Atlantic Coast: Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Sandy Hook, New Jersey
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CoUNITEDas STATESt Pilot® Atlantic Coast: Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Sandy Hook, New Jersey 2019 (48th) Edition This edition cancels the 47th Edition and includes all previously published corrections. Weekly updates to this edition are available at: nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/coast-pilot/index.html They are also published in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) U.S. Notice to Mariners. U.S. Department of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., Secretary of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) RDML Timothy Gallaudet, Ph.D., USN Ret., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere National Ocean Service Nicole R. LeBoeuf, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management II U.S. Coast Pilot 2 Pilot Coast U.S. 74°W 73°W 72°W 71°W 70°W Troy Albany MASSACHUSETTS Boston MASSACHUSETTS BAY H U D S 42°N O RHODE N ISLAND CAPE COD BAY R Providence I Hartford V E R CONNECTICUT 8 NEW Y ORK 4 Martha’s Vineyard 12 New Haven 5 7 6 Block Island Nantucket Island LONG ISLAND SOUND 41°N 9 Coast Pilot 2 - Chapter Index Chapter 4 – Outer Cape Cod and Nantucket Sound 10 Chapter 5 – Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay NEW Chapter 6 – Narragansett Bay JERSEY New York City Chapter 7 – Block Island Sound Chapter 8 – Eastern Long Island Sound Chapter 9 – Western Long Island Sound Chapter 10 – South Coast of Long Island 11 ATL ANTIC OCEAN 16 DEC2018 Chapter 11 – New York Harbor and Approaches Chapter 12 – Hudson River 16 DEC 2018 ¢ Preface III Preface he United States Coast Pilot is published by the National Ocean Service (NOS), National TOceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), pursuant to the Act of 6 August 1947 (33 U.S.C. 883a and b), and the Act of 22 October 1968 (44 U.S.C. 1310). The Coast Pilot supplements the navigational information shown on NOAA nautical charts. The Coast Pilot is continually updated and maintained from inspections conducted by NOAA survey vessels and fi eld parties, corrections published in Notices to Mariners, information from other Federal agencies, State and local governments, maritime and pilots’ associations, port authorities, and concerned mariners. NOAA’s Offi ce of Coast Survey encourages public feedback regarding its suite of nautical charting products and services through the Nautical Inquiry/Discrepancy Reporting System. This system allows comments, inquiries and chart discrepancies to be submitted directly to NOAA’s nautical charting program. Inquiries are typically acknowledged by email within one day, and ninety percent are answered or resolved within fi ve days. General comments or inquiries can be made at ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/idrs/inquiry.aspx. Nautical chart or Coast Pilot discrepancies can be reported at ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/idrs/discrepancy.aspx. Coast Survey also maintains a toll free phone line for public comments or inquiries. Customers may contact the charting program by telephone on weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) at 888–990–6622. Update your Coast Pilot Check for weekly critical updates for this edition at nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/coast-pilot/index.html (See 33 CFR 164.33 Charts and Publications, chapter 2, for regulations.) You may print the specifi cally aff ected paragraphs to revise this book, or download an updated .pdf of the entire volume. A Weekly Record of Updates is provided for your convenience directly preceding the index. IV ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2 16 DEC 2018 16 DEC 2018 U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 1 ¢ 1 General Information (1) A map precedes each chapter and outlines the nautical UNITED STATES COAST PILOT® charts used in the area to be discussed. In these chapters, as much as possible, the coastal description is in geographic (2) The United States Coast Pilot, published by the sequence, north to south on the east coast, east to west on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the gulf coast, clockwise around each of the Great Lakes (NOAA), is a series of nine nautical books (volumes) and south to north on the west coast and Alaskan coast. that encompasses a wide variety of information important Features are described as they appear on the largest scale to navigators of U.S. coastal/intracoastal waters and the chart, with that chart number prominently shown in blue. waters of the Great Lakes. The Coast Pilot is intended to (11) Appendix A contains contact information regarding be used as a supplement to NOAA nautical charts. Much the various products, services and agencies detailed of the content cannot be shown graphically on the charts throughout the volume. and is not readily available elsewhere. Topics which are (12) Appendix B contains useful reference tables covered include environmental factors of weather, climate, regarding climate, meteorology, unit of measure ice conditions, tides, water levels, currents, prominent conversions, abbreviations, etc. coastal features and landmarks. Specific information (13) The Weekly Record of Updates is intended as a log on vertical clearances, wharf descriptions, small-craft for critical updates applied to this volume. facilities, hazards, dredged channels and depths are also (14) The Index contains geographic names mentioned provided. Navigation services and regulations are also throughout a Coast Pilot volume. These names are identified including pilotage, towing, anchorages, routes boldfaced and indexed along with the number of the and traffic separation schemes, environmental protection, largest scale chart on which the entire feature appears. and other Federal laws. Asterisks preceding a chart number in the index of (3) New editions of each volume are issued annually. Coast Pilot 5 indicate charts published by the National Fully updated files are posted weekly on the Internet, Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and in the index of Coast and are also available for Print on Demand sales (see Pilot 6, charts published by the Canadian Hydrographic Appendix A). Service. (4) Amendments to this publication are available at (15) nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/coast-pilot/index. Bearings html. (16) Bearings and courses are in degrees true and are (5) <Deleted Paragraph> measured clockwise from 000° (north) to 359°. The (5) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) bearings of an aid to navigation (e.g., directional light, U.S. Notice to Mariners: msi.nga.mil light sector, range) are given as viewed from the bridge (6) of a vessel toward the light. Using the Coast Pilot (17) (7) Chapter 1 contains definitions of general and Bridges and Cables standard terms used throughout the volume, discussions (18) Vertical clearances of bridges and overhead cables of NOAA charting products and services, descriptions of are in feet above mean high water unless otherwise stated; maritime services by various U.S. Government agencies, clearances in Coast Pilot 6 are in feet above Low Water Notices to Mariners and other information pertinent to Datum unless otherwise stated. When the water level safe navigation. is above Low Water Datum, the bridge and overhead (8) Chapter 2 contains selected extracts from the Code cable clearances given in the Coast Pilot and shown on of Federal Regulations (CFR) that affect mariners. the charts should be reduced accordingly. Clearances (9) Chapter 3 contains general information that is of drawbridges are for the closed position, although the peculiar to the region covered by a particular Coast Pilot open clearances are also given for vertical-lift bridges. volume. For example, practical information regarding Whenever a bridge span over a channel does not open fully offshore currents and dangers, coastal aids to navigation, to an unlimited clearance position, a minimum clearance prominent landmarks and the general character of the for the sections over the channel is given; the same applies coast and depths helpful in approaching the region. to swing and pontoon bridges with openings less than 50 (10) In Chapter 4 and the remaining numbered feet horizontally. Clearances given in the Coast Pilot are chapters, the detailed description of the region begins. those approved for nautical charting and are supplied by 2 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 2, Chapter 1 16 DEC 2018 the U.S. Coast Guard (bridges) and U.S. Army Corps of which may be depicted on charts with depth legends, Engineers (cables). See charts for horizontal clearances notes or soundings, the Coast Pilot will strive to list the of bridges, as these are generally given in the Coast Pilot corresponding controlling depths with the dates of the only when they are less than 50 feet (15 meters). Tables latest known surveys. Depths may vary considerably listing structures across waterways, found in some Coast between maintenance dredging; consult the Notices Pilots, show both horizontal and vertical clearances. to Mariners for latest controlling depths. Submarine cables are rarely mentioned. (28) (19) Under-keel clearances Cable ferries (29) It is becoming increasingly evident that economic (20) Cable ferries are guided by cables fastened to pressures are causing mariners to navigate through waters shore and sometimes propelled by a cable rig attached of barely adequate depth, with under-keel clearances to the shore. Generally, the cables are suspended during being finely assessed from the charted depths, predicted crossings and dropped to the bottom when the ferries dock. tide levels and depths recorded by echo sounders. Where specific operating procedures are known they are (30) It cannot be too strongly emphasized that even mentioned in the text. Since operating procedures vary, charts based on modern surveys may not show all sea- mariners are advised to exercise extreme caution and bed obstructions or the shoalest depths, and actual tide seek local knowledge. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PASS levels may be appreciably lower than those predicted. A MOVING CABLE FERRY. (31) In many ships an appreciable correction must be (21) applied to shoal soundings recorded by echo sounders Courses due to the horizontal distance between the transducers.