Marina service
Elizabeth Street Pier
About
Elizabeth Street Pier at a glance
Waterfront berthing and marina facilities in Hobart managed by TasPorts, offering recreational and commercial berthing options (including casual stays and 12-month licencing at nearby marinas), bookings for Constitution Dock bridge openings, and contact channels for berthing enquiries.
Service area: Hobart / River Derwent
- Marina type
- government/transport wharf-marina
- Operator
- TasPorts
- Region
- Hobart / River Derwent
- Water body
- Sullivans Cove
- Berth types
- casual berthing
Facilities and services
- power & water
- Adjacent free short-stay public pontoon marina (5-hour limit, vessels to 15m)
- seafood restaurants on the pier
- Mona Roma fast ferry terminal adjacent
Useful for sailors looking for
- Wet berthing and moorings
About Elizabeth Street Pier
Elizabeth Street Pier projects into Sullivans Cove between Constitution Dock and the Macquarie Wharf sheds, continuing the line of Elizabeth Street, Hobart's main retail strip, straight out into the harbour. It is the most public of Hobart's three TasPorts berthing facilities: a working pier whose landward end is given over to some of the waterfront's best-known seafood restaurants, so crews tie up within a few steps of Fish Frenzy's paper-cone fish and chips and the Tavern 42 Degrees South. The square-rigger Lady Nelson, a replica of the 1798 survey brig, has long berthed in this part of the cove, and the converted warehouses of the Henry Jones Art Hotel, once an 1820s jam factory, face the pier across the water. Casual alongside berthing here is arranged through TasPorts much as it is at Constitution Dock, but the character is different: the pier lies outside the lifting bridge, open to the cove, so it is handier to come and go yet more exposed to wind and wash. Each summer the pier takes overflow from the Sydney Hobart race fleet alongside Constitution Dock and Kings Pier Marina, and it fronts the crowds during the Wooden Boat Festival and New Year festivities. A separate short-stay public pontoon marina, funded by Marine and Safety Tasmania and owned by the Hobart City Council, sits at the pier for recreational boats making brief stops in the city. The pier's sheds and cranes have largely given way to public space and hospitality, but it remains port land, with TasPorts also hiring out the forecourt and wharf areas for markets, fun runs and community events through the year.
Marina facilities
Casual alongside berthing on the pier is arranged through TasPorts reception on 1300 366 742 or via Hobart Port Control on VHF 16, with the same paperwork requirements as Constitution Dock: a vessel information form, proof of public liability insurance and credit card payment. Power and water are available on the pier, and berth holders use the amenities block beside Kings Pier, which provides hot showers, toilets and laundry. Weekly fees are scaled by vessel length under TasPorts' recreational vessel schedule. Because the pier sits outside the lifting bridge, boats can arrive and depart without waiting for a bridge opening, which suits yachts making short stops or day sails on the Derwent. There is no fuel berth or pump-out on the pier; diesel is available in Hobart port from Bennetts Petroleum on weekdays, and the Kings Pier Marina pump-out is a short walk around the cove. Adjoining the pier, the Sullivans Cove Public Marina provides up to nine pontoon berths for vessels to 15 metres, free for stays of up to five hours; longer stays require scanning the QR code on the marina signs to register vessel details and receive a maximum stay time. MAST funded the $400,000 installation in 2012, with ownership passing to the Hobart City Council under a long-term TasPorts lease. Dining is the pier's other service in practice: Fish Frenzy, the Tavern 42 Degrees South and other seafood outlets operate on and around the pier, and the Brooke Street Pier floating terminal, home to the Mona Roma ferry, bars and a market space, lies immediately to the north. During race week, berthing here is included in Sydney Hobart entry fees from 28 December to the morning of 3 January.
Local sailing knowledge
Skippers choosing between Elizabeth Street Pier and Constitution Dock trade shelter for convenience. The pier is open to Sullivans Cove, so northerly and easterly breezes and the wash of harbour traffic reach the berths, and fenders earn their keep; inside the dock, reached through the lifting bridge, conditions are noticeably calmer. Approach is straightforward in the well-marked cove, with Port Control on VHF 16 coordinating arrivals around commercial shipping at Macquarie Wharf. The location is unbeatable for shore time: the CBD, the general post office and the visitor information centre at Davey Street are minutes away, Salamanca Place and its Saturday market a ten-minute walk, and chandleries and marine trades close by. Crews can watch the working harbour from the cockpit, including Antarctic research vessels across at Macquarie Wharf and the Mona Roma fast ferry coming and going from Brooke Street Pier. Dining ashore runs from fish and chips in paper cones at Fish Frenzy to the Drunken Admiral's nautically themed dining room and the bars of the Henry Jones Art Hotel. The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the Maritime Museum of Tasmania both sit within a block or two. For provisions beyond the restaurants, city supermarkets and Salamanca's fresh food grocers are close. Boats planning to stay through late December should note that the pier, like Constitution Dock and Kings Pier, is cleared for the Sydney Hobart fleet from 28 December, and bookings around New Year and the biennial Wooden Boat Festival need to be made well ahead through TasPorts.