Shem Creek Boat Rentals

1 Seafood Drive · Shem Creek, Mt. Pleasant

The dock sits almost right under the bridge over Shem Creek, behind the seafood restaurant — close enough that the whole creek is your front yard. Take a boat for an hour or take it for the day: idle up past the shrimp fleet, raft up off the creekside bars, or run out where the creek empties into the harbor. They’ll match the boat to how much water you’ve got under you.

Find the Creek

The Story

Your Own Day on the Water

Shem Creek is Mount Pleasant’s working-and-playing waterway — a tidal creek lined with shrimp-boat docks and seafood joints, the Ravenel Bridge stitched across the sky beyond it. A rental puts the whole thing in your hands. Take any allotment of time you like, from a one-hour loop of the creek to a full day running the harbor and up the Cooper River. The boats come through a partnership with Sea Fox, in a range of sizes, and before you cast off the crew walks you through a safety briefing and a chart — where your boundaries are, where you are, and how to find your way back to the dock. It’s a place that has always made room for both the visitor down for the week and the neighbor who grew up here.

The Rental

The particulars

Where: 1 Seafood Drive, Mount Pleasant, S.C. 29464
The dock: On Shem Creek, under the bridge, behind the seafood restaurant
The fleet: Motorized boats in a range of sizes, by Sea Fox
How long: An hour around the creek to a full day out
Before you go: A safety briefing and a chart review of your boundaries
Booking: Online or by phone · 843-888-RENT

Where it takes you

Up the Creek & Out the Mouth

A day on the water can be as easy as idling up the creek to anchor off the restaurants and bars, or as big as running out where Shem Creek empties into Charleston Harbor and onto the Cooper River. Want the fish instead of the float? The same outfit runs guided inshore and offshore trips and charters — Red Drum, Flounder, Black Seabass — with someone aboard who knows where they hold. Either way you’re on the creek the dolphins and pelicans claimed first.

Up the creek

The raft-up

Idle past the shrimp fleet and anchor off the dockside bars.

Out the mouth

The harbor

Where the creek opens to Charleston Harbor and the Cooper River.

On the hunt

The charter

Guided inshore & offshore trips for Red Drum, Flounder, Seabass.