About
Edgewater Marina at a glance
Private marina at Yeltu Court, New Port, in the developing Port Adelaide waterfront precinct. Features locked hinged access walkways, lighting, freshwater and power, with easy access to local restaurants and public amenities.
Service area: Adelaide metro - Port River
- Marina type
- full-service marina
- Region
- Adelaide metro - Port River
- Water body
- Port River (New Port Quays)
- Berth types
- permanent berthing
Facilities and services
- power & water
- 24/7 security
- strata berths for sale
- body corporate managed (Whittles)
- lighting
About Edgewater Marina
Edgewater Marina is a small, private strata marina folded into the New Port Quays redevelopment on the Port River's western bank, at Yeltu Court in the suburb of New Port. It belongs to the wave of waterfront renewal that has been transforming the old Port Adelaide harbour fringe from industrial wharves into apartments, townhouses and recreational moorings, and it reads that way: floating docks in a sheltered canal-style basin, townhouses rising behind, and the cranes of the working port still visible upriver. There is no clubhouse, fuel dock or boatyard here; Edgewater is purely a secure place to keep a recreational boat, owned berth by berth and managed corporately - recent sale listings note Whittles as the body corporate manager. Its scale is modest, with berths around the ten-metre mark sold individually; asking prices for a 10-metre berth have run between roughly $12,000 and $15,000, which says much about the clientele - local owners of trailerable-to-mid-size powerboats and small yachts who want their boat in the water near home rather than on the driveway. The New Port precinct around it has been filling in steadily, and the marina's selling point is position: Semaphore's beachfront and eateries are minutes away, Port Adelaide's restored waterfront is a short drive, and the run from berth to open water in Gulf St Vincent, down the Port River channel, takes well under half an hour. For the suburb itself, the marina was one of the earliest tangible pieces of the New Port Quays vision, and its steadily traded berths - they appear on the market regularly through local agents - have made it an entry-level rung on Adelaide's waterfront property ladder.
Marina facilities
Facilities at Edgewater are deliberately lean, and prospective berth buyers should price that in. Each floating berth is serviced with fresh water and shore power, and the docks are lit at night. Access is controlled by locked gates at the top of hinged walkways that rise and fall with the river level, so only berth holders reach the pontoons - a security model that suits an unattended private marina without staff on site. Berth configuration is stern-to floating dock, and directory data puts depths at two to three metres with negligible tidal flow inside the basin, adequate for the powerboats and shoal-draft yachts the berth sizes imply. Catamarans are not accommodated, and there are no overseas visitor berths. What is not on site matters as much as what is: there is no fuel berth, no pump-out, no slipway or travel lift, no chandlery and no amenities block. Owners handle fuel and waste at neighbouring facilities - the fuel berth at the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron at Outer Harbor and the DockYard (Marina Adelaide) precinct at Largs North, with its 75 and 150-tonne travel lifts, are the usual answers, both a short steam away. Berth purchase and leasing are handled through real estate agents and the body corporate manager rather than a marina office, so enquiries go to the listing agent or Whittles. Ongoing costs are the strata levies plus power and water use. For an owner whose priority is a cheap, secure wet berth close to Adelaide's better cruising water, the trade-off against full-service marinas is often acceptable; for anyone needing regular mechanical support, it will not be.
Local sailing knowledge
The marina basin opens onto the Port River, and the run to the gulf is straightforward: down the maintained shipping channel past the container terminal and out between the Outer Harbor breakwaters. Recreational traffic shares the river with tugs, container ships and the occasional cruise ship, so a VHF watch and strict adherence to the channel rules are expected. The river itself repays slow exploration - the Port Adelaide dolphins, a resident population of around thirty animals, hunt the reach between the port and Garden Island, and the ships' graveyard wrecks in the Garden Island ships' graveyard area draw kayakers. Ashore, the marina sits within a developing residential precinct, so the immediate surroundings are quiet; the life is a short hop away. Semaphore Road's pubs, fish-and-chip shops and the beachfront jetty are a few minutes by car, and Port Adelaide's nineteenth-century streetscape - the maritime museum, the lighthouse, weekend markets and an improving strip of pubs and cafes - lies just upriver. West Lakes shopping centre covers provisioning. By water, the standard Adelaide cruising menu applies: north to the North Haven basin marinas and the sailing clubs, or straight out to the metropolitan coast and, for the ambitious, the fifty-nautical-mile crossing to Kangaroo Island's north shore. Berth holders tend to be day-and-weekend boaters, and the river's sheltered water makes year-round use realistic in a way the open gulf is not. Winter use is common since the river stays navigable in all conditions, and the short transit to the gulf means even a two-hour weather window can be turned into a sail and back before dark.