Swansboro

Moore Street Dock

ICW mile 229

NOAA ENC chart tiles · planning aid, not for navigation

🛥 Public dock

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⚠ Small Craft Advisory

Small Craft Advisory issued October 22 at 3:15PM EDT until October 26 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Newport/Morehead City NC

Live · National Weather Service, for this position

Right now at this spot

oldest reading 1 hour ago

Rough — bigger boats only

Experienced crews in bigger hulls. Everyone else will have a bad day.

The sea state in that call was measured 29.9 nm away at NDBC 41159 — that is open water, not this basin.

What that call is built on

· Observed wind N 3 kt gusting 8 — NDBC BFTN7 · Beaufort
· Observed seas 3.6 ft — NDBC 41159 · Onslow Bay
· Adjacent sounds and rivers moderate chop — NWS AMZ158
· Small Craft Advisory in effect — National Weather Service

Wind now

N 3 kt

BFTN7, 22.1 nm off · 47 min ago

Gusting

8 kt

BFTN7, 22.1 nm off · 47 min ago

Seas now

3.6 ft

15s period · 41159, 29.9 nm off · 1 hour ago

Tide

1.3 ft

rising · high 19:02

Inside the waterway

Adjacent sounds and rivers moderate chop

Water and airWater 74°F

NDBC BFTN7 · Beaufort (22.1 nm) · NDBC 41159 · Onslow Bay (29.9 nm) · NOAA 8656613 Swansboro · MLLW

What a local would tell you

Two free small-boat slips right at the foot of Moore Street. Small craft only, and they go fast on a summer weekend — the Church Street dock is the fallback for anything bigger.

The tide today

1.3 ft right now

Next high 19:02 · 2.0 ft1.4 ft range today

Best window to be here. Any tide works here. High water 06:37 and 19:02, low 00:44 and 13:02.

Sunrise 7:20 AM · Sunset 6:26 PM2h 21m 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 1.4 ft ABOVE prediction (5 min ago). Wind is holding water in. That gauge is 22.1 nm away, so treat this as the regional trend rather than your basin.

measured 4.44 ft · predicted 3.05 ft · +1.4 ft · NOAA 8656483 · regional

What’s biting here

All species

Red drumOpenPeak

Peak month, and 74°F is right in their band.

Min 18" total length · 1 per person per day

Spotted seatroutOpenPeak

Peak month, and 74°F is right in their band.

Min 14" total length · 3 per person per day

FlounderClosedPeak

Peak month, and 74°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

53.5 nm

by the waterway

Run time

139 min

arrive about 6:23 PM

Fuel, round trip

57.1 gal

38% of your 150 gal

Home before dark

2h 17m late

you would finish after sunset

On the ICWstatute mile 229

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

🍤Dock & dineBoro Low Country Kitchen0.0 nmSE ⚓MarinaChurch Street Town Dock0.1 nmWSW ⛽Fuel · Pump outCasper's Marina0.2 nmW 🛻RampCedar Point Boating Access Area0.7 nmSSE

Nearest artificial reefAR-3811.0 nmSSE

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

Slips2, free

SizeSmall boats only

Walk toMoore Street restaurants

FreeSmall boatsDowntown

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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.