GRAVE BAY, WEBECK HARBOUR

54°53.7' N 58°03.2' W
Chart 5044(M) Cape Harrison to Dog Islands

Canadian Pilot: Labrador and Hudson Bay, ch V, p 222
Admiralty Pilot 50: Newfoundland and Labrador, 14.22
Cruising Guide to the Labrador C-100

Variation: 29°W (15' E) (1997)
Spring Range approximately 7 ft


General

Webeck Harbour is too open to be safe in heavy weather, but is a useful anchorage in settled conditions.

Approach and anchorage

Grave Bay is a shallow, sandy cove on the S shore of Webeck Harbour. The bottom is flat and level sand, but has a depth of only 4 ft 6 ins at low water springs. Swinging room inside the cove is restricted by at least one boulder, standing 1 to 2 ft above the otherwise level bottom.

Iron Bark, with 5 ft of draught, grounded on hard sand at low water springs, then bounced off a boulder several times, after lifting off with the tide. The anchorage is only really usable by a shoal draught vessel, preferably on a neap tide. Unfortunately, there is no other good anchorage within easy reach.

The cabins in Grave Bay are derelict.