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Swansboro
Cedar Point Ramp
ICW mile 228
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🛻 Ramp
Right now at this spot
oldest reading 54 min agoSporty
Small boats will get beat up. Pick your heading and slow down.
The sea state in that call was measured 29.4 nm away at NDBC 41159 — that is open water, not this basin.
What that call is built on
- · Observed wind WSW 7 kt gusting 11 — NDBC BFTN7 · Beaufort
- · Observed seas 3 ft — NDBC 41159 · Onslow Bay
- · Adjacent sounds and rivers moderate chop — NWS AMZ158
Wind now
WSW 7 kt
BFTN7, 20 nm off · 50 min ago
Gusting
11 kt
BFTN7, 20 nm off · 50 min ago
Seas now
3 ft
4s period · 41159, 29.4 nm off · 54 min ago
Tide
2.0 ft
rising · high 13:55
Inside the waterway
Adjacent sounds and rivers moderate chop
Water and airWater 78°FAir 79°F
NDBC BFTN7 · Beaufort (20 nm) · NDBC 41159 · Onslow Bay (29.4 nm) · NOAA 8656613 Swansboro · MLLW
What a local would tell you
Easy in and out for Bogue Sound and the run down to Bear Island. Less pressure than the Swansboro side on a busy weekend.
The tide today
2.0 ft right nowNext high 13:55 · 2.2 ft1.6 ft range today
Best window to be here. Any tide works here. High water 01:08 and 13:55, low 07:26 and 20:41.
Sunrise 7:15 AM · Sunset 6:33 PM5h 43m of light left
NOAA CO-OPS 8656613 · Swansboro · MLLW · live predictions. Sun times from the NOAA solar algorithm for this position.
Beaufort, Duke Marine Lab is reading 0.7 ft ABOVE prediction (8 min ago). Wind is holding water in. That gauge is 20.1 nm away, so treat this as the regional trend rather than your basin.
measured 4.29 ft · predicted 3.63 ft · +0.7 ft · NOAA 8656483 · regional
Getting there
from Wrightsville BeachDistance
55.4 nm
by the waterway
Run time
143 min
arrive about 3:12 PM
Fuel, round trip
59.2 gal
39% of your 150 gal
Home before dark
57m
to spare, leaving now, out and back
On the ICWstatute mile 228
Worked out for
a typical 26 ft centre console · 2 ft draft · 26 kt cruise · 14 gph
Distance from ICW mile markers where both ends have one, winding-padded straight line otherwise. Time and fuel from your boat profile at 26 kt.
Worked out for a typical 26 ft centre console — we do not know yours yet. Add your boat and these become your numbers.Add your boat
What else is out here
straight line, true bearing⛽Fuel · MarinaDudley's Marina0.4 nmNW🍤Dock & dineil Cigno Italiano2.0 nmW🛥Public dockMoore Street Dock2.1 nmW♻Pump outCasper's Marina2.2 nmW
Nearest artificial reefAR-3811.9 nmWSW
NCDMF site reference position, not a surveyed obstruction. Material stands well above the site average — never steer over a reef on these numbers.
Distances computed from the shipped place dataset and NCDMF reef records. Great-circle, not a route — check that the water actually connects.
Live from the water
No reports here yet. If you run this spot, post what you see — fuel price, depth, how busy it is. Depths get corrected for the tide automatically, so the number you leave is worth something to the next boat.
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Know before you go
AccessBogue Sound, White Oak
ParkingDecent
To Bear IslandShort run
RampBear Island access
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Conditions, tides and alerts are live from NOAA CO-OPS, the National Weather Service and NDBC. Distance, run time, fuel and clearance are calculated from your boat profile. Member depth reports are corrected to the datum at the moment they are filed. Planning aid only — not for navigation. Carry current charts.