About Wise Marine

Boat US

This Old House

Cape Ann Habitat for Humanity

Tournament of Friends
Scholarship Fund

Wise Marine was opened in 2001 to provide boat owners with convenient storage and easy access to Cape Ann waters.

In addition to storage, Wise Marine offers experienced service for all kinds of boats to keep your boat functioning worry-free during the all-too-short New England boating season. Please review our list of services to see how we can help you keep your boat running the way you want it! Call us with the project you have in mind.

Wise Marine is located outside of Essex Village, in the beautiful farmlands on John Wise Avenue (Rt. 133). Our boat yard is ideally located for trailered boats and boats brought by independent haulers. Call us to make arrangements to keep your boat at Wise Marine!

Wise Marine offers outside storage in Summer and Winter, and all marine services for your boat: our custom outfitting includes engine and equipment installation and repair, structural modifications and improvements, custom joinery, painting, and maintenance. The main building easily accommodates boats up to 50’ long and 17’ wide for boat construction and repair projects.

We have cruised, raced, built, re-built, serviced, maintained and in all ways enjoyed boats all our lives. We have raced and cruised on dinghies, Twelve Meters, 60’ Trimarans, 80’ Schooners and many boats in between, ranging across the Atlantic, to the Carribbean, and many ports in between. Wise Marine was previously Story Boatbuilding, built on this location in 1985.