This spring, three U.S. Coast Guard vessels—the 175-ft. buoy-tender George Cobb; the 225-ft.
Published: May, 2011
This spring, three U.S. Coast Guard vessels—the 175-ft. buoy-tender George Cobb; the 225-ft. cutter Hickory and the 110-ft. cutter Edisto—joined the long list of U.S. Coast Guard vessels that have undergone periodic maintenance and repair at Bay Ship & Yacht in Alameda on San Francisco Bay.
“Work on the Cobb is a 70-day job; work on the Hickory is a 65-day job; and work on the Edisto is a 50-day job,” said Ira Maybaum, director of business development for the yard. “The combined work on the three vessels will require the skills of 120 craftsmen per day.”
Bay Ship & Yacht has the capability of handling the work on all three of these vessels at the same time. The yard’s facilities include not only a 390-ft. floating dock, but also the West Coast’s most modern Syncrolift, which can lift vessels weighing up to1,200 tons and 200 feet in length from the water to a rail-transfer system with 12 fully-equipped dry-berth work stations.
“In the past eight years, we have completed more than 120 work orders for the Coast Guard including 95 dry-dockings,” Maybaum said. “These jobs have ranged from work on the new 418-ft National Security Cutters to the smaller, 87-ft patrol boats, and all sizes in between. In addition, our sister yard, Bay Marine Boat Works, located on the Bay in Richmond, has completed countless maintenance and repair projects on smaller Coast Guard vessels.
“The bottom line is that over the past 10 years, it is estimated that the work performed by Bay Ship & Yacht on U.S. Coast Guard ships has amounted to at least 5,000 work days, which is undoubtedly more than any other shipyard on the West Coast,” said Maybaum.
