SF MARINA company News and Trends items

For over 115 years, the St. Petersburg Yacht Club has been an essential part of the fabric of the St. Petersburg, Florida, community. As part of an ambitious 10-year redevelopment, the club replaced and reconfigured its aging dock array with a state-of-the-art floating concrete solution from SF Marina. The update will provide new dockage for oversized vessels and the inf...

Palm Beach, Florida is known for its balance of small-town charm and over-the-top luxury. Because the area is such a draw to superyacht owners and captains, Safe Harbor Rybovich – Berth One has added 119m of new state-of-the-art floating concrete berthing docks from industry leader SF Marina. Vance Marine Construction installed the six SF Marina Type 2060 floating concr...

Built in 1896, the Norwalk River Railroad Bridge in Norwalk, Connecticut, is a frequent single point of failure for the Amtrak and Metro-North commuter trains that traverse its 562′ span. Construction to replace the aging infrastructure has begun with SF Marina playing a small but vital role. It’s supplying a floating concrete dock for the ferries, tour boats, transients...

Offering stunning panoramic views and unprecedented cruising opportunities, Waiheke Island Marina on Hauraki Gulf is New Zealand’s newest yachting destination. To shelter its 180 docks from fetching seas and passing island ferry wakes, but also to protect the area’s ecologically sensitive environment, marina owners partnered with industry leader SF Marina to install two ...

Part of greater Massachusetts Bay, Quincy Bay is just seven miles south of Boston and home to Safe Harbor Marina Bay. The full-service marina offers a unique, vibrant waterfront, access to world-class boating and, with its new state-of-the-art SF Marina floating concrete breakwater system, safe and peaceful dockage. Marina Bay’s west basin had a long history of recurring...

To create a perimeter of protection behind its pile-supported fixed piers, the United States Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, Maryland added a new wave attenuator. The floating concrete breakwater from industry leader SF Marina USA will not only shield man-made Santee basin from wave action from the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay but also add much-needed on-deck sailb...

After many years of deliberation, Gothenburg, Sweden-based marina owner-operator Grefab decided it would replace the wooden palisade surrounding Hinsholmen Marina. When the municipality-owned company had a geotechnical survey completed and learned that traditional bottom-founded construction wasn’t feasible, it turned to SF Marina. The leader in commercial and recreation...

With over 30 islands and peninsulas and a vibrant metropolis to discover, the US Boston Harbor Islands offer boaters ample exploration opportunities. Located in the heart of this popular yachting destination is Safe Harbor Sunset Bay, a thriving recreational marina protected by a new 280m L state-of-the-art floating concrete breakwater from SF Marina. The breakwater is ...

For many tourists, Denmark’s natural beauty is best experienced up close—including on the water. That’s why Destination Nordvestkysten (Northwest Coast) has added four floating cabins to its array of unique overnight accommodations. Constructed on environmentally-friendly SF Marina concrete pontoons, each four-person shelter has an exceptionally low freeboard to amplify ...

Nestled in New Zealand’s stunning Bay of Islands, Omarino is a world-class luxury residential development. With a mere 17 sites within its 350 pristine acres, each estate features a private boathouse. But for community gatherings, they all tie up at the clubhouse’s new state-of-the-art floating concrete dock array from industry leader SF Marina. Local New Zealand-based ...

The 11-mile Femern Link tunnel will connect the Danish island of Lolland with the German island of Fehmarn, reducing travel time from 45 minutes by ferry to a mere 10 minutes, and seven by electric rail. SF Marina is playing an important role in this ambitious five-year development by supplying floating concrete dock pontoons for the project’s tugboat pier. The 215m pie...

Waste disposal on a small island without vehicular access can be tricky. But Oslo, Norway’s Kommune Bymiljøetaten (municipal urban environmental agency) and SF Marina came up with a novel solution for Gressholmen- Rambergøya, a popular nature preserve that’s a short ferry ride from the city. A small floating concrete dock houses three Molok® Deep Collection™ trash contai...

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark's Hempel Foundation Coatings Science and Technology Centre (CoaST) are continually striving to improve watercraft hull coatings. To perform experiments using real-world environmental conditions, they utilize a unique research platform built with SF Marina floating concrete pontoons. Located off the Øresund strait in Hund...

“The SF Marina BW1000 is our first really wide floating breakwater. Everything about it has been designed and engineered with endurance in mind. As a world-renowned expert in the development of new and existing marinas, SF Marina is determined to also protect locations exposed to long, large waves. SF Marina delivers premium marinas that are great to own and berth in,” s...

Located in Newport, Rhode Island, Safe Harbor Newport Shipyard is at the epicenter of a world-class sailing and boating destination. The full-service marina recently replaced a wooden dock with a state-of-theart SF Marina floating dock array and floating breakwater to accommodate larger vessels and gain protection from Narragansett Bay’s rough waves. Because of its nort...

In 2019, Lars Vinjerud II purchased Capt. Leroy’s Marina, a mixed commercial and recreational marina on Popes Island, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and renamed it Fleet Marina. Vinjerud is owner and president of Fleet Fisheries, an 18-vessel scallop and lobster fishing and distribution operation. He chose to renovate and modernize the site utilizing a state-of-the-art floa...

Fort Lauderdale, Florida’s Pier Sixty-Six Hotel and Marina is synonymous with the yachting lifestyle. Owner Tavistock Development Company has begun a major transformation of the property, starting with a new state-of-the-art SF Marina floating concrete superyacht dock for its Pier South location. As visiting superyachts became ever larger over the years, the existing fi...

When most people think about a building’s foundation, they think reinforced concrete. And with Slottsholmen, a two-story, 33-room hotel on the picturesque town of Västervik, Sweden, they wouldn’t be wrong. Except, instead of being set into bedrock, this structure is actually floating on a custom-engineered pontoon platform from SF Marina. The owners of Slottsholmen—amon...

Handling over nine million containers a year, the Port of Tanger Med in Morocco is the largest port in Africa and the Mediterranean. A recent expansion of the facility—Tanger Med 2—brought in Svitzer to provide terminal towage and line-handling services. To support the tug fleet, Tanger Med partnered with SF Marina to build a 70m L x 10m W floating concrete dock. Barcelo...