For centuries this inlet has been a working harbor. On Seaview Island it became a marina and a gathering place — and today, under the Seaport flag, it begins its next chapter.
The Shark River first appears by name on the 1686 John Reid map of East Jersey — the earliest detailed map of Monmouth County. No one is certain how it got its name: local lore points to a shark found in the river in the 1800s, or to the shark teeth still turned up along its banks.
It is the only river inlet in Monmouth County that drains straight to the Atlantic — a narrow cut between Belmar and Avon-by-the-Sea, guarded by the electric 1933 drawbridge and the stone jetties at either shore. Generations of anglers have worked it from sunrise to sundown for bluefish and stripers, and the run to the ocean is barely five minutes long. It has always been a boater's river.
On the North Channel of the Shark River, on Seaview Island, the clubhouse and marina were built as a full-service harbor and gathering place — designed from the first day for both boats and celebrations, and well protected when the weather turns.
Its traditions became the neighborhood's: the widely famous lobsterfest, the raft-ups and dock crawls, the BBQs and fishing tournaments and holiday parties. There has always been something here for everyone.
Refurbished top to bottom and reborn as Seaport Yacht Club, the docks, the yard and the clubhouse carry the tradition forward — and add something no conventional marina can: every slip connected to The Watch™, afloat and ashore, as the Shark River's first Smart Marina.
Real tide and marine forecast, straight from NOAA and the National Weather Service — part of the marina.