*** Please NOTE *** The application process for the 2025 season has begun. Applications were sent our via email. If you prefer to receive a paper copy, please call our office to request one.
The waitlists for Accabonac Harbor, Northwest Harbor, Babes Lane and Napeague Harbor are open. See below for further details.
The East Hampton Town Trustees value the commercial and recreational boating traditions of East Hampton. The Trustees manage a mooring program within Accabonac Harbor, Georgica Pond, Napeague Harbor, Northwest Harbor and Three Mile Harbor.
Both rigged line/pulley and offshore/free swinging moorings are offered. The available number of each is dependent upon the harbor. Small motor boats of 25 feet or less and sail boats of 20 feet or less, may apply for a permit in any of the harbors (vacancy dependent). However, any motorized vessel over 25 feet or sailboat over 20 feet MAY ONLY be moored in the Three Mile Harbor Large Boat Mooring Grid.
The small boat moorings are $12 per linear foot for residents and $30 per linear foot for non-residents. The large boat moorings are the same fee plus an additional $75 administrative fee.
If a non-resident plans to stay overnight on their boat, they will need to fill out a supplemental form and pay an additional $12 per linear foot in order to be allowed to stay overnight on their boats. All our Harbors are no discharge zones. The Trustees offer complementary pump out service in Three Mile Harbor and in Montauk Harbor. For moorings in Montauk or in any of the bays, please call 631-324-4142, the Town of East Hampton’s Clerk’s office. Please contact our office for more details.
Moorings are NON-TRANSFERABLE, i.e. you may not hold a mooring permit and allow another vessel to utilize it. That includes another vessel registered to the same person. See the Town of East Hampton Code 246-3 Placement of boats, floats, moorings and anchorings. The permit holder’s name must also be on the vessel registration/documentation. If you purchase a new boat and would like to attach it to your mooring instead of the old boat, you must contact the office and fill out a transfer to new boat form. This will be strictly enforced and you may be ticketed by Marine Patrol.
An individual is permitted to have one mooring, per harbor. However, an individual may have ONE rigged line/pulley mooring in a harbor where they also have an off-shore/swing mooring, for the purpose of mooring a dinghy to access their larger vessel. For example, an individual may have a vessel in the Large Boat Mooring grid in Three Mile Harbor AND use a pull mooring on shore to hold a tender/dinghy in order to access their larger vessel.
Renewal Mooring Permits
The Trustees provide renewal permit applications to anyone who held a permit for the prior season as well as offer applications to those wishing to moor a boat for the first time. Renewal applications will be sent out at the end of January/early February for the upcoming season. Renewal applications must be submitted no later than March 31st of each year for recreational mooring permit holders and May 1st of each year for commercial mooring permit holders.
New Mooring Requests
Interested New Mooring applicants should email the Trustee office at trustees@ehamptonny.gov to inquire about mooring vacancies in their harbor of choice. Please include the following in your email:
- Subject line: New Mooring Request
- Body of the email should contain:
- Identify the harbor in which you would like to moor your boat.
- Name
- Make & Model of your boat
- Size (length listed on registration) of your boat
- Email address
- Phone Number (best contact number)
- Local East Hampton Address if applicable. If you are a non-resident, please indicate such
New mooring requests will be fulfilled after the renewal applications have gone out each year. Due to increase in demand for moorings in certain locations, we will use a lottery system to fill any vacancies which arise. If your request is for any of the areas listed below, they will be fulfilled on a rolling basis using the lottery system after the March 31st renewal application deadline: Louse Point, Gerard Park, Napeague Harbor, Northwest Harbor, Babes Lane in Three Mile Harbor and for Rigged Line and Pulley moorings in Three Mile Harbor.