Seatech Marine is a marine dealer and service workshop in Waikawa Marina, in Unit 5 on Te Ara Kaimoana, Picton. It is the agent for Volvo Penta, Mercury Marine, Mercury High Performance, Sea-Doo, Extreme Boats, SeaDek, ZF gearboxes and Marshall Exide batteries. It serves the Picton, Waikawa and Havelock marinas. It sells new Mercury, Sea-Doo and Volvo Penta parts, accessories and motors, both outboards and inboards, and can supply Onan generators. The website notes that recreational Mercury outboards from 2.5 to 350 hp carry six years of warranty, made up of three plus three years.
Customers describe a fast response when an outboard would not start on a January holiday, when the pull cord was jammed. One says the team got them back on the water at short notice, with a full part change and full service, and a reset of the instruments, done in four hours. Another says the job cost far more than they expected, and that the time spent finding a broken engine was too long. Oddies Marine Equipment Specialists is 0.4 km away. For a boat owner in the Marlborough Sounds who needs Mercury or Volvo Penta work done fast, it is our pick in Waikawa.