Manchester Marine

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17 Ashland Avenue
Manchester, MA 01944
42° 34' 16.57'', -70° 46' 24.49''
978-526-7911
VHF Ch. 72
$120/night
www.manchestermarine.com
Manchester Harbor
Manchester Marine
Manchester Marine
Manchester Marine
Manchester Marine
Manchester Marine
Manchester Marine
Manchester Marine
Manchester Marine
Manchester Marine
Manchester Marine
Manchester Marine
Manchester Marine
Manchester Marine
Fuel
Last Updated: Sep 01, 2023 8:13AM

Diesel $4.799

Gas Regular $4.949

Awards


Boaters Choice 2017Boaters Choice 2018Boaters Choice 2022

About


Located at the harbor of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, we offer our customers the perfect combination—a naturally sheltered location with quick access to open water and offerings that include slips, moorings and fuel dock facilities for permanent customers and transients alike. Mariners choosing both storage and dockage with Manchester Marine have long known of our unique abilities to handle any and all issues throughout all four seasons. With an in-house staff of craftsmen, technicians and customer service professionals, Manchester Marine can tackle the full range of marine services. Many custom projects require skills from several of our shops. Our ability to bring these teams together under one roof ensures the highest level of oversight. We deliver the finest results.

Come enjoy the peace and serenity of magnificent Manchester Harbor. For one night or many, you are welcome here. There are restrooms, showers, fuel, ice and picnic tables on site for your convenience and enjoyment. Downtown Manchester is a five minute walk or dinghy ride where you will find numerous restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques and provisioning merchants. AND the best ice cream on the North Shore! Train service from Manchester center can deliver you to Historic Gloucester seaport, or to Boston with all it has to offer.

Berth Capacity


Slips:40
Moorings:6

Approach


Minimum Approach Depth:0.0 Feet
Minimum Channel Depth:0.0 Feet
Mean Low Water Dock Depth:0.0 Meters
Mean High Water Clearance:0.0 Feet

Services & Amenities

Last Updated: Jan 22, 2024

Fuel Dock:Yes
Gas:Yes
Diesel:Yes
Moorings:Yes
Water Hookup:Yes
Transient Storage:Yes
Long Term Storage:Yes
Service & Maintenance:Yes
Dinghy Dock:Yes
Wi-Fi:Yes
Pump-out:Yes
Restrooms:Yes
Showers:Yes
Trash:Yes
Ice:Yes
Security:Yes
Groceries:Within 5 Miles
Medical Facility:Within 5 Miles
Pharmacy:Within 5 Miles
Beach:Within 5 Miles
Max. Vessel LOA:60.0 Feet
Max. Slip Length:45.0 Feet
Max. Slip Width:0.0 Meters
Floating Docks:Yes
Oil Disposal:Yes
Repair Crane:Yes
Engine Service:Yes
Propeller Service:Yes
Dry Stack:Yes
Land Storage:Yes
Travel Lift:Yes
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Been storing my wooden boat there since 1980.

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Great communication with staff through dockwa. We picked up a mooring in the outer harbor due to our size. The mooring was easy to pick up. The harbor was beautiful. It was very calm after the traffic of the day stopped. Exposed to S and SW. Would stay there again.

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Despite a mechanical issue aboard our stay was amazing due to the fantastic staff. Prunie, Nick, Bones and company all went above and beyond to help us deal with our issue and still have a fantastic time. The harbor is stunningly beautiful and peaceful. We are adding it to our short list of places to each season. Can't wait to go back and spend more time exploring the area.

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MM is great. It is super convenient to dingy in to the town dock. All services are easily accessible. Very quiet and protected harbor. Staff is great. Thanks for another great stay.

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Beautiful town. Big grocery, too. The folks at MMC were great. AT under 40’ I would absolutely come here, in order to get a mooring in the spectacular inner harbor. The issue I have is that any boat over 45 is given a mooring way out in the outer harbor. 42° 33.661' N 70° 47.374' W by GC 5. 15 minutes dinghy by motor to town, and a little rolly even in very settled conditions. THEY DID TELL US UPRONT, AND WOUND UP OFFERING TO LET US COME INSIDE, but by that time we’d settled in. You wouldnt want to be out there in lousy weather for sure. & in settled you might as well anchor, especially since they have no launch either, so at 80 bucks… THEY DID LET US KNOW ABOUT THE LAUNCH SITUATION IN ADVANCE OF CHARGING FOR THE RESERVATION, so really not complaning, just stating. UNDER 40 awesome if a bit pricey. Over 45 though, meh

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Very easy location to grab a mooring

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Very nice marina staff and cute town. Excellent protection and great land access to groceries and restaurants! It’s a working boatyard with a bit of activity so good for mooring and dockage and service

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Staff was great. Reservation easy. Bathrooms/ shower nice, clean. Good location to downtown and to dingy around. Thanks!

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Excellent harbor / Manchester by the Sea nice town / Nice and clean

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Everything was great. I would have like some kind of launch support.

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We stayed on a mooring right in front of the marina. All was as expected. Wifi reached the boat. Staff were more than helpful. Very quite harbor. Nice town to walk around. Park had live music one night. All good.

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We always love staying at Manchester Marine. The MMC moorings are very secure and easy to pick up. This time, our arrival didn't go quite as smooth as usual. This is more of a humorous story than a complaint: We hailed on 72 as we approached and got no answer. Tried again, no answer. Different radio, no answer. Tried calling on cell, went to voice mail. So we grabbed a mooring. All this time, the person at the fuel dock can see us. So I commissioned the dingy so I could go over and talk to them face to face. When I went in the office I saw a VHF radio tuned to 72 - with the volume turned all the way down. I said "I've been hailing you on 72". "Nothing came through", they said. "Here's why" (as I turned the volume up). Anyway, then of course I had to dinghy back out and move from one mooring to another. To be fair, it was a bit early in the season for them. In fact, they opened up dockwa just for us on that day so we could get a reservation. We really do love staying there and my experience this time was way out of the ordinary for MMC.

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Although we had reserved a mooring, we were given a slip. We were also unaware that the marina closed at 4 pm - we arrived with about 15 minutes to spare. Facilities were good and the staff was very friendly.

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very friendly staff very clean very quiet

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Very friendly, helpful staff. We were in a group and they even moved a boat so we could all be together. Can't wait to go back!

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Spectacularly Beautiful harbour close to town

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First was told to go to mooring that couldn't get to because of the with of my boat(31') with only a launch boat man around at 4:15. Ended up putting us on a mooring way out of harbor where water was very rough. Numerous calls , with no help. We left went to Salem where we were treated very will.

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Nice folks. Randy was very accommodating.

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Friendly staff...clean facilities...beautiful harbor!

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Beautiful harbor, very well protected. Easy access to ocean and downtown to square and restaurants

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