Welcome to Bass Harbor, ME

There are three dredged anchorages available in the inner harbor. The anchorages consist of a 10-foot basin in the middle of the harbor with 6-foot basins adjoining to northward and westward. In 2005, depths of 9.5 to 10 feet were available in the middle anchorage basin with 4 to 6 feet in the west basin and 3 to 6 feet in the north basin. Buoys mark the inner harbor.
The belfry of a church at the head of the harbor is conspicuous. The cannery wharf, on the east side of the inner harbor about 1.1 miles north of Bass Harbor Head Light, has a reported depth of 7 feet alongside. A smaller seafood company wharf, close northward, has a depth of 10 feet reported alongside. Gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, and some marine supplies are available at this wharf.
A boatyard and machine shop, about 250 yards above the upper seafood wharf, has two marine railways that can handle craft up to 45 feet or 15 tons for hull and engine repairs. Welding and electrical repairs can also be made.
A marina with a float landing is on the east side of the outer harbor, about 400 yards southward of the cannery wharf; depths of 10 feet are reported at the float landing. A 30-ton mobile hoist at the marina can handle craft up to 50 feet for hull and engine repairs. Gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, and some marine supplies are available. The slip for the State automobile and passenger ferry to Swans Island and Lunt Harbor on Long Island is close northward of the marina.
Groceries, ice, lodgings, and some marine supplies can be obtained in town.
Navigation:
Click the “Map View” button above to see a chart of this harbor.
The outer harbor is exposed southward, but clear with the exception of Weaver Ledge, which is in the middle of the entrance and uncovers 3 feet. Two buoys mark the ledge. Vessels can enter on either side of Weaver Ledge.