Sailing club
Hervey Bay Boat Club Marina
Hervey Bay Boat Club Marina is a club-run marina in Urangan Harbour (Hervey Bay) offering berthing for vessels up to about 25 m. Onsite amenities include laundry, secure car parking and nearby dining, bars and club facilities. The adjacent Boat Club Fuel Wharf supplies fuel and the marina has access to yacht riggers, sailmakers, mechanics and a slipway with a 40-ton travel lift. Marina enquiries list a VHF channel (77), office phone and email for bookings and general enquiries.
About
Hervey Bay Boat Club Marina at a glance
Hervey Bay Boat Club Marina is a club-run marina in Urangan Harbour (Hervey Bay) offering berthing for vessels up to about 25 m. Onsite amenities include laundry, secure car parking and nearby dining, bars and club facilities. The adjacent Boat Club Fuel Wharf supplies fuel and the marina has access to yacht riggers, sailmakers, mechanics and a slipway with a 40-ton travel lift. Marina enquiries list a VHF channel (77), office phone and email for bookings and general enquiries.
Service area: Urangan, Hervey Bay / Fraser Coast, QLD
- Region
- Hervey Bay / Fraser Coast
- Club type
- Boat club
- Australian Sailing
- Not listed as affiliated
- Primary classes
- Boat club
About Hervey Bay Boat Club Marina
Marina with 138 berths (9m to 18m) all with power and water at 864 Boat Harbour Drive, Urangan. Operates 300-tonne (12m beam) and 40-tonne (5m beam) travel lifts with on-site repair and maintenance facilities.
Sailing waters
Urangan Harbour's entrance is dredged and well marked, and the marina lies just inside it on the southern side - call on VHF 77 or phone ahead and staff will point you at the arrival berth. Approaches from the south come up the Great Sandy Strait with due respect for its tide races and drying flats, while boats from the north cross Hervey Bay inside K'gari's lee; either way the bay's sandbanks reward a chart plotter and a tide table. The marina's berth is the social option in the harbour, and in whale season, July to early November, the dawn chorus of charter catamarans heading for Platypus Bay passes the pontoons - book a whale trip from the marina office or walk to the neighbouring departure points. K'gari's western anchorages, from Kingfisher Bay to Garrys Anchorage, are an easy day sail, and the sheltered strait suits even modest trailer sailors. Provisioning starts at Urangan's shops within walking distance and finishes at the city's full supermarkets via the courtesy bus; marine supplies beyond the chandlery are a short drive. The Urangan Pier, a kilometre or so away, gives a leg-stretch into the bay's past as a deep-water sugar port, and the pier is also the local fishing platform for those without a boat. Summer brings afternoon sea breezes and the occasional storm off the bay, while cyclone season sees the club's haul-out bookings spike - plan lifting work early between November and March. The club's jazz afternoons and weekend entertainment are the standing invitation: tie up, shower, and be on the deck by sunset.
Club history
Hervey Bay Boat Club Marina pairs a 96-berth basin on Buccaneer Drive in Urangan Harbour with one of regional Queensland's best-known licensed clubs, creating a stopover where the line between marina and entertainment venue barely exists. The club has been part of Hervey Bay's boating fabric for decades and wears its awards proudly, but the practical draw is simple: a cruising yacht can tie up, plug in, fuel up, haul out nearby, eat well and catch a courtesy bus into town without moving the car - if it even has one. The marina accommodates vessels up to about 25 metres on casual and permanent terms, and the basin sits immediately beside the clubhouse, its deck looking across the pontoons to the harbour entrance. K'gari (Fraser Island) fills the eastern horizon and the whale-watching fleet works out of the neighbouring berths each winter, so the views alone keep the place busy. The marina shares Urangan Boat Harbour with Great Sandy Straits Marina, the ferry terminals and the Fishermans Wharf shipyard, making the harbour as a whole the Fraser Coast's marine service centre; the Boat Club's slice of it leans hardest on hospitality. Live entertainment, a monthly jazz club, multiple bars and a bistro-fed social calendar mean berth-holders and visiting crews are absorbed into club life within a night or two, which explains the marina's loyalty among east-coast cruisers who schedule their Hervey Bay stop around it. The club's long history in the town - it grew alongside Hervey Bay's transformation from a string of fishing villages into the whale-watch capital of Australia - gives the marina a community weight that newer, purely commercial operations cannot replicate, and visiting crews regularly report that a planned overnight stop stretches into a week once the courtesy bus timetable and the dinner menu reveal themselves.