Harbor guides
One page per harbor: what the docks offer, what the salt does, and what we handle there ourselves.
These guides are our working notes on the harbors where we spend our weeks. Not brochure copy: what the slips and moorings are like, where fuel and pump-out live, which yard we trust for a haul-out, and what the salt and the trade winds are quietly doing to the boats that sit there.
We work every harbor and private dock on Oʻahu: Ala Wai, Keʻehi, Hawaiʻi Kai, Ko Olina, Heʻeia Kea, Haleʻiwa and Waiʻanae, plus dry storage and trailered boats by arrangement.
The facts on these pages come from the state's own harbor pages and from the operators' notices, and every guide lists its sources at the bottom. The rest is what we see from the dock. We wash, buff, check and fix boats in all four of these harbors, and the problems repeat by basin: each one has its own weather, its own water, and its own way of wearing a boat out.
Start with the harbor your boat sits in. If she sits somewhere we have not written up yet, we still cover the whole island, and the phone still reaches a captain.
The guides
- Ala Wai Boat Harbor A state-run basin under Diamond Head, and salt that never takes a day off.
- Hawaiʻi Kai and Koko Marina Flat private water behind Koko Head, with its own rules, its own patrol, and boats that rarely stretch their legs.
- Keʻehi Small Boat Harbor Working slips and a broad mooring field off Sand Island, with the boatyard we trust a short walk up the road.
- Ko Olina Marina Deep slips behind a breakwater on the leeward coast, where the sun does the damage the swell cannot.
Sources
- the state's own harbor pages dlnr.hawaii.gov