Marina service
Brooklyn on Hawkesbury Marina & Apartments
About
Brooklyn on Hawkesbury Marina & Apartments at a glance
Marina with holiday apartments at 55A Brooklyn Road, Brooklyn, on the Hawkesbury River. Phone from cruising directory (unverified currency); listed at 55A Brooklyn Rd with marina berths and holiday apartments; no current operator website or recent listings found - verify before use
Service area: Hawkesbury River
- Marina type
- marina & accommodation
- Operator
- Brooklyn on Hawkesbury
- Region
- Hawkesbury River
- Water body
- Hawkesbury River
- Berth types
- permanent berthing, casual berthing
Facilities and services
- berth shares sold with apartments
- holiday apartment rentals
- private strata-style berthing
- adjacent full-service marinas
About Brooklyn on Hawkesbury Marina & Apartments
Brooklyn on Hawkesbury Marina and Apartments, at 55A Brooklyn Road, is the least documented of the marinas on the Brooklyn waterfront strip, and honesty requires saying so upfront: no current operator website or recent berthing listings could be found, and the phone number circulating in cruising directories, (02) 9985 7892, is of unverified currency. What is verifiable comes largely from property records. The address holds a small complex of absolute-waterfront apartments between Brooklyn Road and the Hawkesbury River, sitting beside Brooklyn Marina and close to Long Island Marina, and the apartments have been sold with a share in the adjoining marina - one listing offered a ground-floor three-bedroom apartment with a one-eighth share, while others promoted the availability of a marina berth as part of the purchase. In other words, this is best understood as a strata-style waterfront residence with an attached private marina, where berthing rights belong to apartment owners rather than being marketed to the public. Some units have appeared as holiday rentals, offering terraces, barbecues and river views an hour from Sydney. For the boating public, the practical takeaway is that berths here turn over with the real estate, not through a berth office, and anyone chasing a pen should treat it as a private arrangement rather than a commercial marina. Its status in any marina directory should therefore be read as uncertain, and this profile errs on the side of caution throughout. Enquiries are best routed through the managing agents or the holiday-letting listings for the individual units, several of which change hands or appear for rent in any given year.
Marina facilities
Published service information is thin, and this entry records only what can be verified. The facility comprises marina berths adjoining the apartment complex at 55A Brooklyn Road, with berthing historically tied to apartment ownership - sales material repeatedly links a berth or a share in the marina to individual units - and holiday letting of apartments on short-stay platforms. There is no evidence of a fuel wharf, slipway, chandlery or public amenities operating from the address, and boat owners based here would realistically use the services a short walk or dinghy ride away: Brooklyn Marina at number 45 provides fuel, water, visitor berthing, slipping and mechanical work, Sandbrook Inlet Marina at number 87 offers berths, moorings, unleaded fuel, a slipway and a Mercury outboard dealership, and Long Island Marina nearby has over 100 berths plus a slipway for motor vessels to 18 metres. The apartments themselves, judging from rental listings, run to two or three bedrooms with balconies or terraces overlooking the river, full kitchens and parking, and some are marketed through the Hawkesbury River Marina holiday accommodation network. Cruising directories continue to list the marina under Brooklyn's berthing options, which suggests berths have at times been available to outside boats, but availability should be confirmed directly before planning around a stay, and the directory phone number may no longer reach an operator. In short, the marina component functions as an amenity of the apartments rather than as a going concern with published rates, services or facilities. Any berth enquiry should be made in writing well before arrival, with a backup plan at the neighbouring commercial marinas.
Local sailing knowledge
The address sits on the Brooklyn Road waterfront inside the bridges, so any boat berthing here has passed beneath the Hawkesbury River rail bridge, whose 11.8-metre clearance at mean high water springs is the gatekeeper for masted vessels throughout this strip. This reach, between Long Island and the mainland around Sandbrook Inlet, is sheltered from the main river's tidal run and gives quick access downstream to Broken Bay, Cowan Creek and Pittwater, or upstream past the bridges toward Spencer. Tides flush the Hawkesbury hard twice a day, and newcomers are warned off swimming in the main channel. Provisioning is done in Brooklyn village a few minutes along the road: the general store for groceries, bait and ice, the Anglers Rest for an ATM, a counter meal and the bottle shop, and cafes for breakfast before a day on the water. Hawkesbury River station, on the Newcastle and Central Coast line, is a short walk away, making this one of the few Sydney-region berthing spots reachable without a car. Local knowledge worth having: water taxis service the river for late arrivals, the Riverboat Postman run is the classic way to see the upper reaches, and Brooklyn's oysters - recovering since the 2004 QX outbreak - are best bought from outlets in the village rather than expected at any marina office. Visitors staying in the apartments get the full lower-Hawkesbury experience despite the low public profile of the address: gorge scenery from the terrace, trains and water taxis for access, and one of Australia's great cruising rivers starting at the bottom of the stairs.