Safe Navigation in Hamilton Harbour

You may have noticed a lot more recreational activity in the Hamilton Harbour last summer. According to HPS Marine Unit, it was the busiest boating season on record as many residents flocked to the waterfront or bought new recreational equipment. They received more complaints about the operation of PWCs (personal water craft) than ever before. There was even an increase …

Looking forward to boating season…

Well February is finally behind us and we’re that much closer to boating season. We are hard at work preparing to open the docks, and the City is hustling just as hard on constructing a new shoreline for Harbour West ahead of the 2021 season start. Our slips will be available for occupancy as of May 1 for our new …

Waterfront Redevelopment & Marina Updates

As we look ahead to the 2021 boating season, we wanted to provide you with some updates, including the ongoing development that is taking place down at Harbour West. We are keeping in close contact with the City of Hamilton’s project managers so that we can relay any pertinent updates to you and to ensure that our boater’s needs are …

Final Boater Event this Friday

What a summer! Join us on Friday, September 25 from 5:30 to 8:00pm for our final socially-distanced boater event of the season at Harbour West Marina. Head down to your boat anytime after 5pm to hear Bryce’s acoustic covers. Tune into VHF Channel 68 to hear other announcements from the HWM team. The marina team will be walking around to …

Flare Disposal Day – Sept. 12

Attention all #HamOnt and #BurlON boaters! The Hamilton Police Service Marine Unit, Harbour Master’s Office/Port Patrol, and Brewers’ Marine Supply are hosting a Boating Safety & Flare Disposal Day. If you want to learn from the pros about boat safety and dispose of your expired flares in a sustainable manner, be sure to join us on Saturday, September 12! Details …

Harbour West Marina Photo Contest

Harbour West Marina is hosting a photo contest, and we want to see some of your favorite moments from the 2020 boating season! HOW TO ENTER: Upload your favorite photo of the 2020 season to Facebook or Instagram with the hashtag #HarbourWestMarina OR Send your photo to [email protected] Enter before August 24 to win a Grandad’s gift card! Selected winners …

Cruise into Canada Day at Harbour West Marina

Summer is officially here! To celebrate, we’d like to invite you to a casual, distanced pre-Canada Day event at Harbour West Marina on Tuesday, June 30, from 5:30 to 8:00pm. Although we cannot serve barbecue or congregate under the pavilion right now, that doesn’t mean that we can’t offer up other perks for our customers! We will be hosting a …

Welcome Back Boaters!

The sun is shining, the weather is nice, and we’re officially ready to welcome you back to Harbour West Marina! We created a video below to give you an idea of what to expect down at the docks and other helpful reminders ahead of this weekend.  HWM Updates If you’d rather read through the updates instead, please find those details …

New Storage Hours & More…

First off, we would like to thank all of our customers for adhering to physical distancing in the yard. Thank you for doing your part to keep each other safe so we can all get back on the water with our health intact! We have a couple of updates for you since our last message… New Boat Storage Hours/ProcessFrom now …

Scheduled access to boat storage starting tomorrow

Great news! We are now able to provide our storage customers with access to our storage facility to prepare your boat for the summer season. As of tomorrow, May 14, we will begin to schedule customer access to the yard for boaters to begin getting their boat ready for launch. Please be sure to read through our procedures: You MUST …