Anchorage Archive

Marathon
No LL

When I recently sent away our GPS for repair, the vendor warned me to back up our way points first. If they replace the unit, then we would lose all the way point data. I'm glad they made me do it, because for a long time I've wanted to extract those way points to see if they might make a good blog article. You may enjoy looking it over just for general interest sake.

First, look at the pictorial depiction below. It shows actual positions of 175 places where we actually anchored. The scale it much too small to be able to read the names. It looks funny without an underlying map, but stare at it for a while and you can make out the East Coast of the USA, plus the Saint Lawrence Seaway, plus one outlier in Mexico. You can also see two gaps showing places we've never anchored. Those are, New Jersey and South Carolina south of Charleston.



Now for the raw data, sorted by location North to South.

Place	State	Latitude	Longitude
St Lawrence	Quebec	N 45 51.99	W 073 016.29
Lac St Louis	Quebec	N 45 19.34	W 073 052.65
Richelieu	Quebec	N 45 09.48	W 073 015.46
St Regis	Quebec	N 45 00.30	W 074 039.23
Deep Bay	New York	N 44 46.58	W 073 022.86
Prescott	Ontario	N 44 40.59	W 075 033.47
Valcour	New York	N 44 37.81	W 073 025.54
Valcour Spoon Bay	New York	N 44 37.79	W 073 024.41
Valcour Sloop Cove	New York	N 44 37.37	W 073 024.41
Valcour Smugglers Harbor	New York	N 44 37.09	W 073 024.52
North Burlington	Vermont	N 44 29.93	W 073 014.97
Appletree Point	Vermont	N 44 29.79	W 073 014.95
Searsport	Maine	N 44 27.02	W 068 055.30
Demello's Camp	New York	N 44 26.22	W 073 023.19
Shelburne	Vermont	N 44 25.58	W 073 014.97
Belfast	Maine	N 44 25.41	W 068 059.51
Shelburne Bay	Vermont	N 44 24.23	W 073 014.26
Willsboro Bay	New York	N 44 23.90	W 073 023.63
Bounty Cove	Maine	N 44 19.00	W 068 053.98
Endymion	Ontario	N 44 18.24	W 076 005.75
Picton	Ontario	N 44 16.75	W 076 004.26
Porter Bay	Vermont	N 44 13.78	W 073 019.01
Andrews Island	Maine	N 44 08.81	W 068 042.13
Rockland	Maine	N 44 05.84	W 069 005.76
Isle Au Haut	Maine	N 44 03.22	W 068 038.77
Port Henry	New York	N 44 03.05	W 073 027.10
Sackets Harbor	New York	N 43 57.00	W 076 007.12
Bath	Maine	N 43 54.17	W 069 048.30
White Bay	New York	N 43 52.32	W 076 013.80
Boothbay	Maine	N 43 50.84	W 069 038.05
Ticonderoga	New York	N 43 50.31	W 073 023.33
Chipman Point	Vermont	N 43 48.04	W 073 022.54
Jewel Island	Maine	N 43 41.33	W 070 005.39
Lock 11	New York	N 43 28.12	W 073 026.07
Fort Edward	New York	N 43 15.55	W 073 034.99
Elliot	Maine	N 43 06.51	W 070 047.57
Little Bay	Maine	N 43 05.96	W 070 051.67
Kittery	Maine	N 43 04.90	W 070 043.40
Gosport	Massachusetts	N 42 58.74	W 070 036.81
Lock 4	New York	N 42 56.00	W 073 039.23
Waterford	New York	N 42 47.16	W 073 040.69
Albany Yacht Club	New York	N 42 38.36	W 073 044.91
Gloucester	Massachusetts	N 42 36.67	W 070 039.31
Marblehead	Massachusetts	N 42 29.75	W 070 050.99
Shady Hbr	New York	N 42 27.09	W 073 047.18
Schodack	New York	N 42 26.09	W 073 046.46
Coxackie	New York	N 42 22.09	W 073 047.84
Middle Ground	New York	N 42 15.92	W 073 048.03
Thunderstorm	New York	N 42 13.90	W 073 050.63
Hudson	New York	N 42 09.28	W 073 054.09
Duxbury	Massachusetts	N 41 59.97	W 070 036.94
Kingston	New York	N 41 55.19	W 073 057.92
Warehem	Massachusetts	N 41 44.31	W 070 042.67
Monument Beach	Massachusetts	N 41 43.18	W 070 037.18
Fall River	Massachusetts	N 41 42.49	W 071 009.60
Hospital	Massachusetts	N 41 40.36	W 070 038.42
Bristol	Rhode Island	N 41 40.01	W 071 017.16
New Bedford	Massachusetts	N 41 37.46	W 070 054.75
Buzzards Bay	Massachusetts	N 41 34.27	W 070 056.52
Dutch ng	Rhode Island	N 41 29.89	W 071 023.31
Banerman	New York	N 41 27.36	W 073 059.21
Judith Point	Rhode Island	N 41 24.29	W 071 030.34
Nyack	New York	N 41 05.14	W 073 054.73
Liberty Island	New York	N 40 41.77	W 074 003.93
Havre de Grace	Maryland	N 39 32.85	W 076 005.00
Bohemia	Maryland	N 39 28.81	W 075 056.04
Bohemia Better	Maryland	N 39 28.58	W 075 056.33
Turner	Maryland	N 39 21.94	W 075 058.77
Fredricktown	Maryland	N 39 21.82	W 075 053.54
Cohansey	New Jersey	N 39 21.23	W 075 021.62
Still Creek	Maryland	N 39 19.97	W 076 008.52
Baltimore	Maryland	N 39 17.09	W 076 036.71
Chestertown	Maryland	N 39 12.30	W 076 003.70
Annapolis	Maryland	N 38 58.40	W 076 029.22
At Sea		N 38 58.23	W 074 037.91
Kent Narrows	Maryland	N 38 57.77	W 076 015.19
Back Creek	Maryland	N 38 57.48	W 076 029.09
Cape May	New Jersey	N 38 57.00	W 074 053.24
Rhodes	Maryland	N 38 52.95	W 076 031.61
Washington DC	DC	N 38 52.61	W 077 001.55
Rhodes 2	Maryland	N 38 52.50	W 076 031.39
Goose Creek	Maryland	N 38 45.04	W 076 015.70
Laplatte River	Maryland	N 38 37.95	W 076 007.17
Potomac	Virginia	N 38 34.74	W 077 012.13
Cambridge Municipal Y B	Maryland	N 38 34.58	W 076 004.41
Cambride	Maryland	N 38 34.34	W 076 004.43
Mattawoman	Virginia	N 38 33.86	W 077 011.83
Back Creek	Virginia	N 38 20.39	W 076 027.54
Deep Creek	Virginia	N 38 16.26	W 076 043.39
Canoe Neck	Virginia	N 38 15.59	W 076 043.74
Tangier Island	Virginia	N 37 49.80	W 075 059.66
Sandy Point	Virginia	N 37 49.50	W 076 018.59
Onancook Creek	Virginia	N 37 43.52	W 075 049.50
Onancook	Virginia	N 37 42.65	W 075 045.49
Wareh Creek	Virginia	N 37 42.29	W 076 021.25
Myers Creek	Virginia	N 37 41.50	W 076 029.66
Corotoman	Virginia	N 37 40.78	W 076 027.59
Dymer Creek	Virginia	N 37 40.11	W 076 020.87
Yopps	Virginia	N 37 39.05	W 076 025.92
Urbana	Virginia	N 37 38.23	W 076 034.14
Antipoison	Virginia	N 37 37.87	W 076 020.96
Jackson Creek	Virginia	N 37 32.75	W 076 020.00
Fishing Bay	Virginia	N 37 32.28	W 076 020.03
Jamestown	Virginia	N 37 13.41	W 076 047.44
Hampton	Virginia	N 37 01.43	W 076 020.43
Hampton	Virginia	N 37 01.14	W 076 020.55
Marina Waterside	Virginia	N 36 50.63	W 076 017.53
Portsmouth	Virginia	N 36 50.30	W 076 017.79
Deep Creek	Virginia	N 36 44.87	W 076 020.29
Dismal Swamp Canal	North Carolina	N 36 26.65	W 076 019.58
Pasquotank	North Carolina	N 36 23.14	W 076 017.19
Elizabeth Creek	North Carolina	N 36 18.19	W 076 012.40
Little Alligator	North Carolina	N 35 55.99	W 076 001.53
Alligator River	North Carolina	N 35 52.18	W 076 002.15
Alligator River	North Carolina	N 35 40.31	W 076 005.61
Belhaven	North Carolina	N 35 32.20	W 076 037.62
Bath, NC	North Carolina	N 35 28.59	W 076 048.92
Bath, NC	North Carolina	N 35 27.52	W 076 048.99
Eastham Creek	North Carolina	N 35 17.83	W 076 036.34
Eastham Creek 2	North Carolina	N 35 17.82	W 076 036.30
New Bern	North Carolina	N 35 06.15	W 077 001.92
Broad Creek	North Carolina	N 35 05.79	W 076 035.76
Broad Creek	North Carolina	N 35 05.41	W 076 037.41
Neuse River	North Carolina	N 35 05.31	W 076 034.34
Oriental	North Carolina	N 35 01.41	W 076 041.86
Oriental	North Carolina	N 35 01.40	W 076 041.84
Oriental	North Carolina	N 35 01.18	W 076 041.74
Adams Creek	North Carolina	N 34 56.00	W 076 039.31
Beafort	North Carolina	N 34 43.54	W 076 039.97
Swansboro	North Carolina	N 34 41.16	W 077 007.04
Thoroughfare	South Carolina	N 33 30.79	W 079 008.71
Winyah Bay	South Carolina	N 33 15.48	W 079 015.06
Minim Creek	South Carolina	N 33 11.63	W 079 016.67
Santee	South Carolina	N 33 08.77	W 079 018.89
Inlet Creek	South Carolina	N 32 47.11	W 079 049.49
Turner Creek	Georgia	N 32 00.91	W 080 059.41
St Catherine	Georgia	N 31 41.47	W 081 009.27
Wahoo	Georgia	N 31 36.16	W 081 012.84
Hampton	Georgia	N 31 17.07	W 081 022.79
Brickhill River 2	Georgia	N 30 53.79	W 081 026.73
Brickhill River	Georgia	N 30 53.30	W 081 027.05
Delaroche	Georgia	N 30 51.60	W 081 030.24
Fernandina Beach	Florida	N 30 40.35	W 081 028.15
Alligator River	Florida	N 30 34.52	W 081 028.30
Blount	Florida	N 30 24.19	W 081 030.77
Matanzas 2	Florida	N 29 49.08	W 081 017.59
Matanzas	Florida	N 29 48.45	W 081 017.14
Daytona	Florida	N 29 14.12	W 081 001.45
Daytona	Florida	N 29 11.82	W 081 000.29
Space Center	Florida	N 28 38.96	W 080 048.01
Titusville	Florida	N 28 37.53	W 080 048.40
N A S A	Florida	N 28 31.50	W 080 046.25
Merrit Island	Florida	N 28 31.16	W 080 046.32
Cocoa	Florida	N 28 21.15	W 080 042.93
Melbourne	Florida	N 28 05.08	W 080 035.06
Melborne Harbor	Florida	N 28 04.66	W 080 036.11
Malabar Rd	Florida	N 28 00.44	W 080 033.48
Malabar	Florida	N 28 00.13	W 080 033.38
Rock Point	Florida	N 27 59.33	W 080 032.73
Pine Island	Florida	N 27 43.47	W 080 023.98
Vero Beach 1	Florida	N 27 39.76	W 080 022.35
Vero Beach 2	Florida	N 27 39.35	W 080 022.24
Fort Pierce	Florida	N 27 28.09	W 080 019.45
Thumb Point	Florida	N 27 27.42	W 080 018.17
Fort Pierce	Florida	N 27 27.16	W 080 019.10
Stuart	Florida	N 27 11.48	W 080 016.03
St Lucie	Florida	N 27 10.74	W 080 011.55
Lake Worth	Florida	N 26 45.56	W 080 002.59
Miami	Florida	N 25 47.91	W 080 008.97
Camden	Florida	N 25 43.46	W 080 009.42
Hurricane Hole	Florida	N 25 41.22	W 080 010.42
No Name Harbor	Florida	N 25 40.62	W 080 009.80
Marathon, Ball T2	Florida	N 24 42.42	W 081 005.67
Garden Key Dry Tortugas	Tortugas	N 24 38.00	W 082 052.30
Yucatan	Mexico	N 21 36.00	W 087 045.00

Note that about 20% of the time we anchored, I forgot to push the buttons to remember the place in the GPS. Those places, including the whole West Coast of Florida, are missing from the table.

p.s. For my sailing friends, I can send you this data base in .GSX format that you may be able load directly in to your own GPS. I find it useful for planning purposes to know where good anchorages are. I loaded all the anchorages listed in the Skipper Bob book in to my GPS.