Murrells Inlet, SC
Drunken Jack's Island sits out in the middle of the inlet, with the jetties running out beyond it toward open water.
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A deck boat is a V hull with the seating carried forward into the bow. You give up some of the open deck a pontoon gives you, and you get back a boat that cuts through a wake instead of slapping over it.
Run north up the Waccamaw and the water goes dark and quiet under cypress, a very long way in feel from the beach an hour behind you.
The V hull is the whole point. On a busy summer weekend, when every passing boat leaves a wall behind it, a deck boat crosses that wake instead of dropping onto it. If anybody aboard is prone to feeling it, this is the hull to ask for.
Deck boats are usually rigged with enough motor to pull a tube or a skier without labouring. Confirm with the operator that towing is permitted on that particular boat before you turn up with a tube, because permission varies.
Room without the footprint of a large tritoon. Capacity is a legal limit printed on each boat, so give us your head count and let the operator size it.
When it is the wrong boat
If you are taking ten people and a cooler for a slow day at a sandbar, a pontoon gives you far more usable deck for the money. And if the plan is fishing an inlet, that is a center console, which comes through a club.
Where the boat actually is
Georgetown faces its own harbour and the Front Street walk runs along the water, so arriving by boat is a normal way to see the town.
Drunken Jack's Island sits out in the middle of the inlet, with the jetties running out beyond it toward open water.
The swing bridge at Socastee anchors the southern end of a day out of here, and the Waterway stays wide and easy in both directions.
We route your request to operators working the water nearest to you, so you do not have to guess which of these is closest or which has a deck boat free on your dates. Send the dates once and let them answer.
Boat club membership
Then dues usually beat paying a day rate every time you go. Answer eleven questions about how you actually use a boat and a rep comes back with the clubs near Georgetown worth your time, not all of them.
Under ten times a year? Renting is almost certainly cheaper, and we will tell you so.
Straight answers
Georgetown faces its own harbour and the Front Street walk runs along the water, so arriving by boat is a normal way to see the town.
Capacity is a legal limit printed on each individual boat, not a general figure, so we will not guess it for you. Give us your head count first and the operator sizes the boat to it. Going over the rated capacity is both unsafe and an insurance problem.
Usually not. Operators generally hold rental deck boats to protected inside water and keep them out of the inlets and the open Atlantic. That limit comes from the operator and their insurer. Confirm it in writing before you plan a day around going outside.
Fuel almost never is, and cleaning fees, damage deposits and the insurance deductible are usually separate too. Ask for all four in writing before you pay anything. That one question prevents most of the complaints we hear.
Request quotes
Tell us the dates and the head count. We route it to operators near Georgetown with a deck boat free, and they come back to you with day rates directly.