Marina Visitors

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Arriving at the Marina

Please be aware our clubhouse is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday until 03 March 2025

Before arrival please ensure you ring in advance before you approach. You can call our Berthmaster Ian McLean or his deputy on: 07742 145994 between the hours of 9am and 6pm in the first instance. If no response please call the office on 01473 780 319 between 9am-4pm.

After these hours please approach hammerheads if they are free and pay for your berthing at the bar if our berth master is not available. We may ask you to move into a vacant berth within the marina to keep hammerheads free.

Short stay visitors are charged £13.00 per stay up to 3.00pm. This is free of charge if you are you are purchasing food with a drink at our bar and galley. After 3.00pm overnight rates apply. Check out for berths where you have stayed overnight is 11.00am.

We will always try to accommodate and offer a warm welcome to our visitors. Throughout the season we cater for large numbers of individual sailors and yacht club flotilla’s.  

Marina Facilities

The marina has 55 berths, all of which are normally occupied by Club members, although visitors can be accommodated and are always welcome (see below).  Marina facilities Facilities include internet access, electricity, water and sanitation pump out, and our clubhouse has bar and catering, showers and toilets.   For access to the marina, we request you have your boat fendered and we recommend extra caution, during an ebb tide particularly when we have a strong current, this tends to happen an hour before HW. You could be entering when the ebb is running and could get swept downstream by the tide. Unless you are a regular visitor we recommend not to moor stern to in our berths (especially B pontoon). Bow to would be preferred Any deeper draught boats should exercise caution at low water springs.

Facilities close by include diesel, chandlery, gas, electronics repairs and maintenance, crane, marine engineers, sail repairs and shipwright. 

Season Dates

The marina is open from 1 April to 31 October.  By prior arrangement,  access for a small number of boats is possible until the end of December. 

Visitor overnight tariff for 2025:

Long stay discount – 7 nights for the price of 6 nights. 

Day Rates – Length OverallVisitorRHYC Member
0 – 7.49m£27.00£24.00
7.50 – 8.49m£30.00£26.00
8.50 – 9.49m£34.00£30.00
9.50 – 10.49m£36.00£32.00
10.50 – 11.49m£40.00£35.00
11.50 – 12.49m£44.00£39.00
12.50 – 13.49m£47.00£41.00
13.50 – 14.49m£51.00£45.00
14.50 – 15.49m£54.00£48.00
15.50 – 16.49m£58.00£51.00 

Should you wish electric there will be an additional £4

Broadband Providers

For enquiries please contact the office on 01473 780319

Office Hours 9am to 4pm, Mon to Fri

or email office.manager@royalharwich.co.uk 

Royal Harwich Yacht Club
Woolverstone
Ipswich
Suffolk IP9 1AT