Mattapoisett Boatyard

There are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. This is the motto of our beloved anchorage. They are true to this motto. We can’t say enough about how wonderful the people at MBY are to everyone. Three launches run during high season all the drivers are great. They are in the process of rebuilding their facilities after a devastating fire. They are a full service yard with many talented folks working there.

Really nice harbor with responsive staff and launch service.

Great full service yard. Wonderful people.

Great stay on mooring. Launch is excellent. MBY may want to update Dockwa and website that due to prior fire, they do not have available restrooms, showers and ship store. Thank you.

I have loved Mattapoisett Boatyard ever since I was a child so it is not surprising that I like it there now. The boatyard does good work (rebuilding now), the launch service is speedy and reliable, and the town is lovely. Be advised: Mattapoisett Harbor, especially the north shore by the boatyard is NOT a calm anchorage in anything from a SW to E wind. It isn't awful, but overnights can be a "bouncy" affair. That said, the ESE corner (there are moorings from another provider there) is the most protected part of the harbor. However, it is a long way from the launch dock and the launch is not free to those moorings. I have always known that a certain amount of "rock and roll" was part of the Mattapoisett experience. It dims but does not extinguish the appeal of the accommodations, the service, the town, and the easy entrance and exit to the harbor.

An excellent mooring field with quick access to Buzzards Bay; plenty of depth for our 8-foot (2.4 m) draft; lots of room between moorings; efficient launch service; ice at the launch dock; no showers or laundry at this time, but should be available once the new building is completed

Friendly and efficient…easy to visit!

Great launch services!

Got a great mooring. Fairly close to town. Launches very receptive. Shipyard rebuilding but very well functioning wide open harbor. Great wind at 1pm reliably. Nice wheather finally

Easy mooring well maintained, good location and great communication with marina.

Excellent service and nice people. MBY is the best!

Excellent, full service boatyard with a great staff and facilities.

My home port has been in mattapoisett for 6 years and I absolutely love the community and location.

Very professional, awesome service.Always extremely helpful and pleasant to work with. We have been customers there for over 45 years

Staff is extremly helpful and professional. Harbor is a great place to moor you boat!

MBY and the Kaisers are great! Highly recommended boatyard!

Perhaps the most hospitable group of folks I’ve ever encountered at a marina or boat yard. After a devastating fire that claimed nearly everything, they rose to the challenge and made everyone feel better and gave us hope.

Truly excellent and timely launch service. Staff is very accomodating. Protection from weather is good. Moorings are well-maintained. Parking is convenient. Easy to call and find out conditions when I'm not on the boat and the weather reports are threatening. Down one star because shore facilities are limited after the big fire in 2022. I don't blame them, there's a lot on their plate and they're moving as fast as they can. Already cleared the land and digging foundations for the new facilities. Next year I'll be back for another 3-week stay and I'm sure there'll be a lot of new and spanking clean rest rooms and showers and so forth. Looking forward to that. Best of luck to them. They work very hard.

Delightful visit—Boatyard launch staff friendly, courteous and helpful.

Dave Kaiser was very responsive and helpful with our mooring request.

Large harbor with space between boats for privacy. Launch service very accommodating and showed us everything we needed. Town dock has bathrooms open 24 hours and pump out station. Little town was charming with an Inn that had good and filling food. Ice cream shop as well. Will definitely make this a regular stop on our way in and out of Buzzards Bay.

Always accommodating and always excellent - quick and free launch

Beautiful harbor. Great marina with friendly staff very helpful competent. Greatest spot on Buzzards Bay.

Inexpensive and well protected. Good communication through dockwa app. Facilities are basic with outside shower. Launch service provided. Like everywhere else in New England launch will point out your mooring but otherwise stand by (i.e. not help you tie up). This seems to be market practice. Moorings looked very solid. Guest moorings are orange to port upon entering

Easy access great place for our 1st stop on the way to Virginia Stopped here on the way home to Gloucester. Great stop easy access moorings are well marked and well maintained

MBY has become a must-stop on my annual cruises for some years now, it has everything I want....great location, simple but nice and clean facilities, and a quiet and beautiful town nearby to walk around and explore. The best part is the friendly and helpful team which makes the yard seem like family. This year I had some minor engine problems and the crew dropped everything to help me out and get me going on the rest of my trip. Great place!

excellent people and launch drivers. awesome town. mooring was in excellent condition. the only negative is the shower. there is only one. it is open air and very rustic, like you would expect in a cabin in the woods. water not very hot. it also had a large assortment of used bar soaps and shampoos left by previous users. so it obviously had not been cleaned by the staff for a some time. pretty gross.

Beautiful stay. Very peaceful when the SW doesn’t kick up. Launch drivers were friendly and very accommodating. We were passing through and stayed 2 nights.

Good moorings, make good sleep. Nice dinghy dock at the boat yard and there is a launch service even though we didn't require it.

Mooring was waiting for us upon our arrival

The launch crew were great and accommodating. WE stay until Sunday, and the harbor was very nice in the evenings, though a bit rolly during the day.

Awesome service. Moorings suitable for any size vessel and courteous staff.

Prompt and courteous launch service. Well spaced moorings allow for much more privacy than in most of the neighbouring marinas. Very picturesque.

They reserved me a mooring they did nt have available. When I got there all the moorings were occupied. They directed me to a second area. All moorings there were taken. The launch came out and took me to a third area. All those were taken. They finally put me on a non transient visitor mooring. Management is unaware of the status of their own facilities.

Mattapoisett is a lovely harbor, wide open to Buzzards Bay. We were fortunate to have calm conditions for the weekend, this is not always so here. There is a launch service, a dinghy dock, and a pub with decent food.

The boatyard directed us to the visitors moorings. The harbor is very nice, protected and very few fishermen to roll past you early in the morning. Had a great sleep. Visitors are directed to register with the Harbourmaster. Ince that is done, your dinghy is permitted to tie up at the public wharf free for 3 days. The downside to Mattapoiset is the lack of amenities. There is no grocery store nearby, no laundry service, both of which we needed. The people at the Harbourmaster office where very friendly. It is a nice place to unwind.

Our mooring in Mattapoisett was well built and secure, if a bit bumpy with the prevailing SW wind. Launch service can take some time as it appears there are two launchs to service approximately 600 moorings. That said, the launch operators responded promptly and picked folks up in the order in which they called. This is also a very large harbor. Personell at Mattapoiset Marine we’re very helpful and the rates were the best we received on our two week cruise.

Beautiful harbor, large secure moorings, friendly courteous staff. It’s not the Ritz, but comfortable (unless the wind blows from the southeast.

Friendly yard. Great staff.

Great Stay! Very nice harbor, not a lot to do ashore. We radioed MBY upon entering the harbor and were instructed to find an open orange mooring on our port side, of which there were none available. We did find an open orange mooring further in, on our starboard side, which turned out to be a great location. Took the launch service into shore and had an ice cream a the shack on the town pier, just a short walk away. There is not much in walking distance from the drop off point, the ice cream shack, a general store, an inn with a restaurant and a spa. The harbor was quiet and we had a great rest. My only real complaint is that the morning launch driver was going too fast for my liking and throwing some wake fairly early.