Interestingly, while the French company is delivering its fendering to no less than 11 boats for the Danish authorities, the order for three 17m pilot boats for Liverpool, operated by Briggs Marine, was probably one of their most prestigious.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe supplied our cylindrical strapped fendering with lower belting for the ORC Fast Pilot vessels,\u201d said Christophe Brevi\u00e8re of Ocean 3. \u201cOur system is very light, that helps both speed and fuel efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, they added these pilot boats also wanted to be able to make contact with the bow of the vessel, adding flexibility to operations.<\/p>\n
This required shaping the bow fender: the 400mm profile on the sides of the boat had to sweep into a 600mm larger pad fitting snugly over the bow. To get it right, close collaboration with shipyard Goodchild Marine was necessary: \u201cThe yard helped us by providing a physical template,\u201d Brevi\u00e8re explained.<\/p>\n
Briggs Marine in Liverpool will soon have 3 of these ORC 17m pilot boats sporting Ocean 3\u2019s tailored fenders, Kittiwake<\/em>, Razorbill<\/em> and Petrel<\/em>.<\/p>\n However, the company supplies more than just boat fenders and during the beginning of year, one of their largest orders has been for the manufacture and supply of floating foam filled fenders for the Port of Dublin in Ireland.<\/p>\n This new multipurpose quay facility is seeing a rise in cruise, especially during the summer months, but the port needed fenders to berths to make these big visitors welcome.<\/p>\n After Ocean 3 won the contract at the very start of the year, the race was on to manufacture no less than 24 fenders, each 2.5m in diameter by 6m long.<\/p>\n Most needed to be on site for the arrival of the first cruise ships: \u201cIn fact, at top production pace we managed four per week,\u201d said Brevi\u00e8re. \u201cTwo on each truck \u2013 12 trucks in all… It became a continuous flow of manufacture and delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n The effort paid off: the fenders were in place for the arrival of the first cruise vessels in mid-April.<\/p>\n Visit Ocean 3 at Seawork International 2018 on stand PO45.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Specialist fendering company Ocean 3 has, in the last year, supplied its systems for newly-built pilot and crew boats for destinations as far apart as Australia, Pakistan, Denmark, Finland, Turkey, Uruguay and last but not least, Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seawork-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}