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Bracewell Marine Group: Embracing customer orders
Bracewell Marine Group: Embracing custom orders
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 Shelter Island Marina & Boatyard, a full-service marina, on 20 acres of paved land in Richmond, B.C. Bracewell Marine Group has two lifts (75- and 220-ton) 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, as well as any custom work as required.
Three years ago, Bracewell Marine Group anticipated a decrease in the supply of affordable quality winches, so they designed a line of their own. Located on the West Coast of Canada, towing is an essential service for providing goods/services to the area. Winches are devices that wind cable around a drum that can be spooled in and out for the towing of barges, log booms and other vessels.
Bracewell Marine Group built one, got the word out there and, so far, it has been paying off. The customization requirements of the customers are not an issue as their base models can be modified to suit the customer demands. Currently, Bracewell Marine Group offers models in a 1”, 1.25” and 1.5” cable diameter. 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 minute 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.
According to Greg Williams, shore engineer, Bracewell Marine Group’s most recent product is a 11/4 winch for a local customer. “We’ve done a number of one-inch and 11/2 inch, but this is our first 11/4,” Williams recalls, adding the winch is a single drum. “The customer requested 2,000 feet of the 11/4” wire, and this winch is capable of holding up to 2,250 feet,” Williams says.
Having designed the winches for simplified operation and straightforward maintenance, the goal was to produce a user-friendly product. Bracewell can customize the winches to accommodate the customer’s requirements. For example, the winch can be flush-mounted or in a well, the fairlead can be pipe or hoop style and can be modified to accommodate rollers. Also, the winches are available in a variety of colours that can be customized to customer colour schemes.
Additionally, in the boatyard, Bracewell Marine Group provides surface restoration for all vessel types including commercial boats, tugs, ships, fishing vessels, barges and pleasure vessels. The company constructs new vessels and also assists with boat maintenance and repair welding, government inspections, custom machining, rigging, fiberglassing, gel coat, painting, woodwork, electrical, mechanical, underwater services, restorations, bottom painting, waxing, polishing, shafting and bearing sales and all necessary specialty marine products and supplies. Ü
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