Gloucester Harbormaster

Great.. well organised moorings easy to pick up.

After an especially difficult sail it was great to grab a mooring in the Inner Harbor area for the evening. Harbormaster was kind and easy to work with. A def go-back!

Great protected anchorage provided nice overnight respite from a Nor’easter. Good facilities and very responsive.

The Inner Harbor mooring was fantastic. Great support from the harbormaster and dockmaster. A favorite destination!

As always a great stay! Easy access via the launch and the harbormasters crew is top notch!

all staff of the office are friendly and great-very helpful and we had a great time- but waiting for the launch twice- for over an hour as they service the beach- i guess it is good to have service and the facilities are A= but waiting for such a period of time was not good and not fun- but the drivers are all nice and we know- doing the best they can

Great stay! Mooring balls are first rate, easy pickup with stick atop the mooring ball. Launch drivers very helpful with our loads of groceries and boxes. Great town to visit.

Great location and amenities

It is always a pleasure to stay with Gloucester Harbormaster. Pleasant, welcoming and great , clean facilities Bell Luna

Clearly marked mooring balls with a tall pickup sticks facilitated easy tying up. Boaters lounge and facilities are new and impeccably clean. Launch was very quick and clean. All this made visiting actual town a pleasure. Looking forward to our next visit. Alex / Serenity

This was our 3rd visit to Gloucester this season, staying overnight in the inner harbor. The Harbormaster, staff and and launch service are all top notch. Very friendly, welcoming and appreciative of the boaters staying there. Their facilities are also very nice and clean. Highly recommended! A+

Schooner Festival. The harbormaster, launch operators, and dock master were always there providing great service and a helping hand. The facilities are in great condition and appreciate the Mariners Lounge.

Gloucester is one of our favorite ports. Always active and interesting. The harbor masters office is very professional and their dingy dock is located in the perfect spot for walking around town.

Great location, phantastic views, Launch service works great and friendly

Good mooring. Numbers can be difficult to find. Nice stay, good launch.

Awesome stay, mooring was perfectly located to here live music

Great spot and friendly Harbormaster and launch operators

Very easy in and out. Super friendly launch drivers who let you in on what's going on. Gloucester has a ton of fun things short walks away. Showers and lounge were excellent- on par with the best I've ever seen.

Beautiful harbor didnt use launch or other shoreside amenities. Next time…

Nice folks easy mooring in very protected harbor

Very secure moorings and nice facilities on shore. All staff are very friendly and helpful. One of our favorite stops in New England.

Harbormaster was very helpful. Facilities are nice and the dinghy dock is centrally located.

Very nice facility. Moorings in the inner harbor are well protected. Launch service convenient and easy. Our first overnight in Gloucester and it was nice and easy.

Amazing transient boater facility and the harbormasters office was friendly to work with and very accommodating.

Moored in the inner harbor. Nice calm anchorage in a picturesque New England, working town. The harbor master staff couldn’t have been nicer.

Great transient boater facility, and everyone was extremely helpful and friendly!

Stayed in the inner harbor. Launch drivers are very nice, knowledgeable and very helpful.

Gloucester remains in my estimation as one of Best run voting centers in New England. It’s also good to know that propane refills for boat tanks can be had at the nearby Building Center - Just a stones throw away from the harbormasters office.

This is a great spot, the launch drivers are good, responsive, and nice, as are the facilities for transient boaters.

The lounge and shower were extremely clean and the launch will take you anywhere in the harbor.

Very clean lounge. Easy to find lounge. Used the launch. Great service. Thank you.

Great staff and great communication

Always a pleasure visiting Gloucester Harbor. Everyone on the Harbormaster’s team are helpful and professional. Easy reservations on Dockwa. They will always try to accommodate mooring location preference!

Great Harbor, lots of interesting places and good food. A special thanks to the Harbormaster and crew for making it a memorable destination.

Nice mooring, the harbor master answered right away and directed us to the mooring. Took a nice ride through the Anasquam. Good restaurants

Wonderful mooring field with lots of great boat traffic to watch. Very attentive launch service and harbor masters office. Lots to do and see in and around the harbor too!

Great mooring. In very good shape. As a larger boat, we were in the outer harbor, but still a quick launch ride into town.

Gloucester Harbormaster is absolutely the best. Amazing staff. They have fit us in last minute countless times. New facilities with fresh water, air conditioned lounge, great showers and in the heart of the town.

Very good mooring and helpful guidance. Vinny and Bruce were excellent launch captains!

Gloucester is a great town with excellent restaurants. We were assigned mooring TP1 in the Ten Pound mooring area for 2 nights and the boat wakes during the day made it unbearable to stay on the boat. We even found broken dishes in the cabinet when we got back one day and drawers were open from such hard rocking. In the future we will never stay in any mooring field there other than inner harbor.

This is a tough review to write because our 3 nights on the Stage Hand mooring was both positive and negative. Starting with the positives: Great showers and for the most part, the launch service, nice mariners lounge Great town to visit Short walk to laundry, groceries and liquor store Beautiful schooners slowly sailing by us during sunset, a lovely evening show The negatives: All moorings are $60 whether you are in the protected inner harbor or out in Stage Hand where the Annisquam River boat wakes keep the boat rocking all day long to the point you cannot stay on the boat safely The launch service on Saturday afternoon was beyond dismal. We had spent the day ashore because of the wakes near the mooring. Another couple and us got on the empty launch at the Harbormaster dock, we needed to go to Stage Hand and they towards the Ten Pound moorings. We boarded the launch at 4pm, the launch driver then proceeded to pick up people from the inner harbor moorings and kept dropping them off without going towards the outer harbor. While he was answering calls for puck up, he wasn’t paying attend backed into a boat and only became aware of this when a passenger yelled at him. We finally got to our mooring at 5:05 pm after he pulled close to our boat at full throttle at which time I finally broke and yelled at him to slow down and remind him he is responsible for any damage his wake could cause. The following day, another launch driver heard about this and apologized repeatedly. If the outer moorings are to be treated as second class to the inner harbor, the fee for the nightly mooring should reflect it.

As always we had a great stay. Love the inner harbor

We love Gloucester. Harbor Masters are extremely helpful. And great restaurants in town. BUT our mooring assignment was outside of the inner harbor and boat wakes are horrendous. The No Wake area should be extended to before Ten Pound Island for safety and comfort of moored guests. In the future we will decline any mooring outside of the peaceful inner harbor

Gloucester Harbormaster is the best place! The facilities are top notch, great atmosphere, and the Harbormaster’’s communication is excellent!

Inner harbor moorings protected and convenient to town. Launch prompt and friendly. Morning traffic by the watermen wasn't an issue - minimal disturbance.

Very welcoming harbor. Convenient dinghy dock with spacious park attached which was doggie friendly. So much to see. Great transient boater facilities as well. Very well maintained. We’ve been visiting for many years, and will continue to do so.

Well marked moorings and a super convenient launch service. Highly recommend!

excellent. +**+** *+**+

Everyone was very accommodating. We always love going there

Harbor master came out immediately to fix an issue with the mooring, the launch was VERY busy but the guys were on top of it. Easy to reach and short wait times considering how busy they were. Very friendly and will drop you anywhere there is a dock. Would give them 10 stars if we could.

Great facilities, super wonderful staff.

Lovely area - little rocky on this mooring and close to the repair of boats. Launch was excellent.

Inner harbor moorings are right in the heart of Gloucester. Friendly harbor master and great facility.

Great spot to visit for a couple of days or just overnight when passing through. Launch service is a great perk with securing a mooring reservation. A few different areas in the harbor are serviced. Very pleasant and helpful launch drivers. The transient “lodge” is clean and comfortable, with showers, toilets and a searing area with plenty of plugs to charge your devices. Only thing I’d like to see is Wi-Fi extended to the inner harbor mooring field. (The other spots are too far away).

Was great. Launch drivers are super.

Very helpful harbormaster's office. Nice town. Great shower facility kept very clean.

Super new shower facilities, friendly and helpful launch drivers! Nice quiet mooring.

Excellent stay, wonderful folks

Mooring equipment was in perfect condition, Harbormaster and launch driver very friendly and helpful. Gloucester is a delightful stop on our way to and from Maine.

Really appreciated the launch service. friendly attitude at the dockmasters office, and very nice transient facilities— heads and showers — right on the way to Main Street.

Wonderful combination of working harbor interests and transient boater amenities. Launch very convenient. Smith Cove moorings are convenient to fuel docks and well sheltered. Bonus treat was three schooners sailing through the harbor last night.

Beautiful setting on mooring off Niles Beach

Moorings are in the middle is the inner harbor. Gloucester is a working harbor so if you plan to sleep in, you should bring ear plugs because fishermen are up early. It is a no wake zone and protected so it’s calm. Launch service is complimentary with the mooring and responsive. Recommend going to the Beauport hotel for dinner - 10 minute walk from the town dock or you can ask them to drop you at St Peter Square and it’s a 3 minute walk. Been here twice and enjoy it.

I always have a good time in Gloucester

Harbormaster was very helpful and the new showers and boaters lounge were pleasant. From the harbormaster dock it is a short walk to Main St. and excellent shops and restaurants.

Huge improvement in harbor services over the last two years. Very good launch, new showers and office work location, good Maine services in the neighborhood. A really big upgrade compared to the past. Now a really top destination.

Fantastic, great support, very knowledgeable staff. The launch was quick, accurate and safe . Great Team, Bona Fiesta!

We loved Gloucester! It was our first USA anchorage after crossing from Nova Scotia. The Gloucester Harbormaster was easy to communicate with via phone or VHF upon arrival. We extended our stay from 2 days to 3 and easily secured the same mooring bouy off Niles Beach. We did laundry at the East Gloucester Laundry with a dinghy dock only 200m away. We enjoyed the restaurants around the harbour and grabbed some groceries. Instragram #sailingsophistikate

Very friendly staff, clean facilities and prompt launch on call

This field should not be required

Friendly staff Easy mooring

Very friendly and helpful staff! Although there is no ice on site, there is a Walgreens across the street.

I had a convenient, well marked and well-maintained mooring ball in a very protected inner harbor location. The bath facilities in the Mariners lounge were excellent. From the Harbormaster dinghy doc you can walk into town for any kind of food.. You cannot match the Waterfront display of old schooners, fishing boats, and yachts as you will see in Gloucester Harbor. What a treat.!

Moored in the inner harbor, with quick access to the launch service. Beautiful scenery, great protection, and lots of fun exploring the town.

Great! Awesome time in Gloucester. Launch drivers and Harborbasters are the best!

The Gloucester Harbormaster and staff do an outstanding job!! Very accommodating and the moorings are always well maintained. Thank you for another great stay!!

The Harbormaster and staff are always very friendly and accommodating. Launch service stops at 9:30, which is early, so helpful if you have a tender. Great restaurants and shopping.

The Gloucester harbormaster staff and launch crew are great! Very responsive and they make sure you have a ride back!! Great location and facilities, looking forward to staying again!

The bathroom and showers are the best in the area. The pump out is convenient as well as the launch. The staff are very friendly and inviting. The moorings are very strong. Very easy to find and plenty of safe water.

Great mooring and great service from the launch drivers! HarborMaster was very helpful providing a detailed description of the mooring location prior to our arrival.

Great showers, lounge and launch services.

Everyone from the Harbormasters to the Launch boat captains were helpful and friendly. The restrooms and showers very clean. Loved my stay and will be back. Thank you!

Quick response (I needed one!) and fair terms - thank you!

Excellent location, facilities and personnel.

Harbor Master was very helpful. Great location. Would definitely recommend.

We had a Nice end of season stay.

Always a nice stop and folks

Very friendly helpful launch driver

Weather sucked, but the launch drivers and the facilities are top notch. The town is easy-to-use

Friendly harbor master staff, nice clean Mariner’s Lounge with showers and complimentary launch service.

It was rainy and cold. I originally asked for a mooring off Stage Head but they offered a mooring inner harbor. Quiet peaceful just a great relaxing evening.The Gloucester Harbormaster and staff are wonderful. Great and accommodating launch. Will certainly be back

Enjoyed our stay here. All staff were friendly and knowledgeable. Launch operators were skilled and timely. I was very impressed with a phone call I received one evening confirming that we were back aboard our boat after a visit to shore! Thanks for making our stay memorable!

Gloucester Harbor and the Gloucester Harbor Masters staff are second to none! The facilities are fantastic. Moorings well marked and located with pickup sticks. I highly recommend all mariners to visit Gloucester! Lots to offer.

Amazing staff, great stay

Great people at Harbormasters office and launch drivers, good hurricane hole for Lee.

Gloucester is one of our favorite marinas. They are very responsive, facilities are great and the launch service is great. They make access to the very authentic fishing town very easy and enjoyable. Highly recommended.

Great new facilities, mooring options, helpful staff. All around my favorite place for transient mooring.

great town . Awesome visually . Excellent launch service by Mike . The other guy (weds) sucked . Such a scenic , historic harbor . We're coming back !

Accommodating, helpful, friendly, very competent, funny, and the list goes on. The mariner's facilities are fantastic. A nice improvement since last time I stayed in the harbor a few years ago. The docks are in great shape. The moorings are clearly marked and well equipped. All of this made for a very pleasant and fun stay. I have ZERO recommendations for improvement. Kudos. I would recommend a stay in Gloucester to any yachtsman/boater. Cheers, Capt. Jaco

Great harbor, helpful staff, nice facilities

Inner Harbor great access to Gloucester. Well sheltered

The staff at the Harbormasters office went above and beyond especially Burch and he even helped me with the launch at the end of the night 2 thumbs up 👍👍

Great stay over Labor day Weekend. The Harbormaster and crew are the best. The new IH mooring field is perfect.

The facilities were very clean. The launch service was great. I cancelled my second night stay less than 24?hours before the deadline and, understandably, was not given a refund. However, Hinkley Southwest Harbor and Kittery Harbor both issued refunds under the same conditions. As the date I cancelled was on a holiday weekend I can’t believe that the mooring couldn’t be rented.

Great stay on the mooring ball, out near Ten Pound Isl. Excellent launch service.

The harbormaster team is excellent The harbor simply beautiful

The crew at the Harbormaster’s treated us really well…very courteous and professional

Good mooring , nice view , prompt launch service , new showers

Could not be better!!

Stayed on an inner harbor mooring. Love having a launch service!

The updated “welcome” email with the mooring locations and mooring numbers makes it very easy to understand where your assigned mooring is,,,, We’ll Done!,,

Easy mooring, kind staff that was there to assist when needed. Good facilities. We plan to return again.

Awesome. The Harbor Master has done an excellent job of enhancing the mooring field. The facilities are top notch. And the staff is friendly and professional. Each year I come it’s better than last year. And it’s always been excellent. They just keep raising the bar.

Transient facilities are nice and all the harbor staff were helpful and responsive

We loved our stay. Gloucester harbormaster and the launch service are very welcoming and accommodating. Dinning at Beauport is always a treat.

Harbor master responsive to our request for inner harbor mooring. Free launch service prompt and helpful. Busy working harbor. Walked around town, shopped and had lunch.

Gloucester has become a first class stop for the cruising sailor. The showers are awesome and the Yachtsman's rec room is awesome. Fresh potable water at the dock would make it perfect.

Excellent with the best transient showers

We found the place very pleasant

It’s a wonderful harbor!

Great help all around!

We stayed in 2 different moorings one in the inner harbor and one in the outer harbor. Both were fine. We found the people in the Harbor Master’s office to be extremely helpful and communicated helpful information.

We love Stage Head although it was windier than expected. Harbor staff are very friendly and accommodating.

Lovely place. The harbormaster we dealt with was extremely accommodating, helpful, and just generally very nice: we had an issue when someone took our ball, and it was resolved in the best way possible for all parties.

Nice, helpful and very responsive marina staff! Mooring was nice and close to the dinghy dock and also had great launch Services! Defiantly worth checking out, we will be back!

Wonderful three night stay at 10 lbs island. Four five star launch drivers and impressive new shower and lounge block.

One of the best places to visit. The harbormaster has done a great job with facilities for cruisers. Really enjoyed my stay.

The Harbor Master snd Launch were super helpful and polite.

Nice spot. Plenty to do and see

Liked it so much we stayed an extra day!

Great stay. Such a beautiful spot!

As previously the Harbormaster staff was very accommodating and helpful. We were on an inner harbor mooring with easy access to shore and plenty to watch. Highly recommend as a stop off for Maine if coming from the south.

great launch service

We had a great time in Gloucester and dinner at Passports one of our favorite restaurants.

Nice moorings and a very good launch service. The rest rooms & lounge area are very clean & air conditioned.

The town was very nice. We might have stayed another night, but... We were in the Ten Pound mooring field. We were waked a lot, including the worst wake we have ever had when on a mooring at 10:20 pm. Not fun. We are not new boaters having nearly 10k miles under the keel.

We we assigned a mooring on the inner harbor which proved very convenient. The HarborMaster’s team was welcoming and ready to assist at every turn. I highly recommend that boaters take advantage of all the Gloucester has to offer.

Thanks for a great night stay! Launch drivers were great.

Nile’s Beach mooring field was quite nice

Gloucester is a fantastic destination. The moorings are well laid out through the harbor and very well maintained.

Friendlay launch drivers and easy hailing. Always a great way to visit Gloucester.

We love coming to visit Gloucester. The Harbormaster and his crew are so friendly and helpful. We utilized the launch to bring family on board. Super convenient. We also found the dinghy dock by the harbormaster’s office super convenient to restaurants, laundry, and a free concert every Thursday in the summer months. The mariners lounge is clean, and a nice respite from the heat. We stayed both on the moorings and anchored in front of the mooring field. When anchoring be mindful to stay inside the triangle of the channel markers. The schooners, large fishing fleet, and whale watchers and cruise ships frequent the inner harbor and need maneuvering room. I highly recommend a stop here on your way north or south. It’s a very protected harbor, with rich history, and friendly people.

Love Gloucester. Active port. Great restaurants. Complimentary launch service. All the staff is friendly and accomplished.

A beautiful quiet harbor. The launch drivers for Gloucester were super helpful and friendly. My only complaint was that Brown’s marina where we went for fuel told us that their water wasn’t potable which I later heard was not true. Apparently $250 for diesel isn’t good enough allow a sailboat to get 50 gallons of water.

Fantastic. Very helpful staff

Very friendly and helpful. Moved us from the outer harbor to the inner harbor without us asking. Super launch service. No need to put down our dingy to go ashore with our dog and to check out town.

Excellent staff, launch was super helpful with various dropoff and pickup spots. Laundry across street will do it for you as well as self service, which is nice if you are in a time crunch. Showers are awesome! Super clean as they are new. Location can't be beat. Inner harbor is so convenient - where we stayed. And it certainly wasn't busy traffic wise, so that was nice.

Great location inner harbor, new, clean boaters lounge and showers.

Very nice stop. Good mooring, excellent launch service and very clean showers!

Very accommodating but inner harbor mooring field was somewhat noisy with lots of commercial activity, making sleep a challenge.

Great spot. Very nice shore facilities. Couldn't have been nicer

Booking the Dockwa mooring was simple, and when I asked/ messaged questions to the harbormaster they were quick to reply with answers. The launch service was prompt and dropped us off close to where we were going (Main St area).

Outstanding harbor, Harbormaster and launch services. Great moorings that kept us safe through a thunderstorm with 40+kt winds. Stayed 7/26-30. Had to move mooring balls as we ended up staying due to unexpected bad weather. Leslie at the Harbormaster's office could not have been nicer. We had one night in Ten Pound which was a bit rocky due to wake from all the boat traffic, the rest in Inner Harbor which was great. The town is wonderful, well worth a visit. Great restaurants, shops (awesome shoe store, Mark Adrian) and a wonderful chocolate shop, Turtle Alley. Highly recommend a visit to Gloucester!

Always great to come to Gloucester. People are friendly, the town is easy to access and small enough to walk. Plenty to do and places to eat. Boating facilities are very clean and a pleasure to use. We will come back. Thanks Gloucester.

Could not ask for more support and service. Very forward thinking leadership and staff. Facilities are more than adequate, well maintained and clean. Great little harbor that has done its best to maintain its heritage. The downtown is alive and vibrant. A must stop!

Nice facilities, great launch staff. We’ll be back

Really appreciate two launches running

New restaurant, Decklyn’s, is outstanding. Very close to Harbormaster’s office.

Excellent mooring in an excellent harbor. Harbor master was courteous & helpful. Mooring easy to spot & catch. Very very clean, roomy showers and a clean mariner’s lounge. Launch operator was helpful and pleasant. Highly recommend Update: we enjoyed Gloucester & the mooring situation so well that we stopped in on our passage back south from Maine. Really, really nice people here at the Harbormaster’s. Many thanks.

Always a great spot since to renovations. The lounge is great now with a book swap. Spotless. Only thing they don’t have is laundry, but available in town.

Lovely harbor…will be back!

Ten pound island moorings gets lots of boat wake during the day. At night fishing boats around us with bright lights. Big wakes through out the night. Not restful. Suggest inner harbor moorings. Launch was very helpful and friendly

Great location. Great launch service!

Excellent stay. Very welcoming Harbormaster office and staff. Vinny was professional and informative. My only criticism would be the noise coming from the commercial buildings while staying in the main central mooring field which ran 24 hours of the day. Next time I would select one of the other mooring fields. Facilities were real nice and immaculately clean and tidy. Launch boats are high end. Well down Town of Gloucester!

Keep coming back every year . On our list of favorite stops.

Very nice people and very accomodating

Very accommodating and friendly attendants

Wonderful weekend away from home! Launch service was timely. Gloucester has really been built up in the last few years w more restaurants and bars

Make the effort to go to Gloucester. The harbor master, staff, launch service and the town are all exceptional!

Mooring assigned before we arrived so we went straight to it. Good mooring gear. Nice location. Good launch service

I was very happy to utilize the mooring and launch service. When the launch picked me up they were very accommodating to myself and my family.

Great spot, great response from the Harbormaters office. Easily done, thank you!

Excellent. Exactly what we asked for. So convenient.

Excellent on all counts: communication, mooring maintenance and numbering, and launch service. The launch took us to the town dock, Cripple Cove for a short walk to the Stop and Shop, and to Pirates Lane for laundry. Several great restaurants in the area, live music on Thursday evenings in the park behind the Harbormasters office, and two whale watching tours (we saw 20 whales in an hour). Quick $1.00 bus ride to Rockport. We had a wonderful time.

Harbormaster assigned us a mooring on the radio in the inner harbor as we had requested. Upon our arrival we found the mooring was already occupied. However, there were 5 other empty moorings. The harbormaster gave us a hard time about taking one. It took at least an hour to straighten it out. At best, the harbormaster was uncooperative. His office staff answering the phone was quite rude. requested.

First rate moorings & terrific launch service to multiple points in Town. The launch operators are true professionals - courteous, friendly, knowledgable and true advocates of Gloucester. We are too. Great harbor, wonderful vessel watching, variety of restaurants & shops. Gloucester and Harbormaster are 1st rate. "Way To Go" will be back!

Loved the city. Launch operators were great!

Beautiful clean facilities and friendly staff.

Loved the Stage Harbor mooring. Great beaches, dining and active harbor activities. Harbor Master facilities were great

Gloucester Harbor Moorings are a great option to enjoy Gloucester by water or by land. Very well marked moorings. They have a dingy dock walking distance to restaurants and the boulevard or they also have a launch if needed.

We can't wait to go back to Gloucester. Communication regarding directions to the mooring, use if the launch and matiners lounge were excellent. The shower facilities were sparkling clean. The lauinch driver was very helpful with restaurant recomendations. We were very satisfied with this service.

Easy booking. We were assigned an inner harbor mooring which is very close to all the waterfront activities. A bit rolly with S/SE swells but settled down after dark. Launch service was great and the launch captain was actually pretty funny. Except for the swell issues this was a great place to spent a night. BTW, if the wind is more from the E-NE-N-NW, I suspect it would have been totally calm.

Mooring was great & launch service was very helpful. Very quaint community with lots of little shops and restaurants. Harbor is extremely easy to navigate - we cannot wait to return.

This is an excellent place to stay. So much to do or not. The launch operators are fantastic. Very knowledgeable and very helpful. The inner harbor is very interesting and has some great views.

I come here often. Friendly launch drivers and harbour master Great place!

Great folks here in Gloucester. New boater's lounge 1st class. Very nice clean private showers and a small seating area. There is a laundromat across the street. Launch is included in mooring fee and runs from 08:00-22:00.

Very friendly people and good accommodations great visitors, lounge, and facilities.

Friendly and responsive team, clear instructions, great launch, and dog friendly :) Thank you

Easy access could be closer to beach

Info from Harbor Master regarding mooring location excellent, modern and clean restrooms and showers, good launch service with pickup and drop off several locations along harbor very convenient. Great place to visit, will return.

We love staying on a mooring in Gloucester. Beautiful location, lots to do, helpful harbormasters. One note of caution is that mooring TP1 gets a lot of big wakes because the no wake zone can is well AFTER it rather than a distance before it (which would help to to slow boats down). It would be ideal if TP1 were moved closer to the Manufactory side and/or further away from edge of channel.

Gloucester Harbormasters office always a pleasure to deal with and very accommodating!

The Harbormaster staff was outstanding!

Habormaster group were quick to respond to our reservation request and very professional. Mooring gear was in good shape. Bathrooms were in great shape and very clean. Gloucester waterfront and town is lovely. Everything we need is within walking distance. Great town

Great team. Good service. Clean moorings.

Everyone at the Gloucester Harbormaster’s office, on the grounds and on the launch boats were so friendly and helpful. It is a lovely harbor, close to downtown Gloucester. Nice, clean facilities, including showers.

Stayed in Inner Harbor. Super close to main st. Nice facilities, especially for town run. A little busy, but that’s to be expected. Highly recommended.

Gloucester Harbormaster was superb. Very helpful and accomodating.

Wonderful location…clean facilities…close to everything…friendly, delightful and knowledgeable launch drivers…could not ask for anything more.

Friendly and great facilities.

Friendly and professional

Excellent mooring, great launch service and very nice Harbourmaster and staff.

very good. We love coming to Gloucester and we will be back. Great visit, clean restrooms and helpful launch drivers.

The first night was perfect. The second they made move for the fireworks but it all worked out with the support of the Gloucester Harbormasters. Great weekend

Good location for weather protection. We had to contact the harbormaster to find our assigned mooring as it didn’t have a number on it.

This was our second trip and we had another great visit! We’re very impressed with the mooring gear, the field is very convenient to town, launch well operated and the staff we engaged with are delightful. We look forward to another visit soon

Great except #5 is not sufficient for a 54 ft. boat. We kept hitting #4

We called at the last minute and they were very cordial and got us checked con an assigned a mooring in just a couple of minutes

Class act! Harbors always accommodates requests regarding mooring location requests, prompt message responses on DOCWA, outstanding bathroom and lounge facilities. My favorite place to stay while in Gloucester.

Outstanding facilities and helpful staff. We will visit Gloucester again.

Only a one night visit. Will be back. Mooring ball right in the center of the harbor. Excellent launch service included. Very friendly Harbormasters.

One of the best mooring ball experiences ever! The best detailed instructions on the mooring ball location ever received including overview of the different mooring fields, detailed views showing the numbering scheme in each field, a description of the ball and of course the assignment days before we arrived. Great launch service with from 8 am to 10 pm. Very clean lounge, bathrooms etc. and launch drivers full of facts, suggestions and history of the harbor. I’ll be back again and will stay longer than the 2 nights this time.

Great harbor. Great harbor master. One of the best harbors to visit in the area.

We stayed on a mooring in the Inner Harbor which was convenient for shuttle service to town. We were there for an overnight during Schooner Fest. The shuttle service was stretched thin, one launch for the entire harbor during a busy time. Although the wait time was a bit longer than we have experienced elsewhere, launch driver and harbor master office were extremely friendly and helpful. We would definitely stay there again.

We absolutely love sailing into Gloucester and staying on the Harbormaster Moorings. Terry, and the other Harbormasters are just the friendliest , most accommodating people. I cannot praise them enough! This particular stay, we were assigned a mooring in the Niles Beach field and we nearly canceled thinking it was too remote ( or would be rolly) as the Inner Harbor Moorings were all reserved. But we ended up staying there, at Niles Beach, and the setting was magnificent! It wasn’t rolly or uncomfortable at all. It was tranquil and serene and the launch would have serviced us, but we were so happy and relaxed, we stayed on the boat all evening and had a great swim in the clear, warm water. We shall definitely return and stay on the Harbormaster’s moorings. Thank you so much!!

Great mooring location and facilities. The inner harbor is very protected and smooth. There was a bit of commercial traffic, but the wakes were very minimal. Harbor launch, dinghy dock, and harbormaster office all very close and convenient. The Transient Boaters Facility (restroom, showers, air conditioned wi-fi lounge) seemed new and was very clean and well-maintained. Restaurants and shops downtown are close by and walking distance. Would definitely come here again.

Always a great take!

Wonderful stay. The launch service was excellent and the Dockwa info was very good. We got notice of the mooring number and location ahead of time.. thank you!

Stayed on Inner Harbor mooring, Harbormaster sent helpful confirmation email and met us on arrival. Fun taking launch into town for dinner, can’t wait to visit again!

Directions to mooring were clear, friendly harbor master, excellent launch service!

Amazing, friendly staff!! Great facilities, and everyone was eager to make our stay seamless and pleasant. Thank you!

We loved our stay in Gloucester Harbor. Our mooring was in Smith Cove - protected and close to shore and the harbor master facilities. The showers are very nice and clean. The launch service was excellent and was able to take you to many places. Great restaurants to choose from. I would recommend a visit to Gloucester.

Great town, great mooring, fantastic staff. A must visit.

Gloucester is a great town to visit and the Harbormaster crew is excellent. On this trip we visited the Cape Ann Museum. Nice collection of both art and nautical stuff. We never bothered to launch the dinghy, the free launch runs late daily. A mooring in the inner harbor provides plenty of relaxed entertainment as we watched the fishing fleet come and go.

Such a great place! Professional, attentive staff and clean facilities. Thank you for all you do to ensure a pleasant stay!

We so enjoyed our four nights in Gloucester's Inner Harbor. The launch drivers are full of great local info, and everyone was super friendly and helpful. Access to the dock with our dinghy was also easy and we were able to dispose of trash as well. We had a 40 knot thunderstorm roll through during our stay and the mooring held perfectly - and we are a 55 Nordhavn so there is some weight involved! Provisioning is easy, restaurants are great, and the people all around town are lovely. A local boater gave us a ton of intel on Maine (where we were headed) and even loaned us a guide book! A great visit - we'll be back!

Very friendly facility. Service was great! HM made sure we were satisfied.

Excellent new (to us) shower facilities! A lending library bookshelf would help the “lounge” area, and a washer/dryer unit would be most appreciated. Lovely to get our “welcome packet” straight from their office in the same building. Beautiful place to stay, with a wide variety of boats!

Outstanding unplanned visit to Gloucester while waiting for the wind to shift to sail north. Mike expertly guided us to the proper mooring and helped us with restaurant suggestions. The shower and bathroom facilities are brand new and immaculate. There is something for everyone in Gloucester between whale watching, walking tours and historic schooner charters. It’s still a working fishing town and the waterfront has that flavor. While not the prettiest harbor, the folks are genuine and happy for your visit. I encourage any cruiser to check it out!

Great staff, solid & secure moorings tucked up at the top of the channel. Very convenient to the Cape Cod Canal.

Excellent all went well

Great services. Very friendly launch drivers. Wonderful new shower and bathroom facility. As we were moored in the inner harbor, it was very busy at 4;30am until 6:30, as the fishing fleet steamed close by. Went back to sleep for a short time after, so not an issue, just interesting.

The City of Gloucester and the Harbor Master have done a great job of creating a very welcoming harbor with excellent shore side facilities for transients. The Cruising Guides do not do the city justice. Gloucester is a great mix of commercial fishing, recreational boating, places to eat and for the land tourists plenty of boat excursions. We stayed in the inner harbor on a mooring. Moorings are first rate and easy to pick up. Dinghy dock is a short distance away by CG station. Harbor walk is very nice. Would definitely keep Gloucester on my list of ports to return to when heading north or south.

Harbormaster office was extremely responsive and helpful. Provided suggestions for sightseeing. There’s a very nice boaters lounge with clean and modern shower facilities! We generally anchor but there isn’t much room in the harbor so we took a mooring for the night! Well worth the $50. Highly recommend!

Always fun in Gloucester. Easy to find moorings. Clean onshore facilities. We will return.

Very friendly, accommodating staff. Launch service is excellent and the Mariners’ Lounge with its new facilities is wonderful. It was disappointing that ice was no longer available at the Harbormaster’s offices.

Nice quiet moorring field. Great staff and launch service. Enjoyed the visit. Wifi workde only at the town office. Cell service was great! V. cute town.

Stayed here for a week. Loved the Inner Harbor mooring. The free Launch service is great. Everyone is very friendly. We really enjoyed our stay in Gloucester.

Nice moorings, friendly staff

Gloucester is among our favorite destination cities either for a short trip or as a stopover recovery from a long one. Mooring rental prices are excellent which includes a launch service running until 2200L-very useful.

Mooring, directions, facilities all are great. Only issue was that launch was overstretched. It took us an hour before picking us up at 5:15. One launch to serve 5 far flung mooring fields is not sufficient.

Booking was easy and for last minute accommodations they got me mooring fast. Very happy with the Gloucester Harbormaster and There building was clean and easily accessible. I will definitely be back.

Great spot in the inner harbor, the new facilities are beautiful. The Launch is great service included in the mooring cost, they will pick up and drop all over town.

Friendly folks. Great location. Best bathroom facilities on the East Coast.

The Gloucester harbormaster and crew do a great job. The moorings and pick up sticks are new and well maintained. The launch staff are attentive and efficient but their range of coverage is so great there are times you'll have a long wait for service. Still one of the best values for a mooring and a great city.

Friendly and helpful staff. Facilities new and very clean. Dinghy dock close walking distance to restaurants.

Very clean, the harbor master staff is extremely helpful. The facilities are the best we’ve experienced. The launch was running and the hours made it so we could enjoy our time shore. Highly recommended.

Fantastic mooring! Launch service is included. The driver was extremely helpful and prompt. During the summer months the town hosts a block party along its main drag. It was a lot of fun.

Beautiful harbor!! Easy in and out. Met friends for dinner at the Blue Collar Lobster Co. Good food and great company. Check out the fish mosaics on the back side wall of the refrigerator building. All hand made pieces with the story of Gloucester !!! A must see!!

The harbormaster staff was amicable and informative, and the facilities were excellent, with a clean shower and comfortable lounge for transient moorings. The launch was very helpful in finding us the local places to eat breakfast and with all local questions

Great facility. Clean bathrooms, showers and Captain’ lounge. Unfortunately launch was out of commission. It happened after we made our reservation so we didn’t know it was out. Spent an hour hauling them with no answer. Had to cancel our dinner reservations.

Had a geeat 4th and extended weekend it was great weather and great views. Thank you.

Great staff, great facilities, great stay. Launch service was prompt and helpful, and the showers were roomy and clean (I really like that there’s a dressing area as part of the private shower room). Stayed in the inner harbor. This is a working harbor, so there is a hum to it, and fishing boats will ease by you before sunrise. Fun to watch the comings and goings, and town is an easy walk from the launch dock. Stop and Shop grocery store is a short walk from where the launch can drop you art the top of the harbor.

Great public moorings and friendly staff!

Very accommodating team and facilities.. ALL positive interactions. Great location for exploring Gloucester. We’ll be back soon!

Great location for the weekend Easy dinghy ride into town.

Our Gloucester stay was great! New clean moorings and pennants. Friendly staff. Launch brings you close to shops and restaurants.

As always, responsive, accommodating, easy. Love the in-app ability to send/receive messages (and the Harbormaster timely use of it). Nice job Gloucester.

Gloucester was our favorite stop. There is so much going on. It is fun to sit on the back porch and watch.. The moorings were well marked and easy to find….

Really enjoyed our trip to Gloucester in June 2022. The Harbormaster and launch driver were very helpful. We had an excellent time visiting town to walk around and have dinner and breakfast.

Launch ok, facilities nice. Lotts of roll in mooring field. Very uncomfortable aboard. And then the wakes from Commercial Boats add to mess. Then the lobsterboat

Excellent service. Very courteous and professional. Got put on a mooring in Inner Harbor. Launch and pumpout boat are first rate. Pumpout is free but leave a tip. Moorings are large cans with bumper ring on top and receptical for holding the pickup wand. Inner harbor location is excellent. Most everything you might need is within walking distance.

Easy to follow channel to mooring field (Inner Harbor). Harbormaster is quick to respond to questions and reservations. Mooring penenats were easy to pickup. This is a noisy harbor. There is an ambient din from various plants and trucks. There is a good deal of ambient light all night. Early (5am) departure of fishing fleet with wakes and engine noise. Access to shore is via the Harbormasters dock which is crowded and the dinghy dock is tucked in where it is hard to find (harbormasater explains the location clearly). Lots of stores and services within walking distance of the harbor.

Easy in and out. Well marked mooring field .

Was great. Peaceful and picturesque. Great local restaurants close by. Shuttle service available til 8pm.

Used a city mooring for 3 consecutive nights to wait out a passing storm. The mooring fields are well maintained are in a location with quick access to downtown. The Launch Masters are very polite and attentive, even though that service the entire harbor with a single launch. Dockwa makes the whole reservation/payment process a breeze.

Simply the best crew anywhere.

We received an email with our mooring number in the inner harbor and a diagram which made finding the mooring easy. Low stress! Also launch service is included and the launch driver could not have been nicer! They will take you anywhere.

Great mooring and launch service in this beautiful and historic harbor!

Friendly harbormaster. Great mooring! Great launch service!

Great Harbor the Harbormasters office is very helpful and the launch is a great service that is included with your stay the drivers are very helpful with area knowledge. I will be back

Great mooring in the inner harbor, quick service from the launch, clean bathrooms, awesome shower...

Excellent harbor, friendly and clean Harbor Master has a great system for dockage/moorings Launch operators very friendly

We are in the midst of a 2 month Connecticut to Maine and back cruise and just spent a week in Gloucester Harbor (including Hurricane Ida remnant days). This is a wonderful City with great food, waterfront, parks, all needed amenities. The Harbormaster's facilities are brand new and the team go far out of their way to accommodate any reasonable need of the cruising yachtsman. Gloucester is a destination - plan a few day visit and you will not be disappointed. A hearty thank you to the Harbormaster and to the whole City. We'll be back!

Great harbor. Good launch service. Very responsive.

Great launch drivers full of information and very helpful. The new Mariners lounge with fabulous showers was excellent. Since the launches have to service a inner and outer harbor, we recommend that a 2nd launch would cut down on pick up time delays. Hooray for Gloucester in providing a great service to visiting yatchsmen.

Great facilities and mooring tackle. The “crew” is the most accommodating we have encountered in years of cruising New England. Thanks to Birch and Vinnie - we look to coming back and seeing you again.

High wind out of the ENE made Stage Head area undesirable but we were last minute. Launch service and land based amenities worked well for us. Would definitely go again back but would not stay at Stage Head.

Great maintained mooring, easily to find in protected inner harbor. Great to have launch service which is so accommodating. Love doing this overnight stay in Gloucester waters💕

Excellent launch service and nice shower facilities, but the Ten Pound island moorings get very bad boat wakes. Avoid them if you can.

2021Review: The plan for this stop was extended due to the approach of Tropical Storm Henri. We had planned on a short stop before continuing our transit south. But, Henri made it wise to find a good place to sit it out. The harbormaster actually called me a couple days before our arrival to inquire about our intentions and while the harbor was fully reserved through the anticipated arrival of the storm, kept me informed of cancellations until I was fully booked for 4 days. His dedication to helping me solve my problem in a stressful situation was greatly appreciated. As you can see from my earlier Comments about Gloucester Harbor, my wife and I really like this place. We’ll definitely be back in the future. 2019 Review: We had 3 great days in Gloucester! The mooring was secure and easily accessible. The free launch service was awesome! The launch always came quickly. The operators were professional and full of advice. We made great use of output time playing tourist. The Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester is a combination art and history museum. The current Winslow Homer exhibit is fascinating as are the exhibits on fishing, fishing schooners and granite mining. We also took a Cape Ann Transit Authority bus ( $0.60 for seniors) to Rockport where we took a free walking tour of the village. The guide was full of interesting stories. We also shopped and had a fine lunch on Bearskin Neck. On the way back to Gloucester the bus dropped us at a Stop & Shop where we did some provisioning. To top off the trip we found several ice cream shops within walking distance of the launch landing. “Holy Cow” was our favorite. We will return again!

Enjoyable stay. The tender and harbormaster services we first rate.We highly recommend using the harbormaster moorings if you are visiting Gloucester, MA

Much nicer than expected. Gloucester is a beautiful mix of commercial and recreational waterfront. There's a lot going on to watch while you're on the mooring ball, with your toes hanging off the stern. I'd go 4.5 stars if I could, just due to a couple of early morning wakes from the commercial boats. Nothing too terrible though.

Good moorings and great launch service.

Beautiful harbor. Very nice shower facilities. Walkable downtown.