Surf City

Surf City Public Ramp

ICW mile 260

NOAA ENC chart tiles · planning aid, not for navigation

🛻 Ramp

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Right now at this spot

oldest reading 51 min ago

Sporty

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

The sea state in that call was measured 18.9 nm away at NDBC 41110 — that is open water, not this basin.

What that call is built on

· Forecast wind SW 15 kt gusting 20 — NWS AMZ250 · Today
· Observed seas 1.6 ft — NDBC 41110 · Masonboro Inlet

Wind, forecast

SW 15 kt

AMZ250 forecast

Gusting

20 kt

AMZ250 forecast

Seas now

1.6 ft

9s period · 41110, 18.9 nm off · 51 min ago

Tide

4.0 ft

rising · high 13:05

Water and airWater 76°FAir 80°F

NWS AMZ250 · Today · NDBC 41110 · Masonboro Inlet (18.9 nm) · NDBC JMPN7 · Wrightsville Beach (17.5 nm) · NOAA 8657813 Hampstead · MLLW

What a local would tell you

Right by the high-rise bridge with quick access to both the sound and the inlet run. Popular with trailer boats working the Topsail flats.

The tide today

4.0 ft right now

Next high 13:05 · 4.0 ft3.1 ft range today

Best window to be here. Any tide works here. High water 00:32 and 13:05, low 06:30 and 19:29.

Sunrise 7:16 AM · Sunset 6:35 PM5h 44m of light left

NOAA CO-OPS 8657813 · Hampstead · MLLW · live predictions. Sun times from the NOAA solar algorithm for this position.

Wrightsville Beach is reading 0.5 ft ABOVE prediction (9 min ago). Wind is holding water in. That gauge is 17.5 nm away, so treat this as the regional trend rather than your basin.

measured 4.93 ft · predicted 4.41 ft · +0.5 ft · NOAA 8658163 · regional

Getting there

from Wrightsville Beach

Distance

21.9 nm

by the waterway

Run time

66 min

arrive about 1:56 PM

Fuel, round trip

23.1 gal

15% of your 150 gal

Home before dark

3h 32m

to spare, leaving now, out and back

On the ICWstatute mile 260

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

⚓MarinaBush Marina5.7 nmSW ⛽Fuel · Pump outHarbour Village Marina9.0 nmWSW 🍤Dock & dineThe Landing at New River17.8 nmNNE 🛥Public dockRiverwalk Marina (Olde Towne)20.4 nmNNE

Nearest artificial reefAR-360 Topsail Reef5.4 nmSSW

44 ft site average · Concrete, Reef Ball

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.

Know before you go

AccessTopsail Sound + ICW

ParkingModerate

NearbySurf City bridge

RampFlats 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.