A 17m by 7m superyacht tender, shrink wrapped in a Scottish yard and sealed for the voyage out to join her larger superyacht in Hawaii as deck cargo.
The challenge
A tender this size does not travel in a box. She goes as deck cargo, and a cover that has to last an ocean crossing gets no second chances once she has sailed. Weeks of salt spray and strong sun, lashing and craning at both ends, and nothing to flog in the wind anywhere on her. Add to that a hull you cannot mark: she is the tender to a superyacht, and she has to arrive looking like it.
How we approached it
The cover was built over a frame so water and spray shed clear of the topsides rather than sitting on them, with every contact point padded so nothing bore on the hull. Panels were heat-welded into one continuous skin and shrunk tight, then every edge, corner and termination was detailed individually — on a sea passage it is the edges that fail first. Lifting and lashing points were left clear so she could be craned and secured without anyone cutting into the cover.
The outcome
She left Scotland sealed, tight and ready for the voyage, photographed on her stands the night the crew finished. The same film carries our own address across the hull, which on a boat heading halfway round the world is no bad thing.
Working alongside contractors
Most of what we do arrives through scaffolding contractors and main contractors rather than direct. We work to your programme, your permits and your access windows, we supply RAMS as standard, and we are happy to be named on the job — as we have been here.