Boating, Fishing, and Travel Information for Jaffrey Point, Newcastle, NH

An anchorage area is on the south side of Little Harbor. A limited anchorage only for very small craft is in the channel above the inner buoy.

Navigation

Vessels should not attempt to enter Little Harbor in bad southeasterly weather, when the sea breaks across the entrance. The entrance is between two submerged breakwaters, the northern of which is marked on the outer end by Jaffrey Point Light 4 (43°03.3’N., 70°42.8’W.), 22 feet above the water and shown from a skeleton tower with a red triangular daymark. A buoy marks the outer end of the southern breakwater.

In 2007, the controlling depth in the channel was 9.5 feet to the marina; the anchorage area south of the channel had controlling depths of 7.5 feet in the eastern half and 4.4 feet in the western half.