INDUSTRY NEWS 5
Digital ceremony for ‘Marina of the Year’ winners
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n 30 September, winners of The Yacht Harbour Association (TYHA) Towergate Marina of the Year Awards for 2020 were announced at a digital ceremony created
and hosted by sponsors Towergate Insurance and watched by more than 490 viewers. Now in its eighth year, the Awards recognise
the very best of over 160 Gold Anchor-accredited marinas from around the world. The winning marinas are voted for by their berth-holders in the UK Coastal, UK Inland, International and Superyacht categories. The Awards also celebrate those marina employees, who have gone above and beyond this year with the Marina Employee of the Year award. Jon White, General Manager of The Yacht Harbour Association, commented: “My sincere congratulations to every marina nominated for a 2020 Towergate Marina of the Year Award in this exceptional year. The number of votes and complimentary comments made about our network of TYHA Gold Anchor-accredited marinas is great testament to the hard work and dedication of
100’s of marina professionals providing exceptional service to their customers. I would like to thank our sponsors Towergate Insurance for their ongoing commitment to ‘Marina of the Year’ and their creativity in delivering a professional virtual awards ceremony showcasing the fantastic achievements of our members”. Karl Scott, Business Unit Director, Marine, from
Towergate Insurance, added: “The initial feedback from the digital awards ceremony has been incredibly positive. We were keen to find a way to recognise marinas, which have been running their services through Covid-19 and a particularly challenging year. It was a different format from our usual awards evening and this innovative approach has enabled us to share the celebrations with a much wider audience, including berth-holders in the UK and overseas”.
The Towergate Marina of the Year winners and runner-ups include:
UK Coastal Marina of the Year (over 250 berths) ● Winner: Royal Quays Marina (Boatfolk) ● Runner-up: Plymouth Yacht Haven (Yacht Havens Ltd)
UK Coastal Marina of the Year (under 250 berths)
● Winner: Poole Quay Boat Haven ● Runner-up: Whitehills Harbour Office
UK Inland Marina of the Year
● Winner: White Mills ● Runner-up: Overwater Marina Ltd
International Marina of the Year
● Winner: Yalikavak Marina Bodrum (Turkey) ● Runner-up: Marina De Vilamoura SA (Portugal)
Superyacht Marina of the Year
● Winner: IGY Yacht Haven Grande (US Virgin Islands)
Marina Employee of the Year ● James Stenning: Emsworth Yacht Harbour Self-propelled transporter is game-changer
Florida-based Norseman Shipbuilding recently welcomed a new Marine Travelift TM60 self- propelled transporter to its yard. This TM60 model has a capacity of 132,000 lb and is customised with hydraulic lifting pads and lightweight aluminum keel beams for handling a wide variety of boats. It joins a 100 BFMII Marine Travelift mobile boat hoist already at the facility and both machines are designed to work in tandem, significantly increasing boat storage efficiency in the yard. Every year, Norseman hauls over 700 vessels on the Miami River and three years ago, Norseman
President Marty Martell began to search for the best way to move and store a greater number of
Rebuild for mixed use harbour
In 2019, Lars Vinjerud II purchased Captain Leroy’s Marina, a mixed commercial and recreational marina on Popes Island, Massachusetts, and renamed it Fleet Marina. Vinjerud is owner and President of Fleet Fisheries, an 18-vessel scallop and lobster fishing and distribution operation. He chose to renovate and modernise the site utilising a state-of- the-art floating concrete dock and breakwater complex from SF Marina. The first phase of the Fleet Marina project
was to replace the existing pile-supported pier with an extra-wide breakwater to double
as a dock. This would provide space for Fleet Fisheries and other commercial vessels. AGM Marine Contractors designed the marina layout and SF Marina manufactured the components at its site in Norfolk, Virginia. The modules were then moved by barge to Popes Island where AGM installed the 80 m x 5 m SF500 Series Breakwater. Engineered to withstand hurricane-level
storms, the individual floating concrete SF500 pontoons are connected with an advanced energy-absorbing coupling system and moored with eight 24 m x 90 cm steel piles. Virtually
unsinkable and able to bear regular vehicular traffic, the individual sections each have a buoyancy rating of 500 kg/sq m. In phase two, AGM reconfigured the
recreational side of Fleet Marina with 36 metres of SF Marina SF1024 floating dock. The structure includes berths for two to four boats up to 36 metres in length and includes piped water. Having a low centre of gravity, they are extremely stable and have been designed to withstand the freezing storms common in Sweden, so also perform well in New England’s Winter weather.
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boats within the existing facility. He stated, “With the addition of the Marine Travelift TM60 self- propelled transporter, we are now able to get 60 ft vessels in the warehouse, which is important to us because previously the largest vessel we could get in was 40 ft. It has changed how we are able to do business and we love many aspects of the TM60, including the four-wheel steering”. For Norseman, the wireless remote control has been a game-changer. When combined with the four-wheel steering option, it is easy to transport, manoeuvre and block larger vessels throughout the facility.
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