Little Compton, Rhode Island · Narragansett Bay · 41°27.9′N 71°11.7′W · VHF Ch 6
Holding at Sakonnet Harbor is rated good, over a sand/mud bottom. Set well and check your swing before you trust it.
Sakonnet Harbor is well sheltered from north, northeast, south winds. Check the wind-protection rose above for every direction.
Sakonnet Harbor is primarily a mooring or dockage harbor — 2 town transient moorings (≤40 ft), with little or no room to anchor free.
Hail on VHF Ch 6 (Little Compton Harbormaster Ch 6).
Reserve or hail — Two town transient moorings — hail Little Compton Harbormaster on Ch 6; marina slips via Dockwa. It fills on summer weekends.
Sakonnet Point is the quiet far corner of Rhode Island — a little breakwater harbor tucked under the Little Compton bluffs at the mouth of the Sakonnet River, a world away from the Newport bustle around the corner.
It's a small, mostly-private mooring basin: hail the Little Compton harbormaster on Ch 6 for one of the two town transient moorings (up to 40 ft), or take a slip at Sakonnet Point Marina via Dockwa. Shelter is good from the north and south but the entrance opens southwest, so pick settled weather. There's no fuel and few services — a peaceful, offbeat stop for those who like a working harbor with a view.
Hazards & cautions. Enter only around the lighted outer end of the 800-foot breakwater off Breakwater Point; fish traps and shoaling (to ~1.5 ft on the northwest edge) crowd the basin. Foul ground and rocks lie west-southwest of Sakonnet Point (Sakonnet Light marks its western end), and a southwesterly sends swell across the entrance.
NOAA Coast Pilot describes Sakonnet Harbor as a small-boat harbor on the north side of Sakonnet Point, protected by an 800-foot breakwater with a light at its outer end, with a marina and launching ramp on the southwest side.
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