Welcome to Megansett Harbor, North Falmouth, MA

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A yacht club and a town wharf are just inside the Megansett breakwater. In 1981, depths of 4 to 5 feet were reported alongside the wharf; water is available.
At Fiddlers Cove small-craft harbor gasoline, diesel fuel, ice, a pump-out station and wet and dry storage are available; lift capacity, 35 tons. Hull, engine and electronic repairs can be made.
Navigation:
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Megansett Harbor, the approach to the towns of North Falmouth, Megansett, and Cataumet, is entered between Nyes Neck on the south and Scraggy Neck on the north. The natural channel is buoyed as far as the rock breakwater at Megansett. The breakwater is marked at the end by a light.
The harbor has extensive shoals and ledges, but by following the buoyed channel a draft of about 8 feet can be carried to an anchorage in the outer harbor in depths of 10 to 22 feet. Inside the breakwater, anchorage is available in 6 to 12 feet, taking care to avoid the shoals on the north side of the harbor and the rock awash near the center in 41°39’27″N., 70°37’31″W. Cataumet Rock, covered 6 feet and marked by a buoy, is on the south side of the entrance; Seal Rocks are on the north side and marked by a seasonal lighted buoy.
Fiddlers Cove (41°38.9’N., 70°38.2’W.) is a small-craft harbor on the south shore of Megansett Harbor, about 0.5 mile east-southeastward of Cataumet Rock. A channel, privately dredged to a reported depth of 7 feet, leads southward to a marina and boatyard in a dredged basin on the east side of the cove. A seasonal lighted buoy marks the approach, and private buoys mark the channel.
Halftide Rock, awash at low water, is about 500 yards southwestward of the end of the Megansett breakwater.
Squeteague Harbor, northward of Megansett, is entered through a narrow channel from the head of Megansett Harbor. The privately marked channel had a reported depth of about 2 feet in 1981; however, depths of 5 to 7 feet are reported to be available in the channel to the harbor; local knowledge is advised. The village of Cataumet is on the northerly shore of the harbor.
Seal Rocks, about 0.3 mile southwestward of Scraggy Neck, on the north side of Megansett Harbor entrance, are partly bare at half tide and marked by a buoy about 300 yards southwest of their southern end. Part of an old concrete barge is aground on the rocks. Southwest Ledge, extending about 0.7 mile westward of Seal Rocks, consists of two patches of shoals covered by 2 to 18 feet and marked by buoys on its northern, western, and southern sides. A rock awash is in the northerly shoal.

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