General marine electrical services for boats kept at Lady Bee Marina and along Shoreham Harbour near Lancing.
Shoreham Harbour extends along the coast between Shoreham-by-Sea and Lancing, with a lock system controlling access and separating the harbour from the open sea and the tidal River Adur. Lady Bee Marina sits on the Lancing side near the harbour entrance. The harbour handles aggregate and other commercial shipping alongside leisure boating, and Lancing itself is a residential coastal town with a long seafront stretching towards Worthing.
Lancing sits on the western side of Shoreham Harbour, with Lady Bee Marina providing berths close to the harbour entrance for a mix of motor and sail boats. We are based just along the coast at Shoreham Airport, and provide a full range of marine electrical services in this area, from routine fault finding and battery work to new equipment installation and rewiring. Shoreham Harbour's dual role as a commercial and leisure harbour means boats here need reliable electrics for both practical daily use and the navigation equipment needed to move safely through a working harbour.
Because Shoreham Harbour combines commercial and leisure use, boats based at Lady Bee Marina often benefit from straightforward, reliable navigation and lighting systems suited to moving through a working harbour rather than purely recreational sailing.
For general marine electrical work on a boat at Lady Bee Marina or elsewhere in Lancing, get in touch to discuss what needs doing.
Electrical faults on boats often present as symptoms unrelated to their actual cause, such as a fridge that stops working when really the problem is a battery isolator switch. We diagnose faults methodically, tracing circuits back to their source rather than replacing parts on a guess.
Keeping a boat's battery bank properly charged between trips out of Lady Bee Marina is one of the most common jobs we carry out, whether that means fitting a new charger, checking the shore power connection, or replacing batteries that no longer hold charge.
From additional lighting to navigation instruments, we install new equipment on boats in Lancing, wiring it into the existing electrical system properly rather than as a standalone bodge that could cause problems down the line.
Boats that have been through several owners often carry wiring added at different times to different standards. We assess and, where needed, rewire sections or the whole boat to bring the electrical system up to a consistent, safe standard.
Lady Bee Marina and the wider Shoreham Harbour operate through a system of locks that separate the harbour from the tidal River Adur and the open sea, meaning boats moving in and out do so on a controlled schedule rather than freely at any state of tide. This affects how we plan visits for jobs that need the boat to be afloat and moving, such as testing navigation lights or checking equipment under way, and we work around lock timings so a job is not held up waiting for the next opening.
Shoreham Harbour continues to handle aggregate and other commercial shipping alongside the leisure boats based at Lady Bee, and vessels sharing the water with this kind of traffic benefit from dependable navigation lighting and clear communication equipment. We check that these systems on Lancing boats are wired correctly and working reliably, since a failed navigation light matters more in a working harbour than it might on a purely recreational stretch of water.
Yes, we are based nearby at Shoreham Airport and cover Lady Bee Marina and the wider Shoreham Harbour area regularly.
A fault that comes and goes rather than being constant usually points to a loose connection, chafed cable or corroded terminal somewhere along the circuit, and we trace it back systematically stage by stage rather than replacing parts speculatively, which finds the cause even when it is not happening at the moment we look.
It is worth having older wiring checked, since additions made over the years by different owners can end up creating an inconsistent or unsafe system.
Yes, we install new equipment as well as repairing and rewiring existing electrical systems.
Only for jobs that need the boat moving or afloat under way, such as testing navigation lights in open water, and we simply plan those visits around the lock's opening times.
Contact Southern Yacht Electrics for wiring, fault finding or installation work on your boat.
We provide marine electrical services for boats at Lady Bee Marina and around Shoreham Harbour near Lancing.