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Touring the ships in the Cove was interesting, but I am not planning to sail here again, and certainly not on a weekend. We arrived on Saturday afternoon and attempted to contact the Harbormaster via radio and phone for our mooring assignment, but no response. A friendly gentleman on a private mooring told us to pick up any red & white mooring since there were plenty available - he then rode to the dinghy dock and left. We secured our boat and rowed to the dinghy dock (which is in need of repair) only to find that the gate was padlocked! My husband climbed the chain link fence, but I could not. He spoke with Audrey, the nice young woman in the gift shop, who made several phone calls to friends and eventually found someone who knew the combination so we could open the gate. This whole process took over an hour. Warning: this is a noisy place because the mooring field is right under the bridge. The traffic noise abates somewhat overnight. However, at 11:30pm a power boat picked up a mooring directly behind us with music blasting. After 1/2 an hour I came out into the cockpit and they left. But at 3am they were back to party! Shouting and dancing in the cockpit to obscene rap music - just rude, inconsiderate behavior. The name of the boat was Captain Morgan. My husband yelled over and they saw him, turned off the lights in their cockpit but kept blasting the music. We tried calling the Harbormaster but no response, so we called the police who told us there was nothing they could do. We did not sleep well in Battleship Cove. Perhaps it is more peaceful on a weeknight, but I would not recommend staying on the weekend.