362 posts
I need a few things in 2027, new canvas work including dodger, new upholstery and replace the LPG rigid lines with a gas cert.
What has the lower cost for this work, Hobart/ Kettering or SE QLD?
One of the factors in determining if we head N or S in January?
ACT
237 posts
I’ve not had work done in SE Qld so cannot say which is cheapest or best. Have had good work done in Hobart, but it was bits and pieces of rigging, ss metal fab , not canvas and only minor upholstery. . My bimini and dodger were done in Sydney. Work was good but cost a few thousand.
NSW
2574 posts
Kettering in TAS is definitely worth checking.
1936 posts
No contest, Kettering.
Much of SE Qld has caught the Sydney disease. (still a few exceptions though)
362 posts
Thanks for all your responses . That what I was starting to feel after getting Marina berth prices for 2027. I was surprised they are 2/3 the price of my local SNSW coast marina.
10 posts
Also remember that a lot of boats in Msnly QLD sustained Bimini damage in the Oct 2025 hail event. The marine trimmers are pretty much still flat out on insurance jobs. We refused to believe that replacing the centre clear (zip section) of our dodger (it’s maybe 1 m by 70 cm) was $2200 in work (noting insurance excess of $2000). We haven’t been able to get anyone to quote for a non- insurance job, let alone at a sensible price. Suggestions welcome. We had a 10 cm (yes really that big) hailstone/cannonball through our dodger. Currently held together with Flexitape, which is doing a brilliant job the the aesthetics displease the skipper. Have been thinking about taking the dodger off and driving it to someone on the Gold Coast as they weren’t as badly hit.
