Security
To help protect your boat, we must know how to contact you in case of a boating emergency.
1. Display a CICA decal on your boat.
2. Display identification on you boat with your name, address and telephone number.
3. Register your boat with the Harbormaster. Boat mooring registration forms are mailed with the annual invoices. Contact the Harbor Chairperson with questions.
Speed
The HARBOR AND MOORING AREA IS A NO WAKE ZONE (per Maryland boating law). If you are making a wake, you are going too fast.
Pier & Boat Ramp
The pier and boat ramp are designed primarily for loading and unloading boats. Please do not park your car at the pier; there is plenty of room in the designated parking area. There is not room to tie up a boat at the pier for a very long time so please exhibit good boating etiquette and use the pier and floating dock for loading and unloading only.
Mooring Information
Mooring Area
As a result of Civic Association efforts, Jacob’s Nose Cove has been designated as a permanent mooring area on the NOAA charts. All boats moored inside a line that runs from the tip of Jacob’s Nose to the outer point of land at the south end of the cove are not required to display a mooring light or sound a fog horn during inclement weather.
Mooring Rules
No more than two (2) boats per property owner shall be moored in the designated Chesapeake Isle mooring area.
Individual mooring spaces will be assigned by the CICA Harbormaster.
Chesapeake Isle decals are required on all boats moored in the designated mooring area.
Mooring equipment such as buoys, anchors and chains shall not be left in the vicinity of the mooring area after mooring pull day.
Mooring Services (for CICA members only)
Spring mooring pickup and mooring set and fall mooring pull services to assist CICA members with their moorings are arranged each year by the Harbormaster.
Spring pickup and set dates and Fall mooring pull dates will be listed on the annual invoice, published in the January newsletter, posted in the calendar on the website, and posted on the mooring area bulletin board.
Mooring positions are assigned as payments-in-full are received.
How to moor
Follow some sound advice on how to moor in these waters if you love your boat, want to sleep at night, and dislike insurance claims! Whether power or sail, be sure you have a regulation type float that can be easily seen by others. Improvised floats such as plastic jugs or laundry detergent containers will not pass inspection.
Be sure you have a mushroom anchor in a good holding bottom with adequate heavy chain. (For the safety of all boats, we require MUSHROOM anchors ONLY!)
Give your mooring setup serious attention. This is especially important since our area is subject to winds of hurricane strength resulting in abnormal tides, and boats in our mooring area have only a limited amount of area to arc or swing through.
A cup-shaped mushroom anchor that is properly dug in will be very difficult to break loose IF the boat has sufficient heavy chain with an adequate scope to swivel. Since it is basically a pivot instead of an anchor, heavy chain is the mushroom anchor’s greatest need. With adequate chain, the snap of the boat’s pull will be absorbed by the chain, and the mushroom anchor will be difficult to pull out.
BE SURE YOUR MUSHROOM ANCHOR IS PULLED OVER BEFORE MOORING YOUR BOAT. The mushroom anchor has limited holding power when first dropped.
Inspect your mooring throughout the boating season!
- Follow some sound advice on how to moor in these waters if you love your boat, want to sleep at night, and dislike insurance claims! Whether power or sail, be sure you have a regulation type float that can be easily seen by others. Improvised floats such as plastic jugs or laundry detergent containers will not pass inspection.
- Be sure you have a mushroom anchor in a good holding bottom with adequate heavy chain. (For the safety of all boats, we require MUSHROOM anchors ONLY!)
- Give your mooring setup serious attention. This is especially important since our area is subject to winds of hurricane strength resulting in abnormal tides, and boats in our mooring area have only a limited amount of area to arc or swing through.
- A cup-shaped mushroom anchor that is properly dug in will be very difficult to break loose IF the boat has sufficient heavy chain with an adequate scope to swivel. Since it is basically a pivot instead of an anchor, heavy chain is the mushroom anchor’s greatest need. With adequate chain, the snap of the boat’s pull will be absorbed by the chain, and the mushroom anchor will be difficult to pull out.
- BE SURE YOUR MUSHROOM ANCHOR IS PULLED OVER BEFORE MOORING YOUR BOAT. The mushroom anchor has limited holding power when first dropped.
Mooring Setup Diagram
Dinghy & Kayak Storage (for CICA members only)
CICA members in good standing can rent space on the dinghy and kayak racks for the boating season. Our Harbor Storage Form is mailed with the annual invoice and are due by February 15, along with your Annual Invoice payment. Contact the Assistant Harbormaster (“Dinghy Master”) with any questions. Spaces are assigned on a first come, first serve basis, with returning dinghies getting preference.
Small Sailboat Storage (for CICA members only)
During the boating season, CICA members in good standing can rent space on the harbor grounds for seasonal storage of small sailboats (sunfish class) and small catamarans (hobie class). Contact the Assistant Harbormaster (“Dinghy Master”) with any questions.