Anchorage · Ponce
Ponce: Isla de Gatas and Caleta de Cabullones
Well protected for small boats northeast of the yacht club; Cabullones has little swell in ordinary weather. Bahía de Ponce is not a hurricane anchorage.
- Charted 21 to 25 ft
Swell, the next three days
A planning aid, not for navigation. Height, period and direction from CariCOOS's 120 m nearshore wave model at this anchorage's position; a model, not a measurement.
Loading the swell model…
Rolly: 2 ft or more of swell at 8 s or longer, or 3 ft at any period, or 1 ft at 8 s or longer from a side its sources call it exposed to (S). Some roll: 1 ft at 8 s or longer.
The anchorage
- Coast Pilot depth
- 19 to 30 ft; 18 to 30 ft
- Charted depth
- 21 to 25 ft (6.4 to 7.6 m) below MLLWThe 3 charted soundings inside the area, within 0.1 nautical mile of its middle, surveyed 2018. MLLW is mean lower low water, the chart's datum: at most tides there is more water than this.
- Seabed on the chart
- Rock (7 chart notes)Nearest charted rock area: 0.3 nautical mile NW.
- Shelter
- Well protected for small boats northeast of the yacht club; Cabullones has little swell in ordinary weather. Bahía de Ponce is not a hurricane anchorage.Open to south wind (Bahía de Ponce is exposed to the south).
- Position
- 17.96470, -66.59364: the charted water area Caleta de Cabullones.The Coast Pilot: "in depths of 18 to 30 feet in Caleta de Cabullones, the bight east of Isla de Gata".
Charted dangers within 0.5 nautical mile
8 rocks and 2 obstructions on the chart; the nearest 8, measured from the position above.
- Rock, covers and uncovers, 0.3 nautical mile NW
- Rock, covers and uncovers, 0.3 nautical mile WNW
- Rock, covers and uncovers, 0.3 nautical mile WNW
- Obstruction, submerged, 0.3 nautical mile NNE
- Coral, submerged, 0.4 nautical mile SE
- Rock, covers and uncovers, 0.4 nautical mile WNW
- Rock, covers and uncovers, 0.4 nautical mile WSW
- Rock, covers and uncovers, 0.4 nautical mile WSW