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Fort Point no longer without pier

By adamg on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 3:02pm

The Fort Point Pier opened today:

With its broad floating dock having a planked deck surface only 12.5" inches above the waterline, generous in cleats and other potential tie-up points, Fort Point Pier is perfectly suited as a FREE, public launch point to Boston Harbor for kayak, canoe, stand-up paddle board (SUP), sit-on-top (SOT), rowboat, scull, surf ski and windsurfer/sailboard.

The pier offers all amenities necessary for easy onshore parking, pickup, drop-off, and portage of a kayak or similarly lightweight watercraft.

Neighborhoods: 
South Boston
Free tagging: 
Fort Point Channel
Boston Harbor
Fort Point

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By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 3:12pm.

... might change. Have kayak, will travel.

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By greenlinetobrooklyn on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 4:41pm.

So how deep/cleans the water? Could this be a new Esplanade-esque hangout/swimming dock? I think possibly...

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By anon on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 4:59pm.

I used to walk by there every day on the way to work and the water is pretty skanky. I wouldn't suggest swimming. One time (and only once) I actually saw people fishing there, but it must have just been for practice. I'm surprised anything can actually even live in that water. There were a couple of wild swans for a while, but they looked dirty and diseased.

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By anon² on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 8:13pm.

But the channel water is a bit grimy and stale; probably due to runoff and poor currents. I wouldn't swim in there, but if you do let us know!

P&G's are of the harbor walk is a little known secret. Really nice area to go eat lunch, or take a walk.

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By John-W on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 5:06pm.

So is that pier where The Channel used to be?

(maybe I was getting nauseous not because of the breathless, windy camera-work, but due to flashbacks to drunken nights at the same location.)

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By hglucky on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 7:56pm.

Yup, the pier is steps away from where the Channel used to be.

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By East Cambridge on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 6:19pm.

Now it harbors new potential!

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By John-W on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 8:31pm.

oh buoy...keep the puns at bay, please.

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By East Cambridge on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 9:05pm.

I guess that I sea what you mean

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By anon on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 1:03am.

I've read enough to tide me over for quite a while.

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By anon on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 2:44pm.

He was having a whale of a time

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By anon on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 4:48pm.

Towards him.

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