For Services and Resources in French Polynesia
The Tahiti Cruisers Guide is brought to you by Julien Desmont from Xperimental and Chuck Houlihan from Jacaranda. Starting as an idea based on the very successful Panama City Cruisers guide, it has evolved into 200+ pages of information on vendors and services throughout French Polynesia. In January 2018, we added GPS coordinates and links to Google Maps to assist in locating businesses.
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Especially thankful to John (SV Mary Ann II) and Steve (SV Ocean Star) for their huge effort in supplying a vast amount of information for the guide.
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Last update: 10 Dec 2024
Marine Suppliers
Sin Tung Hing (STH)
2023-10-06 06:57:48 UTC
Island: Tahiti
GPS Coordinates (Latitude/Longitude in decimal degrees):
Latitude: -17.528096
Longitude: -149.567219
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Sin Tung Hing Marine
Sin Tung Hing (STH)
Po Box 1605- 98713 Papeete-Tahiti
French Polynesia
Phone: 689- 40-549 458
Fax: 689- 40-m454 837
Carry assortment of line, lots of general boating equipment needed for fishing boat, dealer for Mercury outboards, Yanmar and Northern Lights. carry reasonably stock of paints, West System epoxy plus various additives (powders), some marine engines bits, flares, a few toilet parts and asmall stock of Marine electronics. Several staff speak English.
Yanmar Distributor
Updated contact info 6-18
Stock Varta batteries
Dealer for Highfield Inflatables
STH has a large assortment of fishing supplies and lures.
Sin Tung Hing Marine is the official Lowrance, Simrad & Raymarine distributor.
STH Marine carries Lowrance radios (Lowrance, Simrad and B&G radios are mostly the same models sold under different brands)
STH has some chain in stock and is able to order chain for you that will take a few months to arrive.
Sin Tung Hing has a limited stock of resins but a good supply of the west system powders.
Christian is very helpful and speaks English. If you are in the islands and need something he is the guy!
Christian KOAN
STH Marine are the authorized dealers for Raymarine (as well as other brands). Our two chart plotters failed and Raymarine agreed to replace them under warranty. When ordering the replacement parts from France, STH forgot several items which delayed the installation by about a month.
STH Marine installed a new remote handset for my VHF but forgot to install the software update that is needed for it to function. I didn’t realize this until we were about to leave and didn’t want to risk a problem with a software update at that point. I reinstalled the old handset and will deal with the issue in NZ.