Marina service
d'Albora Marinas Cabarita Point
About
d'Albora Marinas Cabarita Point at a glance
Full-service marina on the Parramatta River at Cabarita with 91 berths, laundry and 24-hour fuel berth (formerly Westport Marina).
Service area: Sydney Harbour
- Marina type
- full-service marina
- Operator
- d'Albora Marinas
- Region
- Sydney Harbour
- Water body
- Parramatta River (Cabarita Point)
- Wet berths
- 91
- Berth types
- permanent berthing, casual berthing
Facilities and services
- fuel
- pump-out
- repairs & maintenance
- 24/7 security
- power & water
- showers & laundry
- dockmaster 7 days
- members lounge
- 24-hour fuel berth
- members fuel discounts
- reciprocal berthing
- waterfront dining
- brokerage
- parking
About d'Albora Marinas Cabarita Point
d'Albora Marinas Cabarita Point occupies a sheltered bend of the Parramatta River at Cabarita, in Sydney's inner west, where the river widens past Cabarita Park and the ferry wharf before narrowing again towards Silverwater. The marina traded for many years as Westport Marina before joining the d'Albora group, the country's largest marina network, and that ownership change brought the group's systems: dockmaster coverage seven days a week, a members' lounge, reciprocal berthing arrangements with sister sites and member fuel discounts across the network. With 91 berths it is a mid-sized operation by d'Albora standards, but its position makes it distinctive: this is the most upriver of the group's Sydney marinas, sitting between Five Dock and Homebush, and it functions as a berthing base for inner-west boat owners who want Sydney Harbour access without eastern-suburbs rates. The foreshore setting is parkland rather than industrial. Cabarita Park wraps around the point with fig trees, a swimming enclosure and picnic lawns, and the marina's waterfront dining options, Vela Dining and Bar and Sanders Kiosk, face the river beside it. The fleet is mixed, runabouts and family cruisers through to decent-sized motor yachts, with directories noting capacity for vessels up to around 155 feet. Weekdays are quiet; summer weekends bring the park crowds, the ferry traffic and the full theatre of the inner harbour river. The suburb itself carries layers of history, from its days as a picnic and regatta destination reached by ferry to the mangrove-fringed rehabilitation of its foreshore in recent decades, and the marina inherits that old pleasure-ground relationship with the water. For a marina fifteen kilometres up a working river, Cabarita Point feels remarkably like a bayside retreat, which is precisely why its berths are in demand.
Marina facilities
The marina provides 91 wet berths with power and water, offered on permanent and casual terms, with dockmaster assistance available seven days a week and a guest services line (1800 DALBORA) for member and visitor needs. Security is a strong suit: 24-hour security with swipe-card access controls the site. The marina has long been valued for its fuel berth with 24-hour availability, a genuine rarity this far up the Parramatta River, and a pump-out facility serves berth holders; d'Albora members also receive discounted fuel at the group's other on-water fuel facilities, including The Spit at Mosman and Rushcutters Bay, when cruising the wider harbour. Amenity-wise the site carries a members' lounge, toilets, showers and laundry, parking in and around the marina, and waterfront food on the doorstep at Vela Dining and Bar and the long-running Sanders Kiosk beside the park. Repairs and maintenance services are available, and d'Albora Yacht Brokers operates new and used boat sales across the network, with exclusive brokerage commission arrangements for members. Booking is straightforward through the marina office on 02 9743 6277 or the group's central line, and one of the practical advantages of the d'Albora flag is reciprocal berthing: berth holders can arrange short stays at the group's other east coast marinas, from Rushcutters Bay and The Spit to Port Stephens and the Gold Coast, when cruising away from home. In network terms, Cabarita Point is the quiet, secure, fully serviced base; the glitzier d'Albora addresses are the destinations. For an inner-west owner who boats regularly on the harbour, that division of roles works well, and the 24-hour fuel and pump-out close the loop for boats that never need to leave the river.
Local sailing knowledge
Cabarita Point sits on the Parramatta River's middle reach, and the run out to Sydney Harbour proper is part of the pleasure of berthing here. Downstream, the river passes Breakfast Point, Mortlake and the Gladesville Bridge before opening into Iron Cove and the main harbour, with no air-draft problem for anything that fits the river; it is roughly an hour's comfortable motor to the Harbour Bridge. Upstream the river continues past Silverwater towards Parramatta, navigable for smaller craft, with the RiverCat ferries threading the same channel. The Cabarita ferry wharf, on the F3 Parramatta River route, is a short walk from the marina, which makes crew changes and city trips easy without a car. Tides run around two metres at springs, currents in the river are moderate, and the water is well sheltered in almost all conditions; the main seamanship issues are ferry wake, weekend traffic and the odd submerged hazard after flood events. Ashore, Cabarita Park is the marina's front lawn, with shaded picnic areas, a netted swimming area and the dunes-and-figs character of an old harbour reserve. The dining options at the point, plus the cafe and restaurant strip at nearby Breakfast Point and Concord, cover most tastes, and full provisioning is available at Concord or Rhodes shopping centres a short drive away. The boat community here skews local and loyal; many berth holders live within a few suburbs and treat the marina as an extension of their backyard. For visitors, the combination of secure berthing, 24-hour fuel and a riverside park makes Cabarita a practical overnight stop on any itinerary up the river, and a calm base from which to work the whole harbour west of the bridge.