Watch Hill Cove, in the southeastern part of Little Narragansett Bay, is used by small craft. In 2007, the buoyed dredged channel leading to the cove had a controlling depth of 4.5 feet (5.8 feet at midchannel). Depths of 3.8 to 9.4 feet are inside the cove and at the wharves.
A yacht club and town dock are in Watch Hill Cove; berths, guest moorings, electricity, diesel fuel, and water are available. In 1981, a depth of 10 feet was reported at the face of the town dock.
Navigation
Watch Hill Light (41°18’14″N., 71°51’30″W.), 61 feet above the water, is shown from a square gray granite tower, 45 feet high, attached to a white building with a red roof, on Watch Hill Point.
Napatree Beach, 1.3 miles long between Watch Hill Point and Napatree Point, is bare. Sandy Point, about 1.4 miles north-northwestward of Napatree Point, is at the northwestern end of a long and narrow sand island in Little Narragansett Bay. An extensive sandspit makes off from the northeasterly and southwesterly sides of the island; give these areas a good berth. The island is subject to continual change; caution is advised.
Napatree Point Ledge, a boulder reef with little depth, extends nearly 0.4 mile southward of the point. It is marked by a lighted bell buoy. A sunken wreck is about 0.3 mile eastward of the ledge in about 41°18’N., 71°53’W.
