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Greenport, Southold & Shelter Island
southeast off Young’s Point, denoting the fact that you’ve reached Greenport Harbor. Greenport’s skyline is easily recognizable, from its church spires to its water tank and radio tower. Come around the breakwater, and inside the harbor you’ll find Claudio’s, Townsend Manor Inn and Preston’s, all easily accessible and ready to help any transient boater with any need. by John Galluzzo Next, it’s on to Southold. Head out of Greenport Harbor and follow the channel to the hile the Hamptons bring the glitz and glamour southwest. Run between Fanning Point to Long Island, the towns of the North Fork to starboard and Shelter Island Heights exude a more relaxed country atmosphere. If to port, keeping in mind that a ferry crosses this short passage routinely. you’d rather attend a strawberry festival than a Beyond Fanning Point to starboard is polo match, the North Fork is for you. If your Pipes Cove, framed on its southwestern idea of a good time is a winery tour and tasting on a rustic old edge by Conkling Point. The channel farm, the North Fork is for you. If you like your sunsets with the S-curves between Conkling Point and Jennings Point on Shelter Island and loudest background noise you hear being the mellifluous singing emerges into Southold Bay. Southold is of a Baltimore oriole ... well, you get the idea. to the west-southwest. To find Shelter Island, retreat to that Let the unwinding begin! red-and-white buoy back in Gardiners Gardiners Island lies west of Montauk Point and due south Bay. Look to the southwest to find Ram of New London; west of the island is the bay of the same Head. Travel south toward it, watching for a flashing green name. #1 buoy off its eastern end. That will lead you to private A red-and-white whistling nun in the heart of Gardiners navigational aids that will direct you into Coecles Harbor, Bay marks the site of an ancient shipwreck. Head west between Sungic Point on the south and Reel Point on the past that until you find a red #2 and a green #3, off the north. In the northwest corner of the harbor you will find southern tip of Long Beach. Follow that channel in a full Coecles Harbor Marina and Boatyard. 90-degree swing around Hay Beach Point on Shelter Island So, what will it be? The merlot, the chardonnay, or the and start heading southwest. Soon you’ll see a jetty running sauvignon blanc? Why not stay long enough to try them all?
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