Boating New Zealand — January 2018

(Rick Simeone) #1

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“Not only for the sake of our shipyards but for school leavers seeking a
rewarding future career, the interior designers, the rigid-hulled inflatable boat
builders, the naval architects, joiners and all the other myriad trades who are
employed during a superyacht refit.”
Subject to Auckland hosting the Cup, 160 superyachts are expected to visit in
2020/2021. With an average spend of $2.7million each, they have the potential
to provide $436million of foreign exchange earnings to New Zealand – if there
is space to accommodate the work they will need.
Each superyacht undergoes annual maintenance as well as a major refit every
five to 10 years. “New Zealand is already the destination of choice for yachts to
refit in the South Pacific,” says Craig Park, managing director of Orams Marine Ltd.
“We need to ensure we’re ready for the rise in demand in the coming four
years and beyond, which is in addition to the refit and maintenance market
for commercial vessels from within New Zealand and across the Pacific.
That means having haul-out facilities with deepwater access in the already
established marine industry cluster in Wynyard Quarter.”
Orams Marine is ready to invest tens of millions of dollars in a new
superyacht haul-out yard at Site 18 in Beaumont Street’s Wynyard Quarter. It
will provide extra capability needed to get yachts up to 70m in length out of the
water for serious refit and maintenance work.
“We are currently turning down work due to lack of this infrastructure – and
it’s going to Australia,” says Busfield.

We need to ensure we’re ready for
the rise in demand in the coming
four years and beyond...

Two year’s free
education and
the expected
‘injection’ from the
2021 America’s
Cup spell good
news for marine
apprentices.

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