Expert yacht laundry and dry cleaning in Lauderdale Marine Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL — eco-friendly care with complimentary pickup & delivery.
Four miles up the New River, the rhythm is different. Lauderdale Marine Center isn't a destination marina — it's the largest yacht refit yard in the United States, where vessels settle in for 45-day average yard periods while contractors paint, polish, and rebuild around them. Crews are living aboard. Soft goods are stripped from cabins and stored. Workshirts collect varnish dust by the hour. And when a vessel finally splashes back into the water, every linen on board has to be ready for the owner's arrival. That's where Bright & Tidy Laundry fits in. We provide professional yacht laundry and dry cleaning services for boats in refit at Lauderdale Marine Center, scaled to the volume and timeline of life inside a working shipyard.
A yard period at LMC isn't like a turnover at a charter marina. The textiles aboard see different wear, the schedules run longer, and the laundry needs come in distinct phases. Our service is structured to match that reality.
When crew are aboard for weeks while the work goes on, personal laundry piles up fast — and so do the demands on uniforms. We run weekly or twice-weekly pickup schedules during yard periods, taking the load off engineers, mates, and stews who already have full days coordinating contractors. Wash, dry, and fold starts at $2.00/lb, and we handle bulk crew laundry on a recurring basis sized to your headcount.
When cabins are being repainted, refloored, or rewired, curtains, slipcovers, throw covers, mattress protectors, and decorative pillow covers come out. We professionally clean each piece, package it for storage, and hold it until your interior team is ready to dress the cabins back up. This is the kind of bulk soft-goods work our equipment is built for — the same machines we use for oversized comforters and duvets through our bedding and comforter cleaning service.
Working yards generate working stains. Varnish flecks, paint mist, grease from the engine room, primer dust on a deckhand's polo — none of it surrenders to a domestic washer. We pre-treat and process work uniforms, polos, deck shorts, and crew shirts so they can stay in service rather than getting tossed and replaced.
Two or three weeks out from launch, the interior team starts rebuilding the boat for the owner. Bed linens, duvets, comforters, towels, bath sheets, robes, and table linens all need to be cleaned, pressed, and ready to dress. We coordinate a pre-splash production run so everything comes back fresh, organized by stateroom, and packaged for handoff.
Some owners leave designer pieces aboard between visits, and they need attention before the owner returns. Our luxury dry cleaning team handles silks, cashmeres, and embellished pieces from the houses we regularly process.
Refits run on logistics. So does our service. Here's what we bring to vessels in the yard:
Lauderdale Marine Center spans 65 acres along the New River, with five travel lifts (the largest rated to 485 tons), 19 covered sheds, 156 in-water slips, and 7,000 linear feet of dockage. Whether your vessel is hauled out, in a covered shed, on the work dock, or back in a wet slip after splash, we coordinate pickup and delivery directly with your captain, chief stew, or project manager. We work around contractor schedules and yard hours, so laundry handoffs never compete with paint days or sea trials.
For vessels here through hurricane season storage or extended refits, we set up a standing weekly schedule at the start of the yard period and scale up production as the splash date approaches.
Yes. Most LMC vessels we serve run weekly or twice-weekly pickups. We confirm the cadence at the start of the yard period, then ramp up volume in the final two weeks before splash for the interior reset.
Yes. Crew workwear at LMC takes a beating, and we pre-treat heavy stains before processing. Some materials respond better than others — we'll tell you upfront if a garment is unlikely to fully recover, so you're not paying for a lost cause.
We clean curtains, slipcovers, throw covers, mattress protectors, and decorative pieces, package them, and hold them until your interior team is ready to redress the cabins. Coordinate with us in advance so we can plan storage capacity around your timeline.
We confirm with whoever runs the laundry on board — usually the chief stew, captain, or project manager — and arrange dockside or shed-side pickup at a time that doesn't interfere with contractor work. Bilingual coordination is available via WhatsApp at +1 (786) 488-5248.
Yes. The houses we regularly process — Tom Ford, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Givenchy, Saint Laurent, Versace, Hermès, Prada, Chanel, Dior, Fendi, and Valentino — each come with their own care requirements, and our team treats every piece individually rather than running it through a default cycle.
Wash, dry, and fold starts at $2.00/lb. Pressed shirts start at $5.95. Bed sets start at $11.95. Dry-cleaned dresses start at $12.95. Specialty items and bulk soft goods are quoted by volume and turnaround. Full rates are on our pricing page.
"It feels like having a calm, careful friend who handles all the laundry. Pickup is exactly on time and the clothes come back smelling wonderful."
"My family hardly does laundry anymore — Bright & Tidy comes Tuesday and we get everything folded back on Thursday. Easy, friendly, perfect."
"Their dry cleaning brought my husband's vintage jacket back to life. Beautifully pressed and on a real hanger. We're loyal customers now."
"As a salon, our linens have to be spotless. Bright & Tidy handles 90+ towels weekly without a single late delivery. Outstanding."
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