Oceania Marine’s summer Superyacht refit season typically runs from November to May and its premier refit shed at North Shipyard is booked out for the whole season with back to back projects. First up was 37m Superyacht MY Dardanella which is a Vitters built explorer type yacht. This project ran from November to mid January […]
Read moreThe ex NZ Navy survey vessel Takapu 2 returned to Oceania Marine’s North Shipyard, recently, which was where she was constructed in 1980. The shipyard was then owned by WECO which at the time was New Zealand’s largest shipbuilder. Some of Oceania Marine’s older tradesmen were then serving their apprenticeships in the yard. During her […]
Read moreOceania Marine has recently re-focused its business to emphasise its full service refit capability. The Oceania Marine Refit Services (OMRS) brand with new brochures, website and supporting marketing collateral were made ready just prior to the Cannes and Monaco yacht shows and are now being offered to the market.
Read more‘Tara’ is a 36M yacht especially designed and built as an oceanographic research vessel. She recently hauled out at Oceania Marine’s North Shipyard in Port Whangarei, New Zealand. The vessel is indelibly etched into the psyche of New Zealanders as she was the vessel on which Sir Peter Blake was tragically killed.
Read moreThe 40M Lurssen Motor Yacht ‘Be Mine’ has been undergoing a major refit at Oceania Marine’s North Shipyard facility, in Port Whangarei, New Zealand. The project was accommodated in the shipyard’s premier undercover refit space, Shed A and completed in a very short timeframe of 12 weeks.
Read moreThe 43M superyacht Bella Regazza looks spectacular as she is re-launched from Oceania Marine’s North Shipyard at Port Whangarei in New Zealand. The Oceania Marine Coatings team have excelled themselves with the standard achieved on this project.
Read moreOceania Marine is two months into a major refit on a 43 metre superyacht, sailing yacht Bella Regazza. Two major components of the refit are well advanced. Firstly, the colour coats have just been applied to the hull topsides in readiness for clear coating.
Read moreThe busy Southern Hemisphere Summer refit season has well and truly arrived at Oceania Marine with multiple Superyacht projects already completed and more scheduled to commence. 35M motor yacht Alani II has just completed her 5 year survey on the slipway at Oceania Marine’s North Shipyard located in Port Whangarei, New Zealand to be replaced by 43M sailing yacht Bella Ragazza who has just hauled out for a 4 month refit.
Read moreOceania Marine has hauled out the 33M superyacht ‘Shamoun’ on its slipway at North Shipyard, Port Whangarei, New Zealand. She is making a quick technical stop for a hull check and be back in the water in a week or so.
Read more‘M5’ (Ex Mirabella) is the world’s largest sloop rigged sailing vessel. She is making a quick stop at Port Whangarei for some rigging work. Wharf Main 1, where M5 is berthed, is located adjacent to Oceania Marine’s Port Whangarei Marine Centre which is one of the few locations that can accommodate the 90M forestay that is to be removed from the vessel for maintenance.
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