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Wrightsville Beach

Dockside Restaurant

ICW mile 284Via marina

NOAA ENC chart tiles · planning aid, not for navigation

🍤 Dock & dine

Dock & dine — marina. Tie up at the adjacent marina and walk in.

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Right now at this spot

oldest reading 52 min ago
Sporty

Small boats will get beat up. Pick your heading and slow down.

The sea state in that call was measured 6.7 nm away at NDBC 41110 — that is open water, not this basin.

What that call is built on
  • · Observed wind SSW 9 kt gusting 13 — NDBC JMPN7 · Wrightsville Beach
  • · Observed seas 2.3 ft — NDBC 41110 · Masonboro Inlet
Wind now
SSW 9 kt
JMPN7, 1.4 nm off · 52 min ago
Gusting
13 kt
JMPN7, 1.4 nm off · 52 min ago
Seas now
2.3 ft
4s period · 41110, 6.7 nm off · 52 min ago
Tide
4.1 ft
falling · low 18:43
Water and airWater 77°FAir 82°F
NDBC JMPN7 · Wrightsville Beach (1.4 nm) · NDBC 41110 · Masonboro Inlet (6.7 nm) · NOAA 8658145 Shinn Point, ICWW · MLLW
What a local would tell you

Free dock while you eat, about 8 boats on the face. Fills by noon on a Saturday. Easy straight-in approach on the ICW, but the dock takes wake from the whole waterway — leave good fenders out.

The tide today

4.1 ft right now
ARRIVENOW00:01 · 3.605:44 · 1.012:43 · 4.418:43 · 1.4
Next low 18:43 · 1.4 ft3.4 ft range today

Best window to be here. Any tide works here. High water 00:01 and 12:43, low 05:44 and 18:43.

Sunrise 7:17 AM · Sunset 6:36 PM4h 44m of light left
NOAA CO-OPS 8658145 · Shinn Point, ICWW · MLLW · live predictions. Sun times from the NOAA solar algorithm for this position.
Wrightsville Beach is reading 0.5 ft ABOVE prediction (10 min ago). Wind is holding water in.
measured 4.47 ft · predicted 3.93 ft · +0.5 ft · NOAA 8658163

What’s biting here

All species
Red drumOpenPeak

Peak month, and 77°F is right in their band.

Min 18" total length · 1 per person per day

Spotted seatroutOpenPeak

Peak month, and 77°F is right in their band.

Min 14" total length · 3 per person per day

FlounderClosedPeak

Peak month, and 77°F is right in their band.

Unlawful to possess right now.

Ranked on the month and the measured water temperature. Limits are North Carolina’s current rules — confirm with DMF before you keep anything.

Getting there

from Wrightsville Beach
Distance
0.9 nm
by the waterway
Run time
9 min
arrive about 2:00 PM
Fuel, round trip
0.7 gal
0% of your 150 gal
Home before dark
4h 27m
to spare, leaving now, out and back
On the ICWstatute mile 284
Worked out for
a typical 26 ft centre console · 2 ft draft · 26 kt cruise · 14 gph
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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
⚓MarinaBridge Tender Marina0.3 nmSSE🛻RampWrightsville Beach Public Ramp0.4 nmESE⛽Fuel · Pump outWrightsville Beach Marina0.5 nmSSE🛥Public dockRiverwalk Public Docks7.0 nmW
Nearest artificial reefAR-370 Meares Harris Reef4.1 nmSE
52 ft site average · Concrete, Vessel
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.
Sign in to add a report. Depths you post get corrected for the tide automatically.

Know before you go

DockingFree while dining · ~8 boats
ApproachEasy, straight off the ICW
Depth at dock~6 ft MLLW (demo)
Kid friendlyYes
Free dockFamilyWake exposed

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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.