Friendship Yachts Site.  
Friendship Yachts Site.

Friendship Yachts Limited

 

The Friendship Team

We are a family owned company, specialising in custom yacht builds and boat refits. The Dockland beside picturesque Whangarei Harbour, New Zealand, is the ideal environment for our business. We have easy access to the water and can haul out vessels up to 85 ft with our on-site travel lift.

Services we provide include:-
Custom builds constructed to the designers/owners specifications. Power or sail, monohull or multihull. F.R.P, wood or composite construction. We are capable of building to any applicable Standards of Classification Societies. General F.R.P. fabrication. View Portfolio...

Refits constructed to the designers/owner's specifications. 

All manner of repair work including general F.R.P. repairs and fabrication, paint jobs, insurance work, etc.

Facilities
We have three covered bays for construction and assembly work which have a total floor area of 1700 square metres.  Attached to this building is a number of offices and a designated stores area.  Portable “tents” are available for additional short-term refit work.

Yard
We are situated in the confines of Dockland 5’s four acres of hardstand.  Dockland 5 has hardstand area for 70 boats with modern laundry & ablution facilities.  Power and water are also available to the hardstand sites.

The yard is on the edge of the Whangarei port, giving us quality access to the water.  A 60 tonne travel lift is available for hauling out vessels to 85 feet.  We also have access to larger waterfront and haul-out facilities for larger vessels. 

Adjacent to our  yard are All Marine (chandlery), Silhouette Spars (spar-making/rigging), Northland Sandblasting and McRae Engineering allowing easy access to complimentary services.

 

Our team includes a wide variety of skilled tradespeople including Boatbuilders, Furniture Polishers, Marine Painters, Engineers, Joiners, Cabinetmakers and Fillers/Fairers.  Skill levels are carefully monitored to ensure skill ratio level between senior tradespeople and trainees keeps productivity at a maximum.  Friendship’s are dedicated to providing on and off the job training, apprenticeships, and professional training for all staff.

As well as having great skill diversity, we also enjoy a wide cultural diversity.  Countries represented amongst our staff include:  England, Scotland, Wales, Fiji, Friendshipia, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, South Africa, Denmark, and of course, New Zealand.


Dennis Maconaghie General Manager email

Ian Gray Business Development / Refits Manager email

John Clement Production & Procurement Manager email

Quality
Our productuion facilities and personnel qualifications have achieved Germanischer Lloyd Shop Approval.

 

Friendship Yachts, 211 Port Road, Whangarei, New Zealand.  Tel: 64 9 430 4900  Fax: 64 9 430 4901