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March 28, 2025

Portland boatyard is building 45,000-square-foot service facility

Rendering of Portland Yacht Services planned building Rendering / Courtesy of Portland Yacht Services Portland Yacht Services is adding another service building at its West Commercial street boatyard.
By Tina Fischer

Portland Yacht Services has under construction at its facility at 100 West Commercial St. its eighth and largest service building, which when completed this October, will total 45,000 square feet. 

The latest build will actually consist of two connected buildings, according to Jason Curtis, vice president for operations at the 18-acre boatyard, and will help to accommodate the growth the company is seeing on the service side of the business.

Curtis said Portland Yacht Services does handle customer storage, and right now has roughly 350 boats under winter wrap. However, the majority of the yard’s work is in service, for power and sail boats, both recreational and commercial.

“We have a high weekly turnover of outboard service. We work on everything from 2.5 horsepower to 330 tons,” he told Mainebiz. “We’ve done some coast guard vessels, some whale watch boats. We just finished working on a Casco Bay Lines car ferry."

The company also services educational and research vessels, including the 125-foot schooner Harvey Gamage.

The yard has seven other buildings, each of which average 19,000 to 20,000 square feet. The general contractor on the new building is Keeley Construction, of South Portland.

Portland Yacht Services is owned by Joanna and Phineas Sprague, who started the firm in 1987. It employs a team of about 60 in Portland and the company also owns White Rock Outboard on Sebago Lake Road in Gorham.

The company recently acquired the Portland Boat Show from Julie and Phil Michaud, who founded the annual event 22 years ago. 

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