anybody familiar with Southwest Harbor Deer Isle Maine

[Megunticook]

Anybody done that? I need to go ashore to the country club for a memorial service on Friday and it's very close and well protected, looks like a public access road too.

I'd just be there for 3 hours Friday afternoon, would row ashore. Will be low tide though. Love to hear from anyone who's been there or who knows it well.

Plan B is just to use Sylvester Cove further up but that would be about an hour walk.

[Carl Thunberg]

Nope. That's one place I've never been. With so many good anchorages at Fox Islands Thorofare to the west, Merchants Row to the south, and Eggemoggin Reach to the northeast, it never even crossed my mind to anchor in Southwest Harbor. I'm guessing by the lack of responses, that others do the same thing. Did you check Taft and Rindlaub? I leant my copy out, so I can't look it up. Of course, there's also the option of driving over the Deer Isle Bridge, but what's the fun in that?

[Cathy Monaghan]

This is a bit late, but you can anchor anywhere in Southwest Harbor OUTSIDE of the mooring fields. Be sure not to anchor in the channel. Try to anchor near the north mooring field since it is closer to town and the town docks (there are two). The upper town dock is closer to town. You may want to contact the harbormaster to see if one of the town’s rental moorings is available. The harbormaster can be contacted on VHF CH. 9 or 16 or by phone at 207-244-7913.

This may help: https://www.usharbors.com/harbor/maine/ ... harbor-me/

[Megunticook]

Thanks, that's a different Southwest Harbor--the better-known one on Mt. Desert Isle. The place I'm talking about is on the west side of Deer Isle. I had an email exchange with someone at the Deer Isle yacht club (they're just north of SW Harbor in Sylvester Cove) and his advice was stay away. Rocks plus big flats at low tide. Nothing like local knowledge!