Ships Watch Resort Get-a-way at the Chapman

Welcome to “The Chapman” at Ships Watch Resort. Below you will find house and resort specific details for your stay.

House Details:
"The Chapman" is a super cozy, classic beach cottage in amazing community resort of Ships Watch located in Duck, NC. This home features a great room, dining, and fully stocked kitchen on the second level, affording dramatic views. The lookout makes the perfect spot for game time, complete with table and chairs. All the bedrooms are located on the first level, leaving the entire second level for relaxing and entertaining. Enjoy extensive outdoor living on the decks and screened porch. The home is fully equipped with everything you will need for your dream vacation, including beach chairs, umbrellas, and towels.

The house is a short, 5 min walk, to the private beach access listed below.

Resort Amenities:

Ships Watch has two unsurpassed amenities: over 500 feet of wild beach on the Atlantic with easy access from any house, and eye-popping views of the Atlantic Ocean and Currituck Sound that emphasize how far out in the ocean you really are. No house is more than easy walking distance to either the sea or the sound.

The beach depth varies with the tide, but even at high tide, offers a broad slightly-sloping sandy incline that a youngster can cross to play in tide pools and ocean foam. Then there are the winds –– that originally brought the Wright Brothers. Steady and reliably tropical from the south in spring, summer and fall; gutsy and gusty from the north in winter , which contributed to making the Outer Banks the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” because of the many ships which have floundered or sunk off-shore in the area.

We have the standard amenities, of course, a 3-lane, 25 yard pool for lap swimmers attached to a larger pool for bathing and play. A design element we used was to raise pool and decks above ground for sweeping views of the sound and tropical breezes.

We have two well-appointed and maintained tennis and pickleball courts for the private use of our owners, renters and guests all for good exercise and social fun.

On the sound, we have a 100 yard pier jutting into Currituck Sound. The catch of the day could be stripped bass or flounder for those of a mind to “wet a line” and the sunsets on the pier are each like original paintings, with a new variation of clouds and colors every day. There is also “crabbing”, by either pot or line, for the famous Blue Crab.

A quarter mile down the pedestrian walkway is famous Duck, the lost New England Village that washed up on the Outer Banks beach. A boardwalk stretches for two miles, with Currituck Sound on one side and many small shops, stores, galleries and restaurants on the other side.