St George Motor Boat Club

St George Motor Boat Club operates at 2 Wellington Street, Sans Souci. Current club marina pages verify visitor overnight and longer-stay berthing, 24-hour berth-holder amenity access, trolleys and waste/recycling on each arm. Public marine-industry and BIA material verifies marina, fuel, pump-out and slipway services; recent marina-expansion reporting and construction material describe an additional 84 berths and upgraded fuel wharf, with public reporting citing a total 310-berth context.

The club website lists marina, berthing and marina-related services (slipway, brokerage and boat sales) but does not advertise an official learn-to-sail programme or junior sailing school on the published marina pages. Enquiries about any formal training, junior activities or sailing instruction should be made directly to the club's contact channels.

By water the club fronts Kogarah Bay, a broad, shallow-edged bight of the lower Georges River immediately inside the Captain Cook Bridge. Skippers heading for the sea pass under that bridge, which carries a stated clearance of 16.6 metres above high-water springs, then run the dredged Georges River channel past Towra Point into Botany Bay; from there the open coast or a run north to Sydney Harbour are both realistic day trips.

Inside the river the water stays sheltered in most weather, which is why the bay hosts so much club sailing and why the marina appeals to first-time big-boat owners. Depths off the entrance are modest and the visitor berth carries about 1.5 metres at low water, so deeper-keeled yachts should time arrival near the top of the tide. Fishing boats work the bream and flathead grounds along the Towra mangroves at first light, and the sand flats across the bay are a long-standing whiting spot.

Ashore, the Sans Souci foreshore strip along The Promenade has cafes within a flat ten-minute walk, and the club's own restaurant means crews rarely need to leave the precinct for dinner. Weekday berthing enquiries are handled by the marina office on 0409 090 712. The promenade and sandy foreshore baths at Sans Souci make this one of the easier Sydney clubs to sell to non-boating family members, and parking at Wellington Street puts the Sydney CBD roughly half an hour away by road outside peak hour.

Summer north-easters funnel up the bay in the afternoon, while westerlies off the land leave the marina glassy; either way, conditions inside the river are rarely enough to cancel a day's boating.

The St George Motor Boat Club occupies the point at 2 Wellington Street, Sans Souci, where the Georges River widens into Kogarah Bay, and it has grown from a motorboaters' social club into one of the largest club marinas in southern Sydney. Its wet berths number around 310 after an expansion completed toward the end of 2025 added 84 new pens in 10, 12, 15 and 18 metre sizes to the existing 228.

The clubhouse rises above the marina with roughly 270 degrees of water view, housing a cafe, restaurant, three bars and a function centre, with live entertainment several times a week drawing a crowd well beyond the boating fraternity. Because it is a licensed club, berthing is woven into membership: permanent berth holders must be full boating members, which keeps the marina community unusually engaged with club life.

The location is a genuine drawcard in itself, sitting about 18 nautical miles from Sydney Harbour by water and a short run downstream to Botany Bay, yet sheltered inside the Georges River system from ocean swell. Swing moorings, a working slipway, 24-hour fuel and a busy calendar of club events give the place the feel of a small working harbour wrapped around a social institution, and on any summer evening the marina walkway, fuel berth and balcony bars all hum at once.

The club's phone line, 02 9529 7276, and its marina email handle enquiries from across the Sutherland Shire and St George districts, and membership is open well beyond boat owners, which keeps the bars busy even in the winter off-season.