Kawana is canal country. Boats on pontoons behind the house, half-cabins on trailers, offshore rigs launching at La Balsa to run out past Point Cartwright. All of it lives in salt air year-round — and salt air finds every cheap connector eventually. We’re the marine electricians who sort it.
Sunshine Coast Marine Electrical Doctor services Kawana Waters, Buddina, Warana, Bokarina, Wurtulla and Birtinya from our Coolum Beach base, with Sippy Downs a short run inland.
Marine electronics installation — chartplotters, sounders, radar, autopilots and AIS from an authorised Garmin dealer
Boat wiring and rewiring — new builds and full refits
Electrical repairs — batteries, charging, pumps, lighting, shore power
Fault-finding — intermittent faults diagnosed properly
A boat that lives on a canal pontoon spends its whole life in the harshest spot on the coast — salt water below, salt air around, shore power humming away. Stray-current corrosion, tired battery chargers and green-furred terminals are the standard Kawana call-outs. We fix them at the pontoon and set the boat up so the damage stops repeating.
Plenty of Kawana boats do real offshore work — La Balsa ramp straight out the Mooloolah River mouth and onto the grounds. That gear needs to hold together in a seaway. We install and tune electronics for boats that get used hard, by fishermen who use their own the same way.
Yes — pontoon jobs across Buddina, Minyama, Warana, Wurtulla and Birtinya are everyday work. Most repairs and installs happen right at the boat.
Usually the charger, a stray-current issue or a battery bank past its life. We test the whole charging circuit at the pontoon and fix the cause, not the symptom.
Yes. As an authorised Garmin dealer we supply, install and tune in one visit — driveway or pontoon.
We’re at Coolum Beach — about half an hour up the motorway. Standard service run, no special call-out. —
