Paul Kenwood Cappers

I live on Westport Island and frequently kayak and power boat on the Back River of the Sheepscot. Here is how the current works: Incoming (flood) tide goes from open ocean (south) along the East side of Westport Island, the correctly named Sheepscot River, to the Wiscasset end of Westport Island (north). Some of the water continues north by Wiscasset Harbor and upriver to the town of Alna and the village of Head Tide (aptly named!). However, some of that incoming current diverts from the aforementioned flow and bends around the north end of Westport Island, now heading south under the Westport-Wiscasset/Route 144 Bridge in an area called Cowseagan Narrows, past both sides of Berry Island, and on to somewhere in the middle of Montsweag Bay. Montsweag Bay is so huge that it draws water at the flood from both south (Back River flow connects in this southerly direction to both Kennebec and Sheepscot Rivers) and north as already described. On the outgoing tide, of course everything reverses.