SFM Marine marina in North Fremantle

LOCATION & WATERWAY

SFM Marine location and waterway

SFM Marine is listed by YouSail in North Fremantle, WA, in the Perth Metro region, on Swan River. This helps you place it on a shortlist, but it does not confirm a suitable berth or a safe approach for your vessel.

Use the Perth and Fremantle marina guide for local waterway context, or compare all marinas in Western Australia. Ask the operator for berth-specific dimensions and arrival advice.

YOUSAIL SOURCE PROFILE

Verified source notes for SFM Marine

Boat-lifting and marine-maintenance yard serving leisure and commercial vessels, with hardstand storage and contractor support.

SFM Marine is best presented as a haul-out, hardstand and marine maintenance business rather than a general berth marina. Its Fremantle/Henderson operations support lifting, hardstand storage and specialist contractor work.

This is the factual YouSail directory layer used as the primary reference for the Find Marinas review above.

WHAT YOUSAIL RECORDS

SFM Marine berth dimensions and facilities

YouSail classification?The category published on the source profile; confirm what services are operating today.

boatyard with berths

Water body

Swan River

YouSail region

Perth Metro

Berth types?A source-level summary, not confirmation that a particular berth type is currently available.

hardstand

Boatyard

Recorded as present

Travel lift

200 t

Security

Recorded as available

A marina-wide maximum is not an available-berth offer. Unlisted facts are unknown, not absent. Values and services can change.

Y O U S A I L / PUBLIC PROFILE

Facilities recorded for SFM Marine

YouSail’s public profile lists the following items. Some may be rules or arrangements rather than services; ask the operator what applies today.

• boat lifting
• hardstand storage
• marine maintenance
• contractor network
• commercial and leisure vessel support

These are YouSail-sourced notes, not a live availability feed or a Find Marinas endorsement.

SERVICES IN DEPTH

Berthing and marina services

The yard's muscle is a pair of boat lifters with a combined capacity of up to 200 tonnes and a beam tolerance of ten metres, which covers most fishing boats, yachts, catamarans and tri-hulls in the WA fleet. Lifts can be booked up to twelve months ahead, a necessity in peak antifoul season, and every lift, launch and spray-down at the Northport site runs its wash water through a closed-loop treatment plant, keeping antifoul residue out of the harbour. Once a vessel is up, hardstand storage is available short or long term, and the yard positions itself as a maintenance hub rather than a dump-and-leave park: in-house capability covers hauling, launch and wash-down, while an extensive contractor network delivers shipwright painting, detailing and cleaning, plus commercial-grade building, fabrication, refit, repair and engineering work. Wet berthing is deliberately modest. SFM offers a limited number of berths with direct access to the river, rented short, medium or long term for small vessels upwards, priced and allocated on enquiry, and the company flags that new berths are coming, with a register open for owners who want first notice. Secure indoor tender storage is available for berth holders who want their dinghy out of the weather and out of sight. There is no fuel berth or chandlery on site; the yard's model is lift, store and fix. Contact runs through the office on 08 9430 7623, and the Downloads section of the website carries the paperwork regulars need before a lift. Booking lead times stretch in the pre-summer rush, so regulars schedule antifouls well ahead.

• Dry storage: Yes (hardstand options)

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE

Planning a visit to Swan River

Rous Head sits on the north side of the Fremantle harbour entrance, which makes SFM's geography unusually handy. Berth holders are, by the company's own measure, at the closest pens to Rottnest Island: straight out past the North Mole and 18 kilometres across to Thomson Bay. Upstream, the Swan River gives sheltered cruising all the way to Perth, so the same berth serves a sea run and a river picnic. The caution is commercial traffic: Fremantle is a busy container and general cargo port, and small boats crossing the entrance channel should keep a proper lookout and stay clear of shipping under the port's control, particularly in the narrow water off the moles. The sea breeze on this coast is a daily fact, strong south-westerlies from lunchtime through summer afternoons, and first-time visitors to the yard should time a lift booking for the calmer morning window. Ashore, the yard sits inside Fremantle's broader marine service belt, with chandlers, engine dealers, sailmakers and electronics firms scattered through O'Connor, Henderson and the harbour precinct, so parts and specialist labour are rarely more than a phone call away. Provisioning and a coffee are minutes away in North Fremantle or across the bridges in Fremantle proper. For owners based in Perth's western suburbs, the location trims the trailer drive that longer hauls to Henderson or Two Rocks would otherwise demand, which is much of why the yard's hardstand stays busy year round. Winter fronts from the north-west can make the harbour entrance lumpy, and the yard's seven-day schedule lets owners pick a weather window rather than a calendar date.

Use current charts, forecasts, warnings and the operator’s latest arrival instructions before navigating.

YOUSAIL MEDIA

SFM Marine gallery

Images are supplied through the YouSail record. Satellite views are orientation aids only and must not be used for navigation.

BEFORE YOU BOOK

Questions to ask SFM Marine before booking

1. Is a berth currently available for my vessel’s exact length, beam and loaded draft at SFM Marine?
2. What are the current approach and depth conditions for Swan River?
3. Which of the listed berth arrangements (hardstand) is available for my stay?
4. What lift or slipway capacity, hardstand terms and contractor rules apply to my vessel?
5. What is the full cost, including utilities, deposits and cancellation terms?

PLAN WITH CURRENT INFORMATION

Navigation and arrival checks for SFM Marine

Directory details are for discovery. For a passage, use current official charts, weather, warnings and Notices to Mariners for the exact waterway. Confirm the marina’s latest entry procedure directly; advice here can be wrong.