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Good Morning , Stokey and all .I need to allay your reasonable fears founded soley upon the delayed departure.My sources from the yard and otherwise confirm that the business relationship with the owners remains stronger than ever .
As TTNY says this is and old vessel and extra necessary works have been requested after being discovered post docking and the contract remains on course and profitable.There will be further work as the H&W team have been able to demonstrate how accommodating and flexible they can be .We have a happy customer here so no problem to be concerned over at this time !!
From earlier communications from the company Stokey H & W have done substantially more work on the Connaigra than what it origonally came into the Yard for. It appears that these additional works have been quite substantial too.
Maybe the new departure time is to even more work that needs to be completed. Or maybe it's always just me wanting to see the potential positives, lol.
Either way, there's no doubt about it, the OC will have been a good little earner for us with the length of time it's been in dock and the amount of work completed.
I have just noticed that the departure date for the Oceanex Connaigra has been put back again to 28 October. My concern is that INFA does not want to get a reputation of not finishing work on time. I therefore wonder what was the cause of the delayed departure which will impact on the Oceanex shipping schedules and possibly chances of repeat business.
Make me proud to be associated with this yard, it's historic past and brilliant future.
Seen it before hope the next one is where they are now & where they expect to be in the next year.I am still showing 'Hold' & as I suspected no news yet on the ML . Likely now with the lawyers !!!!
I have just seen this tweet https://twitter.com/Harland_Wolff1/status/1315965176714321922. Have not watched the video yet.
Si lol ok then ...
If you all chip in I'll get a drone and buzz the site once a week. lol
Okay, only positive posts, unless the merde hits the big wurley thing. :)
TTNY,interesting though about the dry dock and its past links to appledore ,thanks.
Nice find TTNY. Might sign up as a volunteer.
TTNY,interesting though about the dry dock and its past links to appledore ,thanks.
Thanks for those pics Si of the Appledore site. It's good to see in more detail as to what exactly the site is.
I think we need to make you our Appledore correspondent on the page here with you being so local. No pressure, but we're hoping to get at least weekly updates from you (and positive ones too, lol).
As for my big wurley windmills, i refuse to use the term turbines ! Im 50 now, and have been using the term big wurley windmill for 47 years now (for those round and round things), and I'm too old to change. Hope you understand.
You can see the big tidal doors at the end where that ladder is.
TTNY,lol
I'm just being mischievous, it's not our Appledore dock that's been sold, although i did wonder when i initially seen the headline, lol.
It's not INFA related but i thought it might be of interest to some folk here who have shipping or maritime related interests, or anyone living in or near Appledore (Si).
It's the Richmond Dry Dock that's been sold having been purchased by the Wheatcroft Collection. It's more good news for the Appledore area and helps going towards rebuilding the area as a significant maritime region.
https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/historic-appledore-docks-sold-to-second-world-war-collector/
TTNY,lol
Not wishing to be a pedant, but I will. :) Technically they are wind turbines and not windmills.
Windmills mill things like corn and such, whereas turbines turbo stuff, like generators. ;)
Only messin' TTNY.
Looking the Appledore site I'm not there would be much free acreage for a huge amount of turbines.
Some, but not a lot. The back lot is mostly car parking which I hope they fill up and I guess they would have to be close to the water and with sufficient crainage to get them on to barges for transportation. The yards are also split by other businesses. I know what you mean though, something will suddenly happen. My overiding concern is that they have been given the nod that the ML is a no goer and are going all out in other areas to soften the blow.
Here's a link to some pics of the site from the agents that were in charge of selling it. Just so you get a feel for the site, if you haven't already seen it.
https://property.jll.co.uk/sale-industrial-and-logistics/industrial-and-logistics-sale-bideford-ex39-1uz-15418
Cheers, Si.
One of the union reps at Appledore has responded on twitter to a tweet I sent. The photos are of the dry dock. apparently Appledore is rare in having a covered dry dock helps when it rains.
With all the chat and excitement about these floaty things and possible government contracts, as well as this so far mystical thing called an 'ML' (whatever that is), there seems to be relative silence from the company on big wurley windmill related stuff.
Now the last time the company went quiet with boaty and ML communications, and us folk were getting frustrated about this silence, i put a post on that i was excited by their silence. I felt those pesky suit people were up to something and it wasn't making decisions on the choice of biccies for tea break. Within 24 hrs all news broke loose about a purchase of Appledore, this being something there was no public discussion of anywhere and that none of us seen coming . Now ! My 'Excited' post was simply a coincidence with this news coming so soon after this excited post, as i know notheeen, being an average punter like most of us here.
Getting to the point (eventually) now. I have another hunch.
The board have said next to nothing recently about renewable energy, windfarms, etc and again the silence on this subject has me a little excited. I think those suit guys might be up to something again ! The FSS contracts (assuming we might get work from this in some shape or form) could be into 2022/2023 before a spanner is lifted on them. The Marine License decision is still to happen, who knows when ! ? All this and INFA have just bought this Appledore place (with the big acreage that comes with it) and they're also recruiting hundreds of folk !
Here's a thought. Could we be seeing those big wurley windmills at Appledore soon, and lots of them ? ? ? They don't need any ML and contract discussions with other parties shouldn't be too detailed or lengthy (as how many and how much are the main discussion points i would imagine)
Now please no-one for a second think my waffle here is from any position of knowledge, as it certainly isn't. It's simply a hunch i have, and again it's simply me sharing my thoughts out loud here.
The assembled board here at INFA are as good as it gets in my opinion and I'm hoping they have something they're not telling us again, but might announce soon.
Could it be big wurley windmills ? ?
Thanks Stokey. See what you mean Major T, is it a very small crane close up or a big one at a distance. :)
Nice to see money already percolating into the local ecomomy by the use of local firms.
40k+ buy just popped up ..
Exciting photos guys ,looks like they getting everything into place imho
Si_Derman the photo from the linkedin article can be found in this tweet https://twitter.com/Harland_Wolff1/status/1315665888226443265
Cranes and lifting equipment have to be certified on a annual basis, don't forget the yards been shut down for over a year .
Cracking pictures. I thought it was photoshopped at first with the tiny looking crane over the dry Dock.
Good to see things are progressing. Gantry crane is working and although you cant tell what's going on, clearly something is.