Bracewell: Built well
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race yourselves – Bracewell Marine Group provides expert marine craft and repair services to all types of vessels, from landing barges to fishing boats and tugboats to yachts.
Established in 2000, Bracewell Marine Group is located at a Shelter Island Marina & Boatyard, a fullservice marina, on 20 acres of paved land in Richmond, B.C. Bracewell Marine Group has two lifts (75- and 220ton) on site, and can accommodate vessels up to 120 feet in length with a beam up to 29 feet. Bracewell Marine Group also has a machine shop on site, and can make and repair marine bearings, shafts and winches. Matt Lyth, machine shop foreman, says winches are the latest product at Bracewell Marine Group, having started offering them about three years ago. Lyth says industry was showing that there was going to be a demand for the product. “Winches are basically a device that winds cable. They hold steel cable that you can spool out and in for towing barges or other boats,” Lyth says. “We’ve repaired and manufactured winches in the past, but these ones are specific to us.”
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B.C. Tugboat 2020
Bracewell Marine Group built one, got the word out there and, so far, it has been paying off. Its tow winch BMG 1.5” X 2247 drum holds 2,247 feet of 1.5-inch cable; has a 2,500-PSI operating pressure; and has a line speed of 186 feet per minutes at 80 gallons full drum speed. Its outer layer line pull is 17,258 pounds. It is 103.5 inches long and 107 and 7/8 inches wide (with hand wheel and bollard), and is 71 inches high. For more information, visit bracewellmarinegroup.com. “We have a full-service machine shop, and we offer shafting and shaft repairs, which is a big thing in our area,” Kristina Bracewell, office manager for Bracewell Marine Group, says. In the boatyard, Bracewell Marine Group provides surface restoration for ocean-going fiberglass, wood, aluminum, steel or concrete surfaces on commercial boats, tugs, ships, fishing vessels, barges and pleasure vessels. The company also assists with boat maintenance and repair from gas and diesel engines, rigging, fiberglass, gel coat, woodwork, electrical, mechanical, underwater services, restorations, bottom painting, waxing, polishing and all necessary specialty marine products and supplies. Ü
