We started boated a year ago (20ft bow rider for now, but in a few years, I hope to be cruising on the Chesapeake on a express cruiser). Besides water sports, one thing we love to do is boat to restaurants/bars for lunch/dinner/drinks. Right now we're boating in the Assawoman bay (OC, MD). So I'd like query those familiar with the area about places you have found where you can boat and/or jet ski to. My list so far is below, please add more. Thanks Frank
Smitty McGees: (Bayville area in DE). Great bar, best wings, great food, several slips for patrons. Stay away from bulk head as you turn the corner toward the marina...it's a little shallow there. Our favorite place to eat lunch, dinner, or alcohol
Seacrets: (OC, 49th St) A must do, huge anchorage with courtesy boat to take you ashore. Our favorite place for lunch (with teenagers), but at night its adult only club. Food is good but pricy. Pena coladas are awesome. Nice adult only bar tables (with tops for shade) right in the bay...just wade out.
Fish Tales: (OC, 21 St) An interesting restaurant tucked into a small commercial marina. Most seating is outdoors (like Seacrets), but is smaller kid friendly (my kids are teenagers though). We've done lunch there several times and it was fine. Several good slips, just make sure you follow the bulk head all the way around when coming from the north (no small channels seemed to me marked in the OC area, we found the sand here!).
Harpoon Hannah: (On the "big ditch" barely in DE) A well known place for seafood, drinks and a tiki bar. Haven't boated there (have driven many times). Good seafood. I see there is a dock for transients, though the slips might be rentals (anyone?). Easy to get too, just a long putter through the "big ditch".
Macky's: (OC, 54th st). A fun bar and girl with indoor and outdoor bayside sitting. Close to Seacrets. They have several slips, but the only way I've found to approach (sort of southwest from Seacrets) is shallow (2 feet) for about 10-15 yards (I just trim it up and putter in). There might be a better approach form the north (anyone?).
Ocean Pines Yacht club: (across the bay form OC near 90 bridge). This is a quite place and a large (for OC) yacht club (there are two there). A nice family restaurant which is great for lunch after playing in the San Martin river all morning (all the water around OP is deep; that's why we just bought a vacation house there). Also my favorite place to get gas (and ice cream for the kids). You can tie up on the T ends of the floating piers (except where the gas pumps are).
Sneaky Pete's: (West side of Rt 50 bridge in West OC, attached to Hooper's crab house with the big red roof). This is probably related to Hooper's though we didn't go in there. Sneaky Pete's is a gazebo (and associated floating barge) restaurant at the end of a pier attached to Hooper's. We only went once; it was the only real crab place we found that was (barely) boatable. It has slips, but it was confusing where to dock and most slips seemed to be leased (someone finally came out and just told us to tie up in a "reserved" slip). The other thing to note is forget the supposed channel the chart shows from the north. It isn't there (we got to barely a foot at some points). You can do it, but be careful. Once we got there we found there there was a better channel under the west side of the 50 bridge (but you'll have to go through the main 50 bridge channel on the east side and then work back to the west side). The crabs were good.
Smitty McGees: (Bayville area in DE). Great bar, best wings, great food, several slips for patrons. Stay away from bulk head as you turn the corner toward the marina...it's a little shallow there. Our favorite place to eat lunch, dinner, or alcohol
Seacrets: (OC, 49th St) A must do, huge anchorage with courtesy boat to take you ashore. Our favorite place for lunch (with teenagers), but at night its adult only club. Food is good but pricy. Pena coladas are awesome. Nice adult only bar tables (with tops for shade) right in the bay...just wade out.
Fish Tales: (OC, 21 St) An interesting restaurant tucked into a small commercial marina. Most seating is outdoors (like Seacrets), but is smaller kid friendly (my kids are teenagers though). We've done lunch there several times and it was fine. Several good slips, just make sure you follow the bulk head all the way around when coming from the north (no small channels seemed to me marked in the OC area, we found the sand here!).
Harpoon Hannah: (On the "big ditch" barely in DE) A well known place for seafood, drinks and a tiki bar. Haven't boated there (have driven many times). Good seafood. I see there is a dock for transients, though the slips might be rentals (anyone?). Easy to get too, just a long putter through the "big ditch".
Macky's: (OC, 54th st). A fun bar and girl with indoor and outdoor bayside sitting. Close to Seacrets. They have several slips, but the only way I've found to approach (sort of southwest from Seacrets) is shallow (2 feet) for about 10-15 yards (I just trim it up and putter in). There might be a better approach form the north (anyone?).
Ocean Pines Yacht club: (across the bay form OC near 90 bridge). This is a quite place and a large (for OC) yacht club (there are two there). A nice family restaurant which is great for lunch after playing in the San Martin river all morning (all the water around OP is deep; that's why we just bought a vacation house there). Also my favorite place to get gas (and ice cream for the kids). You can tie up on the T ends of the floating piers (except where the gas pumps are).
Sneaky Pete's: (West side of Rt 50 bridge in West OC, attached to Hooper's crab house with the big red roof). This is probably related to Hooper's though we didn't go in there. Sneaky Pete's is a gazebo (and associated floating barge) restaurant at the end of a pier attached to Hooper's. We only went once; it was the only real crab place we found that was (barely) boatable. It has slips, but it was confusing where to dock and most slips seemed to be leased (someone finally came out and just told us to tie up in a "reserved" slip). The other thing to note is forget the supposed channel the chart shows from the north. It isn't there (we got to barely a foot at some points). You can do it, but be careful. Once we got there we found there there was a better channel under the west side of the 50 bridge (but you'll have to go through the main 50 bridge channel on the east side and then work back to the west side). The crabs were good.