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We always enjoy our stays at in Essex. Two things: first the mooring pick up stick on mooring #20 was very short and the line connected to it was very deep. It was impossible to reach the pick up stick from a large trawler and too deep to hook with our boat hook. We had to call the launch to hand us the pick up stick. In addition the line from the pickup stick to the pendant loop was only on foot long. On a trawler the pendant long goes through a pipe haus. So in order to get the pendant loop on our cleat we had to stick the end of the pendant through the pipe haus. We have never seen anything like this having cruised the entire Atlantic seaboard. Secondly the launch stopped at 7pm on a weekend. Fortunately the yacht club close by was kind enough to bring us to our mooring. Surprising issues for a Safe Harbor after charging $100/night.