Boating & Water Access in Barrington, RI
Barrington sits on two peninsulas split by the Barrington and Warren rivers, which means its water access is really two clusters rather than one waterfront strip: a working yacht-club-and-boatyard row near Tyler Point on the Barrington River side, and a separate marina cluster around Bullock Cove closer to Narragansett Bay proper. This page names the real, currently operating facilities confirmed in fresh research for this market -- a 1908-incorporated yacht club, a boat-sales-and-service marina, a third-generation family boatyard, three Bullock Cove marinas, and a free state-park boat ramp -- and hedges anything that could not be pinned down precisely, rather than publishing a generic "marinas nearby" list.
Barrington Yacht Club: A 1908 Club on the Barrington River
Barrington Yacht Club was incorporated on March 25, 1908, and per its own site sits at 25 Barton Avenue on the Barrington River, off Tyler Point. The club's stated mission is to foster the sport of yachting and provide suitable facilities for both social and yachting member families, and it has grown to several hundred member families over more than a century of continuous operation.
Facilities and programs, per the club's own site and per New England Boating's own destination coverage, include a fuel dock offering both gas and diesel, reciprocity arrangements with affiliated clubs elsewhere, and slips and moorings available to transient non-members for a fee on a space-available basis. The club runs Junior Activities and sail-training programs for young sailors, a yacht racing program open to sailors of all abilities and boats of all classes, and four cruises each year to New England ports of call. Seasonal amenities -- the pool, the Dana Rice building, and the snack bar -- run June through September, while the clubhouse and marina itself operate year-round.
Striper Marina and Stanley's Boat Yard: The Tyler Point Cluster
Just up from Barrington Yacht Club, on the Warren River near Tyler Point, sit two more real, long-operating facilities. Striper Marina, per its own site, is based at 26 Tyler Point Road (with a separate boat-sales showroom across the river in Warren) and offers roughly 125 slips, a launch ramp, fuel and ice, and winter storage, alongside a full sales and service operation as an authorized dealer for Pursuit, Cobia, and Sōlace boats with a Yamaha and Mercury outboard service center. It has also been described elsewhere as running an annual spring striped bass tournament, consistent with its name.
Stanley's Boat Yard, per its own site, was established in 1938 by Stanley and Anna Ginalski at 17 Barton Avenue on Barrington Harbor and is now run by their grandsons, Kevin and Stephen Terhune, with a fourth-generation family member handling office operations -- a genuine multi-generation family boatyard, not a corporate chain. It services both merchant fishing boats and pleasure craft, with a yard department, engine work, Awlgrip painting, soda blasting, and dockage; other marina directories describe it as maintaining slips on Tyler Point with limited transient accommodations. Confirm current slip availability, haul-out scheduling, and pricing directly with each yard before a trip, since capacity and rates change season to season.
Bullock Cove: Three Marinas in a Protected Anchorage
Bullock Cove, off Narragansett Bay's northeast side, is Barrington's second water-access cluster and hosts three separate, real facilities. Brewer Cove Haven Marina, per Wikipedia's account of the facility, was established in 1961 and became part of the multi-marina Brewer chain in 1967; it is a genuine full-service operation offering gas and diesel, haul-out, storage, and engine repair, with additional amenities including a pool, marine store, transient dockage, and a fuel dock, and has historically handled specialized work including refinishing 12-meter America's Cup-class hulls.
Lighthouse Marine sits on the east bank of Bullock Cove, north of the inlet, and Bullock Cove Marine sits on the west bank; per marina-directory listings, Bullock Cove Marine does not offer transient dockage or fuel. Treat the three as a cluster serving different niches within the same protected cove -- Brewer Cove Haven as the full-service option with haul-out and engine repair, and the other two as smaller, more limited operations -- rather than interchangeable options, and confirm current services directly before relying on any one of them.
Dyer Boats and Steve's Boat Rentals: Warren River Neighbors, Not Barrington Addresses
Two more facilities frequently associated with Barrington's boating scene actually carry Warren, RI street addresses rather than Barrington ones, and this page hedges that distinction rather than blurring it. Dyer Boats, which has built the Dyer Dink sailing dinghy since 1930 under the corporate name The Anchorage, Inc., is based at 57 Miller Street in Warren -- across the Warren River from Barrington's Tyler Point cluster -- and still builds and repairs Dyer Dinks and Dyer 29 cruisers. Steve's Boat Rentals, which rents small boats and kayaks, likewise operates from a Warren, RI address.
Both are genuinely part of the same shared Barrington River / Warren River waterway that Barrington boaters use daily, and both are commonly listed alongside Barrington's own marinas in regional boating directories -- so they are included here as real, nearby, boater-relevant facilities, not as Barrington-based businesses.
Haines Memorial State Park: A Free Public Ramp Into Bullock Cove
For boaters who do not want a slip, mooring, or marina relationship at all, Haines Memorial State Park at 3 Haines Park Road offers a free, public boat ramp into Bullock Cove, per Rhode Island's own state parks site. The ramp dates to Civilian Conservation Corps improvements made in the 1930s, alongside the park's beach, fireplaces, and a since-destroyed pedestrian bridge to Crescent Park in East Providence, and remains in active public use today alongside the park's picnic areas, ball fields, fishing access, and its stop on the East Bay Bike Path.
This is the genuine no-cost alternative to the private clubs and fee-based marinas described above -- confirm current ramp conditions and any seasonal parking rules directly with Rhode Island's state parks division before launching, since maintenance closures and parking-area work happen periodically.
What This Means If You're Boating in Barrington
The honest summary: Barrington's confirmed water access splits into a Tyler Point cluster on the Barrington/Warren River side -- Barrington Yacht Club (1908, fuel dock, junior sailing, racing, seasonal pool), Striper Marina (roughly 125 slips, launch ramp, fuel, boat sales), and Stanley's Boat Yard (a third-generation family boatyard since 1938) -- and a Bullock Cove cluster on the Bay side, anchored by the full-service Brewer Cove Haven Marina alongside the smaller Lighthouse Marine and Bullock Cove Marine, plus a free public ramp at Haines Memorial State Park. Dyer Boats and Steve's Boat Rentals round out the picture as real, boater-relevant facilities just across the river in Warren.
What this page deliberately does not do is publish a complete current slip-count-by-slip-count directory, exact current depths, or locked-in pricing at every facility, since moorings, transient rates, and seasonal availability change year to year and were only available here as snapshots. For current slip and mooring availability, contact each marina directly; for the free public ramp, confirm current conditions with Rhode Island's state parks division before a trip.
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Get a Free Agent Referral →Independent research. No ads. No sponsored listings. Barrington Yacht Club facts (incorporated March 25, 1908; address 25 Barton Avenue on the Barrington River; fuel dock with gas and diesel; reciprocity with affiliated clubs; transient slips/moorings space-available for a fee; Junior Activities and sail-training programs; racing program for all abilities; four New England cruises annually; pool, Dana Rice building, and snack bar open June-September) are per the club's own site (barringtonyc.com/about), cross-checked against New England Boating's own Barrington destination page (newenglandboating.com), which additionally describes several hundred members and a centennial celebrated in 2008. Striper Marina facts (26 Tyler Point Road address, roughly 125 slips, launch ramp, fuel and ice, winter storage, authorized Pursuit/Cobia/Sōlace dealer, Yamaha/Mercury service center) are per the marina's own site (stripermarina.com); the annual striped bass tournament detail is per New England Boating's own coverage and was not independently re-verified. Stanley's Boat Yard facts (established 1938 by Stanley and Anna Ginalski, 17 Barton Avenue address, now run by grandsons Kevin and Stephen Terhune with a fourth-generation family member in office operations, service for merchant and pleasure boats, yard/engine/Awlgrip/soda-blasting/dockage services) are per the yard's own site (stanleysboatyard.com/our-history); its Tyler Point-area slip description is per New England Boating's own destination page. Bullock Cove marina facts (Brewer Cove Haven Marina established 1961, joined the Brewer chain in 1967, gas/diesel/haul-out/storage/engine repair/pool/marine store/transient dockage, 12-meter America's Cup hull refinishing history; Lighthouse Marine on the cove's east bank; Bullock Cove Marine on the west bank without transient dockage or fuel) are per Wikipedia's "Brewer Cove Haven Marina" article and New England Boating's own Barrington destination page. Dyer Boats facts (building the Dyer Dink since 1930, corporate name The Anchorage, Inc., address 57 Miller Street, Warren, RI) are per US Harbors' own business listing (usharbors.com/business/dyer-boats). Steve's Boat Rentals' Warren, RI location is per its own Yelp and directory listings. Haines Memorial State Park boat-ramp facts (3 Haines Park Road address; 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps improvements including the boat ramp, beach, and fireplaces; a pedestrian bridge to Crescent Park destroyed in the 1938 hurricane; current picnic, ball-field, fishing, and East Bay Bike Path access) are per Rhode Island's own state parks site (riparks.ri.gov/parks/haines-memorial-state-park) and Wikipedia's "Haines Memorial State Park" article. This research did not compile, and does not present, a complete current directory of every slip, mooring, or dock in Barrington's marinas beyond the facilities named above, nor locked-in current pricing -- for that, contact each marina directly, and for the Haines Memorial ramp, confirm current conditions with Rhode Island's state parks division.