QUAHOG BAY is the largest of the flooded valleys between the ridges of Sebascodegan Island. On the chart, it looks like a fist punched deeply into the belly of Sebascodegan Island. Its shores are wooded and quietly populated with homes and summer cottages. Its narrow neck runs straight and true to the northeast, but its shores break away into several beautiful anchorages, well off the usual east-west passages across Casco Bay: the working harbor of Card Cove, the fingers of Orrs Cove, Mill Cove, Brickyard Cove, and Rich Cove, as well as the island fragments of Ben, Snow, Little Snow, Center, Pole, Raspberry, and tiny Mouse.
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Quahog is easily accessible from the open water to the south or from ramps at Great Island Boat Yard in Orrs Cove or at Bethel Point. Limtied camping is allowed on state-owned Little Snow Island or, if you are a member of the Maine Island Trail Association, on private Raspberry Island.
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Approaches. From a distance, you will see two dark, high, rounded islands in the mouth of Quahog Bay. The eastern and smaller of the two is Raspberry Island, just west of Yarmouth Island. Larger Pole Island lies to the north, identifiable by a conspicuous white boathouse at the southwest tip.
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The east side of the mouth of Quahog Bay is cluttered with the unmarked Yarmouth Ledges, so you need to favor the Long Point Island side to avoid them. Deep water passes to either side of large, wooded Pole Island, but a long line of ledge extends both north and south from it. Note that nun “4” on the South Ledges is not at its southern terminus, but part way up the ledge, marking the west channel. Do not cut tightly around this buoy to get from one channel to the other.
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To avoid the North Ledges past Pole, favor the Sebascodegan shores until they broaden into the basin holding Snow and the other islands. Pass south of Snow Island to the 16 and 14-foot areas. You’ve arrived!
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