Marina service
Gold Coast City Marina & Shipyard (GCCM)
About
Gold Coast City Marina & Shipyard (GCCM) at a glance
Australia's most awarded marina - 2025 MIA Marina of the Year (over 140 boats), Boatyard of the Year and Dry Stack Facility of the Year. 200 berths for vessels to 75m, a 300-vessel dry stack and a shipyard with 50,000sqm hardstand, lifting to 300t, sandblasting bays, keel pits and undercover sheds. Anchor of the Coomera superyacht refit precinct with 90+ marine businesses on site; 24/7 fuel; Gold Anchor, Superyacht Ready and Clean Marina accredited.
Service area: Gold Coast
- Marina type
- superyacht marina
- Operator
- GCCM (Gay family; d'Albora network)
- Region
- Gold Coast
- Water body
- Coomera River
- Wet berths
- 200
- Dry storage
- 300
- Maximum vessel
- 75 m
- Berth types
- casual berthing, permanent berthing, superyacht berths
Facilities and services
- fuel
- pump-out
- travel lift
- hardstand
- dry stack storage
- repairs & maintenance
- refit facilities
- 24/7 security
- power & water
- showers & laundry
- restaurant/cafe
- customs clearance
- chandlery
- valet dry stack with app booking
- courtesy cars and bicycles
- airport shuttle
- concierge
- crew zone gym and BBQ
- keel pit
- sandblasting bays
- solar power
- water recycling
- 400A shore power
- designated port of clearance
About Gold Coast City Marina & Shipyard (GCCM)
Gold Coast City Marina and Shipyard, known universally as GCCM, is the anchor tenant of the 250-hectare Coomera Marine Precinct and, by trophy count, the most awarded marina in the country. The Gay family bought what were farming paddocks on the Coomera River in 1996, opened the facility in January 2000 and built it into a 200-berth marina, 300-vessel dry stack and full shipyard that the Marina Industries Association honoured in 2025 with a clean sweep: Marina of the Year (over 140 boats), Boatyard of the Year and Dry Stack Facility of the Year. The Gay family became sole owners in 2014, and in a significant changing of the guard the facility was acquired by MA Financial Group for its d'Albora marina network, adding GCCM to a 16-marina east-coast portfolio. The scale is hard to overstate: roughly 50,000 square metres of hardstand, enclosed superyacht sheds, more than 90 marine businesses trading on site, and a client list that runs from jet skis to 70-metre-plus motor yachts arriving from the United States, Europe and across the Asia-Pacific. The 73-metre Silveryachts-built Dragonfly completed a full repaint, engineering overhaul and interior refit here, the largest refit in the yard's history. Positioned outside the North Queensland cyclone belt and roughly midway between Sydney and the Great Barrier Reef on the standard coastal run, GCCM has become the default winter haul-out for yachts cruising the east coast, and its 5 Gold Anchor, Superyacht Ready and Clean Marina accreditations, the latter scored at 100 per cent, reflect how methodically the place is run.
Marina facilities
Berthing covers 200 wet berths for vessels from 10 to 75 metres with floating docks, crane access and up to 400-amp power, offered on casual, permanent and superyacht terms. The dry stack is South East Queensland's only fully enclosed facility, racking boats to 36 feet and six tonnes with unlimited valet launches seven days a week, booked by app or an hour's phone call ahead; a 10 per cent surcharge applies to beams over 2.5 metres, and month-to-month or annual pricing is worked through an online calculator. The shipyard lifts with 300-tonne and 50-tonne travelifts, 12 and 14-tonne forklifts and a 45-tonne hydraulic trailer, onto a clean, controlled 50,000-square-metre hardstand with enclosed sheds from 8 to 45 metres, 19-metre-clear undercover bays, a dedicated keel pit for deep-draught yachts and sandblasting bays. Fuel flows 24/7 at a tap-and-go wharf, fast-flow diesel at 200 litres a minute plus premium unleaded, with bunkering arranged for orders over 10,000 litres; pump-out is available, and GCCM is a designated port of clearance with customs and biosecurity support for international arrivals. More than 90 marine businesses trade on site, from shipwrights and painters to riggers and electronics firms, and owners can self-manage projects, engage one of twelve-plus on-site project managers, or split the difference. Customer amenities include a refurbished laundry, ensuite and shower facilities, a customer lounge, a dedicated crew zone with gym, kitchen and barbecue area, courtesy cars and bicycles, an airport shuttle, a concierge customer-relations officer, an on-site cafe and a waterfront restaurant and bar. The yard draws power from one of the largest marine solar installations anywhere and harvests and recycles its wash-down water.
Local sailing knowledge
GCCM sits on Waterway Drive on the Coomera River, dredged to 3.5 metres at lowest astronomical tide, with a straight, bridge-free run of about 11 nautical miles down to the Broadwater and the Seaway; even deep-keelers with the keel pit in mind should declare their draft when booking. The Gold Coast is outside the cyclone belt, which is precisely why so many yachts stage here between seasons: north to the Whitsundays for winter, back to Coomera for summer work. Brisbane is about 70 kilometres north by road, Surfers Paradise 20 kilometres south, and the airport shuttle takes the sting out of crew changes. Provisioning is effortless with Coomera's shopping centres minutes away, and the precinct around the yard, engine dealers, sail lofts, stainless fabricators, means most jobs never leave the river. The river itself gets busy on weekends and the banks either side of the channel shoal fast, so keep to the marks. Crews rate the lifestyle dividend: morning haul-out, sunset drinks on the waterfront, and the hinterland's rainforest walks and wineries for days off. A 20-hectare sister site next door is slated to more than double capacity with a 1,500-plus-tonne lift and undercover refit factories, so expect construction activity and, eventually, even more large-yacht traffic on this stretch of the Coomera. Southport Yacht Club at Hollywell and the cafes of Paradise Point make easy day runs by water, while the Jumpinpin channel system to the north offers protected anchoring when the forecast turns. Visiting captains should also note the yard's cleanliness rules: containment, filtration and waste separation are enforced rigorously, which is a large part of why the place photographs and audits so well.