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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

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