Nautical Bowling Lanes

Nautical Bowling Lanes is a bowling alley in Avon Lake, Ohio. Open and league bowling are available alongside birthday parties, fundraisers, school and church outings, and scouting events. The alley serves recreational bowlers, league players, and first-time bowlers with twenty-eight lanes of bumper bowling. Food and drink are available through a full service bar and lounge. Hours change by season, and holiday season rates apply on Thanksgiving Weekend, the last two weeks in December, Martin Luther King Day, and Presidents' Day. Group reservations are offered outside of regular business hours. It holds a rating of 4.40.

Spevock's Nautical Lanes is family owned and operated by brothers Jim II and Joel Spevock, second generation bowling proprietors who reopened the center in October 2003 after it had closed in 1997. Their father spent the better part of a 45-year career in the bowling business, owning another local center through the 70s and 80s. When the brothers walked in, the facility was in ruins, and they posted a credo on the office bulletin board that read "Failure is not an option." They worked to get the center open on time and have since added an Extreme Rock N Bowl sound and light show system for Friday and Saturday nights. The bowling center itself dates back to 1961, when it opened as part of the historic Aquamarine Hotel and resort, and went through three different owners before closing in 1997.

The alley sits on Miller Road, about a third of a mile from Lake Road. Miller Road Park and the Peter Miller House museum are both under half a mile away, and the 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Civil War Museum sits roughly six tenths of a mile from the lanes. Guenther Park is about seven tenths of a mile away, and the Avon Lake Post Office is just under a mile from the entrance.

Nautical Bowling Lanes has built its reputation on a steady rating from the customers who have reviewed it. The alley is a second generation family business that reopened a historic Avon Lake bowling center and has kept it running for more than twenty years.