Cape Cod Canal is a ship canal across the neck of Cape Cod between Bourne and Sandwich, Massachusetts, linking Buzzards Bay with Cape Cod Bay. The tide is semidiurnal, and the mean range differs sharply between the two ends — about 3.4 ft at the Buzzards Bay end and about 8.7 ft at the Cape Cod Bay end, a difference that drives the canal's currents.
- Type
- Ship canal
- Location
- Massachusetts, United States
- Setting
- Across the neck of Cape Cod between Bourne and Sandwich, Massachusetts, linking Buzzards Bay with Cape Cod Bay
- Tidal range
- The tide is semidiurnal, and the mean range differs sharply between the two ends — about 3.4 ft at the Buzzards Bay end and about 8.7 ft at the Cape Cod Bay end, a difference that drives the canal's currents.
- Notable
- Owned and operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers; vessels 65 ft or longer must obtain traffic-light clearance to transit (33 CFR 207.20).
