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#Boatyard - Multicat workboat, Sgt Pepper which carries out marine coastal project work was among the recent clients of Mooney Boats, Killybegs, Co. Donegal, writes Jehan Ashmore.

The workboat earlier this year was involved in an RNLI related project in Dun Laoghaire Harbour and from where also work began to remove the former Stena HSS berth.

The facility (see: tug overhaul) has a synchrolift / building hall, where the self-propelled barge-craft was hoisted to enable a comprehensive work programme begin. This saw rudders removed from the workboat operated by McMullan Marine Services, at the boatbuilder, repair and maintenance yard that mostly caters for fishing trawlers.

Also involving Sgt Pepper, were the removal of propeller shafts and cutlass bearings. New cutlass bearing were supplied and fitted as where tappers and keys machined on the propeller shafts.

The opportunity also included installation of couplings manufactured, supplied and fitted and all machinery was given a refit before the craft was lowered back into the harbour. 

 

Published in Ports & Shipping

William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago