Emerald Isle

Emerald Isle Boat Ramp

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🛻 Ramp

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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 27.8 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

Wind now

N 3 kt

BFTN7, 16.8 nm off · 48 min ago

Gusting

8 kt

BFTN7, 16.8 nm off · 48 min ago

Seas now

3.6 ft

15s period · 41159, 27.8 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 (16.8 nm) · NDBC 41159 · Onslow Bay (27.8 nm) · NOAA 8656613 Swansboro · MLLW

Nobody has written this one up yet

We know where it is and what it is, and that is all we know. If you have been here, the one line you would tell a friend is worth more than anything we could put here — leave it in the comments below.

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 7:19 AM · Sunset 6:25 PM2h 19m 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 (6 min ago). Wind is holding water in. That gauge is 16.8 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

Getting there

from Wrightsville Beach

Distance

58.0 nm

by the waterway

Run time

149 min

arrive about 6:34 PM

Fuel, round trip

61.9 gal

41% of your 150 gal

Home before dark

2h 39m late

you would finish after sunset

On the ICWoff channel · 1.0 nm from mile 223

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

⛽Fuel · MarinaDudley's Marina3.9 nmWNW 🍤Dock & dineil Cigno Italiano5.5 nmW 🛥Public dockMoore Street Dock5.6 nmW ♻Pump outCasper's Marina5.7 nmW

Nearest artificial reefAR-342 Onslow Bay Sport Fishing Club Reef4.0 nmSSW

49 ft site average · Concrete, Tires

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

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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.