FOCUS ON Windmill Harbour Marina
Windmill Harbour Marina, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, is located on Skull Creek, on the shores of Hilton Head Island.
WINDMILL HARBOUR MARINA
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Okay, you are planning your cruise and you want to really enjoy the beauty of the coastal Carolinas. Checking around you find Hilton Head Island popping up on your radar. In the words of the master Jimmy Buffett, there is this “One Particular Harbor” and this one is Windmill Harbour Marina on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, one of only three privately locked marina harbors along the east coast of the USA. The best port in a storm or at any other time! Located along the Atlantic ICW at mile marker 558. Need a little more detail? Well, Windmill Harbour Marina is one-half mile south of the Pinckney Island Bridge; 500 yards south of Green #27 channel marker and one-half mile north of Green #29 in the Calibogue Sound.
GPS Latitude: 32° 12′ 54.49″ N
GPS Longitude: 80° 46′ 59.57″ W
Windmill Harbour is the South Carolina Lowcountry’s best-kept secret as one of the most gorgeous waterside communities around. With its direct access to the Atlantic ICW, Windmill Harbour is the natural home to a variety of different boaters, from small center console fishing boats to larger cruising and sportfishing boats. There is also a significant fleet of Harbor 20s participating in class racing. In fact, there are numerous cruising and sailing activities including the Calibogue Cup, Harbour Town Cup, and Ocean Challenge.
Each year in May, Windmill Harbour Marina hosts Hilton Head Island Boat Show with over 80 boats on display, equipment demonstrations, seminars, live music, and plenty of friendly folks to chat with, supplemented with delicious food and beverages.
There will be over 80 boats on display, equipment demonstrations, seminars, live music, and plenty of friendly folks to chat with, supplemented with delicious food and beverages.
Windmill Harbour welcomes transient boaters cruising along the Intracoastal Waterway. This marina’s lock system is one of its biggest attractions since it offers protection from tides, strong currents, and storms. The marina’s boats are in deep water all day, every day, without an 8-foot rising or falling tide. At Windmill Harbour, there are no half-hour or longer trips in “no-wake zones” to enter or exit the harbor, and you can experience “tide free” docking. The Harbour staff are onsite seven days a week and will welcome you with easy instructions to enter the lock. It will accommodate vessels up to 70-feet long with a beam of up to 19ft. Visitors from cooperating Yacht Clubs can ask for a guest membership for dining at the on-site South Carolina Yacht Club.
Windmill Harbour Marina has all the facilities and amenities to make you feel as “at home” as possible.
- High Speed Fueling
- Wifi from OnSpot Wifi
- Ships’ store
- Pump out facility
- Easy access to Hilton Head and Savannah Airports
- Harborside restrooms and showers
- Laundry facilities
- Current and tide free docking
- Constant 8′ depth
- 258 slips from 25′ to 70′
- 15.5-acre harbor
- Direct access to Intracoastal Waterway and Calibogue Sound
- 24 hr security
- Yacht sales and brokerage
- Transients welcome
- Pet-Friendly neighborhood with dog park
- Boat slip sales and rentals
- Reasonable rates
- On-call maintenance includes boat cleaning, engine repair, electronics, and canvas
- Home of the elegant South Carolina Yacht Club with fine dining, swimming, tennis, sauna, hot tub, showers, and locker room
- Close to supermarkets, restaurants, shopping, lodging, and golf
Upon your arrival you will find yourself nestled in a unique residential environment of southern charm and old Charleston style homes; where you will be greeted and treated with all the warmth of South Carolina hospitality. Windmill Harbour is South Carolina’s Lowcountry’s best-kept secret.
The unique history, breathtaking beauty, and meticulous planning surrounding this unique harbor have made Windmill Harbour a premier marina community in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Its vibrancy and growth are a testament to its founders and its residents.
So, as you start charting your course north this spring, be sure to enjoy all that Hilton Head Island has to entertain you. Set a course that includes some time at Windmill Harbour Marina to enjoy true southern maritime hospitality.
Give them a call now and reserve your spot. Watch springtime in the South burst forth in all its splendor.
Contact Jake McMillan, the Harbourmaster, on VHF Channel 14 or by phone at 843-681-9235 for transient or long term Boat Slip rentals. Or email at windmillharbourmaster@gmail.com
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