Nantucket Slip Fees

[JV II]

I'm going to do a trial run to the Vineyard first with an experienced sailer who knows the area well. I'd like to know how to get through Woods Hole. After that it will be me and the family to Nantucket in August.

 

[Sea Gull]

Woods hole is not a big deal but there is a raging current, the channel makes some sharp turns and there is usually a lot of traffic. The good news is that it is well marked and wide enough to handle the normal traffic. If possible, go through at slack tide, especially the first time. Have good paper charts and study them before you make the trip. Be sure to enter your route on your chart plotter and then just follow it.

 

[JV II]

Woods hole is not a big deal but there is a raging current, the channel makes some sharp turns and there is usually a lot of traffic. The good news is that it is well marked and wide enough to handle the normal traffic. If possible, go through at slack tide, especially the first time. Have good paper charts and study them before you make the trip. Be sure to enter your route on your chart plotter and then just follow it.

Thanks. I'll study the charts, try to go at slack tide, and follow the traffic. I'm coming down the canal from Boston and will time it so I can idle through and ride the current on an outgoing tide. I was told that on an outgoing tide, I'd be fighting the current on my west to east route through Wood's Hole. Is this true? If so, I really have to time my trip so that I ride the last hour of the outgoing tide in the canal and hit slack tide or incoming tide through Woods Hole. I might have to lay up in Falmouth until the morning because the ride across to Vineyard Haven might be too rough in the afternoon.