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

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

House Conveniences:

"The Colman" is a 4 bedroom and 4.5 bathroom comfortable, classic beach bungalow in prime location for an striking stay in the OBX. The home features a first floor Queen suite and Twin Suite (each with a full bath). Second floor with an broad living room, dining area and kitchen; and on the third level, your King Master Suite offers impressive sound vistas and relaxation. Another twin bedroom on that level makes this home ideal for two families. Extensive decks offer a marvelous entertaining room and sunbathing. A screened porch with table and chairs accepts for appreciating the outdoors while protecting you from the elements.

The kitchen is entirely equipped with silverware, flatware, and appliances. All linens and towels supplied. Beach chairs and umbrella available for use in storage room.

The home is a short, 10 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 painless 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 simple 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.