Marina service
Wondakiah Marina (Wollstonecraft Marina)
About
Wondakiah Marina (Wollstonecraft Marina) at a glance
74-berth marina at 22 Ross Street, Waverton, built as part of the Wondakiah residential development on the former BP Waverton site. Private marina within the Wondakiah waterfront apartment estate at 22 Ross St Waverton; 41 berths per current listings (existing record said 74 berths)
Service area: Sydney Harbour
- Marina type
- private/residential marina
- Region
- Sydney Harbour
- Water body
- Sydney Harbour (Berrys Bay / Balls Head Bay area)
- Wet berths
- 74
- Berth types
- permanent berthing
Facilities and services
- strata-titled berths (SP58231) bought/sold via real estate
- berths to 50ft
- estate pools/gym/sauna/tennis
- kayak and SUP launching
- gated residential estate
About Wondakiah Marina (Wollstonecraft Marina)
Wondakiah Marina is a private residential marina folded into one of Sydney Harbour's more unusual housing estates, the 6.8-hectare Wondakiah development at 22 Ross Street, Waverton, built on the former BP waterfront terminal site where the shoreline looks out across Balls Head Bay and Wollstonecraft Bay. The estate comprises ten apartment buildings, each named after a flower, holding 297 strata-titled units in landscaped, park-like grounds, and the marina forms its water frontage just west of the Harbour Bridge on the Lower North Shore. Records differ on capacity, with the operator's own material now describing a 41-berth marina accommodating boats to 50 feet, while older listings credited the development with 74 berths; either way it ranks among the larger residential berthing facilities on the harbour's north side. What makes it distinctive is ownership structure: each berth is a strata-titled lot in its own strata plan, bought and sold like the apartments themselves, and berths periodically appear in real estate listings bundled with waterfront units, with a 12-metre pen typically noted alongside the car spaces. The result is a marina with the character of a private pontoon at the bottom of a very large garden, used by residents who keep cruisers and weekender powerboats metres from their lobbies, and who can step from a morning swim in the estate pool to an afternoon run down the harbour. There is no public face, no casual berthing trade and no commercial marina services, which is exactly the point: Wondakiah sells quiet, secured, walk-to-the-station harbourfront living with a berth thrown in.
Marina facilities
Services at Wondakiah are resident-focused and deliberately limited. Each berth is provided with shore power and fresh water, and the pontoons accommodate vessels up to 50 feet, around 15 metres, within the estate's secured waterfront. Berths are strata-titled lots in Strata Plan 58231, so they change hands through real estate agents rather than a marina office; sales and leasing are generally tied to the estate, with priority and in practice availability for owners and residents, and real estate listings regularly offer apartments with an option to purchase a marina berth. Estate management handles the marina through the strata structure, with the contact line listed as 02 9404 8333. Beyond the pontoons, berth holders draw on the estate's shared facilities: indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a gymnasium, sauna and spa, tennis courts and manicured gardens running down to the seawall. The marina also serves as a launch point for kayaks, canoes and stand-up paddleboards, with direct access into Balls Head Bay. There is no fuel berth, no travel lift or hardstand, no pump-out, no chandlery and no trades on site; owners arrange slipping, mechanical work and antifouling at the commercial yards elsewhere on the harbour, with the nearest full-service facilities across the bridge reach at places like Berrys Bay's historic boatyards precinct and the yards of the inner harbour. Casual and visitor berthing is not offered, and the marina does not appear in the transient-berth market at all. For the right owner, though, the proposition is complete: a titled, serviced pen in a gated estate a few kilometres from the CBD, with the harbour at the doorstep and Waverton village at the gate.
Local sailing knowledge
The marina sits in the lee of Balls Head on the bay shared by Waverton and Wollstonecraft, one of the most sheltered corners of the middle harbour, and the run to the Harbour Bridge, Darling Harbour and Circular Quay takes only minutes in open water. Approaches are free of bars, bridges and locks; the only real hazards are the standard harbour ones, ferry wash, mooring fields and weekend traffic. Balls Head Reserve, directly adjoining the estate, gives berth holders bushwalking tracks, harbour lookouts and one of the harbour's surviving patches of Angophora foreshore, while the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability on the headland preserves the old coal-loading wharf and tunnels as a community and heritage site worth a visit by tender or on foot. Waverton village and its railway station are a short uphill walk, with cafes and basic shops, and Wollstonecraft station is equally close, putting the CBD within one train stop of North Sydney. Cruising options radiate in every direction: upriver to the Lane Cove and Parramatta rivers, across to the eastern suburbs anchorages, or out the heads for a coastal run, with fuel available at the commercial marinas around the bridge. The bay's mooring fields and the nearby Berrys Bay working waterfront, with its heritage boatyard character, keep a maritime feel despite the residential surroundings. Weekends bring heavy traffic past the point, so early starts make for smoother water. Berth holders entertaining aboard should note the area's strict speed and wash expectations in the confined bay, and guests arriving by land need estate access arranged in advance, since the whole precinct is gated. It remains one of the few places in Sydney where an owner can keep a 15-metre boat on its own title outside the front door.