| Chart Name: | Buzzards Bay; Quicks Hole |
| Scale: | 1:40000 |
| Size: | 36" x 51" |
| Edition #: | 50 |
| Edition Date: | 08/01/10 |
| LNM Notice/Date: | 3510 08/31/10 |
| NTM Notice/Date: | 3610 09/04/10 |
| LNM: | http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/nm/resultList.asp?Chart=13230 |
| Last Update: | 09/07/10 |
| Description: | Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay are deep and easily navigated day or night. Vineyard Sound, together with Nantucket Sound, provides an inside route from New York to Boston which avoids Nantucket Shoals. Buzzards Bay, together with Cape Cod Canal and Cape Cod Bay, provides the shortest deep-draft route between
New York and Boston.
Quicks Hole, between Pasque Island and Nashawena Island, is the only passage between Vineyard
Sound and Buzzards Bay eastward of Cuttyhunk available for vessels of over 10-foot draft. The clearly defined entrance from Vineyard Sound, about 0.6 mile wide, is about 4 miles southwestward of Tarpaulin Cove and about 5 miles north of Gay Head. The passage is used considerably by tows, especially during westerly or southerly winds, to avoid the very heavy sea in the entrance to Vineyard Sound, and also because a secure anchorage from these winds can be had, if necessary, on the north side of Nashawena Island. The passage is considered unsafe for a long tow at night, but otherwise it may be used by steamers either night or day. |
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| NTM = NGA Notice to Mariners LNM = Local Notice to Mariners |
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BUY NOAA Nautical Chart #13230 - Buzzards Bay; Quicks Hole, Online
