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North Sea Winches Gears Up for Seawork
01 Jun 2006
Specialist winch manufacturer North Sea Winches, exhibiting at Seawork for the fourth consecutive year, has enjoyed continuing success supplying equipment to the marine market. This includes a comprehensive deck machinery package for the 25m tug Afon Caradog, which has been nearing completion at Hepworth Shipyard and is the latest in a long line of tugs built by the yard for Holyhead Towing Company.
The main anchor handling winch, model GMP-1700, is a double drum waterfall type winch with a 45 ton pull capacity per drum for 700m of 44mm diameter wire rope. Each drum has hydraulic ram spooling gear and dual cylinder-operated brakes with a holding load of 90 tons per drum. Other winches on the vessel are a 10 ton tugger winch, double gypsy Lloyds classified anchor windlass and a 2 ton rope storage reel.
Technical director David McLorinan, who will be on the North Sea Winches stand at Seawork, designed the hydraulic and control systems also supplied by the company.
Commissioning and sea trials of the vessel were to take place during the middle of last month before the vessel was handed over to join Holyhead Towing's expanding fleet.
North Sea Winches has continued to expand its customer base in the marine and offshore sectors, helped by in-house design and manufacture which results in a versatile approach and an ability to build to exact customer specification. Pay them a visit on Stand F14 at Seawork 2006.
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