Facilities

Marina Facilities

The marina complex consists of four access walkways connected to their own parking areas. Generally, each marina has the facility of twenty-four individual pens, each 8.3 metres wide separated by docking fingers. The corridors between marinas are also of a generous width, allowing safe passage and berthing for houseboats leaving or returning to their moorings.

The wide access walkways on each marina are constructed in solid checker-plate decking with large flotation tanks as support to ensure a uniform walking surface. Floodlighting is installed in the facility grounds and each marina walkway is equipped with low set lighting for after dark access. A large two berth maintenance barge is provided without charge for the use of members to carry out minor repairs, maintenance or cleaning of their houseboats. Metered 240 volt power is available.

Mini type pontoon barges are also available for members use in transporting heavy articles to and from houseboats as well as a crane barge and a barge equipped with fire fighting pumps. The patrol vessel of the Coast Guard is moored at Darlingford to enable a close working relationship to be maintained with police and water authority personnel.

DWBC has easy access to the pump out station for waste disposal. The club also provides a free disposal system for domestic waste, free delivery service for gas bottles and free use of the club trailer for slipping of houseboats.