Echo Bay (Long Island Sound)

Echo Bay
Echo Bay and Harbor Management Area
Echo Bay is located in New York
Echo Bay
Echo Bay
LocationNew Rochelle, New York
Coordinates40°53′45″N 73°46′36″W / 40.8957°N 73.7768°W / 40.8957; -73.7768
IslandsEcho Island; Clifford; Harrison; Tank; Big Hassock; Little Hassock
References[1]

Echo Bay is an embayment located off Long Island Sound in the city of New Rochelle in Westchester County, New York.[1] It is an anchorage for small craft and is generally fully occupied during the summer. The depths at the anchorage range from 4 to 15 feet, and launches can anchor in the shallow cove on the northeast side of the harbor, entering between Harrison Islands and the rocky, grassy islet off the northwest side of Echo Island.[2] Vessels frequently anchor between the entrance of Echo Bay and Hicks Ledge, in depths of 20 to 24 feet. On the northwest side of Echo Bay a dredged channel 100 feet wide and 15 feet deep, marked by buoys, leads to the New Rochelle Municipal Marina at Beaufort Point (Hudson Park).[3]

  1. ^ a b "Echo Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1918) United States Coast Pilot U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C., p.142
  3. ^ Constitution, by-laws, racing rules, etc. of the New Rochelle Yacht Club; club houses: Harrison Island, shore station: Hudson Park, anchorage: Echo Bay, New Rochelle, N.Y.;Author=New Rochelle Yacht Club;Publisher=The Knickerbocker Press, 1911;Page=70