COREA

between "REP" and Western Island: 44° 23.50’N 067° 58.12’W off white ledges: 44° 23.68’N 067° 57.97’W

4th ed. Cruising Guide page 337

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COREA is the quintessential lobstering port, remote, well-protected, and charming, with room, perhaps, for one or two visiting yachts. It is home to a fleet of about 40 lobsterboats, and the surrounding docks are piled high with traps. The summer community is relatively small, and there is no doubt that the fishermen are in charge. This is the home of Young Brothers, well-known builders of hundreds of lobsterboats.
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Corea, however, is a difficult place to visit by boat. The harbor is shallow and crammed with working boats. If you are lucky, you may be directed to a vacant mooring for the night. Arrive early, and have a backup plan in case there is no room.
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Approaches. Harbor chart. The Coast Pilot says that in May 1984, a depth of 71&Mac218;2 feet could be carried to the anchorage, where 6 feet is available, except for shoaling along the edges. Count on at least a foot less water now.
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From a distance, you can see a white church steeple at the head of the harbor and a huge circular antenna west of Corea on the same peninsula. The antenna sinks below the trees as you enter the harbor. On radar, lobstermen say, it looks just like a miniature doughnut.
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Western Island is higher and far more wooded than Outer Bar Island. Western Island has a red-roofed cottage on the south side and smooth, sloping reddish rocks.
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Because several unmarked rocks and ledges are covered at high tide, this is not an easy harbor to enter. Avoid coming in at dead high, dead low, or in poor visibility. Start at red-and-white whistle buoy “CE” (44° 22.95’N 068° 01.40’W). Pass west of Western Island, fairly close aboard, curving eastward around the northern tip of the island. Then head for the sloping white granite ledges on the eastern side of the entrance to Corea Harbor. When you have almost reached these ledges, turn to port and head up into the harbor, staying toward the right-hand side of the channel as you pass the red buildings of the Corea Lobster Co-op.
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This will keep you clear of the nasty rock (“REP” on the chart) and the two ledges in the mouth of the entrance. At high tide the inner and higher of these two ledges may show a slight ripple on the surface, or it may not. These ledges are shown on the chart, but they are very deceiving, and many boats have found them with their keels. They are on a line from the middle of Western Island to the center of the harbor entrance, and you must be east of this line while approaching the entrance.
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Anchorages, Moorings. There appears to be room to anchor opposite the Co-op, but there are hidden rocks. Elsewhere, the harbor is too full to anchor. You will need to ask a lobsterman if there is an available mooring. Try the Co-op or Young Brothers (963-7467), the second pier on the left.
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Getting Ashore. Land at the Co-op or at the low-tide beach across the harbor.
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For the Boat. Corea Lobster Co-op (207-963-7936). Gas, diesel, and lobsters can be bought at the floats below the red buildings of the Co-op, at the right side of the entrance, with 8 to 10 feet alongside.
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For the Crew. The post office is at the head of the harbor.

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