Clements Engineering

Whilst out working one day their shaft snapped and they lost their propeller. Fortunately the propeller had been lost over an area they knew was popular for scallops and sent a diver down. After a short while the diver was able to retrieve the propeller much to the relief of the boat captain.

With the propeller found, they contacted Clements Engineering and it was decided that the propeller shaft would be upgraded to a 2? and so this was swiftly manufactured and supplied to QA Shellfish along with new couplings to suit.

Clements Engineering have continued to manufacture products at their Bedfordshire plant throughout the recent crisis ensuring that working vessels can get back on the water as quickly as possible.

We wish the boat and crew many good fishing days.

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With new stern gear and propeller designed and manufactured by Clements Engineering this vital part of her restoration has been completed.

Rescued from the scrap yard in the 1970’s her current owner, a shipwright, currently working on the rebuild of the Golden Hinde, has been slowly restoring her and returning her to sail as she was laid up for about 20 years with little working having been done to her.

‘Gebroeders’ previous owners had had the old bottom cut out and new floor frames and bottom plate put in her in the late 90s and for a time she was in France before being bought to the UK, where she now has a mooring on the River Lea, cruising the Thames and Medway.

The Owner is hoping to attend the next ‘sail Amsterdam’ and compete in the Swale and Whitstable Harbour Match next year.
The barge was built in 1879 by J.F. Meursing in Amsterdam (registration number; Amsterdam-1052) for Widow Cleijndert, a Grain merchant in Nieuwendam in South Friesland. In The Meursing Yard archives, held in the museum, is a wooden half model of the boat.

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