Nantucket Moorings Installed by Anderson's Stillwater Moorings

Anderson’s Stillwater Moorings Servicing Nantucket Harbor, Polpis Harbor, & Madaket Harbor

Anderson's Stillwater Moorings on Nantucket

ABOUT

Anderson’s Stillwater Moorings LLC (ASM) is a full-service Nantucket mooring company. Owned and operated by Matthew C. Anderson, we install and service moorings in all of Nantucket’s Harbors, including Nantucket, Polpis, Wauwinet, Madaket, North Shore, Muskeget, and Tuckernuck. Currently with nearly 30 years of experience in the mooring industry, Matthew started ASM in 2012. ASM’s primary goal is to provide the Nantucket boat owner with the stress-free assurance that their vessel is safe and secure. We also offer dock services and installation to meet your waterfront needs. All of our mooring systems are designed and built to meet or exceed the Town of Nantucket’s Chapter 137 bylaws. Feel free to reach out to us for further information on our services.

SERVICES CURRENT CUSTOMERS NEW CUSTOMERS

NANTUCKET MOORING SYSTEMS & INSTALLATION

Anderson’s Stillwater Moorings specializes in customized Nantucket mooring systems to suit your vessel. We take the time to carefully evaluate your vessel’s mooring requirements as well as the marine conditions associated with your mooring’s location. This helps ensure your vessel’s mooring system will withstand Nantucket’s unpredictable weather conditions. Upon installation, we properly set your mooring system, based on your location’s wind and wave exposure.

NANTUCKET MOORING INSPECTIONS

We’re certified by the Town of Nantucket to provide required mooring inspections. This includes a full inspection of all components, from pendant line to anchor. Customers will be notified about components in need of replacement in order to pass the inspections. Recommendations are noted for future work and logs are maintained on all of our customer’s systems. ASM takes the time to notify the Marine and Coastal Resources Department when mooring systems have passed the town’s requirements.

NANTUCKET MOORING SERVICE

Servicing your Nantucket mooring is a preventative measure to keep your boat and others around you safe from the hazardous conditions caused by a worn and inadequate mooring system.

NANTUCKET DOCK SERVICE

Our services range from orchestrating the build and design of your dock needs to annual installation and removal of floating docks and ramps.

Anderson's Stillwater Moorings on Nantucket MA

SPRING SERVICE

• Service mooring system, replacing all components necessary to meet town inspection requirements
• Splice custom pendant lines to match your boat’s needs
• Transport your mooring system
• Relocate your mooring system to the approximate location based on GPS coordinates or designated by the Harbormaster.

FALL SERVICE

• Haul your mooring (required due to local shellfish regulations) and record exact GPS coordinates
• Remove your mooring buoy, clean, paint the bottom and re-letter appropriately
• Clean and thoroughly inspect your mooring system
• Notify customer of maintenance needed
• Transportation and storage of your mooring system

*Locations may change slightly due to ever shifting sands of our harbors and the depth of water your vessel requires

SPRING SERVICE

• Design new mooring systems based on the needs specific to individual boats and their location in the waters of Nantucket
• Inspect current mooring system and notify customer of maintenance needed
• Clean, paint the bottom and re-letter your mooring buoy appropriately
• Transport your mooring system
• Locate your mooring system to the approximate location based on GPS coordinates or designated by the Harbormaster.

FALL SERVICE

*Locations may change slightly due to ever shifting sands of our harbors and the depth of water your vessel requires

STORM PREPAREDNESS

We recommend that the owner give immediate attention to the following when NOAA weather alerts us that Nantucket could be exposed to a severe storm or hurricane warning.

1. Boats that can be hauled on a trailer should be hauled out now
2. Remove dinghy from davits, dinghy dock or beach and haul to high ground
3. Reduce windage, i.e. remove all canvas, dodgers, biminis, enclosures, etc.
4. Remove furling jibs completely and stow below
5. Remove anchors that project forward of the roller furler and alike as the anchor will chafe away the mooring pennant in heavy seas
6. Lash main sails or remove completely
7. Your existing pennant line should be adequate, but if you add additional lines you must zip tie them together every 2 feet so they cannot tangle around the mooring ball (adding lines inappropriately will greatly increase the chances that your pendant line will chafe through)
8. Double check and secure chafe gear in place where mooring pennant or bridle passes through chocks. This is very important. It must stay in place throughout the entire storm. Secure additional chafe guard as needed at other potential chafe areas.
9. Shut off all seacocks
10. Secure all ports and hatches.
11. We also offer temporary storm moorings in sheltered harbors to weather out the storm.

RESOURCES & LINKS

Nantucket Harbormaster
Nantucket Marine Forecast

Nantucket Buoy Report
Nantucket Tides
Coast Guard 508.228.0388

GIVING BACK

As a Nantucket native who has built Anderson’s Stillwater Moorings from its infancy, I feel it is important to give back to the community that has given so much to me. We are furthering this commitment by supporting Nantucket non-profits and research institutions, helping to inspire young people to become interested in maritime and marine education, sustainable health of Nantucket’s watersheds and harbors and to enjoy this beautiful island and its natural resources.

We have chosen to partner with these non-profits and organizations in an effort to make a ripple effect in our community and beyond.” – Matt Anderson, Owner and Operator.

Nantucket Shellfish Association
Nantucket Natural Resources Dept.
Ozone Surf Classic

Egan Maritime
Maria Mitchell Association
Nantucket Lifesaving Museum
Nantucket Land Council

CONTACT US

Matthew Anderson, Owner / Operator
508-367-9023
stillwatermoorings@gmail.com
PO Box 883
Nantucket, MA 02554

Thanks Bill Hoenk and George Riethof for the photographs.

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