Connecticut's easternmost port, the only one with real Atlantic exposure, and home to the state's last commercial fishing fleet.
80 minutes
From our base in Milford
Fully mobile
We bring water, power, and product
$35 / ft
Wash and wax, priced by the foot
Stonington, Connecticut
Stonington Harbor, Fishers Island Sound, Pawcatuck River
Stonington is the furthest point we travel, about eighty minutes east of Milford and hard against the Rhode Island line. It is Connecticut's easternmost cruising port and the only one with genuine Atlantic Ocean exposure, and locals will tell you it has the most beautiful harbor on the East Coast.
The Borough, incorporated in 1801 and the oldest in Connecticut, sits on a narrow peninsula and is home to the last remaining full-time commercial fishing fleet in the state. The Blessing of the Fleet, rooted in the Borough's Portuguese community, has run since 1954. This is a working harbor with a real fleet in it, not a resort.
Where we work
Marinas, docks, and yards in Stonington.
Where we work in Stonington:
Dodson BoatyardFull-service yard on Stonington Harbor with a 60-ton Travelift, fuel dock, and ship's store.
Stonington Fishermen's DocksThe town dock and working fleet berths on the Borough peninsula.
Pawcatuck River yardsDockage and service up the Pawcatuck toward the Rhode Island line.
Private docksAlong the harbor and the Borough shoreline.
Local conditions
Atlantic exposure is a different animal
A coated hull sheds salt and rinses clean with far less effort. See the service →
Everything west of here is Long Island Sound, which is protected water whether owners think of it that way or not. Stonington is not. This harbor gets genuine ocean exposure, and boats kept here take a salt load that nothing on the rest of our coast matches. A finish that would hold two seasons in Milford will look tired in one here.
That makes Stonington the strongest case for ceramic coating in our entire range, and the place where we are least likely to recommend anything else. There is also a working fleet character to the harbor: commercial boats bring diesel, fish, and bait residue into the air and water, and pleasure boats moored nearby pick it up. Non-skid that has had bait residue worked into the texture needs proper cleaning rather than a rinse, and a sealed non-skid surface releases it far more easily next time.
Services in Stonington
Every service, priced by the foot.
The same packages we run across the shoreline. Restoration and seasonal work is quoted after a look at the boat.
