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Get Your Stern in Gear at Seawork
01 Jun 2006
The vessel on this month's front cover, which can also be viewed on the floating pontoon at Seawork 2006 International, is Skomer, the new 19m steel hull pilot boat built by Mustang Marine for Milford Haven Port Authority. The vessel features stern gear designed and built by Seawork exhibitor BT Marine Propellers Ltd.
The Newton Abbot UK based firm provided a design and build service in which it took the second CAD drawing of the vessel from the customer, overlaid its own stern gear and propeller package, and sent the electronic file back to the client for approval. Although BT Marine Propellers only ever saw Skomer in drawing form, all the stern gear fitted precisely.
Components supplied by BT Marine Propellers to Mustang Marine included a pair of 33in diameter, five blade skewed high performance propellers, 70mm tailshaft assemblies, steel water injected sterntubes, stainless steel rudders and rudder tubes.
At Seawork 2006, BT Marine Propellers will be showing their new propeller, nozzle and triple integrated rudder system package along with a selection from their extensive range of standard and custom propellers.
The company's speciality is providing fully engineered packages that are designed on-spec to suit each individual vessel. It is a successful formula, as investigation along the Seawork floating pontoon will reveal a number of other vessels sporting BT Marine Propellers' stern gear.
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