BAILEYS MISTAKE is a beautiful spot with an evocative name. Only a few houses ring the cove, and the grassy shores roll to a gravel beach. And there are hardly any boats at all.
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There are good reasons for this. The harbor is exposed from the southwest to southeast, and the holding ground is poor, making it a poor choice as an overnight anchorage. It is a pleasant daystop, though, for lunch or to wait for the tide.
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The harbor is easily entered from red whistle “2BM.” Favor high, wooded Jims Head to avoid the ledges at the entrance, which are marked with a green-and-red can. Look for the old weir close to the eastern shore.
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One foggy day Captain Bailey sailed his four-masted schooner with a load of lumber into Quoddy Narrows, headed toward Lubec—or so he thought. His dead reckoning was about six miles off, and the ship ran hard aground. Rather than face the music with the ship’s Boston owners, so the story goes, Bailey and his crew unloaded the lumber and used it to build a settlement on the shores of this lovely little harbor.
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