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getting your bearings YOUR GUIDE TO THE BOAT BASIN AND ISLAND important telephone numbers

BOAT BASIN Boat Basin Office ...... 508 .325 .1350 800 .NAN .BOAT FAX: 508 .228 .8941 Concierge ...... 508 .325 .1360 Boat Basin Security ...... 508 .221 .8454 Security Line 2 ...... 508 .221 .8366

VISITOR INFORMATION Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce ...... 508 .228 .1700 Nantucket Visitor Services ...... 508 .228 .0925 Nantucket Historical Association . . . 508 .228 .1894 Nantucket Community Pool . . . . . 508 .228 .7285 ext 1353

HEALTH AND SAFETY Emergency Police, Fire, Ambulance ...... 911 Police Department (non-emergency) . . 508 .228 .1212 Fire Department (non-emergency) . . . 508 .228 .2323 Nantucket Cottage Hospital . . . . . 508 .228 .1200 24-Hour Emergency Room Coverage . . 508 .825 .8100 US Coast Guard Station/Brant Point . . 508 .228 .0388 Offshore Animal Hospital ...... 508 .228 .1491

TRANSPORTATION Nantucket Regional Transit Authority (NRTA) THE WAVE . . . . . 508 .228 .7025 PREFERRED GUEST PROGRAM ahoy! WHEN YOU BECOME A PREFERRED GUEST AT

At Nantucket Boat Basin, we provide you with the highest quality marina NANTUCKET BOAT BASIN, services from the moment you arrive until the time you depart . Our YOU WILL SAVE ON FUEL,

240-slip, full-service marina caters to some of the world’s most discerning ELECTRICITY, HOTELS, travelers . The Boat Basin is just two blocks from Nantucket Center, a DINING, AND SPAS AFTER charming, historic seaport with fascinating shops, unique galleries and YOUR SECOND STAY, world-class restaurants . PLUS, EARN FREE SLIP NIGHTS .

We want to ensure that your stay with Nantucket Boat Basin is owned and us is truly enjoyable and stress-free . operated by Nantucket Island Resorts, In this booklet, you’ll find essential a collection of premier properties on information about the Boat Basin and Nantucket including The Wauwinet, a guide to Nantucket Island . We hope White Elephant, White Elephant Village, that you will find this information useful Jared Coffin House, The Cottages, and and that it will serve to enhance your Nantucket Boat Basin . See pages 8 stay with us . and 9 for more information on hotels If we can be of assistance, please and restaurants . feel free to contact the Concierge at Enjoy your time on the island . 508 .325 .1360 or Dockmaster’s Office at 508 .325 .1350 .

1 ALL PAWS ON DECK

NANTUCKET BOAT BASIN LOVES TO PAMPER YOUR PET . welcome aboard STOP BY THE OFFICE FOR Nantucket Boat Basin offers a full range of guest services . For your A TREAT AND GIFT FOR YOUR convenience, the Dockmaster’s Office is open daily from 7am -7pm during FOUR-LEGGED CREW MEMBER . the summer season . A security guard is on duty nightly beginning at 7pm . SHOW US A PHOTO OF YOUR Please call 508 221. .8454 or 508 .221 .8366 for after-hours assistance . FURRY SAILOR AT SEA, AND

YOU WILL BE ENTERED FOR CONCIERGE SERVICE NANTUCKET BOAT BASIN A CHANCE TO WIN A Our Concierge Service accommodates SERVICES COMPLIMENTARY STAY . your every need . We can assist you • Fuel dock service that includes with restaurant reservations; bike gas, diesel, pump-out, oil, and ice and scooter rentals; fishing, sailing, • Slip-side cable television service and airplane charters; pet sitting and • Power ranging from 30 to 100 amp babysitting; golf and tennis times; taxi single-phase service, and 100 amp service and more . We’re also available 3-phase 208 volt and 480 volt to help with more elaborate requests service such as party and clambake catering, • Easy access to potable water and on-board massage and spa • Coin-operated laundry located on services . Our knowledgeable staff is Swain’s Wharf with change and available seven days a week to ensure soap dispensers your stay is effortless and carefree . • Free Wi-Fi • Boat Basin logowear and additional items are on sale at the Boat Basin Authentic Logo Shop on Straight Wharf .

2 COMPLIMENTARY PUMP-OUT FACILITIES RECYCLING Nantucket is a “no discharge” harbor . The Boat Basin You’ll find conveniently placed blue recycling bins offers slip-side pump-out facilities at all three wharves . throughout the Boat Basin . The following items can To schedule a free pump-out between 8am and 5pm, be deposited for recycling: bottles/glass, tin/aluminum, please call the Boat Basin office: 508 .325 .1350 . and newspapers/magazines/cardboard . Cardboard, Pump-outs are also available on the fuel dock . newspapers and magazines may be tied in bundles or placed in clear plastic bags . Cardboard must be GRAYWATER flattened and reduced to pieces 3’ x 3’ or smaller . Local bylaws prohibit the discharge of graywater . Graywater is defined as wastewater from sinks, showers, HAZARDOUS MATERIALS DISPOSAL laundry and galleys . We encourage you to use our 18 Oil, antifreeze, mixed bilge fluid, and contaminated gas ashore bath/shower facilities, and our coin-operated, require special handling . For assistance, please call the full-service laundry, located on Swain’s Wharf . When Boat Basin Office: 508 .325 .1350 . washing your boat, Nantucket bylaws require that you PETS ON DECK use only environmentally safe, biodegradable cleaning At the Boat Basin, we welcome your pets and ask that products . It is illegal to use on-board dishwashers and you keep them leashed, in accordance with Nantucket’s leash washing machines that discharge overboard . law . Our animal-needs park at the head of Swain’s Wharf HOUSEHOLD WASTE REMOVAL is an ideal location for your pet to be walked and to enjoy Household waste must be contained in transparent time outdoors . Please use the scoopers provided to plastic bags . Non-transparent bags are not permitted . clean up after your pet .

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SPRING AND FALL ARE SOME a view from OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TIMES OF THE YEAR ON ISLAND . the crow’s nest THE BOAT BASIN INVITES Reference Map for the Boat Basin and Nantucket Island YOU TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR OFF-SEASON RATES

BOAT BASIN SERVICES PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SPECIAL OFFERS . Boat Basin Office Downtown Grocery Store 1 10 BROWSE OUR WEBSITE & Concierge Office 11 Chamber of Commerce 2 Old South Wharf 12 Coin-Operated Laundry FOR DETAILS . 3 Harbor Launch 13 Hospital 14 Visitor Services Center ACCOMMODATIONS 15 Nantucket Historical Association 4 White Elephant Village Residences & Inn 16 Animal-Needs Park 5 The Wauwinet 17 Police Station 6 The Cottages 18 Post Office 7 White Elephant 19 Public Restrooms (3 locations) 8 Jared Coffin House 20 Hy-Line Cruises

RESTAURANTS HISTORIC SITES 5 TOPPER’S 21 The Coffin School 7 Brant Point Grill 22 Fair Street Museum and Friends Meeting House 9 The Wauwinet Lady 23 Hadwen House (Cruise to TOPPER’S at The Wauwinet) 24 Macy-Christian House 25 Nantucket’s Oldest House SPA 26 Old Windmill 7 White Elephant Spa 27 Peter Foulger Museum 28 Whaling Museum

5 NANTUCKET EVENTS

DAFFODIL FESTIVAL WINE FESTIVAL land ho! FIGAWI RACE WEEKEND Getting Out and About on the Island RESTAURANT WEEK

BOOK FESTIVAL Nantucket’s terrain includes beaches, off-road trails, sand dunes and

NATIONAL MARINA DAY miles of coastline . The island is ideal for a variety of outdoor pastimes

JULY FOURTH FIREWORKS during the spring, summer and fall .

NANTUCKET TRIATHLON BEACHES & SWIMMING FISHING POPS Nantucket has more than 80 miles Nantucket waters are among the BIG GAME BATTLE of pristine beaches . Within easy nation’s cleanest and offer some of

NANTUCKET RACE WEEK walking distance of town: Brant Point, the Northeast’s finest fishing . Striped Children’s and Jetties Beaches . bass and bluefish are plentiful, and BLUEFIN TUNA BLAST Accessible by public transportation North Atlantic giant bluefin tuna are FAMILY SCALLOPING during the summer season: Surfside, caught within 30 miles of Nantucket .

CRANBERRY FESTIVAL Madaket and Siasconset Beaches . Shellfish such as mussels, blue claw Reachable by bike: Dionis and Cisco crabs, and quahogs may also be NANTUCKET HALF MARATHON Beaches . The Nantucket Community harvested with a permit, available NANTUCKET NOEL Pool is open daily . For details call: from the Marine Department on

FESTIVAL OF TREES 508 .228 .7285 ext . 1353 . Washington Street .

STROLL WEEKEND BIKE PATHS AND JOGGING TRAILS NATURE EXPLORATION Nantucket offers five scenic trails & BIRD WATCHING ranging from 2 5. miles to 8 miles . More than 40 percent of Nantucket is These paved paths are clearly marked protected conservation land . These and are open to bicycles and foot fragile landscapes support rare plant traffic only . species and endangered birds . The Association hosts nature, wildflower and birding walks during the summer . For dates and times call: 508 .228 .9198 .

6 HISTORICAL ATTRACTIONS ON-ISLAND TRANSPORTATION Nantucket has one of the country’s largest historic In order to help preserve Nantucket’s beauty and districts with buildings dating back to the late 1600s . clean air, visitors are discouraged from bringing their The island’s many museums highlight Nantucket’s cars to the island . Bicycles and mopeds are available whaling heritage and marine life . The second oldest for rental . Taxi and shuttle services are also available . lighthouse in America is located at Brant Point . NANTUCKET REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY SHOPPING AND DINING (NRTA), THE WAVE Nantucket Center has an array of shops, boutiques Public transportation is a convenient alternative and galleries . In addition to its quaint cobblestone main when you’re looking to explore the island . THE WAVE street and charming storefronts, Nantucket has many provides shuttle service on Nantucket . Service is restaurants that offer both casual and fine dining . provided to/from Nantucket Town to the mid-island and outlying areas which include loops/routes to GOLF Miacomet, Madaket, ’Sconset, Polpis, Surfside, The island is home to two public golf courses: the Jetties Beach, and Nantucket Memorial Airport . nine-hole Siasconset Golf Club and the 18-hole Stops are conveniently located along all loops/routes Miacomet Golf Club . A private, 18-hole course, and are designated by gray posts with red and maroon Head Golf Club in ’Sconset, is open to the stripes . All shuttles are wheelchair accessible and public from October to mid-May . equipped to accommodate two bikes on a first-come, first-served basis . Routes and schedules are subject to change . Visit nrtawave .com for the most up-to-date information or call 508 .228 .7025 .

7 staterooms Guest Accommodations on Nantucket

THE COTTAGES AT NANTUCKET BOAT BASIN WHITE ELEPHANT The Cottages, perched along Nantucket’s wharves, offer Considered to have the most desirable location on studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom accommodations, all Nantucket Harbor, the White Elephant offers service with kitchens . Just steps away from restaurants and shops, as exceptional as its setting . Accommodations include the 29 cottages feature casual décor and air conditioning . 55 spacious guest rooms and suites, 11 garden Some of the cottages are designated as pet-friendly . cottages and two in-town luxury lofts . Guests enjoy 866.838.9253, TheCottagesNantucket.com the Spa at the White Elephant, the cozy Library, and the beauty of the Harborside Lawn . THE WAUWINET 800.445.6574, WhiteElephantHotel.com This Inn by the Sea is the only island property with direct access to both Nantucket Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean . WHITE ELEPHANT VILLAGE | RESIDENCES & INN A Relais & Châteaux hotel, with 32 guest rooms, cottages A natural extension of the White Elephant hotel, the and the three-bedroom Anchorage House, is set amid White Elephant Village comprises the Inn and the lush gardens with two private beaches and tennis courts . highly-acclaimed Residences . With one, two, or three 800.426.8718, Wauwinet.com bedrooms, each Residence includes a pantry with state-of-the-art appliances, and a living room/dining JARED COFFIN HOUSE room area with a fireplace and large HD flat-screen TV . A Nantucket landmark, home to history and charm, Master baths feature double vanities and a soaking tub . the Jared Coffin House is one of Nantucket’s original The Inn offers 14 suites and six deluxe guest rooms . “mansions .” Located in the heart of historic Nantucket, Guests have exclusive access to the Village lobby, the the inn offers the charm of the past complemented by outdoor heated pool, cabanas and fitness center . modern day comforts . All rooms are air-conditioned . 800.475.2637, WhiteElephantVillage.com 800.248.2405, JaredCoffinHouse.com

8 WINE AND DINE

LATE AFTERNOON, OR ANYTIME, galleys COME ENJOY OYSTERS AND Where to Dine on the Island CHAMPAGNE ON THE WAUWINET LAWN, OR WALK OVER TO

BRANT POINT GRILL TOPPER’S BRANT POINT GRILL AND LOOK White Elephant The Wauwinet OUT AT THE MAGNIFICENT Located on Nantucket Harbor, Brant Rated as one of ’s Point Grill is the island’s premier finest restaurants, TOPPER’S offers HARBOR AS BOATS SAIL BY . lobster, steak and seafood restaurant . world-class dining . Guests can choose GUESTS OF NANTUCKET BOAT House specialties include native TOPPER’S sophisticated indoor dining BASIN RECEIVE 15% OFF FOOD lobster, fresh seafood and prime room, or casual al fresco dining on aged beef, all served in a spectacular the fully heated TOPPER’S Deck . Free WHEN YOU DINE . harborside setting . The fully heated parking is available at The Wauwinet, Harborview Terrace provides the or take the van from downtown . perfect spot for dining al fresco . During the summer, the restaurant is Brant Point Grill has received the accessible for lunch or dinner aboard Wine Spectator Award of Excellence . The Wauwinet Lady, a complimentary Open daily . Casual attire . cruise, departing from the White Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Brunch Elephant . TOPPER’S has received the coveted Wine Spectator Grand Award 508.325.1320 and the AAA Five Diamond Award . MEETINGS & SPECIAL OCCASIONS Open daily . Casual attire . Whatever your event, Nantucket Island Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Resorts’ hotels offer an array of venues Saturday & Sunday Brunch to fit your occasion . Our ocean and 508.228.8768 harbor view locations along with the new White Elephant Village Ballroom, Foyer, and Executive Boardroom – accommodating up to 200 – are all designed for flexibility to fit your needs . For information contact 617 .243 .7802 or email SalesOffice@NIResorts .com .

9 Mailing address: P.O. Box 2580, Nantucket, MA 02584 • Shipping address: Swain’s Wharf, Nantucket, MA 02554 800.NAN.BOAT (800.626.2628) 508.325.1350 NantucketBoatBasin.com Open year-round Marinalife #2 Best Transient Marina in the U .S . • Marinas .com Marina of the Year • Sailing Today Best Overseas Marina