Columbia Cove Anchorage

Columbia Cove Anchorage.  Beautiful Columbia Cove is known locally as Peddlers Cove.  Neither name is on the chart.  The cove is immediately north of Jackobson Point, snugged up against the base of Brooks Peninsula.

Be sure to enter between Jackobson Point and the 215-foot island.  Columbia Cove has experienced some silting over the years and the anchoring room has become limited.  The mouth of the cove, between Jackobson Point and the 215-foot island, is safe in a northwesterly.   In southerlies, winds and waves make this area uncomfortable, leaving room for only about three boats in the cove itself.  Columbia Cove is a voluntary no-discharge zone.  Please volunteer.

The name Columbia Cove comes from Captain Robert Gray’s ship Columbia, which overnighted there twice.  If you think Columbia Cove is crowded with three boats, now imagine it with the Columbia, the schooner Adventure, and the ship Margaret, of Boston, all at the same time.  A sometimes muddy trail across the small peninsula formed by Jackobson Point leads to a beautiful sandy ocean beach.  Great beachcombing.  Take the dinghy up the stream to the trailhead, but watch the tide.  You can be stranded, with a long walk across tide flats.

Weather note: When strong winds from the northwest are forecast south of Brooks Peninsula, the Brooks provides a lee for Columbia Cove and adjacent waters.  Winds may be strong but seas will be quiet.  It’s a good place to wait out a northwest gale.  It’s not a good place to wait out a southeast gale.

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