The first Seawork 2005 order was for a winch and full engine room hydraulics package for anchor handling and line retrieval duties on a charter boat out of Littlehampton. This was a new contact which should result in further work with the boat builder involved.

This was followed by an order for a 1.5 ton electric slipway winch for slipping small vessels on the River Thames.

North Sea Winches has made many such winches with electric or hydraulic drive from smaller yachting applications up to commercial slips for larger vessels in locations as far afield as Tonga, Puerto Deseada in Argentina and Columbo in Sri Lanka.

North Sea Winches' sales manager T R Milner said, ' Seawork has proved an invaluable location for making contacts within the marine industry in terms of both promoting and selling our company and its products and sourcing new suppliers for existing components and new design concepts. We have provisionally reserved our stand for next year and look forward to continuing our good relationship with Seawork and to further successes at the show.'

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