of Shelter Island, is a favorite anchorage for yachts and motorboats. The entrance to the harbor, (180) The town of Southold is at the head of Southold marked by private buoys, is partially constricted by a Bay, which is the bight at the western end of Shelter disposal area in about mid-entrance and shoal area
Block Island Sound I Chapter 7 I 279 Island Sound westward of Jennings Point. For about a (188) A shoal extends 0.3 to 0.4 mile north of the shore of mile northeastward of the entrance jetty, shoals with Cedar Point which is marked by a light. The shoal has 12 feet or less extend nearly 0.4 mile from shore and are boulders, and its edge is marked by buoys. generally steep-to. The southwest part of the bay is shoal for about 0.3 mile from shore. Anchorage can be (189) Shoals with boulders and little water over them in selected east-southeast of the jetty at a distance of from places extend nearly 0.5 mile southeastward from 0.2 to 0.4 mile, in 12 to 18 feet. Nicoll Point. Buoys mark the limit of the channel in (181) A small jettied basin is about 0.5 mile northeast of this area. Southold entrance. The overhead power cable crossing the entrance has a clearance of 31 feet. There are no (190) Northwest Harbor, between Cedar Island Light and public landings in the basin. Barcelona Point, is strewn with boulders covered by 4 (182) In April 1989, the reported controlling depth was to 6 feet. about 3 feet in the privately maintained channels in Town Creek, Jockey Creek, and Goose Creek. The com- (191) Sand Spit, an extensive shoal partly bare at half- mon entrance to Town Creek and Jockey Creek is tide, is between Mashomack Point, the southeastern marked by private seasonal buoys. The highway bridge extremity of Shelter Island, and Sag Harbor. The spit is at the mouth of Goose Creek has a clearance of 9 feet marked by buoys and a light. and the bridge that crosses Jockey Creek has a 45-foot fixed span with a vertical clearance of 6½ feet. (192) A group of rocks locally known as Gull Island, (183) On the shore south of Southold entrance jetty is a showing bare at half-tide, is nearly 0.4 mile northeast- prominent white tower. ward of the breakwater at Sag Harbor. Small-craft facilities (193) Sag Harbor, about 2.5 miles southwestward of the (184) There are several small-craft facilities on the light on Cedar Point, is protected on the northeast by a breakwater marked at the outer end by a light. A spheri- creeks and along the west shore of Southold Bay from cal tank, a radio tower, and several flagpoles are promi- Paradise Point to Conkling Point. Berths, electricity, nent landmarks. gasoline, water, ice, marine supplies, launching ramps, storage, lifts, and cranes are available. Provisions can (194) In entering Sag Harbor, do not round the breakwa- be obtained at Southold. ter too closely, as a depth of about 6 feet is found near its end. Anchor eastward or northeastward of the end of (185) Paradise Point, on the west side of Shelter Island the former ferry wharf, locally known as Long Wharf. A Sound, is low and wooded, and from the point a sloping 5 mph speed limit is enforced. sandspit extends about 0.3 mile eastward and is marked by a lighted buoy. Southward of Paradise Point, shoals (195) In July 1974, the dredged channel into Sag Harbor with depths of 10 to 15 feet extend from the west shore had a controlling depth of 8 feet (10 feet at midchannel) to midsound; the southeast point of the shoals is through the entrance to the turning basin, 9 feet in the marked by a buoy. turning basin, 5 feet in the southerly anchorage area, and 7 feet in the main anchorage area. In 1991, the (186) The channel south of Shelter Island has numerous channel was no longer being maintained. The channel shoals, but is easily followed by vessels of 13 feet or less to Sag Harbor Cove is about 8 feet deep; this channel draft when the buoys can be seen. The channel is used and the cove are marked by private seasonal lights and by vessels going to Sag Harbor. Vessels operating be- buoys. A fixed bridge at the entrance has a clearance of tween Greenport and Sag Harbor prefer the inside 21 feet. Berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, stor- route around the western end of Shelter Island. The age, marine supplies, water, ice, launching ramps, and tidal current in the channel between Shelter Island and complete engine, hull, rigging, and sail repairs are North Haven Peninsula has a velocity of about 2.4 available at Sag Harbor; a 30-ton mobile hoist, near the knots. The approach from Gardiners Bay is across a inner end of the breakwater, can haul out craft up to shoal or bar which extends in a southeasterly direction about 60 feet. from Ram Head to the south shore, the depths on which vary from 7 to 11 feet about 1.6 miles from Ram (196) Smith Cove, a small bight on the south side of Head, and thence 13 to 17 feet to the buoys which mark Shelter Island, is a good anchorage for small craft in the entrance. northerly weather. Depths range from 11 to 30 feet. A marina on the west side of the cove can provide moor- (187) Dangerous Rock, awash at low water in surround- ings, limited berths, gasoline, electricity, water, and ing depths of about 12 feet, is 0.2 mile south of the some marine supplies. In June 1981, a depth of 6 feet channel. was reported alongside the pier at the marina. A ferry operates between South Ferry on the southwest side of the cove to North Haven Peninsula. (197) West Neck Harbor and West Neck Bay are shallow bodies of water on the southwest side of Shelter Island. In June 1989, it was reported that a depth of 2 feet could
280 I Chapter 7 I Coast Pilot 2 be carried over the bar and into the harbor from Shel- Corey Creek had a controlling depth of 4 feet. In 1964, ter Island Sound. The entrance is close eastward of the controlling depths in the small-boat channels inside seaward end of a peninsula, marked by a private lighted Corey Creek were 5½ to 6 feet. The entrance channel is buoy, that separates the harbor from the sound, and the marked by private buoys. channel follows along the north side of this peninsula. (206) Little Peconic Bay is about 5 miles long. The The channel is marked by private buoys. The harbor southerly shore of the bay is clear if given a berth of 0.4 has numerous private landings. A boatyard with a ma- mile, but shoals extend 0.6 mile from the south end of rine railway can handle craft up to 40 feet for hull and the bay. engine repairs. Berths, gasoline, water, ice, a launching (207) An aquaculture site, marked by private seasonal ramp, and some marine supplies are available. buoys, is at the south end of Little Peconic Bay about 1 mile north-northwest of the entrance to North Sea Anchorage Harbor. (198) A special anchorage is in West Neck Harbor. (See (208) A prominent sandy bluff, known locally as Holmes Hill, is just west of the entrance to North Sea Harbor. 110.1 and 110.60 (y-1), chapter 2, for limits and regu- In 2002, the reported controlling depth through the lations.) dredged channel and into the harbor was 7 feet. The channel is marked by private seasonal buoys and by a (199) Noyack (Noyac) Bay is between North Haven Pen- private seasonal light at the entrance. This is an excel- insula and Jessup Neck and southward of the western lent harbor of refuge for small craft with drafts not ex- end of Shelter Island. No dangers will be encountered if ceeding 3½ feet. The bottom is soft with good holding the shores are given a berth of 0.4 mile. ground. (209) A marina in the harbor has gasoline, ice, water, (200) Mill Creek, in the southern part of Noyack Bay, is some marine supplies, and a lift that can handle craft to entered through a privately dredged channel that leads 10 tons; hull and engine repairs can be made. to a basin. The channel is marked by private seasonal (210) Wooley Pond, 1 mile northeastward of North Sea lights and buoys. In 1991, the reported controlling Harbor, is entered through a dredged channel which, in depth was 8 feet in the channel; thence in 1981, 6 feet 2000, had a reported depth of 8 feet. The channel is in the basin. A clubhouse on the west side of the en- marked by private seasonal buoys and by a private sea- trance is prominent. sonal light on the north side of the entrance. (211) A marina in the pond can provide berths, electric- Small-craft facilities ity, gasoline, water, ice, storage, marine supplies, and (201) Small-craft facilities in the creek can provide hull and engine repairs; a 45-foot marine railway and a 12-ton forklift are available. In June 1981, depths of 5 to berths, electricity, gasoline, water, ice, storage, a 6 feet were reported available at the marina. launching ramp, marine supplies, and hull and engine (212) Nassau Point, the long neck on the northwest side repairs; a 25-ton mobile hoist is available. of Little Peconic Bay, has high bluffs on the eastern side. A shoal with little depth over it extends 0.5 mile (202) Jessup Neck is a long narrow strip, partly high and southward from Nassau Point and is marked by a wooded, separating Noyack Bay from Little Peconic lighted buoy. Bay. The north end of the neck is a sandspit from which (213) Cutchogue Harbor, between Nassau Point and New a shoal with 4 to 12 feet over it extends nearly 0.4 mile Suffolk, is used by local boats drawing 6 to 10 feet. On north-northwestward. A lighted buoy marks the outer the east shore of the harbor, northwestward of Nassau end of the shoal area. Point, three channels leading into the ponds have been dredged by private interests. At the middle of the three (203) A shoal with depths of 5 to 7 feet extends 1.5 miles channels, 0.9 mile northwest of the extremity of southwestward from Great Hog Neck, on the north- Nassau Point, are several private wharves. The channel west side at the entrance to Little Peconic Bay; this leads between two jetties, and a depth of about 3 feet shoal is marked by a seasonal lighted buoy. can be carried into the pond and 1 foot to some of the wharves. (204) Heavy tide rips occur southeast of Great Hog Neck (214) Haywater Cove, Broadwater Cove, Mud Creek, and during the flood with a southwesterly wind. At such East Creek, used by local interests and sharing a com- times, small craft can avoid the worst of them by favor- mon entrance, are at the head of Cutchogue Harbor. ing the shore on the northwest side of the passage. The entrance channel and the channels through these waterways have been privately dredged. In August (205) Richmond Creek and Corey Creek are at the head of Hog Neck Bay. A depth of about 7 feet can be taken in the privately dredged channel leading to a basin in Richmond Creek; the channel is marked by private sea- sonal buoys. In August 1999, the dredged channel lead- ing into and connecting with small boat channels in
Block Island Sound I Chapter 7 I 281 1999, a reported depth of 6 feet was available in the en- Island, is awash at low water. It is marked by a buoy. trance channel; thence in 1966, 6 feet in East Creek and Caution is recommended in this vicinity. 7 feet in Haywater Cove and Broadwater Cove; thence (224) Sebonac Creek, on the southeast side of Great in 1976, 6 feet in Mud Creek. Shoaling is reported to oc- Peconic Bay, is used extensively by yachts, and serves as cur in these areas; caution is advised. a yacht harbor for the town of Southampton. A pri- (215) A depth of 8 feet can be taken within 100 feet of the vately dredged channel, marked by private seasonal wharves at New Suffolk by passing eastward and about lights and buoys, leads into the creek and had a re- 200 yards northward of the buoy westward of Nassau ported controlling depth of 8 feet in June 1981. The Point and steering westward for the wharves. A small landings are at West Neck, a small settlement north- basin, with a depth of about 8 feet reported in 1981, is eastward of Ram Island in Bullhead Bay. An obstruc- northward of the wharf. In July 1981, shoaling to 2 feet tion buoy is locally maintained during the summer to was reported in the southern part of Cutchogue Har- mark a rock, covered 1½ feet, about 100 feet westward bor, about 0.4 mile east of New Suffolk. of the town landing. In June 1981, a reported depth of 5 (216) A larger basin at the north end of New Suffolk, lo- feet could be carried to the town landing. A 5 mph cally known as School House Creek, extends to the speed limit is enforced. highway. The entrance channel is protected by a short (225) Cold Spring Pond, about 1.6 miles southwestward rock jetty, covered at high water, on the south. The of Sebonac Creek and 1.1 miles eastward of Shinnecock depth to the boatyard at the head of the basin was re- Canal entrance, is entered through a privately dredged ported to be about 4 feet in June 1981. Berths, gasoline, channel which had a reported depth of 6 feet in 2001. In storage, marine supplies, hull and engine repairs, and a May 1992, severe shoaling was reported in the en- 30-ton mobile hoist are available at the boatyard. trance. The entrance channel to the pond is marked by (217) Wickham Creek, locally known as Boatmens Har- a private seasonal light and buoy. An overhead power bor, 0.7 mile north of New Suffolk, is entered through a cable at the entrance to the pond has a clearance of 34 privately dredged entrance channel with a reported feet. controlling depth of 8 feet in 2002. The channel is (226) James Creek, on the north shore of Great Peconic marked by private seasonal buoys and bush stakes. Gas- Bay opposite the entrance to Shinnecock Canal, is en- oline, water, ice, storage, a launching ramp, and some tered through a privately dredged channel that had a marine supplies are available in the basin. A flatbed reported controlling depth of 6 feet in 1999. The en- trailer can haul out craft to 32 feet. trance is marked by private seasonal buoys. Small-craft (218) In southeast gales, local craft of less than 6-foot facilities on the creek can provide berths, gasoline, draft seek shelter in the small cove, locally known as storage, launching ramps, and hull and engine repairs. Horseshoe Cove, in the northeast part of Cutchogue A flatbed trailer can haul out craft to 30 feet. Harbor. (227) South Jamesport is a village on Miamogue Point, (219) The through channel in North Race, northward of 3.4 miles southwestward of James Creek. Local knowl- Robins Island, is marked and used only by light-draft edge is necessary to avoid the shoals in this area, and boats. South Race, the channel southward of Robins Is- strangers should take soundings frequently to keep in land, has a controlling depth of about 13 feet and is the best water. marked by buoys. (220) An aquaculture site, marked by private buoys, is 0.6 Small-craft facility mile southwest of the south end of Robins Island. (228) A small-craft facility at South Jamesport can pro- (221) Tide rips occur between the mainland and the south end of Robins Island when the tidal current sets vide berths, electricity, gasoline, water, ice, launching against the wind. ramps, storage, marine supplies, and hull and engine (222) Great Peconic Bay, about 5 miles in diameter, is repairs; a 25-ton mobile hoist is available. In 1999, a re- used mostly by local motorboats from Shinnecock Ca- ported depth of 6 feet could be taken to the facility. The nal and by yachts. The bay is generally clear, but exten- town has railroad passenger and bus service. sive shoals make off from the shores, except on its south side. Shinnecock Canal, the entrance from the (229) Peconic River empties into the western end of south, is described in chapter 10. Flanders Bay, about 1.5 miles westward of South (223) Rodgers Rock, about 1.3 miles west-southwest- Jamesport. The river is entered through a dredged ward of Cow Neck and about 1.2 miles south-southwest channel marked by private seasonal lights that leads of Robins Island, has a depth of 6 feet over it and is from Flanders Bay to the head of navigation at River- marked on the northeast side by a buoy. Robins Island head, about 2.4 miles above the channel entrance. The Rock, 0.8 mile westward of the south end of Robins dredged channel is approached from deep water in Great Peconic Bay through a marked channel. In
282 I Chapter 7 I Coast Pilot 2 March 2001, the controlling depth was 4.3 feet (5.7 feet (235) In Sugar Reef and Catumb Passages the tidal cur- at midchannel) in the dredged channel. A fixed high- rents set obliquely across the axis of the channel. The way bridge with a clearance of 25 feet crosses the river flood sets northwestward and the ebb southeastward. about 0.9 mile above the mouth. The tidal currents in Sugar Reef Passage are about the (230) Flanders Bay is the scene of considerable small same velocity as in Watch Hill Passage, but are stronger boat activity. A yacht club is at Riverhead; limited in Catumb Passage. berths, electricity, and water are available. (231) Meetinghouse Creek, Terrys Creek, and Reeves (236) In Lords Passage the tidal currents set diagonally Creek, which empty into the northwestern part of across the channel and have a velocity of nearly 2 knots, Flanders Bay, are entered through privately dredged the ebb being greater than the flood. channels. In June 1981, the channels had reported con- trolling depths of 5 feet. The entrance channel leading (237) In the main channel of Fishers Island Sound, the to, and connecting with, Terrys Creek and Meeting- flood sets westward and the ebb eastward. In the main house Creek is marked by private seasonal buoys and a channel between Napatree Point and Wicopesset Is- private seasonal light. A marina is on Meetinghouse land, the velocity of flood is 1.7 knots and ebb 2.2 knots. Creek. Berths, electricity, gasoline, water, ice, a 5-ton The flood sets 284° and the ebb 113°. forklift, 30-ton mobile hoist, launching ramp, storage facilities, and hull and engine repairs are available. In (238) In the channel south of Ram Island Reef, the veloci- June 1981, a reported depth of 7 feet was available at ties of flood and ebb are 1.3 and 1.6 knots, respectively. the marina. The flood sets 255° and the ebb 088°. The direction and (232) Reeves Bay, on the southwest side of Flanders Bay, velocity of the current are affected by strong winds that is entered through a privately dredged channel that may change the duration of flood or ebb. leads to the town of Flanders on the south side of the bay. In August 1999, the channel had a reported con- (239) The strong tidal currents prevent the formation of trolling depth of 2 feet. Other dredged channels lead heavy local ice, except in shoal tributaries. The only ice from the entrance channel into several arms of the bay. to give trouble is that set in from Long Island Sound by A boatyard at Flanders has gasoline, storage facilities, wind and current. The ice formations in Little marine supplies, and a 10-ton marine railway; hull and Narragansett Bay are sufficiently heavy to be destruc- engine repairs can be made. tive to structures exposed to them. Chart 13214 (240) On the south side of Fishers Island Sound, off the north side of East Point on Fishers Island, are Seal (233) Fishers Island Sound extends between the main- Rocks, partly bare at low water and marked by a buoy. A land of Connecticut and Fishers Island, and forms one rocky patch covered 11 feet and marked by a buoy is of the entrances into Long Island Sound that is used to about 500 yards northeastward of Seal Rocks. Youngs some extent by light tows and other vessels up to Rock, about 0.4 mile westward of Seal Rocks, has about 14-foot draft. The sound has numerous shoals and lob- 1 foot over it and is marked by a buoy. A rocky patch ex- ster trap buoys, and the entire area is exceedingly tends about 400 yards to the east-northeastward. treacherous, characterized by boulder patches that rise abruptly from deep water. Vessels should follow the (241) East Harbor and Chocomount Cove, in the north deeper channels between the shoals and proceed with shore of Fishers Island, are sometimes used as anchor- caution if obliged to cross shoal areas. In general, all ages by small craft. There is considerable foul ground shoal spots or abrupt changes of depth are indications in East Harbor and in the approach to Chocomount of boulders and should be avoided as anchorages. Cove. The harbor and cove are exposed to northerly winds. A former Coast Guard Station with a boathouse Tides and currents and dock is prominent near the south side of East Har- (234) In Watch Hill Passage the tidal currents are strong bor. Several small private piers with about 6 feet at their ends are in East Harbor. and necessitate caution in navigating. Buoys may be towed under. The flood current sets nearly in the direc- (242) The north shore of Fishers Island from East Harbor tion of the channel, but has a tendency to northward around into West Harbor has several private landings. and the ebb a tendency to southward. The northerly and southerly set is more marked between Napatree (243) East Clump is a cluster of rocks partly bare at high Point and Latimer Reef Light. water and marked by a buoy about 0.8 mile north of Fishers Island. From East Clump for some 2.8 miles westward to North Dumpling, there are rocky islets and dangers which must be avoided. These are 0.5 to 0.8 mile off the Fishers Island shore, and most are buoyed. North Dumpling, an islet marked by a light and fog sig- nal, is surrounded by rocks awash and foul ground. Seaflower Reef, marked by a light, is near the middle of
Block Island Sound I Chapter 7 I 283 the western entrance of Fishers Island Sound and 0.8 (251) The west side of Napatree Point should not be ap- mile northwestward of North Dumpling Light. proached closer than 175 yards to avoid a stone jetty (244) West Harbor, on the north side of Fishers Island which is covered at high water. Between Napatree Point southeastward of North Dumpling Light, affords shel- and the Stonington outer breakwater is an extensive ter from southerly winds. In April-May 2002, the flat on which the depths are 3 to 10 feet, rocky bottom. dredged channel leading into the harbor along the west Middle Ground, the western part of the flat, is marked shore had a controlling depth of 10.2 feet. Foul ground by the outer breakwater, which has a light at its western extends across the entrance of West Harbor to near the end. A fog signal is at the light. eastern edge of the dredged channel; the northern lim- its of the foul ground are buoyed. (252) A depth of 17 feet can be taken to an anchorage in- (245) A yacht club wharf and another small-craft facility side this breakwater, giving the light on the breakwater are on the southwest side of the harbor. Gasoline, diesel a berth of more than 250 yards. In anchoring, give the fuel, water, ice, and hull and engine repairs are avail- inside of the breakwater a berth of over 300 yards to able. A marine railway can handle craft up to 40 feet. avoid shoals and fishweirs. This anchorage provides The head of the harbor is used by boats drawing less good shelter except in southwesterly and westerly than 5 feet which enter by the narrow unmarked chan- winds, although it is seldom used. nel southward of Goose Island. (246) Hay Harbor, at the west end of Fishers Island, is (253) Little Narragansett Bay, at the eastern end of used by small craft. Fishers Island Sound, is entered at its extreme western (247) Silver Eel Cove (Silver Eel Pond) is on the west end southward of Stonington Point. The channel, with side of Fishers Island, 0.6 mile northeastward of Race dredged sections, extends generally southeasterly Point. The entrance, about 75 feet wide and jettied, is across the bay into Pawcatuck River to Westerly. In July marked by a private light and has a depth of about 11 2002, the controlling depth was 8.4 feet from the en- feet, with similar depths inside. Submerged fender pil- trance to a point just southwest of Little Narragansett ings are reported on both sides of the entrance. Dol- Bay Entrance Lighted Buoy 5 where the channel has phins are on the northeast side of the cove, and the been encroached upon by the shoaling off Sand Point. channel is clear between them and the wharves on the Deep water is available, with local knowledge, north of southwest side. Vessels must go to the wharves as there the channel opposite the shoal. The channel continues is no room for anchorage. There is very little dockage eastward of Little Narragansett Bay Entrance Lighted available. The entrance is difficult with northwesterly Buoy 5 to Little Narragansett Bay Entrance Buoy 9 with or westerly winds. A lighted whistle buoy is about 450 a controlling depth of 5.7 feet, thence 7.1 feet to the en- yards off the entrance. A ferry which operates between trance of Pawcatuck River. Fishers Island and New London lands here. During the summer, a Coast Guard unit is stationed inside the en- (254) Caution should be exercised in entering Little trance to the cove. Narragansett Bay. Shoal water extends for about 200 (248) On the north side of Fishers Island Sound are: Lit- yards off Stonington Point, and the shoal area north of tle Narragansett Bay, and Pawcatuck River leading to Sandy Point is subject to continual change. Strangers the towns of Westerly and Pawcatuck; Stonington Har- are advised to obtain local information before entering bor and the town of Stonington; and Mystic Harbor because of rocks and shoal water near the edges of the leading to the towns of Noank and Mystic. channel. (249) Napatree Beach, 1.3 miles long between Watch Hill Point and Napatree Point, is bare. Sandy Point, about Tides and currents 1.4 miles north-northwestward of Napatree Point, is at (255) In the dredged channel northward of Sandy Point, the northwestern end of a long and narrow sand island in Little Narragansett Bay. An extensive sandspit makes the currents have a velocity of 1.3 knots. The flood sets off from the northeasterly and southwesterly sides of eastward and the ebb westward. (See the Tidal Current the island; give these areas a good berth. The island is Tables for predictions and Tidal Current Charts, Block subject to continual change; caution is advised. Island Sound and Eastern Long Island Sound, for (250) Napatree Point Ledge, a boulder reef with little hourly velocities and directions.) depth, extends nearly 0.4 mile southward of the point. It is marked by a lighted bell buoy. A sunken wreck is (256) Watch Hill Cove, in the southeastern part of Little about 0.3 mile eastward of the ledge in about 41°18'N., Narragansett Bay, is used by small craft. In August 71°53'W. 1996, the buoyed dredged channel leading to the cove had a controlling depth of 6 feet (9 feet at midchannel) Depths of 6 to 10 feet are inside the cove and at the wharves.
284 I Chapter 7 I Coast Pilot 2 Courtesy of U.S. Power Squadron, District 1 Anchorage Ice (257) A special anchorage is in the cove. (See 110.1 and (261) The river is generally closed by ice from January to 110.47, chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) March. (258) A yacht club and town dock are in Watch Hill Cove; (262) Colonel Willie Cove, 0.5 mile above Pawcatuck berths, guest moorings, electricity, diesel fuel, and wa- Point, has a boatyard with a marine railway that can ter are available. In July 1981, a depth of 10 feet was re- handle craft up to 50 feet for hull and engine repairs. ported at the face of the town dock. Berths with electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, storage facilities, a pump-out station, marine supplies, (259) Pawcatuck River, entered just south of Pawcatuck and a 30-ton lift are also available. Mariners enroute to Point, extends about 4 miles to Westerly. In 1997, the the boatyard should use the chart as a guide. controlling depth was 3.9 feet (6.4 feet at midchannel) from the entrance channel to Pawcatuck River Channel Anchorage Buoy 17 (41°20'48\"N., 71°49'48\"W.), thence 3.9 feet (263) A special anchorage is in Thompson Cove, 2 miles (5.1 feet at midchannel) for about 1.6 miles to a point about 41°22'12\"N., 71°49'55\"W., thence 3.3 feet at above Pawcatuck Point. (See 110.1 and 110.48, chap- midchannel to Westerly. The channel is well-marked. ter 2, for limits and regulations.) A yacht club pier is in the cove. Private seasonal buoys mark the approach to Tides and currents the pier. (260) About 1 mile above the entrance to Pawcatuck (264) Westerly, 4 miles above Pawcatuck Point, is an im- River the tidal current has a velocity of 0.6 knot on the portant manufacturing town. flood, and 0.5 knot on the ebb. Small-craft facilities (265) There are numerous small-craft facilities along both sides of the Pawcatuck River and at the head at
Block Island Sound I Chapter 7 I 285 Westerly and Pawcatuck, just across the river. The larg- (272) The inner breakwater, about 400 yards northward est marine railway in the area is at Avondale and it can of Stonington Point on the east side of the entrance, ex- handle craft to 55 feet. Berths, electricity, gasoline, die- tends westward about 250 yards and is marked by a sel fuel, water, ice, storage facilities, launching ramps, light. lifts, some repairs and marine supplies are available. Depths of 7 to 9 feet are reported at the town dock at (273) Stonington is on the east side of the harbor. Traffic Pawcatuck. is mostly fishing and recreational craft. The wharves have depths of 7 to 12 feet alongside. Following south- (266) Wequetequock Cove is a shallow cove at the north- erly weather, a surge is felt by vessels tied to the south- ern end of Little Narrangansett Bay. A narrow un- ern side of the seaward pier. marked channel leads eastward of Elihu Island into the cove. A depth of about 4 feet can be taken as far as Goat (274) A boatyard is in the northeast part of the harbor. Island, about a mile above Sandy Point. A fixed railroad Berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, stor- bridge with a clearance of 6 feet crosses the cove about age, 40-ton lift, marine supplies, and hull, engine, and 0.2 mile above Goat Island. A small-craft facility is on electronic repairs are available. In July 1981, a reported the west side of the cove near the head. Water, ice, depth of 7 feet could be carried to the yard. berths, gasoline, storage facilities, launching ramp, 4-ton forklift, marine supplies, and hull and engine re- (275) A harbormaster is at Stonington. pairs are available. In July 1981, a reported depth of 2 (276) A railroad causeway, with two fixed spans each hav- feet could be carried to the facility. ing a clearance of 4 feet, crosses Stonington Harbor 0.4 (267) Stonington Harbor, 3 miles northwestward of Watch mile above Stonington. Overhead power cables at the Hill Point, is protected by breakwaters on each side. openings have clearances of 41 feet. Each of the breakwaters is marked at its seaward end by (277) Noyes Rock, 0.4 mile southward of Wamphassuc a light. The controlling depth to the inner harbor is Point, has a least depth of 7 feet. Noyes Shoal, with 10 about 11 feet. Anchorage can be selected inside the to 18 feet over it, is nearly 1.5 miles long in a west breakwater in depths of 15 to 18 feet, taking care west-northwesterly direction; it is marked by a bell to keep the south end of Wamphassuc Point bearing buoy near its eastern end. northward of 270°. Vessels drawing up to 8 feet can find anchorage in the inner harbor. A rock that bares at low No-Discharge Zone water is about 50 yards southward of the fishing wharf (278) The State of Connecticut, with the approval of the and is marked by a private buoy. Environmental Protection Agency, has established a Anchorages No-Discharge Zone (NDZ) in the Connecticut portion (268) Special anchorages are in Stonington Harbor. (See of the Pawcatuck River, Little Narragansett Bay, por- tions of Fishers Island Sound and Stonington Harbor. 110.1 and 110.50, chapter 2, for limits and regula- The area covered extends from Wamphassuc Point due tions.) south past Noyes Shoal to the boundary between Con- necticut and New York, easterly following the state (269) Stonington Harbor is approached from southeast- boundary to the intersection of the Connecticut, New ward and westward. Vessels with local knowledge York and Rhode Island State lines, and following the sometimes cross Noyes Shoal from southwestward. boundary between Connecticut and Rhode Island to The southeastern approach is best, with fewer dangers, U.S. Route 1 over the Pawcatuck River and including all and the navigational aids serve as excellent guides to Connecticut waters seaward of U.S. Route 1 (see chart avoid them. In daytime with clear weather, no difficulty 13214 for limits). should be experienced in entering any of the ap- (279) Within the NDZ, discharge of sewage, whether proaches. treated or untreated, from all vessels is prohibited. Outside the NDZ, discharge of sewage is regulated by (270) From southeastward, the course from south of 40 CFR 140 (see chapter 2). Napatree Point Ledge should be west-northwestward until off the buoy at the southwest end of Middle (280) Latimer Reef, about 0.6 mile south of Noyes Shoal, Ground, from which a northerly course can be shaped is a very broken and rocky area 0.4 mile long. It is past the breakwater lights and into the harbor. marked by a light at its west end and a buoy at its east end. The eastern end of the reef has a least found depth (271) From southwestward, a northeasterly course can of 6 feet. be shaped from the lighted bell buoy south of Ram Is- land Reef to south of White Rock, and thence eastward (281) Latimer Reef Light (41°18'18\"N., 71°56'00\"W.), 55 past the north side of Noyes Rock to the harbor. feet above the water, is shown from a white conical tower, brown midway of its height, on a brown cylindri- cal foundation. A fog signal is at the light.
286 I Chapter 7 I Coast Pilot 2 (282) A detached 11-foot spot, marked by a buoy, is about be avoided. Mouse Island, marked by several dwellings, 0.4 mile northeast of Latimer Reef Light. is 150 yards southwestward of Morgan Point. (290) In November 1983, a rock, covered about 2 feet, (283) Eel Grass Ground, about 0.8 mile northwestward was reported 0.2 mile west of Mouse Island in about of Latimer Reef Light, is a shoal with a least depth of 6 41°18'52\"N., 71°59'50\"W. feet, marked by buoys. White Rock, about 0.8 mile (291) Morgan Point, on the west side at the entrance of northeastward of Eel Grass Ground, is bare and promi- Mystic Harbor, is marked by an abandoned light tower. nent. Red Reef, covered 2 feet, is 0.2 mile north of A privately maintained and marked channel leading to White Rock and marked by a buoy. Ellis Reef, 0.4 mile the piers in West Cove at Noank westward of the point northwestward of Eel Grass Ground, is marked on its had a least depth of 4 feet reported in July 1981. east side by a daybeacon. (292) Groton Long Point, on which is a summer settle- ment, is about 0.9 mile southwestward of Morgan (284) Mason Island, 2.5 miles west of Stonington Har- Point. A reef extends nearly 300 yards southwestward bor, is joined to the mainland by a fixed bridge with an from the point and is marked by a buoy. About 0.3 mile 18-foot span and a clearance of 3 feet; the sound end of to the west a rock awash at low water is 175 yards off the the island is strewn with boulders. A special anchorage southwest end of Groton Long Point. It is marked by a is on the east side of Mason Island. (See 110.1 and buoy. 110.50a, chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) An an- (293) Mystic Harbor, about 6 miles westward of Watch chorage for small craft is on the west side of the south Hill Point, is the approach to the towns of Noank and end of Mason Island where depths range from 8 to 11 Mystic. A dredged channel leads from Fishers Island feet; caution and local knowledge are required to use Sound through Mystic Harbor and into Mystic River to this anchorage because of the boulders in the area. A Mystic Seaport Museum Wharf, about 0.6 mile above dangerous rock is off the east side of Mason Point, the the bascule bridge. An anchorage basin is on the east southern extremity of Mason Island, in 41°19'21.6\"N., side of the river opposite Willow Point. In October 71°58'05.0\"W. 2002,the controlling depth was 8.3 feet to the head of the project; the anchorage basin had depths of 5.9 to (285) Enders Island, 0.3 mile eastward of the southern 9.0 feet with lesser depths along the east edge. end of Mason Island, is connected to it by a fixed bridge with a 15-foot span and a clearance of 6 feet. Anchorages (294) Special anchorages are in Mystic Harbor. (See (286) Ram Island Reef, 1.8 miles westward of Latimer Reef Light, has two detached parts: the southerly sec- 110.1, 110.50b, and 110.50d, chapter 2, for limits tion is covered 8 feet and marked by a lighted bell buoy, and regulations.) and the northerly section, covered by 6 feet, is marked by a daybeacon. Passage between the reef and island is Routes unsafe because of shoals. (295) To enter from eastward, lay a west-northwesterly (287) Ram Island, about 0.4 mile southwest of Mason Is- course from south of the lighted bell buoy marking land, is wooded and grass-fringed. A shoal, on which Napatree Point Ledge for a little over 3 miles to about are two rocky islets, extends about 0.2 mile northeast- 400 yards south of the buoy marking the south end of ward from Ram Island. Ram Island Shoal, extending Cormorant Reef. From here steer 261° for 0.8 mile nearly 0.5 mile westward from Ram Island, has little until Mason Point is abeam. Then follow the buoyed water over it and many rocks bare at low water. channel. Whaleback Rock and the islet 300 yards northwestward (296) From westward, proceed cautiously from about of it are bare. 100 yards or more southward of the buoy southward of Groton Long Point on an easterly course for about 0.5 (288) The narrow but deep channel along the north side mile to Mystic Harbor Channel Buoy 1, then steer a of Ram Island Shoal is the easterly entrance to Mystic northerly course through the buoyed channel into Harbor. Between the shoal and Groton Long Point is an Mystic Harbor, rounding Noank Light 5 at a distance of area of foul ground and several dangerous rocks, in- about 75 yards. cluding Whale Rock, which bares at low water, at the northwesterly end of Ram Island Shoal. This rock is (297) Noank is a town on the west side of the channel marked by a seasonal lighted buoy. Leading across the through Mystic Harbor. The mean range of the tide is shoal is the buoyed channel, good for about 11 feet, about 2.3 feet. There are several small-craft facilities at which is used by vessels entering Mystic Harbor from Noank and in West Cove. Berths, electricity, gasoline, westward. diesel fuel, water, ice, storage facilities, launching (289) A rock covered 6 feet is about 0.5 mile SW of Whale Rock; about 0.65 mile SW of that rock is Intrepid Rock, with 13 feet over it and marked by a buoy, which should
Block Island Sound I Chapter 7 I 287 Courtesy of U.S. Power Squadron, District 1. ramps, a pump-out station, 30- and 60-ton lifts, and Small-craft facilities marine supplies are available; hull, engine, sail, and (301) Several small-craft facilities are on the northern electronic repairs can be made. A harbormaster is at Noank. end of Mason Island. Berths with electricity, gasoline, (298) Mystic River flows into Mystic Harbor from north- diesel fuel, water, ice, storage facilities, marine sup- ward just below Mystic. The river is used by recre- plies, a pump-out station, 35-ton lift, and hull and en- ational craft, the local fishing fleet, and by transient gine repairs are available. In 1993, a reported depth of 4 craft visiting Mystic Seaport. An anchorage area with feet could be carried to the facilities. depths of 3½ to 7 feet is in the lower part of the river be- tween Willow Point and Murphy Point. Ice usually (302) The Amtrak railroad bridge over Mystic River be- closes the river during January and February. low Mystic has a swing span with a clearance of 8 feet. (299) Willow Point, 0.6 mile below Mystic, has several The U.S. Route 1 highway bridge at Mystic has a bas- small-craft facilities that can provide berths, electric- cule span with a clearance of 4 feet. (See 117.1 through ity, water, ice, some engine parts, and marine supplies. 117.59 and 117.211, chapter 2, for drawbridge regu- A 12-ton crane and 30-ton mobile hoist are available; lations.) The bridgetenders monitor VHF-FM channel hull and engine repairs can be made. 13; call signs KJA–842 and KXR–912, respectively. (300) A channel, privately marked by daybeacons, leads from the vicinity of Willow Point for 0.3 mile in an east- (303) Mystic, a town about 2 miles above Noank, has sev- erly direction, thence about 0.4 mile northeastward to eral small-craft facilities. Berths, electricity, gasoline, a marina on the west side of the mouth of Pequotsepos diesel fuel, water, ice, marine supplies, storage facili- Brook, just below the Amtrak railroad bridge. Berths, ties, mobile hoists, a 60-ton lift, and marine railways up electricity, water, ice, storage, marine supplies, a to 110 feet are available; hull and engine repairs can be 12-ton mobile hoist, and hull and engine repairs are made. available. In July 1981, a reported depth of 4 feet could be carried in the channel to the marina. (304) A harbormaster is at Mystic. (305) The Mystic Seaport Museum is about 0.6 mile above the highway bridge at Mystic. The whaler CHARLES W. MORGAN, full-rigged training ship
288 I Chapter 7 I Coast Pilot 2 JOSEPH CONRAD, and Grand Banks fishing schooner a buoy. Broken and rocky grounds extend from the reef L. A. DUNTON are permanently moored at the museum to the shore eastward of Mumford Point. and open to the public. Along the waterfront of the mu- (311) Vixen Ledge, with a depth of 10 feet and marked by seum property, a mid-19th Century coastal village has a buoy, is about 1 mile west of Horseshoe Reef. Pine Is- been recreated with shops and lofts of that period. Col- land is bluff and grassy, about 1.3 miles west of lections of maritime relics are on exhibit in several for- Mumford Point. It is surrounded by shoal water and mal museum buildings. rocky bottom, and is marked off the southwest side by a (306) Above the Mystic Seaport Museum, the channel is lighted bell buoy. A rock, covered 7 feet, in 41°18'35\"N., very narrow and is marked by privately maintained sea- 72°03'17\"W., is about 0.3 mile northwestward of Vixen sonal buoys; boats of about 5-foot drafts can be taken to Ledge. the Narrows, and thence depths are 1 and 2 feet to Old Mystic. Twin fixed highway bridges crossing the Nar- Anchorage rows have clearances of 25 feet. The stream follows the (312) A special anchorage is on the north side of Pine Is- east bank to the next narrows and the west bank to a marina in the bight about 0.3 mile below Old Mystic. land. (See 110.1 and 110.51, chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) Charts 13213, 13212, 13214 (313) The cove indenting the mainland northward of Pine Island and eastward of Avery Point, is entered be- (307) Mumford Cove is entered about 2 miles west of tween Avery Point and westward of Pine Island. The en- Mystic Harbor. A privately dredged channel leads trance to the cove is marked by two buoys just inside northward from the entrance to the head of the cove; and eastward of Avery Point. Depths shoal from about two spur channels lead eastward from the main chan- 10 feet in the entrance to about 1 foot at the head of the nel, about 0.3 mile and 0.6 mile, respectively, above the cove. A breakwater, marked at its end by a private light, entrance. The channels are marked by private seasonal extends southeasterly from the east end of Avery Point. buoys and daybeacons. In July 1981, the channels had a A yacht club, marina, and State launching ramp are in reported controlling depth of 2 feet. the cove. An unmarked rock awash is about 500 yards 060° from the former lighthouse tower at Avery Point. Anchorages Berths, guest moorings, gasoline, electricity, water, ice, (308) Special anchorages are in the cove. (See 110.1 and marine supplies, and a 14-ton mobile hoist are avail- able at the marina; hull and engine repairs can be 110.50c, chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) made. In March 2000, a reported depth of 7½ feet could be carried to the marina. (309) Venetian Harbor is a yacht basin on the east side of the entrance to Mumford Cove. A channel 75 feet wide (314) Special purpose buoys maintained by the City of leads through stone breakwaters into a basin with Groton show a speed limit of 5 m.p.h. in the area. depths of about 3 to 7 feet. A submerged jetty extends along the channel from the outer end of the east break- Anchorage water. The entrance to the harbor is marked by a light (315) A special anchorage is in the cove. (See 110.1 and on the outer end of the west breakwater. 110.51, chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) (310) Horseshoe Reef, 0.5 mile southward of Mumford Cove entrance, is awash at low water, and is marked by
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Eastern Long Island Sound I Chapter 8 I 291 Eastern Long Island Sound (1) This chapter describes the eastern portion of Long Anchorages Island Sound following the north shore from Thames (6) New London Harbor is the most important of the River to and including the Housatonic River, and then the south shore from Orient Point to and including anchorages sought for shelter in the eastern part of Port Jefferson. Also described are the Connecticut Long Island Sound. Niantic Bay and the approach be- River; the ports of New London, New Haven, and tween Bartlett Reef and Hatchett Reef are used to some Northville; and the more important fishing and yacht- extent by small vessels when meeting unfavorable ing centers on Niantic River and Bay, and in Westbrook weather or reaching the eastern part of the sound. Harbor, Guilford Harbor, Branford Harbor, and Small vessels can select anchorage eastward or west- Mattituck Inlet. ward of Kelsey Point Breakwater, also in Duck Island Roads. Off Madison there is anchorage sheltered from COLREGS Demarcation Lines northerly winds. New Haven Harbor is an important (2) The lines established for Long Island Sound are de- harbor of refuge. scribed in 80.155 chapter 2. Tides (7) The time of tide is nearly simultaneous throughout Chart 12354 Long Island Sound, but the range of tide increases from (3) Long Island Sound is a deep navigable waterway about 2.5 feet at the east end to about 7.3 feet at the lying between the shores of Connecticut and New York west end. Daily predictions of the times and heights of and the northern coast of Long Island. high and low waters for New London, Bridgeport, and Willets Point are given in the Tide Tables. (4) In this region are boulders and broken ground, but (8) The effect of strong winds, in combination with the little or no natural change in the shoals. The waters are regular tidal action, may at times cause the water to fall well marked by navigational aids so that strangers several feet below the plane of reference of the charts. should experience no difficulty in navigating them. As all broken ground is liable to be strewn with boulders, Currents vessels should proceed with caution in the broken ar- (9) In the eastern portion of Long Island Sound the eas where the charted depths are not more than 6 to 8 feet greater than the draft. All of the more important current turns from ½ to 1½ hours earlier along the places are entered by dredged channels; during fog, north shore than in the middle of the sound. vessels are advised to anchor until the weather clears (10) Proceeding westward from The Race in the middle before attempting to enter. The numerous oyster of the sound, the velocity of current is 1.8 knots off grounds in this region are usually marked by stakes Cornfield Point, about 1 knot off New Haven, 1 knot off and flags. These stakes may become broken off and Eatons Neck, 0.4 knot between Peningo Neck and form obstructions dangerous to small craft. Mariners Matinecock Point, and 0.5 knot eastward of Hart Island. should proceed with caution especially at night. (11) About 1.5 miles east-southeastward of Bartlett Reef, the velocity of flood is 1.2 knots and ebb 1.6 knots. Caution The flood current sets 285° and the ebb 062°. (5) Submarine operating areas are in the approaches (12) At a point about 3 miles southward of Cornfield Point, the flood current sets 256° with a velocity of 2 to New London Harbor, Connecticut River, and off the knots and the ebb sets 094° with a velocity of 1.7 knots. northern shore of Long Island. As submarines may be (13) About 1 mile north of Stratford Shoal (Middle operating submerged in these areas, vessels should Ground) Light, the velocity is 1 knot, the flood setting proceed with caution. westward and the ebb eastward. (See Tidal Current Ta- bles for predictions.) Current directions and velocities at various places throughout the eastern portion of Long Island Sound for each hour of the tidal cycle are
292 I Chapter 8 I Coast Pilot 2 shown on the Tidal Current Charts, Block Island Sound (19) In New Haven Harbor, the influence of the north- and Eastern Long Island Sound. erly winds clear the harbor and its approaches unless the local formation is too heavy to be moved. Southerly Weather, Long Island Sound and vicinity winds force the drift ice in from the sound and prevent (14) Weather is most favorable from mid-May to the local formations from leaving the harbor. Tides have little effect upon the ice. Additional information mid-October, when the most common hazards are concerning ice conditions in the waters adjoining Long thunderstorms and fog. There is also a rare threat of a Island Sound is given under the local descriptions. tropical cyclone. During June, July and August on the average, there are 20 to 25 days per month with condi- (20) Vessel Traffic Service, New York, operated by the tions generally considered ideal even for small boaters. U.S. Coast Guard, serves New York Harbor (see Fog is most likely in spring and early summer. Fog, or 161.501 through 161.580, chapter 2, for regulations). the lack of it, at inland locations is not a guide to condi- tions in the Sound or its approaches. Areas along the Pilotage, Long Island Sound coast, at the heads of bays and within rivers may be rel- (21) Pilotage is compulsory in Long Island Sound for atively clear, while offshore the fog is thick. For exam- ple, on exposed Block Island heavy fog is encountered foreign vessels and U.S. vessels under register. about 10 to 12 percent of the time from April though (22) The pilot boat sets radio guard at least 1 hour be- August compared to 1 to 3 percent at Westhampton. Thunderstorms on the other hand are more likely over fore a vessel’s ETA. land, but can be viscous in the Sound, especially in a (23) Vessels to be boarded should provide a ladder 3 feet squall line preceding a cold front in spring and early summer. Winter winds are mostly out of the west above the water on the lee side. through north, but gales blow less than 5 percent of the (24) Pilot services are generally arranged at least 24 time in these somewhat sheltered waters. Waves are re- stricted by limited fetch except to the east. However, hours in advance through ships’ agents or directly by choppy conditions can create problems. shipping companies. (25) Pilotage, in the waters of Long Island Sound, is Ice available from, but not limited to: (15) In ordinary winters the floating and pack ice in (26) Sound Pilots, Inc. (a division of Northeast Marine Pilots, Inc.), 243 Spring Street, Newport RI 02840, tele- Long Island Sound, while impeding navigation, does phone 401-847-9050 (24 hours), 800-274-1216, FAX not render it absolutely unsafe, but in exceptionally se- 401-847-9052, Cable RISPILOT, Newport. Pilot boats vere winters the reverse is true; none but powerful are RHODE ISLAND PILOT, 35-foot, black hull, white steamers can make their way. superstructure, word PILOT on sides and NORTHEAST (16) Drift ice, which is formed principally along the IV, 49-foot, gray hull, gray superstructure, word PILOT northern shore of the sound under the influence of the on both sides. The boats monitor channels 16, 10, 13, prevailing northerly winds, drifts across to the south- 14; work on 10. ern side and accumulates there, massing into large (27) Interport Pilots Agency, Inc., http://www.inter- fields, and remains until removed by southerly winds, portpilots.com, 906 Port Monmouth Road, Port which drive it back to the northerly shore. Monmouth, NJ 07758, telephone (24 hours) (17) In ordinary winters ice generally forms in the west- 732-787-5554, email [email protected]. Pilot boat ern end of the sound as far as Eatons Neck; in excep- is CONNECTICUT PILOT, 65-foot with blue hull and tionally severe winters ice may extend to Falkner Island white superstructure. The boat monitors VHF-FM and farther eastward. channels 16 and 13, works on 11, and is equipped with AIS. Effects of winds on ice (28) Constitution State Pilots Association, 500 Water- (18) In Long Island Sound northerly winds drive the ice front Street, New Haven, CT 06512, telephone 203-627-5058. The pilot boat CONSTITUTION, is to the southern shore of the sound and southerly winds 65-foot, with black hull, white superstructure, and the carry it back to the northern shore. Northeasterly word PILOT on sides. The boat monitors 16, 13, and 9A; winds force the ice westward and cause formations works on 13 or 9A. heavy enough to prevent the passage of vessels of every (29) Long Island Sound State Pilots Association, Inc., description until the ice is removed by westerly winds. 1440 Whalley Avenue, Suite 123, New Haven, CT These winds carry the ice eastward and, if of long dura- 06515, telephone 203-772-0101, FAX 302-629-9392, tion, drive it through The Race into Block Island Cable LISPILOT, New Haven. The pilot boat OLYMPIC Sound, thence it goes to sea and disappears. has a white hull, red superstructure, and displays the word PILOT in black letters. The boat monitors chan- nel 16; works on 11.
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