Marina service
Corleone Marinas Drummoyne
About
Corleone Marinas Drummoyne at a glance
Marina near Birkenhead Point, Drummoyne, offering wet berths with 240 V power and water, moorings and access to boat slipping at Corleone's Balmain facility; onsite shipwright and mechanics 7 days.
Service area: Sydney Harbour
- Marina type
- full-service marina
- Operator
- Corleone Marinas
- Region
- Sydney Harbour
- Water body
- Parramatta River
- Maximum vessel
- 18 m
- Berth types
- permanent berthing, casual berthing, swing moorings
Facilities and services
- repairs & maintenance
- power & water
- slipping at Balmain boatyard (haul-out, antifouling, DIY options)
- onsite shipwright & mechanics 7 days
- dockmaster assistance
- moorings
- 240V power & water
- waste disposal
About Corleone Marinas Drummoyne
Corleone Marinas Drummoyne lies on St Georges Crescent on the Drummoyne waterfront, a short walk from Birkenhead Point and about fifteen minutes' drive from the Sydney CBD, occupying one of the quieter bends of the Parramatta River's southern shore. It belongs to the Corleone group, a family-run Sydney marina operation that also runs sites at Elizabeth Bay, Balmain and Long Island, and the Drummoyne branch plays a particular role in that network: a mid-size berth-and-mooring marina with trades on site, linked operationally to the group's boatyard at Balmain where the heavy slipping work happens. The atmosphere is that of an old-school Sydney harbour marina rather than a retail-anchored complex. Berth holders here are mostly long-term locals, power cruisers and sailing boats between ten and eighteen metres, and the waterfront itself is residential Drummoyne, with the ferry wharf and the Bay Run around Iron Cove close by. What distinguishes Corleone from its big neighbour over the water is the working-yard ethos carried across the group: the promise of a shipwright and mechanics available seven days a week, dockmasters who actually handle your lines, and slipping arranged without the boat leaving the family's hands. The group's presence across four harbour locations also gives berth holders options, with Elizabeth Bay covering the eastern harbour and Balmain covering haul-outs. For Drummoyne locals the marina is simply the neighbourhood's boat park, a place where the same names appear on the berth boards year after year, and where the walk-on, walk-off rhythm of inner-harbour boating, evening runs to the Bridge and weekend mornings on the hardstand at Balmain, defines the culture.
Marina facilities
Corleone Drummoyne's core offering is wet berths from 10 to 18 metres, roughly 32 to 60 feet, each supplied with 240V power and water, with waste disposal arranged when required. Berths are walk-on, walk-off in the inner-harbour style, and dockmasters are on hand seven days a week to assist with arrivals and departures, a genuine convenience for short-handed crews in a crosswind. The marina also administers swing moorings for boats to about 18 metres, giving a cheaper harbour foothold with dinghy access from the foreshore. The trade side is where the operation earns its keep: an on-site shipwright and marine mechanics work at the marina seven days a week, handling engine servicing, systems repairs and general maintenance at the berth, and for anything requiring the boat out of the water the group slips vessels at its Balmain Marina boatyard nearby. The Balmain yard offers haul-out, antifouling, detailing, hull, deck and topside repairs, survey and insurance work and modifications, with DIY slipping options available for owners who prefer to do their own hull work, an increasingly rare privilege in Sydney. There is no fuel wharf at Drummoyne itself, but the Birkenhead Point fuel dock, selling diesel and petrol, sits directly across the water a few minutes away, and that same complex covers provisioning, chandlery and dining. Enquiries run through the group's office on 02 9555 2668, and the Drummoyne site keeps the informal, phone-first style of a family business rather than an online booking portal. In summary, the service picture is: berths and moorings with power and water, daily dockmaster assistance, in-berth mechanical and shipwright work seven days, full slipping and refit services a short tow away at Balmain, and fuel and supplies across the river at Birkenhead.
Local sailing knowledge
The Drummoyne waterfront sits on the southern shore of the Parramatta River just inside the entrance to Iron Cove, and local boating life here is governed by bridges, ferries and the river's easy distances. Eastward it is a short, deep-water run past Cockatoo Island to the Harbour Bridge and the main harbour, which is why berth holders treat evening city cruises as routine; westward the river narrows toward Gladesville Bridge, whose arch sets the air-draught limit for sailing boats, so the Drummoyne strip is effectively the western frontier for keelboats on the river. The Iron Cove no-wash zone begins just around the point, and RiverCat ferries pass on their Parramatta runs, so crews learn to time wash and to respect the ferry lanes, particularly on weekends when the service is frequent. Approaches to the marina carry reasonable depth close to the shore, but the river shallows quickly outside the channel and the tidal flow, while modest, is enough to matter when berthing short-handed in a breeze. Ashore, the Bay Run around Iron Cove passes nearby and the Birkenhead Point outlet centre, with supermarkets, restaurants and the fuel dock, is a short walk or a two-minute run across the water by dinghy. Drummoyne's Victoria Road strip supplies chandlery odds and ends, marine engineers and takeaway provisioning. For longer cruises the marina is well placed: Broken Bay and Pittwater are a comfortable day up the coast, and the harbour's eastern anchorages from Athol Bay to Store Beach are within the hour. Local colour includes the rowing and paddling traffic out of the Iron Cove clubs at dawn, winter weeks when the river is nearly empty, and the informal network among Corleone's four sites, where a berth holder's breakdown at Elizabeth Bay might still be fixed by the same mechanic who services their boat at Drummoyne.