Marina service

Woolwich Marina

Woolwich, NSW
4.4 from 72 Google reviews
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Woolwich Marina at a glance

Woolwich Marina is a small Sydney Harbour marina at Woolwich (Hunters Hill) offering berths, swing moorings and on-site marina facilities. The marina lists berths and moorings for casual, seasonal and annual hire (power and water to berths), toilet and hot-shower facilities, courtesy trolleys, 24-hour parking and security, and boat maintenance infrastructure including slipways (three slipways noted), a rigging yard and shipwright services. The site also lists contacts for sailmaking, yacht rigging, marine electrical and mooring-laying/maintenance contractors, and mentions marina offices for lease and charter contact details.

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Service area: Woolwich, Sydney Harbour, NSW

Marina type
full-service marina
Operator
Woolwich Marina
Region
Sydney Harbour
Water body
Parramatta River (Woolwich)
Wet berths
46
Maximum vessel
18 m
Berth types
permanent berthing, casual berthing

Facilities and services

  • slipway
  • repairs & maintenance
  • power & water
  • showers & laundry
  • 24/7 security
  • mast stepping
  • swing moorings (12)
  • brokerage
  • trimming
  • tender service
  • rigging yard
  • offices for lease
  • courtesy trolleys
  • pet friendly

Useful for sailors looking for

  • Wet berthing and moorings
  • Dry storage or hardstand
  • Haul-out and slipping
  • Maintenance and repairs
  • Vessels up to 18 m

About Woolwich Marina

Few Sydney marinas occupy ground as contested as Woolwich Marina. The compact facility at 2C Margaret Street sits on the tip of the Woolwich peninsula in Hunters Hill, just west of the Harbour Bridge and directly opposite Cockatoo Island, with bush reserves on either side and the state heritage-listed Kelly's Bush, site of Australia's first Green Ban in 1971, immediately to the north. The marina in its current form is a Bellingham Marine-built development of 46 berths and moorings, floating concrete finger pontoons behind a modern breakwater, though the site has hosted slipping and boat work for generations. It traded hands in 2015 after about eight years under owners Greg and Liz Newton, on a forty-year lease with the then Roads and Maritime Services that commenced in April 2014. More recently it has been at the centre of one of Sydney Harbour's hardest-fought planning battles: a proposal to grow from 45 to 79 berths was refused by the Sydney North Planning Panel in February 2024, and on 19 December 2025 Justice Beasley of the NSW Land and Environment Court dismissed the owner's appeal, citing visual and heritage impacts on the foreshore and on views toward Cockatoo Island. The result is a marina frozen at boutique scale, serving keelboats and motor cruisers of ten to eighteen metres from one of the harbour's quieter western reaches, with the city skyline visible downriver and the working hum of the slipways a reminder that this remains a boatyard as much as a berthing address. It is one of the smallest commercial marinas on Sydney Harbour, and after the court ruling it seems set to stay that way.

Marina facilities

Berthing at Woolwich Marina covers vessels from ten to eighteen metres on floating concrete pontoons, with water and power at every berth and a mix of casual, seasonal and annual arrangements; around a dozen regularly maintained swing moorings are also offered on the same terms. Bookings are handled directly by the marina office by phone or email rather than through any online system, and a tender service runs for mooring holders at a published fifteen dollars each way. The maintenance side is the marina's real strength. Three partially covered traditional slipways, rated at fifteen, twenty and forty tonnes, take a steady throughput of yachts and motor cruisers for hull cleaning and antifouling, boat detailing, out-of-water repairs, hull, deck and topside work and shipwright services including structural modifications. A dedicated rigging yard handles mast stepping, unstepping and spar work, which makes Woolwich one of the few places on the western harbour where a keelboat can be slipped and have its rig pulled at the same address. Brokerage and trimming services are also advertised. Shoreside amenities include a recently built toilet and hot shower block, round-the-clock security access, unrestricted twenty-four-hour parking, and courtesy trolleys for shifting gear between car park and pontoon; the marina is explicitly pet friendly and leases small marina offices. There is no fuel wharf on site, so skippers fuel elsewhere on the harbour. Third-party guides put annual berth pricing in the five hundred to nine hundred dollars per metre band, well below the eastern harbour marinas, though the marina quotes rates on application.

Local sailing knowledge

Woolwich sits on the Parramatta River reach of Sydney Harbour, and the approach could hardly be simpler: deep water right to the breakwater, no bar, no bridge and negligible tidal stream, with the marina lying in the lee of the peninsula between the Harbour Bridge and Gladesville Bridge. Yachts heading further upriver must mind the air draft under Gladesville Bridge, but most berth holders are content with the western harbour, where Goat Island, Cockatoo Island and the old industrial waterfronts of Balmain and Birchgrove make for sheltered day sailing in almost any weather. Cockatoo Island, a UNESCO-listed former convict and shipyard precinct, lies a few hundred metres across the channel and is an easy dinghy or kayak excursion, with cafes and moorings for visitors. Ashore, the Woolwich Pier Hotel at the end of the point does a brisk trade and several cafes and restaurants sit within a short walk; the Woolwich ferry wharf puts Circular Quay within reach by water. Kelly's Bush parkland above the marina is a genuine slice of pre-settlement harbour bush and the reason the surrounding foreshore has stayed undeveloped. Provisioning runs to Hunters Hill village shops a few minutes up the hill. The marina's clientele is a blend of long-term locals, city commuters who keep a boat near the CBD without paying Rushcutters Bay prices, and yard customers who come specifically for the slipways and rigging shop; on any weekday the travel ways and spar racks are busier than the pontoons. Winter is the quiet season, but the yard works year-round, and spring sees a queue of boats booking slips ahead of the summer racing and cruising calendar.

Opening hours

  • Monday9 AM to 5:30 PM
  • Tuesday9 AM to 5:30 PM
  • Wednesday9 AM to 5:30 PM
  • Thursday9 AM to 5:30 PM
  • Friday9 AM to 5:30 PM
  • Saturday9 AM to 5:30 PM
  • SundayClosed

Customer perspective

Recent Google reviews

★ 4.4 · 72 Google reviews

2 days ago

“A fascinating location”

8 months ago

“The atmosphere is beautiful.. The view looking across the river is Koh Katu and looking further afield is the Hapebrij Bridge.”

10 months ago

“No bites from the fish but a nice large park and wonderful views of the city”

2 years ago

“I just had a brilliant experience with Woolwich Marina.”

2 years ago

“Marina is a nice and peaceful place. Took my mother here on a weekend to visit a friends boat. Great wheelchair accessibility and staff willing to help out.”

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