Marina service
Newport Anchorage Marina
About
Newport Anchorage Marina at a glance
Sheltered private marina at 79-81 Beaconsfield Street, Newport, with berths of about 8-15 m for sale or lease, undercover secure parking, showers and toilets; close to shops, slipway and fuel.
Service area: Pittwater
- Marina type
- full-service marina
- Operator
- Newport Anchorage Marina
- Region
- Pittwater
- Water body
- Pittwater
- Maximum vessel
- 15 m
- Berth types
- permanent berthing, casual berthing
Facilities and services
- power & water
- showers & laundry
- berths for sale and lease
- swing moorings
- undercover secure parking
- electronic key access
- pump-out
- oil disposal
- brokerage onsite
About Newport Anchorage Marina
Newport Anchorage is the quiet, residential end of Pittwater marinas: a small, privately held complex at 79 to 81 Beaconsfield Street in Newport, tucked into a protected bay on the suburb's waterfront a short walk from the Newport Arms. Unlike the big club marinas up the road, it has no restaurant, no fuel dock and no racing fleet; it exists simply as a secure place to keep a boat, and its berths trade on the open market like real estate, bought, sold and leased pen by pen. Berths from about 8 to 15 metres change hands through brokers, with individual pens advertised for sale with their own secure undercover car spaces, and casual leases listed from around $55 a day for a 13-metre pen. The complex offers lift access from the parking level down to the docks, electronic key security throughout, and shower and toilet amenities for berth holders, giving it the feel of an apartment building whose garages happen to float. Its boating identity is closely tied to All Boat Brokerage, which operates from Unit 11 in the complex and handles berth sales and leasing alongside yacht brokerage, so the marina doubles as a display shelf for boats on the market. For owners who want Pittwater sailing without club subscriptions or marina precinct traffic, the Anchorage has long been the practical, low-key answer, with the suburb's shops, slipway and fuel wharf all close by. The complex dates from Pittwater's era of strata-titled marinas, when pens were sold to individual owners much like units, and that ownership model persists: berth holders vote on maintenance, levy for dock works, and treat their pens as appreciating waterfront assets. It remains one of the few Newport marinas where a berth can still occasionally be bought outright.
Marina facilities
Services at Newport Anchorage are residential in character. Berths run from roughly 8 to 15 metres and are held under individual ownership or lease, with power and water at the berth, a phone line, and lift access from the undercover security car park, which allocates a car space to each pen. The amenity block provides showers and toilets for berth holders, and access throughout is by electronic key only, which keeps the docks private in a suburb where waterfront foot traffic is constant. Broker listings for the complex also note sewage pump-out, oil disposal, and hardstand, haul-out and launching facilities available in association with the marina, while fuel, slipway work and chandlery needs are met a short distance away in Newport itself, where the village keeps a fuel wharf, a public slipway and marine trades within easy reach by water or road. All Boat Brokerage, based on site, manages berth sales and leasing enquiries and can arrange casual berthing when pens are available; advertised casual rates have sat around $55 per day for a 13-metre berth. Swing moorings in the bay are also offered through the same channel. There is no restaurant, laundry, wifi lounge or concierge; berth holders looking for a meal walk up to the Newport Arms or the village cafes. The trade-off is price and privacy: a protected pen with secure parking on Pittwater at strata-marina cost, minutes from some of the best cruising water in NSW. Berth sizes and configurations vary by pen, so prospective buyers and lessees inspect individual berths rather than a standard product, and single-phase power is standard across the docks. Rubbish and recycling are handled at the car park level. The brokerage's presence means listed boats can often be sea-trialled straight from the marina, which keeps the docks active even through winter.
Local sailing knowledge
Newport Anchorage sits inside Newport's bay on the western shore of Pittwater, roughly midway between the entrance at Barrenjoey and the head of the estuary. Pittwater itself is one of the easiest waterways on the coast: a bar-free, deep-water entrance through Broken Bay, 20 to 40 metres in the approach, and 10 to 20 metres down the central channel, with 3 to 8 metres in the bays, so the only real hazards are weekend traffic and the mooring fields that hem in every shore. The bay in front of the marina is well protected, and the run out past the Royal Motor Yacht Club and the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club takes minutes. From a berth here, the whole Pittwater and Broken Bay cruising ground opens up: Scotland Island and Church Point to the south, Lovett Bay, The Basin and the national park anchorages of Coasters Retreat within a short hop, and the Hawkesbury system, Refuge Bay and America Bay with their waterfall anchorages, an easy day away. Provisioning is straightforward: Newport village has supermarkets, bottle shops and eateries within walking distance of Beaconsfield Street, and the Newport Arms, one of the great waterfront pubs of the northern beaches, sits practically next door. Owners here tend to be locals who keep a boat for weekends rather than passage-makers, which gives the docks a settled, neighbourhood character year-round. Newport's bay shoals towards its head, so deeper-draft boats keep to the marked channel before turning into the marina. The surf beach lies just over the hill, and the Barrenjoey lighthouse walk at Palm Beach is the classic crew excursion on a lay day. Weekends bring steady wash past the docks from the nearby public ramp and club marinas, so spring lines and decent fender boards are standard kit.