Boating, Fishing, and Travel Information for Warwick, RI

The cove is the scene of considerable pleasure boat activity. The harbormaster in the cove controls berthing and anchorage; contact can be made through the Warwick City Hall. The cove has several marinas and boatyards. Berths, electricity, gasoline, water, ice, storage, launching ramps, marine supplies, and hull and engine repairs are available. The largest lift, on the east side of the cove about 0.3 miles above the mouth, can handle craft up to 70 tons.

Navigation:
Warwick Cove, between Warwick Neck and Horse Neck, is in the northeastern part of Greenwich Bay. A Federal project provides for a 6-foot channel from the bay to an anchorage basin at the head of the cove; other anchorage basins in the cove are on the west side of the channel, 0.5 mile above the channel entrance, and on each side of the channel 0.7 mile above the channel entrance. All of the anchorage basins have a project depth of 6 feet. A State regulatory buoy off Horse Neck marks a 5 mph speed limit.

Extensive shoals extend off the eastern side of Warwick Neck to Ohio Ledge. Rocky Point is on the eastern side of the neck, 1.7 miles north-northeastward of Warwick Point.

The natural channel between the shoals off Warwick Neck and the shoals northward of Patience and Prudence Islands has depths of 19 to 50 feet. A buoy marks the shoal off Providence Point, the northernmost point of Prudence Island.