Drydock Facility
Drydock
Dry Docking your boat is a gentle process, the water is removed and your boats weight is evenly distributed across the bostocks. Craning or removing on a trailer will put far more stress on welds and flex the vessel - often pulled up bumpy slipways or lifted out on strops or chains!
When we dock boats for blacking they stay on dock for the week in order to allow adequate curing time between and after coats.
Beware of dry-docks that will try to fit you into just 3 days or half a week.
We have a purpose built, covered, double dry dock, able to accommodate 2 x 72ft Narrowboats at a time. The depth across the cill is sufficient to allow docking of deep draughted craft and there is enough height on the bostocks to provide room for proper inspection to base plates and base plate blacking
Surveyors have commented on how they enjoy working in our dock over others.
The dock works on a Tue - Sat turn-around and available all year round. Here are some of the jobs carried out at our Dry Dock on a regular basis by our skilled engineers:
- Hull Blacking with Bitumen/2 pack
- Base Plate Blacking Bitumen/2 Pack
- Treatment of Microbiologically influenced corrosion
- Counter band Paintwork
- Gunwale Paintwork
- Hull Surveys for insurance or pre-purchase
- Propeller change
- Stern tube and shaft renewal
- Anode Replacement
- Rudder and skeg straightening
- Hull Patching and plating
- Skeg and rudder cup Replacement
"Thank you for fitting our hull blacking in at such short notice. What a fabulous dry dock you have.” Miss Lovelock – N/B Henrys Cat - Hull Blacking
Base Plate Blacking
But Base Plates don't need blacking...?
The myth about not blacking your base plate because it doesn't need it, or it will get scraped off is just foolish banter.
Anyone who has ever read through a narrowboat survey will know only too well that base plates have deep pitting and corrosion. This can be prevented and contained by blacking or 2 packing underneath.
After all - it is steel in water.
Historically boats had wooden bottoms so no, only the iron sides were painted. Most dry docks don't have the facility to black base plates and they will tell you that it doesn't need doing.
Having encountered craft that have always been blacked underneath compared to those that have not.. well the results speak for themselves. It certainly makes a difference.
We can offer this service and it is never to late to start. A bit like a pension, the sooner you start - the more you will benefit.
Drydock Rates
|
Dock Boat for Hull Survey 1 day only (£100 per day after) |
£450 |
| Dock Vessel for Works (up to one week) | £500 |
| Scrape Hull sides, High Pressure Blast of Hull sides, 10 point Hull inspection, Apply 2 coats of Bitumastic paint to sides. (per foot)* | £8 |
| Apply Third coat of Bitumastic paint to hull sides: Additional | £125 |
| Scrape Hull sides, High Pressure Blast of Hull sides, 10 point Hull inspection , Apply 2 coats of 2 pack epoxy paint. (per ft) | £20 |
| Apply additional Coat of 2 pack to sides | £210 |
| Painting of Counter /tunnel Bands | £250 |
| Historic craft of riveted construction additional fee of | £150 |
| High power pressure wash to base plate, apply 2 x coats of bitumastic coating to base plate (per ft) | £16 |
10 point hull check with every blacking, we visually inspect the following:
Rudder
Rudder cup
Weedhatch
Skeg
Propeller
Propeller shaft (for pitting)
Stern Gear (for wear)
Sacrificial Chine
Rubbing guards
Anode condition
ALL OUR DOCK PRICES ARE FULLY INCLUSIVE OF VAT.
Our Dock is not available for DIY hire and we regret you are not permitted to liveaboard while on Dry Dock.
*Min chargeable length for blacking 40ft
Our Dry dock
