Onslow Maritime Facility marina in Onslow

LOCATION & WATERWAY

Onslow Maritime Facility location and waterway

Onslow Maritime Facility is listed by YouSail in Onslow, WA, in the Pilbara region, on Beadon Creek (Indian Ocean). 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 Western Australia guide to compare the waterway context. Ask the operator for berth-specific dimensions and arrival advice.

YOUSAIL SOURCE PROFILE

Verified source notes for Onslow Maritime Facility

Pilbara maritime facility with eight pile mooring pens, service wharf, dual public ramp and fuel.

Onslow Beadon Creek Maritime Facility serves a mixed user base: resources-sector vessels, fishing and charter vessels, and recreational boats. It is an operational harbour facility rather than a leisure marina.

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

WHAT YOUSAIL RECORDS

Onslow Maritime Facility 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

Beadon Creek (Indian Ocean)

YouSail region

Pilbara

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

pile mooring pens, service wharf

Wet berths?A marina-wide figure where supplied; it does not indicate vacancies.

8

Fuel

Available during business hours

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 Onslow Maritime Facility

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

• 8 pile mooring pens
• service wharf
• dual boat ramp
• fuel
• fish-cleaning table
• parking

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

SERVICES IN DEPTH

Berthing and marina services

The berthing core of the facility is ten berths on mooring piles in Beadon Creek, referred to as The Sticks, allocated on permanent arrangements largely to commercial, charter and fishing operators; transient recreational berthing is limited and should be arranged with the department in advance. The 50-metre service wharf provides single-phase and three-phase power and water, and its fuelling facility is operated by Baileys Marine Fuels on a fuel-card basis (phone 1300 224 539), dispensing diesel to vessels at the wharf. Published load limits for the wharf allow berthing of vessels up to 50 tonnes displacement at a maximum approach speed of 0.3 metres per second, with stack loads of 750 kilograms per square metre and M9 vehicle loading, which comfortably covers the charter boats and small workboats that use it. The Community Boating Precinct has modernised the launching side: a dual-lane concrete ramp with an all-tide floating jetty offering more than 40 metres of berthing space on both sides, a sealed car and boat-trailer park with solar lighting, a fish cleaning table near the ramp, and public amenities added in the final Stage 1 works in 2023. The Stage 1 project dredged about 45,000 cubic metres from the creek bed to form a deeper basin protected by rock revetments incorporating some 20,000 tonnes of granite and recovered rock. There is no slipway, travel lift or hardstand at the facility; heavy marine support, including craneage up to 800 tonnes, laydown areas and fuel bunkering, is available commercially at the adjacent Onslow Marine Support Base for vessels up to 110 metres. Detailed design for Stage 2, fully serviced pens, more public jetties and ablutions, has been completed by engineering firm Advisian, but construction awaits funding. Cyclone mooring arrangements and dredged-depth notices are published by the department and should be checked before arrival.

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE

Planning a visit to Beadon Creek (Indian Ocean)

Beadon Creek is a tidal creek on a coast where tides run to several metres, and the entrance channel requires regular dredging; the department publishes cyclone community information sheets with current dredged depths, and strangers should take them seriously rather than trusting charted soundings. The approach from seaward is across open Indian Ocean water with offshore shoals, and the creek entrance can break in swell, so arrivals are best timed for the top of the tide in settled weather. Inside, the creek is sheltered in all conditions short of a cyclone, and Onslow's reputation as a cyclone town means mooring discipline is taken seriously; the pilings at The Sticks and the cyclone-rated revetments exist for a reason. Fishing is the reason most private boats come here: the Mackerel Islands lie within trailer-boat range offshore, the creek mouths and flats hold threadfin salmon, mud crabs and barramundi-scale mangrove jack, and the ramp car park on a winter weekend testifies to a recreational boat ownership rate the Shire quotes at 70 vessels per 1,000 people. Provisioning in town covers the essentials, a supermarket, fuel, a tavern and accommodation geared partly to the fly-in workforce, but specialist marine supplies are thin; anything beyond filters and fasteners means a trip to Karratha, about 250 kilometres northeast, or freight in. Fuel for boats is by Baileys card at the service wharf, so arrange the card before arriving. The surrounding coast is remote in the Pilbara sense: long distances, corrugations on station tracks, and no other serviced boating facility until Exmouth or Karratha. For visitors towing a boat 1,300 kilometres up from Perth, the practical advice is simple: arrive self-sufficient, time the tides, and expect to share the ramp with cray boats and gas-field crew boats.

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

YOUSAIL MEDIA

Onslow Maritime Facility gallery

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BEFORE YOU BOOK

Questions to ask Onslow Maritime Facility before booking

1. Is a berth currently available for my vessel’s exact length, beam and loaded draft at Onslow Maritime Facility?
2. What are the current approach and depth conditions for Beadon Creek (Indian Ocean)?
3. Which of the listed berth arrangements (pile mooring pens, service wharf) is available for my stay?
4. Which fuel grades are available, when is the fuel berth open, and can my vessel access it?
5. Who maintains the mooring, what vessel limits apply, and how is tender access handled?
6. What is the full cost, including utilities, deposits and cancellation terms?

PLAN WITH CURRENT INFORMATION

Navigation and arrival checks for Onslow Maritime Facility

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.