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Sailing catamaran ‘Laguz’, constructed by South African yacht builders Gunboat,  is the first of these vessels to haulout at Port Whangarei Marine Centre. A Gunboat 66 design, she is described by her builders as “a pure sailing machine designed to take most of the creature comforts along for world cruising”.  Her 8.6 metre beam was easily […]

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It’s been 1 year since the Port Whangarei Marine Centre (PWMC) lifted its first vessel. In November 2015 the PWMC commenced operations with its newly commissioned 100T travel lift. With a fully sealed hardstand, extensive refit/paint shed options, high quality crew amenities and services it has quickly established itself as the boatyard of choice in […]

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Pauline and Rene, owners of ‘Bounty’, put out a generous invitation last night to the staff of Port Whangarei Marine Centre and other Yachties in the boatyard to join them for dinner. Pauline has a reputation for excellent cooking so there was a full house at the marine centre yacht club. This friendly and gracious […]

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Oceania Marine Coatings has just completed a full external repaint of the Sports Fisher ‘Foreign Exchange’ at the Port Whangarei Marine Centre. The vessel was hauled out with the marine centre’s 100 tonne travel lift and completed under cover in Bay 2. The marine centre has extensive undercover options for refit and painting projects in […]

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Oceania Marine has two large paint facilities at North and South Shipyards suitable for larger yachts and is a leading coatings applicator in the South Pacific region. With the recent establishment of the Port Whangarei Marine Centre at South Shipyard, Port Whangarei, New Zealand it can now provide an efficient and cost competitive undercover painting option […]

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Oceania Marine’s Port Whangarei Marine Centre (located at South Shipyard in Port Whangarei, New Zealand) were pleased to once again sponsor the Tahiti-Moorea Sailing Rendez-vous, held over the last weekend of June. This is a great event, organized by Latitude 38 from the USA and locally by Stéphanie Betz and her team at Archipelagoes in […]

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Misty morning haulout at Port Whangarei Marine Centre for a 25M motor yacht arriving for refit works to be carrird out under cover in Refit Bay 3 (CLICK ON ABOVE LINK TO VIEW)

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As the Southern Hemisphere enters winter the global cruising fleet has departed from Port Whangarei for the Pacific tropical islands. The attraction being that the Southern tropical latitudes are safe from cyclones and experience dryer conditions at this time of year with the added advantage of stable trade winds. For New Zealand the domestic fleet […]

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Testimonial – SV DreamCatcher

You are awesome Karen – we are so happy we picked PWMC to haul out at – some of the things we see/hear from the other yards really illustrate the superior standards and care of yourselves over your competition.   Thanks for everything – and hopefully you won’t see any more mail for us…we’re headed […]

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