Marina service
Hervey Bay Boat Club Marina
About
Hervey Bay Boat Club Marina at a glance
Marina with 138 berths (9m to 18m) all with power and water at 864 Boat Harbour Drive, Urangan. Operates 300-tonne (12m beam) and 40-tonne (5m beam) travel lifts with on-site repair and maintenance facilities.
Service area: Hervey Bay / Fraser Coast
- Marina type
- yacht club marina
- Operator
- Hervey Bay Boat Club
- Region
- Hervey Bay / Fraser Coast
- Water body
- Urangan Harbour, Hervey Bay
- Wet berths
- 96
- Maximum vessel
- 25 m
- Berth types
- casual berthing, permanent berthing
Facilities and services
- fuel
- wifi
- showers & laundry
- restaurant/cafe
- licensed club
- power & water
- travel lift
- repairs & maintenance
- courtesy bus to Hervey Bay CBD
- bottle shop
- gaming lounge
- function rooms
- live entertainment and monthly jazz club
- Harbourview Restaurant, Lighthouse Cafe, Sinbads Bistro
- chandlery
- boat brokerage
- wifi (Marinanet)
- public fuel wharf 7 days
- 40t travel lift access with riggers, sail makers, mechanics
- temporary club membership for visitors
- VHF 77
About Hervey Bay Boat Club Marina
Hervey Bay Boat Club Marina pairs a 96-berth basin on Buccaneer Drive in Urangan Harbour with one of regional Queensland's best-known licensed clubs, creating a stopover where the line between marina and entertainment venue barely exists. The club has been part of Hervey Bay's boating fabric for decades and wears its awards proudly, but the practical draw is simple: a cruising yacht can tie up, plug in, fuel up, haul out nearby, eat well and catch a courtesy bus into town without moving the car - if it even has one. The marina accommodates vessels up to about 25 metres on casual and permanent terms, and the basin sits immediately beside the clubhouse, its deck looking across the pontoons to the harbour entrance. K'gari (Fraser Island) fills the eastern horizon and the whale-watching fleet works out of the neighbouring berths each winter, so the views alone keep the place busy. The marina shares Urangan Boat Harbour with Great Sandy Straits Marina, the ferry terminals and the Fishermans Wharf shipyard, making the harbour as a whole the Fraser Coast's marine service centre; the Boat Club's slice of it leans hardest on hospitality. Live entertainment, a monthly jazz club, multiple bars and a bistro-fed social calendar mean berth-holders and visiting crews are absorbed into club life within a night or two, which explains the marina's loyalty among east-coast cruisers who schedule their Hervey Bay stop around it. The club's long history in the town - it grew alongside Hervey Bay's transformation from a string of fishing villages into the whale-watch capital of Australia - gives the marina a community weight that newer, purely commercial operations cannot replicate, and visiting crews regularly report that a planned overnight stop stretches into a week once the courtesy bus timetable and the dinner menu reveal themselves.
Marina facilities
Berthing runs across 96 berths with power and water to every pontoon, wireless internet via Marinanet, a guest laundry, amenities and secure car parking; the marina office opens seven days, from 8:30am on weekdays and 9:00am weekends, and monitors VHF 77 for arriving boats. Casual visitors are welcomed as temporary club members for the length of their stay, which unlocks the full venue. The Boat Club Fuel Wharf adjacent to the marina operates seven days a week and is the public fuel dock for this side of the harbour. Haul-out and maintenance are handled through the club's slipway access with a 40-tonne travel lift, and the club maintains working relationships with yacht riggers, sail makers and mechanics who attend boats at the marina; for heavier lifts, the neighbouring Fishermans Wharf shipyard runs a 300-tonne, 12-metre-beam travel lift - the largest in regional Queensland - plus a second 40-tonne unit, covered workshops, sandblasting, spray painting, engineering, welding, diesel fitters, electricians, shipwrights and fibreglassing, so the full repair spectrum sits within a short walk. A chandlery and boat brokerage operate onsite. Ashore, the club itself is the amenity list: the Harbourview Restaurant for a-la-carte dining, the Lighthouse Cafe with locally roasted coffee, Sinbads Bistro and a coffee shop for casual meals, three bars, a bottle shop, function rooms, a modern gaming lounge and live entertainment most nights. A courtesy bus runs marina guests into central Hervey Bay, and the club's function spaces host everything from jazz afternoons to weddings, all of it a few steps from the berth.
Local sailing knowledge
Urangan Harbour's entrance is dredged and well marked, and the marina lies just inside it on the southern side - call on VHF 77 or phone ahead and staff will point you at the arrival berth. Approaches from the south come up the Great Sandy Strait with due respect for its tide races and drying flats, while boats from the north cross Hervey Bay inside K'gari's lee; either way the bay's sandbanks reward a chart plotter and a tide table. The marina's berth is the social option in the harbour, and in whale season, July to early November, the dawn chorus of charter catamarans heading for Platypus Bay passes the pontoons - book a whale trip from the marina office or walk to the neighbouring departure points. K'gari's western anchorages, from Kingfisher Bay to Garrys Anchorage, are an easy day sail, and the sheltered strait suits even modest trailer sailors. Provisioning starts at Urangan's shops within walking distance and finishes at the city's full supermarkets via the courtesy bus; marine supplies beyond the chandlery are a short drive. The Urangan Pier, a kilometre or so away, gives a leg-stretch into the bay's past as a deep-water sugar port, and the pier is also the local fishing platform for those without a boat. Summer brings afternoon sea breezes and the occasional storm off the bay, while cyclone season sees the club's haul-out bookings spike - plan lifting work early between November and March. The club's jazz afternoons and weekend entertainment are the standing invitation: tie up, shower, and be on the deck by sunset.