Services
Paynesville Boatyard Services
Paynesville Boatyard provides a comprehensive range of services including:
- Travel Lift of vessels to cradles up to 40 tonne
- Slipping of vessels up to 120 tonne
- Pressure cleaning of vessels
- Major and minor vessel overhauls
- All types of maintenance of wooden boats
- Fibreglass repair
- All types of painting
- Propeller shaft repairs
- Approved Propspeed applicator
- Heavy and light metal fabrication and on-site welding
- Rebalancing and re-pitching of propellers
- Marine engine servicing
- Vessel condition reports
- Extensive range of chandlery items available for purchase for works on vessels located within yard.
All boat slipping, lifting and re-launching activities are supervised by qualified personnel. The boatyard can also load/unload vessels to/from road transport and arrange launching of the vessel at the site.
Facilities and equipment on site include:
- Travel Lift capable of lifting vessels up to 40 tonne, with a fitted 2 tonne jib crane available for stepping masts, engine lift outs etc.
- Slipway and winch rated to 120 tonne capable of slipping vessels up to 10.5m beam and 30m Overall Length, with light and heavy duty scaffolding available.
- Well equipped Shipwrights shop providing 570m2 of undercover workshop area.
- Heavy engineering shop providing 190m2 of undercover workshop area.
- Heavy duty deep water loading wharf.
- Multipurpose telehandler with 7m reach and 6 tonne lifting capacity.
- Up to 22 open air hard stand sites and cradles for out of water maintenance.
- Powerful 6,000psi hydroblaster and 18m x 9m washdown compound for efficient environmentally friendly hull cleaning.
- One 15m x 9m fully enclosed sandblasting compound to ensure abrasive blasting activities are managed effectively.
- One 15m x 8m fully enclosed state of the art atmospherically controlled spray painting booth that can house vessels up to 12m length overall.
- Up to six in water fit-out berths.
- EPA approved and 2008 environmental award winning waste water treatment plant.
- Contaminated waste pump-out site
- 2 x mobile elevated work platform and wide range of scaffolding
Bullock Island Boatyard Services
Bullock Island Boatyard provides a range of services including:
- Travel Lift of vessels to fully serviced hardstand areas up to 100 tonne
- Pressure cleaning of vessels
- Major and minor vessel overhauls
- All types of maintenance of wooden boats
- Fibreglass repair
- All types of painting
- Propeller shaft repairs
- Heavy and light metal fabrication and on-site welding
- Rebalancing and repitching of propellers
- Vessel condition reports
- Limited range of chandlery items available for purchase for works on vessels located within yard.
- Vessel condition reports
All boat slipping, lifting and re-launching activities are supervised by qualified personnel. The boatyard can also load/unload vessels to/from road transport and arrange launching of the vessel at the site.
Facilities and equipment on site include:
- Travel Lift capable of lifting vessels up to 100 tonne, with a fitted 6 tonne jib crane available for stepping masts, engine lift outs etc.
- Heavy duty jetty for in-water approved maintenance works
- Mobile Franna crane with 12 tonne SWL capacity for hire (operated by boatyard staff)
- Caterpillar 902 loader/forklift for hire (operated by boatyard staff)
- Abrasive blasting bay
- Up to 8 large open air hard stand sites for out of water maintenance.
- Powerful 6,000psi hydroblaster and 20m x 16m washdown bay for efficient environmentally friendly hull cleaning.
- EPA approved waste water treatment plant.
- Contaminated waste pump-out site.
- Wide range of scaffolding
- Large shed available for lease.
Vessel Slipping Facilities
Gippsland Ports only provides a slipping service at the Port Welshpool, Mallacoota and Port Franklin slipping facilities. Scaffolding is available at Port Welshpool for a fee. A pressure cleaning unit is not available at these sites. These sites are a basic service only, with no availability of boatyard labour other than for the actual slipping.