Welcome to Belle Isle Yacht Club 

Belle Isle Yacht Club is located along the Winyah Bay, just south of Georgetown, South Carolina, named in 2018 by USA TODAY 10Best poll voters as #1 "Best Coastal Small Town."  As you enter this gated community, you immediately become part of a world removed from ordinary distractions.  First impressions record an immediate feeling of natural beauty and serenity.  Surrounded by almost 640 acres of park-like gardens, woods, and lakes, you’ll find many, many kinds of wildlife.

It sits on a bluff, looking directly across wide and navigable Winyah Bay to miles of shoreline that will never be developed, thousands of acres of pine forest and salt marsh dedicated to marine conservation by Belle Baruch.

The owners' amenities include the marina, the Yacht Club building, two swimming pools, two tennis courts, an owners' activity building spanning a plantation-era rice irrigation canal, and a private oceanfront clubhouse at Pawleys Island, twenty minutes away.

MARINA IS open!

Winyah Bay is the East Coast’s third largest watershed and the area’s largest salt water marsh estuary, where fishing abounds. Belle Isle has the closest full service marina location to the Gulf Stream in South Carolina, and is one of the premier marinas on the eastern seaboard of the United States.

Like many marinas along the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), Belle Isle experiences a high silt deposit rate and especially because of the rich watershed from five rivers coming into Winyah Bay. Belle Isle Yacht Club members have invested in a long-term plan to remain sustainable. We now own our own dredge machine, dredge pipe, our own permitted spoils deposit area, and are permitted to dredge year-round.

Our marina and our members welcome non-members for dry storage on grade, leased wet slips and lifts, and for daily transient slip dockage. As a tidal marina, make your boating plans mindful of high tide, preferably a couple of hours on either side of the high tide measured at Frazier Point. To make a reservation, use the green BOOK NOW button above to enter key contact info and tell us about your boat, and to securely store your credit card information for quick processing. Dockwa.com is an online marina space management and billing app with hundreds of marinas along the Atlantic coast and the Intracoastal Waterway.

Members of Belle Isle Yacht Club have full access to the beach house on Pawleys Island for lazy walks on the beach, a restorative rock in the hammock listening to surf sounds on the shaded screened porch, or a day of people watching. The beach house sits directly on the beach and, best of all, has a private gated parking area.

Features & Amenities

Belle Isle Yacht Club is located on beautiful Winyah Bay, surrounded by picturesque gardens and the historic Battery White. The elegant waterfront Yacht Club facility, built in 2008, can be used by members for business and social occasions. The two-story floor plan features large versatile open spaces suitable for a variety of functions. The second floor is accessible by stairs or elevator and has a reception area, screened in porch and a commercial kitchen.  

Residents have full free access to this facility year round.

The recently refurbished (2018) Rice Canal Club spans a mid-eighteenth century rice canal, a relic from the days in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when rice was grown on Belle Isle Plantation. Enslaved persons from Africa brought knowledge of how to grow this new crop. Their skills and labor, performed under very difficult conditions and for long days, directly contributed to the meteoric growth of Georgetown County into one of the wealthiest places in North America until the Civil War. The name and placement of this amenity reflects on enslaved Africans' contributions which enabled wealth development in pre-Civil War South Carolina, and with a full spectrum of their adapted culture as integral enrichment in the low-country lifestyle we enjoy today.

Residents have full access to this facility by reservation.

Features & Amenities