We were recently given another welcome opportunity to work with the team at Pendennis. Pendennis are a leading luxury super-yacht company. They have a number of very high-end yachts that sail all over the world.

In this case they identified a problem with the bearing locations on the drive shaft of one of their super-yachts. The boat in question was an aluminium-hulled yacht called ‘Midnight’.

The problem was that the gearbox stern tube bearing and ‘A’ frame bearing locations were misaligned. Clearly this would result in less than optimal performance when ‘Midnight’ was operating under power and would ultimately result in far more damage being done.

When we arrived at the Pendennis yard they were able to provide us with the exact datum references we needed to carry out the re-alignment using our on-site line boring equipment. For this particular job we used two sets of on-site line boring equipment. This allowed us to bore the ‘A’ frame and the Stern tube bearing locations simultaneously. This meant that job was completed very quickly and resulted in an alignment that was ‘as new’.

It is always a pleasure working with the team at Pendennis and we look forward to working with them again the very near future.

If you work in the marine industry and would like to know more about the machining services we are able to offer, please don’t hesitate to give us a call or send us an email.