My brother and I were six and eight years old when on a summer cruise to New Brunswick, Canada, were sent out to chart “The Mudhole” . We took turns dropping the sounding lead and recording the depth in feet as well as documenting rocks, ledges and lobster bouys. My parents were hoping for a lengthy project which would loan them a few hours of privacy.
The actual chart of "The Mudhole" is #13326 which can be viewed on this link.
A Cruising Guide to the New England Coast by Robert Duncan & Fessenden Blanchard
1958
However some descriptions were written by Mr Caleb Foote in his 1938 versuin of “The New England Yachtsman”
The Mudhole directions: p.385 “Cruising Guide…”
Great Wass Island, ME East of Jonesport, ME
Taken from the 1938 NE Yachtsman: “ the Mud Hole, with starred rocks spang in the middle of the entrance and 16 feet just inside them, has always held a peculiar fascination. I have never done more than sail by outside the Mud Hole; but once inside, all hurricanes in the world could blow and you would still be safe and sound. Fishermen, who sometimes leave boats here in winter, say it’s not hard to enter at high water, and here’s how: about where the chart (#304) marks 21 feet just north of Mud Hole Point, a fish weir makes out from the point. Skirt this weir, leaving it to port. Then as you enter the bottleneck mouth, keep very, very close to the southern side- and from the look of the chart the fishermen mean close! All of them agreed that the entrance should be made to the south of the rocks, but it would be well to sound out with a dinghy first. Once inside, you’ll probably find a winter mooring left vacant, and you can be sure you’re in a place of which not one in a hundred of your cruising friends has ever even heard.”
1958
However some descriptions were written by Mr Caleb Foote in his 1938 versuin of “The New England Yachtsman”
The Mudhole directions: p.385 “Cruising Guide…”
Great Wass Island, ME East of Jonesport, ME
Taken from the 1938 NE Yachtsman: “ the Mud Hole, with starred rocks spang in the middle of the entrance and 16 feet just inside them, has always held a peculiar fascination. I have never done more than sail by outside the Mud Hole; but once inside, all hurricanes in the world could blow and you would still be safe and sound. Fishermen, who sometimes leave boats here in winter, say it’s not hard to enter at high water, and here’s how: about where the chart (#304) marks 21 feet just north of Mud Hole Point, a fish weir makes out from the point. Skirt this weir, leaving it to port. Then as you enter the bottleneck mouth, keep very, very close to the southern side- and from the look of the chart the fishermen mean close! All of them agreed that the entrance should be made to the south of the rocks, but it would be well to sound out with a dinghy first. Once inside, you’ll probably find a winter mooring left vacant, and you can be sure you’re in a place of which not one in a hundred of your cruising friends has ever even heard.”
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