Dungeness Boat Harbour marina in Lucinda

LOCATION & WATERWAY

Dungeness Boat Harbour location and waterway

Dungeness Boat Harbour is listed by YouSail in Lucinda, QLD, in the Hinchinbrook region, on Hinchinbrook Channel. This helps you place it on a shortlist, but it does not confirm a suitable berth or a safe approach for your vessel.

Use the marinas in Queensland guide to compare the waterway context. Ask the operator for berth-specific dimensions and arrival advice.

YOUSAIL SOURCE PROFILE

Verified source notes for Dungeness Boat Harbour

Lucinda/Dungeness harbour access with boat ramps, fishing/commercial jetties and Hinchinbrook Channel boating support.

Dungeness Boat Harbour is a practical Hinchinbrook Coast harbour and ramp/jetty precinct rather than a full-service private marina. It supports recreational fishing, local commercial use and access to Hinchinbrook Channel and nearby islands.

This is the factual YouSail directory layer used as the primary reference for the Find Marinas review above.

WHAT YOUSAIL RECORDS

Dungeness Boat Harbour berth dimensions and facilities

YouSail classification?The category published on the source profile; confirm what services are operating today.

government/transport wharf-marina

Water body

Hinchinbrook Channel

YouSail region

Hinchinbrook

Berth types?A source-level summary, not confirmation that a particular berth type is currently available.

boat ramp, public jetties, commercial jetty

A marina-wide maximum is not an available-berth offer. Unlisted facts are unknown, not absent. Values and services can change.

Y O U S A I L / PUBLIC PROFILE

Facilities recorded for Dungeness Boat Harbour

YouSail’s public profile lists the following items. Some may be rules or arrangements rather than services; ask the operator what applies today.

• Dungeness Boat Ramp
• Dungeness Fishing Jetty
• Dungeness Commercial Jetty
• Dungeness Jetty
• Hinchinbrook Channel access

These are YouSail-sourced notes, not a live availability feed or a Find Marinas endorsement.

SERVICES IN DEPTH

Berthing and marina services

The core facility is a four-lane concrete ramp described by the local sportfishing club as sheltered and suitable for boats to about ten metres, flanked by floating walkways and pontoons that ease boarding at busy times; an additional floating walkway was funded through a Maritime Safety Queensland boating infrastructure grant, which tells you how much traffic the site carries. A dedicated two-lane boat washdown bay sits in the ramp precinct, along with a bitumen car and trailer park, and public toilets open around the clock. There is no berthing, no marina fuel berth and no shipyard service on the water; what the precinct does have is commerce built around the ramp, with a fuel station, convenience store and fishing shop close at hand, plus bait and ice from the Lucinda Fishing Lodge, which also rents waterside units with private pontoons where guests can leave their boats afloat between trips. Launching is free and unstaffed, operating on the usual Queensland public facility basis. Larger repairs and mechanical work head back to Ingham, the district service town about half an hour away, or north to Cardwell and south toward Townsville. The ANSA Queensland fishing festival run by the Hinchinbrook Sportfishing Club each spring shows the ramp's calendar role: briefing nights at Borello Park, dawn departures from Dungeness, and weigh-ins back at the Ingham showgrounds. For visiting cruisers, the harbour is a shore base rather than a destination; yachts heading for Hinchinbrook Island's east-coast anchorages typically berth or anchor elsewhere and use Dungeness for crew changeovers, trail transfers and provisioning runs into Lucinda.

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE

Planning a visit to Hinchinbrook Channel

Two pieces of local knowledge matter more than any chart note at Dungeness. First, the ramp itself: around low tide the end of the concrete can be nearly exposed on bigger tides, so launching and retrieving from half tide to full is the comfortable window. Second, the channel out to the Hinchinbrook Channel: even following the markers, boats can touch on the sand bar on big tides, and for roughly two hours either side of a large low tide deeper-draft boats may not get in or out at all; locals simply plan their day around it. Once in the channel, the options run both ways: north toward Missionary Bay and the nine creeks, or south past the mouth of the Herbert River, with an extensive flats system directly opposite the ramp that drains fast and strands the inattentive for hours. The fishing is the draw: barramundi in the creeks and drains, fingermark and threadfin, and reef species out toward the Palm group when the weather allows. Hinchinbrook Island dominates everything, Australia's largest island national park, and Dungeness is the standard departure for Thorsborne Trail transfers, a ten-minute run across the channel to Ramsay Beach. Crocs are resident in the channel, so swim only where the locals do. Lucinda supplies the social end of the trip: the Lucinda Point Hotel for the classic post-fishing dinner, the fishing wharf at Borello Park for land-based casting, and caravan parks and motels strung along the point. The giant sugar jetty loading bulk raw sugar from the Herbert River mills is the district's industrial landmark, and a reminder that this quiet ramp shares its channel with a working export port.

Use current charts, forecasts, warnings and the operator’s latest arrival instructions before navigating.

YOUSAIL MEDIA

Dungeness Boat Harbour gallery

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BEFORE YOU BOOK

Questions to ask Dungeness Boat Harbour before booking

1. Is a berth currently available for my vessel’s exact length, beam and loaded draft at Dungeness Boat Harbour?
2. What are the current approach and depth conditions for Hinchinbrook Channel?
3. Which of the listed berth arrangements (boat ramp, public jetties, commercial jetty) is available for my stay?
4. Which services are actually available on my planned dates?
5. What is the full cost, including utilities, deposits and cancellation terms?

PLAN WITH CURRENT INFORMATION

Navigation and arrival checks for Dungeness Boat Harbour

Directory details are for discovery. For a passage, use current official charts, weather, warnings and Notices to Mariners for the exact waterway. Confirm the marina’s latest entry procedure directly; advice here can be wrong.