Welcome to Port Clyde, ME

The anchorage is anywhere in the channel inside of Marshall Point in depths of 23 to 35 feet, good holding ground; there is a clear width of 200 to 250 yards. Good anchorage is also found, in southerly weather, northward of Hupper Island eastward of a line between Blubber Island and Hupper Point in depths of 21 to 24 feet.

The village of Port Clyde is on the eastern side of the harbor. Fields Wharf, 0.5 mile northward of Marshall Point Light, is used by the ferry which maintains mail, passenger, and freight service with Monhegan Island; gasoline and diesel fuel are available at the wharf. The town float, with depths of 5 to 10 feet reported alongside, and a small-craft launching ramp are just northward of the wharf. There are a number of other wharves in the harbor, some with float landings, with depths of 6 to 18 feet alongside. Numerous other wharves are bare. Gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, and some marine supplies can be obtained at some of these facilities.

The town harbormaster, usually found at the town float, controls moorings in the harbor and enforces local harbor regulations. A speed limit of 5 mph is enforced.

A general store, hotel, and restaurant are in the village. A small private boatyard, about 0.4 mile northwestward of Fields Wharf, has a machine shop and a marine railway that can handle craft up to 30 feet in length in an emergency only.

Marshall Point is 7 miles southwestward of Whitehead Light and on the east side of the southern entrance to Port Clyde. Marshall Point Light (43°55’03″N., 69°15’41″W.), 30 feet above the water, is shown from a white tower; a sound signal is at the light.

There are entrances from northward on either side of Raspberry Island, a small islet about 20 feet high about in the middle of the northern entrance. The passages on both sides of the island have depths of about 5 feet, but they are narrow and difficult and should not be attempted without local knowledge, except in small craft. The easterly channel is best for strangers in small craft. The best water follows the eastern shore at a distance of about 70 yards and passes eastward of a reef which makes eastward from a small islet.

A bar, with boulders and covered 2 to 6 feet, obstructs the northern entrance. Vessels of 15-foot draft have been taken over this bar at high water by local pilots, but strangers should not attempt it.