Tina's Marina

About the marina

Tina's Marina is one of the more obscure entries in Queensland's boating records: a small private marina listed at 60 Gross Avenue, Hemmant, on the lower Brisbane River in the city's east, about ten kilometres from the CBD as the crow flies. Beyond a single directory listing on the sea-ex marine services index, which records the address and a phone number in an outdated format, almost nothing has been published about the facility, and its current operating status cannot be confirmed from public sources. What can be said with confidence concerns the setting. Hemmant is a mixed industrial and residential suburb on the southern bank of the lower river, where the Port of Brisbane's wharves begin a few kilometres downstream and Bulimba Creek winds in from the south to meet the river near the Gross Avenue area. This reach of the Brisbane River has long carried small private jetties, boat yards and waterfront industry rather than recreational marina development, and a modest private marina fits that pattern. The district's boating geography is quietly changing: a separate and unrelated proposal branded Brisbane Marina, by developer Frank Developments, has been flagged for 34 Wyuna Court nearby, promising more than 75 berths for vessels of 12 to 25 metres. Until that project proceeds, however, the verified boating facilities in Hemmant remain small and private, and Tina's Marina is best regarded as a local, low-profile facility whose details require direct verification. Gross Avenue itself has been subdivided for housing in recent years, part of Hemmant's gradual shift from riverfront industry to residential estates, and the marina listing survives from an earlier phase of that evolution.

Berthing & shoreside services

No reliable public information exists on the services at Tina's Marina, and this entry deliberately avoids inventing any. The only directory record lists the name, the Gross Avenue address and a phone number, 015 653 878, whose format suggests it dates from an earlier numbering era and is unlikely to connect today; no website, email, berth count, rate card or facilities list has been located. Facilities at small private riverfront marinas in this part of Brisbane typically amount to a handful of fixed or floating berths leased long-term, sometimes with basic power and water, but whether any of that applies here is unverified, and anyone needing a berth should treat the listing as a starting point for door-knocking rather than a serviceable contact. What is verifiable is the surrounding service network. The lower Brisbane River is well covered: Rivergate Marina and Shipyard at Murarrie, a few kilometres upriver, offers full refit and maintenance with heavy lift capability, berthing and a fuel wharf; East Coast Marina at Manly provides several hundred berths and dry storage on the bayside; and public boat ramps at Colmslie and Wynnum give trailer access to the same reach of river and bay. Fuel, chandlery and marine trades cluster at both precincts. So while Tina's Marina itself cannot be documented beyond its address, a vessel based there would sit within easy reach of some of the best-supported boating infrastructure in Queensland, and the practical advice is to confirm the marina's existence and terms in person before making any plan that depends on it.

Local context in YouSail

This is directory context, not navigation advice. Check current charts, notices and official boating resources before passage.

The lower Brisbane River at Hemmant is a working waterway. The dredged shipping channel carries container ships, bulk carriers and tankers to and from the Port of Brisbane at Fisherman Islands, and small craft keep to the edges, watching for ship movements and the wash of the CityCat and barge traffic further upriver. The Gateway Bridge crosses just upstream with generous clearance for masts, and below it the river opens toward Moreton Bay, making Hemmant a genuine tide-and-go point for bay boating; Wynnum, Manly and the bay islands are all short runs. Bulimba Creek joins the river near the suburb and gives sheltered estuary water for kayaks and small tinnies, with mangrove edges that hold bream, flathead and mud crabs. Tidal range on this reach is around two metres, the river runs fresh after heavy rain, and debris after flood events is a real hazard that local skippers respect. Ashore, Hemmant has a railway station on the Cleveland line, basic shops, and quick motorway access, but no marine retail of its own; chandlery runs go to Manly or the industrial suppliers around the port. The area's boating future may be more interesting than its present: if the proposed Brisbane Marina precinct at Wyuna Court gains traction, Hemmant will shift from anonymous riverfront to a recognised berthing address. Until then, local knowledge of Tina's Marina itself remains precisely that: local, held by the people who keep their boats there. Historical notes for the district record Hemmant as farming country turned industrial suburb, named for settler William Hemmant, and the riverfront still carries the tanks, sheds and hardstand of that industrial era alongside the newer estates.