Marina service
St George Motor Boat Club
About
St George Motor Boat Club at a glance
Large licensed club at 2 Wellington Street, Sans Souci, on Kogarah Bay with a state-of-the-art marina expanded to about 310 berths (8-20 m, 2025 expansion adding 84), 24/7 fuel, complimentary pump-out, swing moorings, slipway (Aquatic Power) and 270-degree water-view dining.
Service area: Botany Bay / Georges River
- Marina type
- commercial club
- Operator
- St George Motor Boat Club
- Region
- Botany Bay / Georges River
- Water body
- Georges River (Kogarah Bay)
- Wet berths
- 310
- Maximum vessel
- 20 m
- Berth types
- permanent berthing, casual berthing, swing moorings
Facilities and services
- fuel
- pump-out
- slipway
- boat ramp
- licensed club
- restaurant/cafe
- power & water
- showers & laundry
- gas bottles
- LPG refills
- boat brokerage (MBC Yacht Sales)
- function centre
- 3 bars
- live entertainment
- boat launching ramps (3)
- dual-rail slipway (Aquatic Power)
About St George Motor Boat Club
The St George Motor Boat Club occupies the point at 2 Wellington Street, Sans Souci, where the Georges River widens into Kogarah Bay, and it has grown from a motorboaters' social club into one of the largest club marinas in southern Sydney. Its wet berths number around 310 after an expansion completed toward the end of 2025 added 84 new pens in 10, 12, 15 and 18 metre sizes to the existing 228. The clubhouse rises above the marina with roughly 270 degrees of water view, housing a cafe, restaurant, three bars and a function centre, with live entertainment several times a week drawing a crowd well beyond the boating fraternity. Because it is a licensed club, berthing is woven into membership: permanent berth holders must be full boating members, which keeps the marina community unusually engaged with club life. The location is a genuine drawcard in itself, sitting about 18 nautical miles from Sydney Harbour by water and a short run downstream to Botany Bay, yet sheltered inside the Georges River system from ocean swell. Swing moorings, a working slipway, 24-hour fuel and a busy calendar of club events give the place the feel of a small working harbour wrapped around a social institution, and on any summer evening the marina walkway, fuel berth and balcony bars all hum at once. The club's phone line, 02 9529 7276, and its marina email handle enquiries from across the Sutherland Shire and St George districts, and membership is open well beyond boat owners, which keeps the bars busy even in the winter off-season.
Marina facilities
Berthing caters for vessels from 8 to 20 metres across floating pens, with visitor berth depth around 1.5 metres at LAT; permanent swing moorings are also offered. Applications for the new berths require full boating membership and a bond, vessel insurance must be provided before arrival, and all visitors report to the marina office, open seven days from 8am to 5pm. A fuel berth operates around the clock dispensing diesel and premium unleaded petrol, and LPG refills are available during staffed hours. A complimentary black-water pump-out sits on the fuel berth, a rarity in Sydney and a genuine service to the river. The club's dual-rail slipway is run by tenant Aquatic Power, reachable on 02 9529 8109, and three concrete boat launching ramps serve trailerboat traffic. Marina amenities include toilets, showers and a laundry, and MBC Yacht Sales operates a brokerage on site. Permanent rates have historically started from around $605 a month, among the sharper prices in Sydney, while full berthing membership has been priced at about $22 a year plus a modest joining fee, remarkable value given what attaches to it. Ashore, berth holders and visiting crews step straight into the club's dining rooms and bars, and the function centre above the water handles weddings and corporate events most weekends. Power and water are available at berths, security is maintained across the site, and the club's scale means the practical services of a commercial marina arrive wrapped in the hospitality of a licensed club. Berth sizes in the newest stage were offered in 10, 12, 15 and 18 metre lengths, with applications opening well ahead of the estimated November 2025 completion.
Local sailing knowledge
By water the club fronts Kogarah Bay, a broad, shallow-edged bight of the lower Georges River immediately inside the Captain Cook Bridge. Skippers heading for the sea pass under that bridge, which carries a stated clearance of 16.6 metres above high-water springs, then run the dredged Georges River channel past Towra Point into Botany Bay; from there the open coast or a run north to Sydney Harbour are both realistic day trips. Inside the river the water stays sheltered in most weather, which is why the bay hosts so much club sailing and why the marina appeals to first-time big-boat owners. Depths off the entrance are modest and the visitor berth carries about 1.5 metres at low water, so deeper-keeled yachts should time arrival near the top of the tide. Fishing boats work the bream and flathead grounds along the Towra mangroves at first light, and the sand flats across the bay are a long-standing whiting spot. Ashore, the Sans Souci foreshore strip along The Promenade has cafes within a flat ten-minute walk, and the club's own restaurant means crews rarely need to leave the precinct for dinner. Weekday berthing enquiries are handled by the marina office on 0409 090 712. The promenade and sandy foreshore baths at Sans Souci make this one of the easier Sydney clubs to sell to non-boating family members, and parking at Wellington Street puts the Sydney CBD roughly half an hour away by road outside peak hour. Summer north-easters funnel up the bay in the afternoon, while westerlies off the land leave the marina glassy; either way, conditions inside the river are rarely enough to cancel a day's boating.