Marina service
CleanLIFT Marine Complex
About
CleanLIFT Marine Complex at a glance
CleanLIFT Marine Complex is a marine facility located in Derwent Park in the Hobart / River Derwent region of Tasmania. The business name indicates it operates as a marine complex and offers lift/haul-out capability for vessels.
Service area: Derwent Park, Hobart / River Derwent, TAS
- Marina type
- boatyard with berths
- Operator
- CleanLIFT Marine
- Region
- Hobart / River Derwent
- Water body
- Prince of Wales Bay
Facilities and services
- travel lift
- hardstand
- repairs & maintenance
- 70-tonne travel lift
- 32m undercover workshed
- antifouling program
- pressure wash
- waste disposal
- metal grinding
- stainless steel work
- detailing and polishing
- towing
- spare parts sourcing
- contract maintenance
- live-aboard permitted
- truck loading and unloading
Useful for sailors looking for
- Dry storage or hardstand
- Haul-out and slipping
- Maintenance and repairs
About CleanLIFT Marine Complex
CleanLIFT Marine operates from the Prince of Wales Bay marine precinct at Derwent Park, ten minutes north of central Hobart, and it is unashamedly a working boatyard rather than a lifestyle marina. The complex is best known for its 70-tonne travel lift and a workshed rising 32 metres, a combination that lets it haul everything from runabouts and cruising yachts to commercial fishing boats, government vessels and the workboats of Tasmania's aquaculture industry, and then put them under cover for refit or maintenance out of the weather. The business trades heavily on an environmental point of difference: it promotes itself as Tasmania's only lift-out, roll-in, under-cover slipping system, keeping sanding, blasting and antifouling work contained within the shed rather than exposed on an open hardstand. That matters in Prince of Wales Bay, which is simultaneously a recreational marina basin and one of Hobart's oldest industrial waterways. The clientele reflects the location. Tuna and scallop boats from the east coast fleets, police and government craft, Sydney Hobart race yachts and long-term cruising boats all share the yard, and live-aboard owners are permitted while their vessels are on the hard, a policy increasingly rare elsewhere. Truck-transported boats can be loaded and unloaded off the lift, which makes the yard a handover point for boats moving between Tasmania and the mainland. Together with the 350-berth Prince of Wales Bay Marina next door, CleanLIFT anchors a precinct that functions as Hobart's one-stop shop for serious boat work. Repeat business is the yard's own measure of success, and the steady flow of returning hulls through the shed door suggests the formula of speed, containment and under-cover working has found its market in southern Tasmania.
Marina facilities
The core of the operation is the 70-tonne travel lift and the undercover workshed, with hardstand and work bays available on daily rates quoted per job, in the Tasmanian tradition of separating slipping and hardstand charges from the painting bill. Antifouling is the bread and butter, and the yard says it services and antifouls hundreds of vessels a year, from trailer boats to large sail and motor yachts and commercial craft. Trades are coordinated on site or on call: spray painters and brush painters, diesel mechanics, marine electricians and shipwrights, plus stainless-steel fabrication, full polishing and detailing services, with boat maintenance packages offered for owners who want scheduled care rather than one-off jobs. Yard facilities include pressure washing, waste disposal, metal grinding capability, power and water, and site security, and support services extend to spare parts sourcing, contract maintenance, towing and general consultancy for owners planning refits. The undercover, roll-in system means weather delays are minimised and containment of wash water and sanding residue is built into the process rather than improvised. DIY work is broadly accepted across Tasmanian yards in a way mainland owners often find refreshing, and CleanLIFT's allowance of live-aboards during haul-outs suits cruising crews mid-refit. Hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 4.30pm, and bookings are essential in the busy spring antifouling season when the Sydney Hobart fleet and the fishing fleet's maintenance windows collide. The wider precinct fills any gaps: chandleries, riggers, engineers and the adjacent marina's 24-hour fuel dock and pump-out are all within a few hundred metres.
Local sailing knowledge
Prince of Wales Bay lies on the western shore of the Derwent just downstream of the Bridgewater Bridge's tidal reaches, and the approach upriver from Hobart is straightforward, deep and well lit, with no bar or bridge to clear; the only traffic to respect is the barge and workboat movement around the precinct itself. The bay is genuinely all-weather: hills on three sides knock the fetch off anything but a hard easterly, and the water is deep close in, which is why the marine industry congregated here in the first place. A working knowledge point for visitors: this is an industrial estuary, so wash from passing commercial traffic and the occasional floating debris after heavy rain are facts of life rather than surprises. Ashore, the precinct is self-contained for boat work but thin on cafés and shops beyond the marina's own café; Glenorchy's supermarkets, hardware stores and services are five minutes by car, and the marina's courtesy vehicles can be borrowed for provisioning runs. Derwent cruising starts at the yard gate: downstream lie MONA's jetty at Berriedale, the city waterfront and Battery Point, and upstream the river winds under the Bowen and Bridgewater bridges toward New Norfolk for those with air draft to spare. For cruising boats bound for Port Davey or the east coast, a haul at CleanLIFT is a standard prelude, and the yard's familiarity with commercial survey work makes it equally useful for owners chasing insurance or AMSA compliance before a big season. Visiting crews time their hauls around the yard's Monday-to-Friday rhythm and the tides on the slip approach, and most combine the stay with a berth at the neighbouring marina so the boat is never far from power, water and a hot shower.