Commercial work boats and custom vessels – designed with naval architects, built to approved designs and managed by the Lyttelton marine engineers who will look after them afterwards.
Every vessel starts with the job it has to do. Size, hull material and fit-out are set per project, from small inshore boats up to 60 m and larger.
Inshore trawlers, netters and potters, longliners, and offshore and deepwater boats.
Fish farm and mussel farm workboats, harvesters, feeding and mooring support, and barges.
Service tugs, pilot boats, launches and line-handling boats for ports and harbours.
Hydrographic, environmental and marine science vessels, laid out for the instruments and the crew.
Tour, charter and expedition vessels, built to the survey standard that applies to the way they will be used.
Utility and crew boats, general workboats and barges for marine contractors and offshore support.
Something that doesn’t fit those headings? We also build one-off custom vessels.
Already own a vessel that is past its best? We also rebuild and refit existing vessels at Lyttelton.
One team from the first conversation through to the first survey.
Downtime is what costs an operator the most. Our new-build designs are planned around modular main engines. The design target is an exchange alongside by a crew of three in under four hours, to be proven in a witnessed trial, with a spare engine held in storage so an engine failure should cost hours rather than weeks.
Because the people who build to the design are also the people who service the vessel, the maintenance history is kept in one place – worth real money at survey and at resale.
Buy it. Commission the build outright.
Finance the build with us. We can direct finance a new build, so you deal with one party from design to delivery.
Lease it. Straight or maintained – hand it back at the end of the term.
Lease to own. Title transfers to you at the end, maintained or not.
Boats from 15 to 30 m live or die by their wheelhouse. It is where the skipper spends the day, so we lay it out with your skipper, not for them.
By qualified naval architects, such as Oceantech NZ, whom we work with.
A recognised classification or Maritime NZ-accepted standard, with independent plan approval and surveys during construction, then a delivery survey in New Zealand before handover.
A written condition report with photographs and, for steel and aluminium hulls, an ultrasonic plate-thickness baseline, repeated at return on a lease.
Chosen per vessel – steel, aluminium, glass-reinforced plastic or wood – with a maintenance programme written for the material. Vessels are New Zealand registered.
Fabrication, machining and marine engineering at Lyttelton, with repair and refit work on commercial vessels, work boats and fishing fleet vessels every day.
Stark Marine has access to the dry dock at Lyttelton, and a slipway that takes vessels up to 35 m.
We hold SiteWise Gold health and safety prequalification and can respond 24/7.
You deal with the owners of the business, directly.
Every boat is custom built, so give us the basics and Arron will come back to you for a conversation. There is no standard rate because there is no standard boat or standard job.
Thinking about leasing instead? See the leasing options.
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Your enquiry goes straight to Arron at Stark Marine Ltd.