Passage West, Glenbrook and Monkstown are great mooring areas and are very popular during the summer season. Monkstown Bay itself is a pleasant and safe sailing area for smaller craft, while being within easy reach of the marinas and restaurants at East Ferry and Crosshaven and the open waters of Lower Cork Harbour. In suitable wind directions, excellent sailing is to be had past Glenbrook and up towards the city.

There are launching facilities in Monkstown with limited parking for trailers. Glenbrook has one public slipway. Passage West has two slipways with pedestrian access only. There is a further excellent slipway at Ferrypoint, hidden opposite the Ferry Arms. There are no charges for using the launching facilities.

The area has one sailing club, Monkstown Bay Sailing Club. Evening dinghy racing is organised twice weekly and cruiser racing once weekly. In addition, the area has two rowing clubs. Sculls are rowed from Monkstown Rowing Club and coastal rowing is practised in Passage West Yawl Rowing Club. Both clubs are active.

Moorings in Cork Harbour are administered by the Port of Cork. At present, the area does not have visitor moorings but one of the better anchorages for visiting yachts is Glenbrook with good holding in mud.