4 months ago
“Me and my mates were attending a boat function. We came with rods as we were going to fish after. The workers not only called us homophobic slurs but pushed us. Even after my uncle and auntie we’re telling them that we were with them”
About
Point Piper Marina at a glance
Point Piper Marina is a small marina on Sydney Harbour located at 5 Wunulla Road, Point Piper / Rose Bay. The marina offers fixed berths and casual visitor berthing, dockmaster assistance, a fuel dock and free sewage pump-out, complimentary water, power and Wi‑Fi, CCTV and nightly security patrols. On-site tenants include boat brokers, boat detailers, marine engineers, electricians and shipwrights, and the marina promotes yacht management and brokerage services.
Service area: Point Piper / Rose Bay, Sydney Harbour, NSW
- Marina type
- full-service marina
- Operator
- Addenbrooke (Rose Bay & Point Piper Marinas)
- Region
- Sydney Harbour
- Water body
- Sydney Harbour (Rose Bay)
- Wet berths
- 34
- Maximum vessel
- 30 m
- Berth types
- permanent berthing, casual berthing, swing moorings
Facilities and services
- power & water
- 24/7 security
- wifi
- boat brokerage
- dockmaster assistance 7 days
- CCTV and nightly security patrols
- access-controlled gangways
- wifi at berths
- casual berthing
- fuel and pump-out at adjacent Rose Bay Marina
- Boathouse Group food and beverage tenancies
- marina kiosk casual pontoon
Useful for sailors looking for
- Wet berthing and moorings
- Fuel stops
- Vessels up to 30 m
About Point Piper Marina
Point Piper Marina occupies one of the most valuable stretches of waterfront in Australian boating, tucked into the western corner of Rose Bay between Rose Bay Marina and the Royal Motor Yacht Club Sydney, beneath the harbour-front houses of Point Piper, a suburb that regularly tops national property price lists. The marina itself is boutique in scale: 34 floating berths taking vessels to 30 metres and 24 swing moorings, with a modest landside footprint of offices, boat brokerage and amenities. It operates as half of Addenbrooke's Rose Bay and Point Piper Marinas pairing, which together field 110 berths and 67 swing moorings and anchor the property group's Marina Collection, a portfolio that has grown to include Mosman Bay, North Harbour, Church Point, Berowra Waters and Koolewong. The setting has a particular Sydney Harbour glamour: seaplanes lift off from the Rose Bay base at Lyne Park a few hundred metres east, the Catalina restaurant occupies the old flying boat terminal, and the water in front of the marina is a permanent parade of ferries, racing yachts and motor cruisers. The marina's modern form was hard won. Its redevelopment into floating berths, completed around 2011, followed years of contested development applications and two Land and Environment Court cases between Addenbrooke and Woollahra Council, a paper trail that says much about how tightly Sydney Harbour's foreshore is regulated. What emerged is a quiet, well-run harbour marina whose berth holders value discretion, deep water and an address ten minutes by boat from the Harbour Bridge.
Marina facilities
The marina's 34 floating berths accommodate vessels up to 30 metres on piled floating walkways with power, water and wifi supplied through low-profile service pedestals, and 24 registered commercial swing moorings extend the operation into the bay for smaller craft. Casual berthing is offered when space allows, and dockmaster assistance is available seven days across the Addenbrooke operation. Security is taken seriously, with CCTV coverage, nightly patrols, access-controlled gangways and lighting across the walkways, appropriate for a strip where berth holders include some of Sydney's most valuable boats. There is no fuel or pump-out on the Point Piper site itself; those services sit on the adjoining Rose Bay Marina, where the redevelopment created a combined fuel, sewage pump-out and casual berthing zone on the north-west corner of Arm A plus a casual pontoon by the marina kiosk for boats to 12 metres. Landside facilities at Point Piper are deliberately spare: marina offices, a boat brokerage and toilets, with no restaurant or chandlery, though the Boathouse Group curates food and beverage tenancies across the Rose Bay complex and the Pier restaurant occupies the upper level of the Rose Bay building. Berth holders can reach their boats 24 hours, while public access to the walkways is a business-hours courtesy. Booking and rate enquiries go through the marina office; published rates are not advertised, reflecting the permanent, largely waitlisted nature of the berths. The broader Rose Bay precinct compensates for what the marina lacks: Woollahra Sailing Club, the Rose Bay ferry wharf, kayak and dinghy hire at Tingira Reserve, and the Royal Motor Yacht Club with its own berths and club facilities are all within a few hundred metres along the promenade.
Local sailing knowledge
Rose Bay is one of Sydney Harbour's largest and most open bays, which cuts both ways: the fetch from the main harbour sends a chop across the moorings in a fresh nor'easter, and ferry and seaplane movements add a watch-keeping burden, but depths are generous, the holding is good sand, and there is no bar, bridge or lock between the marina and the Heads, maybe twenty minutes to open water. Approaching from seaward, keep south of Shark Island and respect the main shipping channel before turning into the bay; seaplanes operating out of Rose Bay have right of way and their alighting area is marked. The swing mooring field is dense, so enter the marina fairways slowly and watch for mooring pick-ups. Ashore, this is the eastern suburbs at full polish: the Rose Bay promenade with its fig trees runs past the marina to Lyne Park, where Sydney Seaplanes still operates from Australia's first international flying boat base, in use from 1938 when Qantas Empire flying boats departed here for Singapore. Catalina restaurant, the Rose Bay RSL, sailing club and tennis courts cluster around the park, and Double Bay's shops, cafes and ferry are one bay west. For provisioning, Double Bay village has supermarkets and delis within a short taxi ride. Cruising options are the whole of Sydney Harbour: quiet overnight anchorages at Taylors Bay or Store Beach on the harbour's north side, the Lane Cove and Parramatta rivers inland, or a straight run out through the Heads for Pittwater. The marina's clientele tends toward locals who keep their boats for weekend harbour use rather than passage-makers, and the berths turn over rarely.
Opening hours
- Monday7:30 AM to 5 PM
- Tuesday7:30 AM to 5 PM
- Wednesday7:30 AM to 5 PM
- Thursday7:30 AM to 5 PM
- Friday7:30 AM to 5 PM
- Saturday7:30 AM to 5 PM
- Sunday7:30 AM to 5 PM
Customer perspective
Recent Google reviews
★ 4.5 · 59 Google reviews
2 years ago
“Nice view”
2 years ago
“Great”
2 years ago
“Great place to park a yacht and have breakfast or lunch at the Boat house.”
Reviews are customer opinions sourced from Google, not YouSail endorsements or verified sailing evidence.
Report incorrect information or suggest an update
Keep exploring
Nearby marinas and marine services
Marina service
d'Albora Marinas Rushcutters BayRushcutters Bay, NSW≈ 1.8 km away
4.2 · 155 Google reviews
View profileMarina service
Elizabeth Bay MarinaElizabeth Bay, NSW≈ 2.2 km away
4.5 · 122 Google reviews
View profile