For owners who keep a vessel in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia or Tasmania, or who are buying one in Queensland: the works done in one haul-out at Gold Coast City Marina, Coomera, with updates while you are home and a skippered passage to your berth when she is ready.
5.0 From 28 Google reviewsMarine Solutions Australia carries out interstate boat repairs, marine repairs and refit work at Gold Coast City Marina, Coomera, for owners whose home port is in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia or Tasmania. Some keep a vessel here year round and fly up to use her. Some bring her north for the winter. Many have just bought her in Queensland, where there is far more 12-metre-plus stock for sale, and want the work done before the passage home.
The job runs the same way whether you are in Melbourne or at the marina. Our engineers go over the vessel on the hardstand before anything is ordered, the options go to you in writing with the photos and videos behind them, and the works happen in one haul-out rather than three. You get estimates and updates as the job runs. When she is ready, our delivery skipper takes her south on her own bottom, or you fly up and take her yourself.
One thing we do not do: inspect a vessel you are thinking of buying. That is a surveyor's job. Once she is yours, the engineering is ours. For a quote, call 07 5612 7161 or contact us with the vessel and her home port.
Victoria has engine dealers, and yards that can lift a 12 to 25 metre vessel. What it has less of is authorised support for the systems that fail in a hurry. When we read the brand locators in October 2026 there was no Victorian dealer for Northern Lights generators, Spot Zero watermakers, Frigomar air conditioning or Kova pumps, and two Zipwake dealers against twenty in Queensland. MSA is the authorised dealer for all seven brands it carries. Fast-moving parts sit on the showroom shelf, and most ordered items are here within a couple of days.
The yards lift bigger vessels too. The Boat Works runs a 300 tonne travel lift; the largest Victorian yards top out around 70 to 100 tonnes. Gold Coast City Marina has undercover hardstand, which matters when a job is paint and propellers at the same time.
Seven authorised dealerships · Written options · One haul-out · Skippered delivery home
The same sequence for every southern owner: inspect first, decide in writing, do the works once, then get her home.
Tell us the vessel, where she is and what you know about her. If you have just bought her, the broker's details and your surveyor's report are useful; we work from them rather than redoing them.
Two engineers go over the running gear and the systems once she is out of the water, before anything is ordered. Photos and short videos come to you the same day.
Where there is a choice, you get it as a choice: seals only, or seals and bearings; service the pump, or replace it. Each path is costed and explained.
Below-waterline work, the engine room jobs and any installations run together while she is out, with the yard's painters booked around them.
You see progress as it happens, not at the invoice. The owner of the shaft seals job put it as "cost estimates and real time updates", and that is the standard.
Our skipper runs her south on her own bottom after a pre-departure engineering inspection, or you fly up for the sea trial and take her yourself. Collection from the south works the same way in reverse.
Bought here, kept here, or brought here for the works. The sequence is the same; the start and finish differ.
On BoatsOnline in late October 2026, Queensland listed about three times as many 12-metre-plus power vessels as Victoria. Buyers settle here, then face the passage. Do the works first and she sails south sorted.
Plenty of owners keep a vessel at Gold Coast City Marina or The Boat Works and fly up to use her. The works are booked between your trips, and our workshop is on the same marina as the berth.
A job larger than the home yard can lift, or a brand with no dealer in your state: our delivery skipper collects her from Melbourne, Sydney or Hobart, the works happen here, and she goes back the same way.
A big shout out and thumbs up to the team at MSA. 3 weeks on the hard stand at GCCM for major maintenance. Quality all round, workmanship, cost estimates and real time updates for the project made my life easy. The maiden voyage to Victoria and she purred like a kitten.
The product and service pages carry the detail. These are the jobs that bring southern owners north.
PSS seals, cutlass bearings, propellers and anodes, the work that can only happen out of the water.
Northern Lights sales, installation and service, with units on the showroom floor now.
Spot Zero watermakers and water treatment, sized to the tankage and the cruising you do.
Sleipner Side-Power thrusters, fin and gyro stabilisers, installed and serviced.
Interceptor trim systems fitted, set up and sea-trialled before the passage.
Frigomar systems and all major brands, sized to the vessel and the climate she lives in.
Inboard diesel repowers, aligned, commissioned and sea-trialled.
Navigation, comms, lithium systems and rewiring by licensed marine electricians.
Steering, stabiliser and thruster hydraulics, cranes, davits and powerpacks.
Based on the Gold Coast yourself? The boat repairs and boat servicing pages cover the local work. Coming south from North Queensland for the cyclone season instead? That is the cyclone-season layover refit page.
Gold Coast to Sydney usually takes several days in reasonable weather, with Coffs Harbour and Port Stephens the common stops. Melbourne is a longer run, planned in legs down the New South Wales coast and across Bass Strait when the window allows. We plan around weather windows rather than a date, and you hear from the skipper at each port.
Every passage starts with our pre-departure engineering inspection, the same engineers who did the works signing her off for sea. Fuel, pump-outs and marina bookings are handled along the way, and she is washed down and secured in your berth at the end. The detail, and the sea-versus-road question, is on the yacht and boat delivery page.
Being here, what to check after a purchase, delivery costs, how long she stays, paperwork and storage.
No. Most interstate owners are not. The inspection findings, the options and the estimates come to you in writing with photos and short videos, and you approve each step from home. Owners who want to see her relaunch, or run the sea trial, fly up for a day or two at the end.
Running gear first: shaft seals, cutlass bearings, anodes and propellers, because they are only reachable out of the water and a failure at sea is the expensive kind. Then the engines and gearboxes, raw water pumps, steering, electrics and safety gear, which is our pre-departure inspection. We do not inspect vessels before purchase; that is your surveyor's job. Once the contract is settled, the engineering is ours.
Distance and likely passage time, the vessel and her equipment, crew, fuel, and any work needed before departure. Every passage is quoted in writing before anything is booked. The passage runs under the vessel's own insurance, so check that your policy covers the route.
It depends on the scope. The shaft seals and cutlass bearings job ran three weeks on the stands, with the engine service alongside it. A generator or watermaker installation on its own is usually shorter; a repower or a stabiliser overhaul is longer. You get a timeline with the quote, and the yard's own schedule for haul-out and relaunch sits inside it.
Recreational vessel registration is run by each state, so a vessel bought in Queensland is re-registered in your home state once she arrives there. The broker handles the Queensland side of the sale. We give you a written record of the work done, with the photos, for the vessel's file.
Berth and hardstand storage are booked with the marina, Gold Coast City Marina or The Boat Works, not with us. Tell us the dates and we schedule the works inside them, so she is lifted once and the time out of the water does the most work.
Didn’t find your answer? Call 07 5612 7161 (Mon to Fri 8am-4pm) or contact us. We’re happy to talk it through.
The vessel, her home port and what you think she needs. We will come back with next steps, a timeline and a written quote, and we can plan the passage at the same time.
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