214 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 1, Chapter 7 Chapter 1, Pilot Coast U.S. 69°W 68°30'W 68°W Chart Coverage in Coast Pilot 1—Chapter 7 NOAA’s Online Interactive Chart Catalog has complete chart coverage Bangor http://www.charts.noaa.gov/InteractiveCatalog/nrnc.shtml MAINE R 69°30'W E V I R T O C S B O N E P 13309 Bucksport 13312 13316 44°30'N 13302 Searsport Belfast B L U E H 13305 I L L Y B A A B Y 13313 13307 13315 North Haven Island O H Camden C I R E 13308 J Rockland 13315 Y A B 13301 T Isle au Haut U A H U A Vinalhaven Island E L 44°N S I MUSCONGUS BAY Metinic Island Seal Island Matinicus Island Ragged Island 13303 GULF OF MAINE 26 SEP2021 26 SEP 2021 U.S. Coast Pilot 1, Chapter 7 ¢ 215 Jericho Bay to Penobscot Bay, Maine (1) This chapter describes the Maine coast from Jericho (10) Halibut Rocks, in Jericho Bay 0.8 mile northwest of Bay to but not including Muscongus Bay and the waters and Marshall Island, are two in number. Halibut Rocks Light tributaries of East and West Penobscot Bays, Penobscot (44°08'03"N., 68°31'32"W.), 25 feet above the water, River and the many passages and thorofares leading into is shown from a skeleton tower with a red triangular and connecting these waterways. Also discussed are the daymark on the northerly rock; a sound signal is at the important ports of Rockland, Searsport, Bucksport and light. Bangor and many smaller fishing ports and resort towns (11) West Halibut Rock, 1 mile westward of Halibut on these waterways. Rocks, is covered 2 feet; a buoy is off the rock. A rock (2) covered 9 feet is 400 yards northeastward of the buoy. COLREGS Demarcation Lines Southern Mark Island Ledge, 2.3 miles west of Halibut (3) The lines established for this part of the coast are Rocks, has a rock bare at high water. described in 33 CFR Part 80.105, chapter 2. (12) Colby Ledge, 0.8 mile southwest of Southern Mark Island Ledge, uncovers about 5 feet. A daybeacon is on (4) the ledge. A ledge covered 15 feet is 400 yards southward ENCs - US4ME30M, US4ME27M, US4ME20M of the daybeacon. Colby Pup, covered 3 feet and marked Charts - 13312, 13302 by a buoy, is 0.5 mile south of the daybeacon. Unmarked Channel Rock, 0.6 mile southwest of Colby Pup, (5) Between Jericho Bay and Penobscot Bay are uncovers 8 feet. numerous islands. Deer Isle, 10 miles westward of (13) McGlathery Island (44°07.5'N., 68°37.0'W.), 2.5 Mount Desert Island, is the largest. Eggemoggin Reach, miles southeast of Stonington, is the largest island on the Deer Island Thorofare and Merchant Row are the three west side of the bay and on the north side of Merchant principal passages between the bays. Eggemoggin Reach, Row. A rocky ledge with at least two rocks awash and a between Deer Isle and the mainland, connects Blue Hill covered rock extends between the east side of the island Bay and the head of Jericho Bay with Penobscot Bay and Gooseberry Island. The area is foul, and passage near its head. The reach is 11 miles long and has a least through it should be avoided. Vessels rounding the north width of about 0.4 mile at Byard Point. There are several side of McGlathery Island should take care to avoid the villages along its shores. charted rock, reported to cover about 1 foot, about 160 (6) yards north of the island. The remaining islands and ENC - US5ME31M dangers in the bay are described in connection with the Chart - 13313 various channels leading out of the bay. (14) (7) Jericho Bay is between Swans and Marshall Islands Routes on the east and Isle au Haut and Deer Isle and adjoining (15) In approaching Jericho Bay from the southeastward, islands on the west. The inside routes from Casco Passage it is advisable to pass between Marshall Island and and York Narrows to Deer Island Thorofare and Merchant Swans Island, through Toothacher Bay where most of Row, and the passage north of Pond Island to Eggemoggin the dangers are marked, but then only in daytime. In clear Reach, lead across the head of Jericho Bay. This section weather, strangers should have no trouble navigating of the bay is used by many craft. any of the passages, or through Merchant Row or Deer (8) The part of the bay southward of these thorofares has Island Thorofare, by giving strict attention to the chart deep water, but there are many ledges, rocks and islets. and following the aids, which are colored and numbered This area is little used except by local fishermen and for passages to the northward and westward. yachts. (16) (9) The dangers in the passages into Jericho Bay from ENCs - US5ME33M, US5ME26M the southward, eastward of Isle au Haut, in the channels Charts - 13316, 13309 between that island and Marshall Island, are for the most part not marked. This is the most direct way from the (17) Eggemoggin Reach is a generally broad and deep sea from that direction. There are, however, a number of thorofare which extends in a general northwesterly- unmarked shoal spots which must be avoided. southeasterly direction between the mainland and Deer Isle and joins Jericho Bay with East Penobscot Bay. 216 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 1, Chapter 7 26 SEP 2021 (18) The eastern entrance to Eggemoggin Reach is Between the end of this bar and Harbor Island is a rock well marked by Devils Head (44°13.3'N., 68°32.8'W.), reported to uncover 6 feet about 75 yards north of the a prominent, high, rock bluff on the south end of Hog island. At half tide the bar is marked by ripples. Island, 2.8 miles west of Pond Island. Off the western (28) The Triangles, a reef with rocks awash, is in the entrance are Head of the Cape at the southwest extremity middle of the western entrance to the harbor. There are of Cape Rosier, high and thickly wooded; a light on several private float landings between Naskeag Harbor Green Ledge, 1.3 miles south of Head of the Cape; and and Center Harbor, 2 miles to the northwestward. an abandoned lighthouse tower on Pumpkin Island, 3.6 Northwest Cove is a small cove with middle depths of 15 miles east of Head of the Cape. feet, about 2.5 miles northwest of Naskeag Point. Babson (19) The depth in the main channel through Eggemoggin Island and Little Babson Island are wooded islands on Reach is sufficient for deep-draft vessels, but the channel the north side of the reach between Naskeag Harbor and is narrow and the bottom is irregular in places. The Center Harbor. They are occupied only in the summer. principal dangers are buoyed and can be easily avoided (29) Torrey Islands are about 0.9 mile northwest of in the daytime and in clear weather. An unmarked rocky Little Babson Island. A rocky ledge extends about 350 spot, covered 27 feet, lies about 250 yards southeastward yards south of the east island. A 12-foot spot, marked of the north tower of the Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge. by a buoy, is about 0.35 mile west of the south point of (20) Vessels can anchor anywhere in the reach where the the west island. Torrey Castle, marked by a daybeacon, depth is suitable and the bottom soft, making a lee of is a reef at the end of a ledge that extends 0.2 mile west either shore, according to the wind. Small craft anchor from the west island. Torrey Ledge, covered 2 feet and in the coves off the reach. A submarine cable extends marked by a buoy, is about 0.35 mile northwest of the northeasterly from Little Babson Island to the mainland. west island. A rock awash is between the ledge and the Caution is advised. island; mariners should not attempt to pass between the buoy and the island. (21) (30) Center Harbor, an anchorage for small craft only, is ENC - US5ME33M a small cove on the north side of the reach northeastward Chart - 13316 of Torrey Islands, 2.2 miles northwest of Hog Island. A buoy 200 yards west-northwest of Chatto Island marks (22) A ledge extending 0.3 mile southeastward from the entrance. The town of Brooklin is at the head of the Devils Head at the eastern end of Eggemoggin Reach, harbor. A white church spire in the town is conspicuous. is partly bare at high water; a buoy is off the end of the A rock marked by a daybeacon is in the middle of the ledge. Hay Island Ledge, 0.5 mile southeastward of entrance northward of Chatto Island, which is 0.6 mile Devils Head, is covered 7 feet, and marked by a buoy north of the eastern Torrey Island. The channel is close off its southern side. An unmarked 15-foot spot is 0.7 southward of the rock. Between the daybeacon and a mile southeastward of the ledge. A fairway bell buoy, 300 boatyard near the head, on the north side of the cove, the yards southward of the ledge, marks the eastern entrance channel has depths of 8 to 10 feet; above the boatyard it to Eggemoggin Reach. is mostly dry at low water. Good anchorage is available (23) Channel Rock, 900 yards south of Devils Head off the entrance in depths of 22 to 24 feet, soft in places.