2017/18 Suppliers & Services

product review 2016
Global sales for
mooring solution
Following its launch
in late 2015 and
introduction to the
international market
via Marina World, Pile
Ring received a great
many enquiries from
marina operators all over
the globe in 2016 and
appointed agents in the
UK and USA.
Developed in New
Zealand as an industry
first, Pile Ring is a onepiece
flotation device that
provides monitor-free
mooring with permanently
tight lines. It thus protects
boats and dock systems
in all conditions and also
reduces maintenance by
alleviating the chafing of
mooring lines on pilings
and reducing the build up
of marine growth.
Superior delivered
boutique marina
Superior Jetties started
work to engineer and
build a 50-berth boutique
marina at Koolewong on
the central coast of NSW,
Australia. Ten catamaran
berths and ten visitor
berths are in the mix and
there is space to double
the size of the marina
in five years subject to
permissions.
South American
expansion
Portuguese company
Grupo Lindley opened
Lindley BR, a subsidiary
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The new company
focuses on the design,
manufacture, installation
and maintenance of
floating equipment, aids
to navigation and port
equipment.
Global insurance
London-based Lloyd’s
insurance syndicate
and international insurer
Markel International
launched a new range
of bespoke marina and
marine trades insurance
products. Developed by
underwriters Stephen
Loader and Holley
Pizzey, the policies are
available worldwide via
local insurance brokers.
The Golden Deck
Lift gives secure
360° access to
a floating vessel
and above-water
boat storage.
Designed to blend
seamlessly with
the main docks,
units are tailormade
to meet a
wide range of lift
capacities.
• A special floating dock system was introduced
by Italia Marine to complement its proven Marine
Service Lift. The new generation Boat Service Lift
(BSL) gives the yard operator the opportunity to
work on a vessel hull or its propulsion system
without using up valuable land space, paying
expensive diving contractors, risking water
pollution or relying on cranes, hoists or trolley
supports.
Dredging innovations
•
Recognising that dewatering is a major
obstacle encountered by dredging contractors
all around the world, Wisconsin-based company
IMS purchased patent pending GeoPool dredge
dewatering technology.
Claimed to be inexpensive, reusable and
scalable, the technology, in most cases, does not
require polymers. It was invented by an IMS Versi-
Dredge customer and underwent successful trials
in the USA and Europe. Several GeoPools have
since been sold.
• Rose City Yacht Club, an established private
marina and social club on the Columbia River
in Portland, Oregon put a new Badger class
dredger from Louisiana-based DSC Dredge
Marine Travelift
designed the
new 85 BFMII
boat hoist to lift
heavier vessels. It
features a new slew
bearing system
with easy access
grease points and
sealed housing
and the Parker
IQAN intelligent
diagnostics system.
into service. The machine was purchased by
the club to replace an older dredger in use for
over 20 years.
The Badger is an 8in (20cm) cutter suction
conventional style machine whose compact
size and manoeuvrability are ideally suited to
marina operations. Its Metso pump produces
more than enough volume of material and static
head to accommodate the parameters required
by the marina.
• A highly manoeuvrable and easily transportable
sediment removal system was developed by
Kansas-based Geoform International to access
areas impossible to reach with excavators or
hydraulic dredgers.
Named Dino Six, the machine measures 21ft
(6.4m) long x 71 in (180cm) wide x 64in (162cm)
high and weighs just 3,800lbs (1,724kg). It can
be lifted in and out of the water easily and loaded
onto a trailer, does not disturb the shoreline and
leaves no footprint that needs to be repaired.
Full details of all products, news and new
services in this article were published in
Marina World issues 93-99 (Jan/Feb 2016 –
Jan/Feb 2017 inclusive).
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