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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

About Match Racing

A match race is a race between two competitors, going head-to-head.

In yacht racing, it is differentiated from a fleet race, which almost always involves three or more competitors competing against each other, and team racing where teams consisting of 2, 3 or 4 boats compete together in a team race, with their results being combined.

A match race consists of two identical boats racing against each other. With effective boat handling and clever use of wind and currents, a trailing boat can escape the grasp of the leader and pass. The leader uses blocking techniques to hold the other boat back. This one-on-one duel is a game of strategy and tactics.

About the World Match Racing Tour

Founded in 2000, the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) promotes the sport of match racing around the world and is the longest running global professional series in the sport of sailing. The WMRT is awarded ‘Special Event’ status by the sport’s world governing body – World Sailing – and the winner of the WMRT each year is crowned World Sailing Match Racing World Champion. Previous champions include Sir Ben Ainslie (GBR), Taylor Canfield (USA), Peter Gilmour (AUS), Magnus Holmberg (SWE), Peter Holmberg (ISV), Adam Minoprio (NZL), Torvar Mirsky (AUS), Bertrand Pace (FRA), Jesper Radich (DEN), Phil Robertson (NZL) and Ian Williams (GBR). Since 2000, the World Match Racing Tour and its events have awarded over USD23million in prize money to sailors which has helped to contribute to the career pathway of many of today’s professional sailors