38 | MARINE Orams Marine Development will enhance services Virginia Wright Orams Marine has a prime position in the Wynyard Quarter in downtown Auckland. Now considered one of, if not the, largest and best-equipped superyacht refit facilities in the Southern Hemisphere, Orams Marine dates back to 1947. Based in the Wynyard Quarter in downtown Auckland it’s been a destination of choice for that market since it brought the first superyacht to New Zealand for refit and maintenance in 1987. They have never lost sight of the rest of their clients however and they’re as comfortable refitting and hauling out smaller local vessels, or any of their many commercial clients, as they are the bigger players. So while their multi-million dollar development includes 10 berths designed for working alongside on yachts up to 92 metres long, the new facilities extend rather than replace Don't miss another weekend on the water Marine Electrics NZ provide solutions for all your marine electrical and marine electronic requirements. AT MARINE ELECTRICS, WE KNOWBOATS Q u a l i t y S e r v i c e a n d Wo r k m a n s h i p , e n s u r i n g y o u a n d y o u r f a m i l y h a v e f u n o n t h e w a t e r If you’re looking for an experienced marine electrical service team and marine shop for your marine electrical projects throughout New Zealand, look no further! Marine Electrics NZ is the right place for all your boating needs. Call 0800 4 MARINE www.marineelectrics.co.nz service@marineelectrics.co.nz “We’ve added an 820-tonne travel lift, and an 85-tonne travel lift to our existing haul out abilities of a 600-tonne slipway and 75-tonne lift, and expanded our hardstand to 12,000sqm.” their other buildings and machinery; all of it designed to be fit-for-purpose and ready to handle whatever vessels arrive whether they’re after repairs and maintenance or a full refit. An important facility for many Auckland boat owners is Orams Boat Park. It’s designed to keep up to 300 mainly trailer boats, from six to 12 metres long, in the nautical equivalent of valet parking as General Manager Craig Park explains. “People bring their boats in and we pull them out of the water with a lift and store them in a big stacking arrangement. “So the boats are stored in the central city rather than left in a marina, and when the boat owner wants to go out they give us a call and we bring the boat down and put it back into the water ready to go.” While you can still see the original walls of the early Orams Marine Yard it has grown and developed along with the Wynyard Quarter. With about a year to go before completion its extensive multi-year development means it’s poised and ready to make the most of its unique position in the South Pacific, and to to page 40 cater for the more adventurous and younger owners they see coming into the industry who they expect will want to take their yachts out further and for longer periods of time. “We’ve added an 820-tonne travel lift, and an 85-tonne travel lift to our existing haul out abilities of a 600-tonne slipway and 75-tonne lift, and expanded our hardstand to 12,000sqm,” says Craig. “We’ve also installed a world-leading water treatment plant to strengthen our focus on sustainability, and have installed three 90 metre marina fingers to increase our work space for yachts alongside,” he says. “We’re also in the process of building sheds that will allow us to drive our travel lifts into covered work spaces, in addition to our existing 50 metre work shed, and are more than doubling our capacity for onsite services.”
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NDc2Mzg=