Seacoast NH Marinas and Water Recreation | Southern ME Seacoast Marinas and Water Recreation

Looking for Seacoast marinas and water recreation? As in other coastal regions, recreation along the Seacoast centers on water. The dynamic network of tidal and fresh waterways that defines the Piscataqua region is best viewed, well, by water! Tennis and golf are popular as well in the warmer months. The area’s numerous waterfront parks and scenic, stonewall- and tree-lined roadways provide ample space and a beautiful backdrop for walking, jogging and cycling.

**Always remember to check the Seacoast NH Tide Chart before exploring the bays and rivers**

Seacoast Marinas, Docks and Boat/Yacht Clubs

Dover NH

Great Bay Yacht Club is located on the shores of the Piscataqua River on Wentworth Terrace at Dover Point.

New Castle NH

Wentworth by the Sea Marina, nestled in the heart of the seacoast, is the ultimate in comfort and service.  As boaters approach Little Harbor from the Atlantic Ocean, they are greeted by the view of the majestic Wentworth by the Sea Hotel.  The marina has 170 slips and can accommodate vessels up to 200 feet.  There are numerous amenities for members and visitors to enjoy, including a heated pool, tennis and golf facilities, the Dinghy Dock Cafe at "A" Dock, Latitudes restaurant overlooking the marina and, of course, fine dining and spa facilities at the Wentworth hotel.   

Kittery Point Yacht Club is located on the southern shore of the Piscataqua river.  Its clubhouse stands opposite Seavey Island, home of the historic Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Ships from all over the world pass before it, vying with local lobster and fishing boats during the week and hundreds of recreational boats on weekends.

Portsmouth Yacht Club was founded in 1898 and has a club house located on the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth Harbor.  There are guest moorings on the river, in Pepperrell Cove across the harbor and at the Isles of Shoals.

Portsmouth NH

Marina at Harbour Place offers exclusive deep-water docking in the heart of historic downtown Portsmouth on the Piscataqua River. 

Prescott Park Boat Dock offers fee-based public docking space at Prescott Park on the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth.

Newington NH 

Great Bay Marine is the New Hampshire Seacoast's only year-round, full-service boating facility.  It is located just 6 miles up the Piscataqua River on 36 acres serving Portsmouth, Newington and the surrounding communities.  There are 128 slips and 72 moorings...and an onsite restaurant as well! 

Rye NH

Rye Harbor Marina is located next to Rye Harbor State Park.  The marina offers access  to the Atlantic Ocean via private boat, charter fishing excursions or whale watch tours. There is a fee for parking and boat launching. Both the marina and state park combined total 63 oceanfront acres.

Eliot ME

Great Cove Boat Club is a small, non-profit association of sail and power boat enthusiasts who dock their vessels at the marina along the Piscataqua River in Eliot. There are 89 slips and 14 moorings.

Kittery ME

Badger's Island Marina is located on the Piscataqua River, just over the Memorial Bridge, a stone's throw from the Portsmouth NH waterfront.

York ME

York Harbor Marine Service, in beautiful York Harbor, has been serving the Southern Maine and New Hampshire seacoast boating community for 50 years.  It can accommodate 50 boats for summer dockage.

Seacoast Water Recreation

The Isles of Shoals Steamship Company offers a variety of cruises in their Victorian style steamship M/V Thomas Laighton. Routes include historic Portsmouth Harbor and the Isles of Shoals, a group of nine small islands five miles off the Atlantic coast. Enjoy tales pertaining to the ghosts, pirates, buried treasures, lighthouses, and other lore surrounding the Shoals. Services include daily Sightseeing Cruises, Dinner Cruises, Party Ships, and Fall Foliage Cruises to the Great Bay Wilderness Area. The boat offers a full-service bar/snack bar and is handicapped accessible. Private charters are welcomed.

Portsmouth Harbor Cruises offers intimate jaunts through the Seacoast's most picturesque waterways aboard the Heritage. This 49-passenger classic offers up to eight cruises daily, including Portsmouth Harbor, Isles of Shoals, Evening/Sunset Cruises, Great Bay and Cocheco River Inland River Cruises, and Fall Foliage Cruises. For small groups, Tug Alley Too offers tours of the harbor aboard one of their feisty tugboats. The Atlantic Whale Watch Company hosts whale watching tours out of beautiful Rye Harbor. Finally, for the fitness-minded, Portsmouth Kayak Adventures offers guided group kayak tours of Portsmouth’s inner bays.

The Gundalow Company offers a fascinating visitor experience aboard the last remaining gundalow in the Piscataqua region. A gundalow is a shallow drafted type of cargo ship, once common in the Gulf of Maine’s rivers and estuaries, which reached its prominence in the Great Bay of New Hampshire and Maine in the late 1800s. Carrying up to 50 tons of cargo and sometimes measuring more than 70 feet long and 19 feet wide, gundalows were the equivalent of today’s tractor-trailer rigs. Gundalows carried bricks from local brickyards to build the giant mill buildings found on the banks of area rivers. Granite for mill building foundations, cordwood, and later coal to power area mills, was also carried on gundalows. Today, visitors can board a reproduction gundalow, the Captain Edward H. Adams, honoring the last of the men who piloted gundalows on the rivers of the basin. The Capt. Adams moves from port to port in the Piscataqua region (including Portsmouth, Exeter, Dover and Durham) over the course of the summer and fall.