MAC pool will open for the season, tomorrow, March 29th

Exciting news!  The MAC pool will open for the season, tomorrow, March 29th – a few days ahead of schedule.  The pool hours are 6AM to 9PM daily. In light of this, we wanted to let you know about some changes and share some important reminders.

We will only have Pool Monitors working on Friday, Saturday, and  Sunday.   Holiday weekends will include coverage on Memorial Day Weekend (May 26, 27, 28, 29); Independence Day Weekend (June 30, July 1, 2, 3,and 4); and Labor Day Weekend (September 1, 2, 3, 4).  The Pool Monitors start their schedule on Memorial Day weekend and end on Labor Day.

Pool monitors represent the Sea Trail Master Association and should always be respected.  During the weekdays, our onsite maintenance technician will be monitoring the trash and preparing the pool decks each morning.  We ask that individuals using the pool to follow all pool rules, clean up after yourselves, and put the umbrellas down and tie them before you leave the pool.

Remember,  no glass containers are permitted inside the pool enclosure.  Bringing glass containers will be a violation of the rules and will cause your access to be denied.  In addition, no food or beverages are allowed within three feet of the pool perimeter.

Please adhere to the posted pool hours.  We will have patrols checking on the pools at night, and we have video surveillance and the access system to identify anyone who is in the pool or hot tub after hours.

In case of a true emergency, please use the pool emergency phone to dial 911.  If you have a non-emergency concern or a maintenance issue, please call the CAMS office at 910-579-5374.

HAPPY SWIMMING and enjoy the MAC pool!  We will update you on the progress of the Pink Palace pool shortly.

Sea Trail Master Association, Inc.

This Community is Professionally Managed By CAMS.
(877) 672-2267 | (910) 454-8787 | www.camsmgt.com

Mark Your Calendar – CAMS Meet and Greet!

Dear Homeowners:

We are excited to host the first CAMS Meet and Greet on Tuesday, March 28th in the Pink Palace main room from 9am to 11am.  This is your opportunity to meet the Sea Trail staff:  Janine Entwistle – General Manager; Debbie Cornell – Assistant Manager; and Rick Blackburn – Maintenance Technician.  You will also be able to chat with Deanna King – CAMS Regional Vice President and Tanya Angel – CAMS Accounting Manager.  Come enjoy some breakfast treats and enter for a chance to win the raffle!

Have a great weekend!

 

Sea Trail Master Association, Inc.

This Community is Professionally Managed By CAMS.(877) 672-2267 | (910) 454-8787 | www.camsmgt.com

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE – 3/21/2023

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:

CAMS will hold a meet and greet with the Sea Trail community on March 28th from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m at the Pink Palace.  CAMS will be providing breakfast and coffee as well as holding a drawing for a $25 gift card.  The onsite team will be on hand for the event as well as Deanna King, Regional Vice President, and Tanya Angel from the accounting department.  We hope everyone will join us for this chance to get to know the CAMS staff.

Janine Entwistle, MBA, CMCA®, AMS®, PCAM®

General Manager – Sea Trail Master AssociationCAMS (Community Association Management Services), AAMC®

Direct 910-579-5374 |  CAMS  877-672-2267Get access to community information, payment services and more on our website!

Original Vision for Sea Trail Plantation

We found this article published in the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI – published around 2000).  Visions for Sea Trail are quoted by Miller Pope, one of Sea Trail’s four owners, throughout this article:

Sea Trail at Sunset Beach:  The golf enclave is the story of four local boys who made good

By Bill F. Hensley

Sea Trail Plantation at Sunset Beach has been one of my prime travel destinations for more than a decade, and it has been a thrill to see the resort grow from its modest beginnings into a cozy home for more than 400 families and thousands of tourists. Founded by four Brunswick County business men in 1977, Sea Trail, at North Carolina’s most southern beach, has become a swanky, self-contained year-round resort for the traveling public.  Spread about the 2,000-acre complex, which is a short walk from Sunset Beach’s quaint swinging bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway, are enough rental condos and villas to accommodate nearly a thousand guests.

There are three 18-hole golf courses, two restaurants, two clubhouses, a large conference complex, tennis courts, swimming pools, a shopping center and a medical center. On the drawing board are a planetarium and an assisted living center. Last year the three courses — designed by Dan Maples, Rees Jones and Willard Byrd — hosted 128,000 rounds of golf.

“I never dreamed the development would be this big and this successful,” said Miller Pope, one of Sea Trail’s four owners.

I asked Pope, a longtime friend who lives just up the beach at Ocean Isle, to tell me the story of this unusual property. He said that in 1976 he had just sold some property in Texas and was looking for a local investment. “I mentioned that to John Williams, a local realtor, and he asked me to consider joining Ed Gore, Paul Dennis and himself in a project they were considering developing. He said it would center around golf and resort-style living and would be a badly-needed facility for this area.”

The four purchased 625 acres from International Paper Co. as a starter. More land was acquired after Sea Trail began construction.

“Because of the golf craze in nearby Myrtle Beach,” Pope said, “we thought that golf would be an attractive feature.” Sea Trail’s first course was designed by Dan Maples and opened in October 1986. The Jones course followed in 1988 and the Byrd course a year later. The 54-hole complex is open all year. If golfers want to test their skills at other courses, there are 20 within five or six miles of Sea Trail. In the past decade, Brunswick County has become one of the state’s major golf hubs with more than 30 courses.

As the demand for permanent homes and more rental condos increased, the development company added to its inventory. And that meant more recreational facilities such as tennis courts, swimming pools and restaurants. And it also necessitated the medical center and shopping center.

In order to keep up with its Myrtle Beach competition, Sea Trail completed a 30,000-square-foot conference center at the end of 1999 that is attracting large and small groups. A 10,000-square-foot ballroom can seat more than 700 at a banquet, and there are numerous “break-out” rooms for smaller meetings. Sea Trail now has more than 70,000 square feet of meeting and function space.

“This, along with our other facilities, puts us in the big leagues as a full-service resort,” said Pope. “I’m told that we are now the largest meeting facility on the North Carolina coast. And we can compete successfully with resorts in the Piedmont and mountains, too.”

Pope is still active in Sea Trails’ management, as well as his own popular hotel, The Winds, at Ocean Isle Beach. Paul Dennis, one of the original partners, died recently.

“We look back with pride at Sea Trail,” Pope said, “yet we know the project probably will never be completed in our lifetime. Our planetarium, enlarged shopping mall and assisted living center will keep us busy. And we also have plans for a couple of small hotels or inns.”

For more information, call Sea Trail Plantation at Sunset Beach, at 800-408-7245.