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Derecktor Shipyards of Connecticut has announced that this Spring will
see the first commercial operations of its newly expanded dry dock to
work. Designed to allow the yard to work on vessels up to 400ft (122m)
in length, 4000 long tons, 82ft (25m) in beam and 20ft (6m) draft.
According to Derecktor, the expanded dry dock will also provide a
better method of moving these large vessels from the water onto the
repair apron or into the yard’s main building via the dock and a system
of air casters. The company are confident that with this new addition
to the yard their capacity for repair and refit of multiple vessels
during peak periods will be greatly increased.
Steve
Shaw, Derecktor Service Manager, commented, “The New dry dock not only
lets us grow our work load, but let us easily transfer large vessels
into our 300 foot building for major refits and other big jobs
requiring a covered, climate controlled environment. We can now handle
virtually every large vessel.”
Paul Derecktor, who with his
brother Tom Derecktor runs the Derecktor group of shipyards, said of
the addition “This is an important step for our future. The dock opens
up new markets for us in not only the repair business, but in new
construction as it allows us to launch larger vessels than ever
before.” According to the company the first of these will be Cakewalk, the 86m motor yacht scheduled for delivery this summer.
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