Leland Oil Company (Marina), McClellanville (Statute Mile 430)
On 9/1/09, as part of a “South Caroliina Wish List,” I posed the following question:
18. Has anyone stayed at Leland Oil Company (the former Leland Marina) in McClellanville lately? Are the docks in better shape than in years past? Did you find any place to eat ashore in McClellanville? Is the village still as picturesque as ever with it’s beautiful old oak trees. see any improvements?
Responses follow:
Leland Oil…stayed there twice and docks were adequate. Not much else in that neighborhood. It does have a cell phone tower close by and we got great reception for our Verizon cells and air card. The town is a great little place to walk around in. We never saw a place to eat. Once we didn’t have reservations and they were full so we anchored in creek across from it and took the dinghy to the boat docks in plain sight of the ICW.
Best Regards
George
S/V Chez Nous
Yes, we stayed there last spring. And there was room only for us (41′ sailboat). The creek was dredged but not the whole way up to the marina, so there are some shallow (6′ at low) spots. And no, the facilities are still quite primitive but friendly. We bought seafood at the fish dock but did not see any restaurant. he town’s oaks are as beautiful as ever.
James Lea
S/V Estelle
If you walk out water street from the marina and turn right on oak and left on pinckney you will soon see TW Grahams seafood restaurant on the right. This is a wonderful place run by friendly folks who really know their seafood. Just beyond Grahams and a few small shops you will find the Pinckney Street Kitchen serving fresh sandwiches, subs, wraps and Breyers Ice cream.
Ron Rubottom
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Comments from Cruisers (1)
We stayed one night at Leland Oil Co on Oct. 26th, 2009. The dockmaster put us at the floating dock next to the shrimp boats. It is tricky at low tide with my Irwin 46 Ketch’s 6 ft. keel but did not run aground at mid tides in and out. We walked the nearby street but did not see any part of the town. The stop was part of a 332 mile uneventful 8 day trip from Dowry Creek Marina in Belhaven, NC to Charleston, SC. Our only problem the entire trip was fishermen with nets. They had them stretched almost entirely across the ICW at the Sunset Beach pontoon bridge (MM 337.9). We did catch one in our prop while waiting for the bridge to open,and drifted into the shallows and had to call SeaTow to get off the bottom and call a diver to get the net off the prop.
Charles and Jo Ann
S/V Osprey