Business South November 2023

| 59 MARINE Seafarer Marine Engineering A family affair: above, Sam, left, and Hamish Neal. Your sounds solutions sorted. 03 573 8880 www.opbl.co.nz office@opbl.co.nz PROFESSIONAL REPAINT REPAIR REBUILD SERVICES 03 573 8554 admin@soundsmarine.co.nz www.soundsmarine.co.nz www.powerequipment.co.nz or call 09 358 2050 ager and Robert readily admits that “she and Sam run the company”. Of increasing importance to the business is the massive growth of large pleasure craft, some of them highly valuable, which are being brought into the area due to the Picton and Waikawa marina facility upgrades and the Marlborough Sounds being right at their bow. “Picton’s proving hugely attractive as a holiday location as well as a tourist centre, and we’ve just got this new marina development, so there’s no doubt the town’s going to keep growing,” Robert says. The company is the preferred service agent for Dickies Boats and Australian company Riviera here in the top of the south. Robert and Sam have also established agencies with Volvo Penta Commercial – with Sam and Hamish being two of the highly-qualified Volvo Penta service people in the country – Power Equipment, which covers Yanmar and John Deere; Hyundai Marine, Kohler Marine, Gensets, Parker Racor, and are also the Picton agents for TDX, supplying oils and Donaldson filters.

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