About Us
in love with watersports
about us
Brugge Marine Center (BMC) has been your specialist partner for luxury and professional high performance powerboats since 1987. RIBs (Rigid Inflatable Boats) are our core business. BMC is exclusive dealer of Capelli, Technohull, Osprey, Agapi, Solemar, Highfield, Magazzu, Zodiac, Sealegs, Ribeye, Avon and Bombard.
Our highly qualified staff is daily ready to find your dream boat. BMC is your specialized partner for outboard engines from Yamaha, Mercury, Suzuki and Honda. We also offer you quality boat trailers of Riba and Pega. In addition, you also have a wide range of specialized marine electronics from Garmin and Fusion.
Also in terms of service you can count on us. for all kind of repairs for your boat, engine, trailer and/or nautical equipment. We have an extremely wide range of modern tools in order to complete all routine tasks easily. These range goes from a simple maintenance service to larger repairs for your boat.
Allround boating experience
Everything for boating
At BMC we have several showrooms for both boats and RIBs aswell as accessories. In our shop you can find all sorts of accessories, maintenance products, cleaning products and oils for your boat and engine. Of course we also have adequate nautical clothing in our range and the legal materials. Visit our showrooms now!
For all kinds of nautical accessories we offer Osculati, Allpa, Navimo, Lankhorst Taselaar and more. In addition, BMC is always entitled to maintenance, repairs, installations and construction work. We also offer winter storage in our warehouse of more tha 5.000m², as well as enclosed outdoor storage with a surface or more than 15.000m².
FACILITIES
- A spacious workshop for maintenance, repair and assembly of your boat, engine and / or trailer
- A showroom with all kinds of useful accessories
- A showroom for both new and second hand boats
- A spacious storage place for both winter and summer storage of your boat
- A large closed boat parking
- The canal for test trips
- A crane
- Boat ramp / slipway
- Electronic Diagnostic Systems
- Heavy forklift trucks
- Tractors to transport boats
- Boat trailers for storage
history
More than 35 years of experience.
That can count.
On May 1st 1987 the Deraedt family, were able to take over the Brugge Marine Centre. The years that followed were not only dedicated to reorganisation but also to the development of a robust marketing plan and the search for new market segments. For several years now, Brugge Marine Centre is also one of the most flexible, fastest growing companies of its kind.
Over the years Brugge Marine Centre was able to build an indisputable reputation for delivering reliable service and repairs. The current market offering of the company is undoubtedly a perfect base for further business expansion, it being: delivering the “tailor-made” exclusive products, higher quality standard products for recreational boating as well as for low-intensive professional use. Which for years their reliability and performance were able to prove.
Since November 1996 the company has been housed in the old Racing Department & Boathouse of OMC-Europe located next to the sea canal in Bruges. A total surface area of approximately 15.00m² is available to you. The boat house has two floors and is fitted with a special crane in order to hoist boats directly out of the canal and to transport them in the workshop for further repairs, maintenance, servicing and/or winter storage.
For those who enter our company on the water, there are a number of covered pontoons available. This easily allows for minor repairs even in the pouring rain. Next to the pontoons and the main building there is also a boat ramp / slipway. This offers the customer the flexibility to participate in test sailings at the same time. Our buildings are located on a 6 mile canal waterway (and a sea lock) from the North Sea. For those who wish to sail further inland this is possible after sailing passage a of just one lock.
Old but gold
OMC
BMC is located in the former factory of the American company Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC).
RACING
In the so-called Boat House, all engines and boats were put to the test on the Boudewijn Canal.
1992
The American constructor of pleasure craft and outboard engines OMC, closes it’s establishment in Bruges.
