Double order for DuroWipers

It’s not the first time that Arklow Marine Services has gone to DuroWipers to equip its vessels. The company’s director, Billy Tyrrell, says it has been using the wiper systems for six years.

“We have found DuroWipers to be exceptional, both in terms of price and quality, which is why we have come back to them again and again,” he said.

The first set of Class 50 pantographs went to equip the 19m newbuild crabber AmberLisa for the McNeil family in Glasgow. Measuring 19 x 7 x 4.2 m depth with a steel hull and part aluminium shelter deck and wheelhouse, this vessel was built to be robust. It is destined for North Sea fishing with 4,000 pots in trams of 200.

The second vessel, equipped with Class 50 DuroWipers, is an 18m fish farm vessel for Marine Harvest. It is a similar build in all respects to its sister vessel the Croi na Farraige, which was delivered by Arklow two years previously.

Made from AISI 316 stainless steel, DuroWiper pantographs and pendulums have a patented twin drive rotary transfer box which gives smooth, powerful and reliable performance.

By Rebecca Jeffrey