Bay Ship & Yacht shipyard, located on San Francisco Bay in the island City of Alameda, recently rolled the cradled Research Vessel or "R/V" (as designated by the U.S. Coast Guard) New Horizon from her work station and along the rails to the yard’s new 1200-ton Syncrolift, which gently lowers the vessel into the estuary that separates Alameda from Oakland. The 170-by-36 ft.
Completing underwater hull and machinery repairs on Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s “R/V New Horizon” at Bay Ship & Yacht’s shipyard in Alameda, CA.
Published: June, 2011
Bay Ship & Yacht shipyard, located on San Francisco Bay in the island City of Alameda, recently rolled the cradled Research Vessel or R/V (as designated by the U.S. Coast Guard) New Horizon from her work station and along the rails to the yard’s new 1200-ton Syncrolift, which gently lowers the vessel into the estuary that separates Alameda from Oakland. The 170-by-36 ft. vessel, weighing almost 800 tons, had undergone several weeks of underwater hull and machinery repairs at the yard. Once back in the water, she headed to her home port at the University of California’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego to join the three other vessels of the research fleet.
Other R/Vs that have been dry-docked recently at Bay Ship & Yacht include:
• Two vessels from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, the 117-ft, twin-hull R/V Western Flyer and the 110-ft converted oil-field supply vessel R/V Point Lobos.
• The 90-ft R/V Robert G. Brown Lee, designed specifically for high-school students of the San Francisco Bay
and Delta areas and serving the educational needs of as many as 42,000 students each year;
• The 135-ft R/V Point Sur, operated
by the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and owned by the
National Science Foundation for conducting regional research;
• The 184-ft R/V Wecoma, owned by the National Science Foundation
and operated by Oregon State
University’s College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences from
Newport on the coast of Oregon.
For maintenance and repair work on larger research ships, such as those operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, Bay Ship & Yacht uses its 2800-ton floating dry-dock. Recent dry-dockings have included:
• The 209-ft Oscar Dyson, built for NOAA in 2003 and home-ported at
Kodiak, Alaska as the first of a fleet
of fisheries-survey ships;
• The former 224-ft
U.S. Navy ship
Capable, now
transformed into
NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer and dedicated to deep-ocean
exploration, initially in the Pacific.
The ship has a 6,000-meter,
tethered ROV (Remotely Operated
Vehicle) and a satellite dome
for transmitting data.
Business Development Manager Ira Maybaum said, Bay Ship & Yacht, the only full-service shipyard between southern California and the Columbia River, welcomes R/Vs and other vessels of all types for a complete range of repair and maintenance services.
