THE ART OF TENDER GARAGE DESIGN


With limited space in some tender garages, we ask Josh Richardson to highlight some of the important aspects to consider when utilising the space for the storage of your tenders and toys


through rubber pads on the deck. This lifts the tender a few mm from the deck, enabling you to push the tender around the tender bay by hand. The chocks are controlled by a remote and are built to have some friction so that the boat cannot slide unless being pushed.


Amazingly a 30 foot boat can be moved by one or two crew. When the boat is where it needs to be stored, then you reduce the air pressure, and it falls on its pads. This is hugely advantageous for yachts as tenders can be moved without the cranes (apart from over the side into the water operation) and they can be pushed into the smallest spaces close to bulkheads and other tenders. For those thinking of installing these, be aware you need a smooth flat floor and grainy non-slip will not work.


Dual purpose chocks


t goes without saying that the space of a tender garage or lazarette is premium real estate. With costs on occasion being upward of €1m per metre of length of superyachts, there is a clear compromise on living space for an owner when deciding what size garage to have on their yacht. Typically, this space is packed to the rafters trying to fit the largest tenders and number of toys possible.


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There are a number of new innovations which have come into the industry to address this storage need and offer hugely practical advantages to consider having on board.


PACK THEM HIGH The hydraulic jetski lift is one such example and enables you to have two jetskis, one


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above the other. This can mount on a bulkhead or have two units back-to-back if you have 4 jetskis. Simply put, you slide one jetski onto the lift on its trolley, connect and then press a button and it lifts to the ceiling. You then have space below it to slide in a second on its trolley. These lifts are available for sit down waverunners and stand-up skis.


Moving tenders around with cranes has inherent risks and can be very limiting in terms of where you situate the tenders on board. The latest types of chocks being fitted on new builds are Hover Chocks. These are available for tenders and jetskis. You connect the ship’s pressurised air to the chocks and this is pumped through the inside frame of the chocks and expelled


Large items like surfboards, sailboats and slides are often designed into the chocks themselves to take up minimal space.


STORAGE OPTIONS For those small garages one area of constant struggle is where to store toys and often the area overlooked is in the tenders themselves. Increasingly we are involved in specifying storage for Seabobs inside lockers, dive bottle racks and SUPs etc.,


Hover chocks


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