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Atlantic Highlands - Municipal Harbor
- Location: Sandy Hook Bay
- Lat / Lon: N 40° 25.100' / W 074° 01.200'
- Depth: 8-10 ft
- Description:
There is usually plenty of anchorage room just inside the eastern end of the Atlantic Highlands breakwater and outside the mooring field or on the south side of the eastern end of the mooring field along the shore. Depths are 8 feet to 10 feet but 4 to 5 feet close to shore. This area is quite a distance to shoreside facilities, but there are ample dinghy landings: A dock is located immediately to the east of the harbormaster's office and floats are at the head of each aisle past the fuel dock. Unlimited Atlantic Highlands launch service is extended to anchored boats. Cell signal available.
Photo courtesy Lance Williamson, m/v Blessings Flow
3.33 out of 5 stars
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Review for Atlantic Highlands - Municipal Harbor
Reviewed by: Lance Williamson on Jun 5, 2024
Vessel Type: Power
LOA: 40'
Draft: 3.8'Overall Rating:4Holding:5Wind Protection:4Current Flow:4Wake Protection:3Scenic Beauty:3Ease of Shopping:2Shore Access:4Pet Friendly:4Cell Service:5The anchorage is behind the breakwater, east of the mooring field. Do not enter the harbor from the west end without local knowledge. There is a sandy beach where you can walk a dog. The marina has an excellent dingy dock (good for taking pets ashore). Directions to the dingy dock: follow the channel toward the fuel dock; turn to port just before the fuel dock, the dingy dock will be on your.port. The anchorage has good holding with a mud bottom. Anchorage has great protection from a Southerland wind and protection from the north from the breakwater. Wakes enter the anchorage from boats going from Atlantic Highlands to Atlantic.
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Review for Atlantic Highlands - Municipal Harbor
Reviewed by: Lance Williamson on Oct 5, 2023
Vessel Type: Power
LOA: 40'
Draft: 3.8'Overall Rating:3Holding:3Wind Protection:3Current Flow:3Scenic Beauty:2Ease of Shopping:2Shore Access:2Cell Service:3We spent the night here after leaving the Hudson River, before heading south along the New Jersey shore. Wind was from the south. Fairly good protection.
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Review for Atlantic Highlands - Municipal Harbor
Reviewed by: Rich Inman on Aug 25, 2023
Vessel Type: Sail
LOA: 50'
Draft: 4.0'Overall Rating:3Holding:5Wind Protection:4Current Flow:5Wake Protection:2Scenic Beauty:3Ease of Shopping:5Shore Access:5Pet Friendly:5Cell Service:5Stayed here for two days to pick up crew. Very convenient town access. We didn't find the anchorage too rolly, and the power boats were almost all considerate of their wakes. Note: the downtown Laundromat is gone. Short walk up to groceries, restaurants, and bus to NYC Port Authority station.
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Review for Atlantic Highlands - Municipal Harbor
Reviewed by: Teresa Scott on Aug 26, 2022
Vessel Type: Sail
LOA: 40'
Draft: 5.5'Overall Rating:3Holding:5Wind Protection:3Current Flow:3Wake Protection:1Scenic Beauty:4Ease of Shopping:4Shore Access:4Cell Service:5Spent a few nights here waiting for a weather window to head south to Cape May. Good holding in mud. Dinghy dock at municipal marina was convenient for shopping and laundry. Wakes are really bad especially when the ferries are running.
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Review for Atlantic Highlands - Municipal Harbor
Reviewed by: Franz Schneider, Rhino, on Jun 24, 2022
Vessel Type: Power
LOA: 75'
Draft: 7.5'Overall Rating:3Holding:5Wind Protection:3Current Flow:3Wake Protection:2Good stopping point before or after going through NYC. Exposed to wind except from the East. We anchored in 17 ft of water with a 155kg Rocna and 180 feet of chain.Good holding in mud. The rating would be higher except for the local traffic which seemed to want to see how close they could get to our boat while they buzzed us at full speed. We were there on a Friday.
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Review for Atlantic Highlands - Municipal Harbor
Reviewed by: Paul Smyers, SV Nova, on May 27, 2021
Vessel Type: Sail
LOA: 43'
Draft: 4.0'Overall Rating:3Holding:5Wind Protection:2Current Flow:4Wake Protection:3Scenic Beauty:3Ease of Shopping:2Shore Access:5Pet Friendly:5Cell Service:5Not much wind protection!
The boats coming in to the marina seem to be oblivious to the anchored and moored boats, so there's a bit of wake.
Cell coverage for AT&T and T-Mobile are superb. I just had the fastest T-Mobile speed test of my life. Over 220mbit download. What-the-what!?!
The dingy docks seem to be pull out and store for reservation holders only, but there was a reservation holder there working on his dinghy when we motored up. He said to tie behind a particular dinghy that was ... disused ... There is probably somewhere better to be taking the dinghy.View location on the Waterway Guide Explorer
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Review for Atlantic Highlands - Municipal Harbor
Reviewed by: Robert Sherer on Jun 26, 2018
Vessel Type: Sail
LOA: 42'
Draft: 5.0'Overall Rating:4Holding:5Wind Protection:3Current Flow:3Wake Protection:3Scenic Beauty:3Ease of Shopping:2Shore Access:5Pet Friendly:5Cell Service:5WiFi:1I usually anchor south of G3 where there is lots of room. The 6 ft line shown on charts is accurate (I sounded the area in my dinghy). You can take your pet to either the beach by the anchorage or into shore by the second fairway after the fuel dock.
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Review for Atlantic Highlands - Municipal Harbor
Reviewed by: Ernie on Apr 9, 2018
Vessel Type: Sail
LOA: 38'
Draft: 5.5'Overall Rating:4Holding:5Wind Protection:3Current Flow:5Wake Protection:4Scenic Beauty:4Ease of Shopping:4Shore Access:2Cell Service:5WiFi:3Anchored here a thousand times. Great holding. Wave protected from every direction but E. Only wind protected from south. Long ride to town dock, but you can beach and walk bayside trail.
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Review for Atlantic Highlands - Municipal Harbor
Reviewed by: Skipper Bob on Jun 1, 2016
Draft: 0.0'Overall Rating:3Holding:4Wind Protection:2Current Flow:4Wake Protection:2Scenic Beauty:2Ease of Shopping:4Shore Access:2Pet Friendly:4Cell Service:4View location on the Waterway Guide Explorer
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