boat maintenance, service & repairs
All under one roof
We are a true one-stop shop, providing all marine services in-house. We’ve worked tirelessly to recruit the industry’s most skilled tradespeople and service managers, ensuring we deliver a world-class solution for boat servicing, maintenance, and repairs.
SLIPWAY
Through our facilities at Tamaki Marine Park in Mount Wellington, Short Marine has access to marine travel lift and hardstand facilities capable of hauling vessels from small trailer boats through to larger motor yachts. Suitable for powerboats, fishing boats, yachts, sailboats, workboats and more.
Services we offer include:
- Survey Lifts
- Vessel Inspections
- Insurance Lifts
- Antifouling
- Rudder and Engine Adjustments
- Stern drive and IPS drive servicing
- Topside Restoration and Re-spray
SHIPWRIGHT
Offering repair and restoration services in fibreglass, paint, gelcoat, teak flooring, varnish, transducers, thruster installations and the list goes on. Our team of shipwrights are some of the best in the world, the workmanship and attention to detail of each tradesman is truly world-class.
Services we offer include:
- Fibreglass Repairs
- Gelcoat Repairs
- Paint Repairs
- Teak Flooring & Repairs
- Varnishing
- Swim Platform Repair
- Fairing Block Transducers
ANTIFOULING
We look after everything under the waterline from: high pressure cleaning, antifouling, propspeed, skeg bearings and anodes replacement. Responsible for providing annual antifoul services to over 1000 boats per year, gives us the experience and confidence to know what’s best for your boat.
Services we offer include:
- High Pressure Cleaning
- Antifouling (Roll Application)
- Antifouling (Spray Application)
- Propspeed
- Skin Fitting Replacement
- Skeg Bearings Replacement
- Swim Platform Repairs
- Topside Hull Polish
MECHANICAL
We specialise in servicing and diagnostic repairs of all outboards, inboards, sterndrives and generators. As an authorised Yamaha dealer, we also offer re-power and new engine installation services.
Services we offer include:
- Outboard Servicing
- Inboard and Sterndrive Servicing
- Generator Servicing
- Yamaha Warranty Works
- Yamaha Engine Installations
- Manifolds and Riser Replacements
- Skeg Bearing Replacements
ELECTRICAL
Our highly skilled and trained marine electricians specialise in service, diagnostics, system design and installation across a wide variety of electrical systems. We are authorised dealers and installers for Furuno, Garmin, Simrad, Raymarine, Seakeeper, Fusion Marine Entertainment, JL Marine Audio, Minn Kota, Blue Sea Systems, Enerdrive Power Solutions and many more.
Services we offer include:
- Diagnosis
- Full electronic fit-ups
- Complete rewiring
- Autopilot systems
- Solar panels and wind generators
- Anchor winches
- TV and Satellite TV
- Marine toilets
DETAILING
Our detailing team has a genuine passion for bringing boats back to life….. and keeping them that way. We offer an array of detailing services from full vessel wash downs, machine cut, wax and polish, interior cleaning, teak clean & brighten, upholstery restoration, stainless and glass polishing and full concierge vessel management services.
Services we offer include:
- Standard and detail washes
- Quarterly details (machine wax)
- Complete details (extensive Gelcoat cut back)
- Interior cleaning and detailing
- Teak clean & brightening, teak sealing
- Hull scrub
- Stainless, Glass and Clear polishing
- Vessel refuelling and sea trialling
TESTIMONIALS
BARB - MULTIPLE GRADY-WHITE BOAT OWNER
Short Marine makes my life owning a boat really easy and so much more enjoyable. Before having the concierge service with Short Marine, we’d have to organise the antifoul, the engine service to done separately which took up a lot of our time. Now with the concierge service, it really is seamless. I know we are being looked after to the highest standard and really with a...
BRAD – GRADY-WHITE BOAT OWNER
The whole thing from go to woe has been a fantastic experience. From meeting Ryan first off, going through the negotiation of buying the boat, sitting down with Ryan, Cam and Tom about what we were going to put in it, to ordering it, and waiting for it to come. I’ve got short attention span, so it had to be simple and quick. Overall it...
DAVID – GRADY-WHITE BOAT OWNER
Sometimes you ask a question and people give you an answer that is straight out of a textbook. These people didn’t, they gave me an answer that I understood because I’m not the greatest boat person in the world. They care, it’s as simple as that. They understand what the person wants when buying or serving a boat, and they’ll do everything in their power to make sure...
James Warburton (CEO Channel Seven) - Capelli Owner
Really appreciate your incredible service level and communication, during I am sure, a very difficult time of year — bloody brilliant, thank you!! Best I’ve experienced on the water.
Oscar - Capelli Tempest 40
For me, I don’t have a lot of time so I want boating to be easy and fun. I don’t want it to be a second job. Short Marine was able to provide that and they do for a bunch of my mates as well. They’re obviously good at what they do. It makes boating more pleasurable for me to have a boating concierge service running things for me...

