Marina service
Sydney Superyacht Marina
About
Sydney Superyacht Marina at a glance
Boutique superyacht marina on the heritage 1919 Jones Bay Wharf at Pyrmont, minutes from the CBD: 40 berths plus 150 m linear berthing for vessels 20-100 m+, 500-amp 3-phase power, in-berth pump-out and Port of Entry customs assistance. Australian Marina of the Year 2025 (under 140 boats).
Service area: Sydney Harbour
- Marina type
- superyacht marina
- Operator
- Sydney Superyacht Marina Pty Ltd
- Region
- Sydney Harbour
- Water body
- Rozelle Bay (Sydney Harbour)
- Wet berths
- 43
- Maximum vessel
- 75 m
- Berth types
- permanent berthing, casual berthing, superyacht berths
Facilities and services
- 24/7 security
- power & water
- concierge
- pump-out
- showers & laundry
- restaurant/cafe
- berth-adjacent parking (219-space car park)
- fuel bunkering arranged at berth
- adjacent Sydney City Marine 600t ship lift and 100t travel lift
- yacht club on site
About Sydney Superyacht Marina
Sydney Superyacht Marina on Rozelle Bay was built for the 2000 Olympic Games, when Sydney needed somewhere to put the international superyacht fleet that descended on the harbour for the regatta. It remains the largest dedicated superyacht berthing facility in the southern hemisphere, with berthing for up to 45 large vessels, alongside berths taking yachts to about 75 metres and Med-style berths to around 50 metres. The marina occupies a sheltered corner of Rozelle Bay beside the Anzac Bridge, minutes by tender from the CBD, with the Sydney City Marine refit yard next door providing the haul-out capability the marina itself lacks. Ownership has changed hands with the precinct's fortunes: interests associated with Mark Carnegie and Andrew Robinson sold to Markham Corporation and Lendlease in 2016 for close to 20 million dollars, folding the marina into the same family as the Sydney Boathouse dry-stack complex next door and triggering a 30-million-dollar redevelopment program to enlarge berths and upgrade landside facilities. Two-level buildings along the waterfront house marine offices, a yacht club, restaurants, bars and cafes, with a four-level car park behind. The marina's role in Sydney's boating economy is singular: nowhere else on the harbour can a 70-metre yacht berth alongside with shore power, security and trades at hand, and during the summer season the pens fill with visiting yachts using Sydney as their South Pacific base. The marina's Olympic origin still shows in its layout, which was drawn to accept a sudden influx of very large yachts rather than a permanent fleet of small ones.
Marina facilities
Berthing is configured for size: alongside berths for vessels up to about 75 metres and Mediterranean-style berths to roughly 50 metres, with a maximum draft around 6 metres, all in sheltered Rozelle Bay. Shore power and water are supplied at the berth, sewage pump-out is available, and 24-hour security with CCTV covers the pens. The marina operates a concierge service geared to captains and crew rather than owners alone, coordinating contractors, deliveries and provisioning; berth-adjacent parking, including 24 spaces reserved for the berths within a 219-space four-level car park, lets suppliers and trades work directly off the dock. There is no fuel berth inside the marina, but bunkering is arranged at the berth by tanker or barge through specialist suppliers, the standard arrangement for vessels of this size. Haul-out and heavy maintenance are handled next door at Sydney City Marine, whose 600-tonne ship lift, 100-tonne travel lift and 47-tonne submersible trailer can take vessels to 50 metres in the water and large commercial tonnage on the hardstand, giving the marina a de-facto refit yard within walking distance. Landside, the complex includes marine offices, a yacht club, restaurants, bars and cafes, plus showers and laundry for crew. Bookings run through the marina office on 02 9818 0605, with berths offered on casual, seasonal and annual terms; demand peaks through the southern summer and around the New Year and Hobart race period, when berths are booked well ahead. Water supply to the facility was engineered with rainwater reuse and electro-flocculation treatment for the wash-down area, cutting potable water demand on a constrained urban site.
Local sailing knowledge
Rozelle Bay sits just west of the Harbour Bridge, inside the 15-knot safety zone that governs the bridge transit, and any vessel berthing here passes the bridge under the no-stopping rule enforced by NSW Maritime patrols. The bay itself is deep and sheltered, but it is also a working waterway: the cruise terminal at White Bay, the fish market fleet at Blackwattle Bay and commercial traffic through the channel mean skippers of visiting yachts keep a proper lookout on approach rather than treating the inner harbour as a pond. Tenders run crew to Barangaroo, Darling Harbour and the fish market in minutes, and the light rail and the Bay Run serve the land side. The precinct's maritime industry is the point: Sydney City Marine's yard, the superyacht berths and the Boathouse dry stack together form the largest concentration of large-vessel servicing on the harbour, and most of Sydney's superyacht trades, from electronics firms to shipwrights, work out of or through this bay. For cruising itineraries, the marina is a base rather than a destination: the eastern harbour bays, the beaches at Manly and Watsons Bay, and offshore runs to Pittwater and Port Stephens all start here. New Year's Eve and the Boxing Day Hobart start turn Rozelle Bay into a front-row seat. Captains planning a season should note that Sydney is a designated port of entry, with customs and quarantine clearance arranged ahead of arrival, and that berths for vessels over 60 metres are scarce enough to require early booking.