Ships Watch Resort Get-a-way at the Chapman - Vacation rental home in Duck, NC

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

House Details:
"The Chapman" is a super comfortable, classic beach bungalow in spectacular community resort of Ships Watch located in Duck, NC. This home features a great room, dining, and entirely supplied kitchen on the second level, affording dramatic vistas. The lookout makes the ideal spot for game time, complete with table and chairs. All the bedrooms are located on the first level, leaving the entire second level for calming and entertaining. Savor broad outdoor living on the decks and screened porch. The home is completely equipped with everything you will need for your dream vacation, including beach chairs, umbrellas, and towels.

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

Resort Conveniences:

Ships Watch has two unsurpassed amenities: over 500 feet of wild beach on the Atlantic with simple access from any home, and eye-popping vistas of the Atlantic Ocean and Currituck Sound that emphasize how far out in the ocean you really are. No home is more than painless 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 bigger pool for bathing and play. A design element we used was to raise pool and decks above ground for sweeping vistas 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 famed Blue Crab.

A quarter mile down the pedestrian walkway is famed 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 modest stores, stores, galleries and eateries on the other side.