Posted on 3/2/2020
Recently, Markey Machinery sent several winches to Gulf Island Shipyard for various Robert Allan Ltd. (RAL) designed tugboats. That includes two newly designed winches for an RAL Tundra 3600 Ice-class 1A tug, the Seaway Guardian, being built at the Jennings, La., shipyard for the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC).
One of the winches is a 100-hp, single-drum, Ice-class electric towing winch, model TES-34UL, that has to fit inside an enclosed winch room on the stern with the towing wire emerging through a small aperture in the back of the winch room.
That’s not a common way to set up a towing winch, but Markey had done “similar applications for tugs operating on the Saint Lawrenc...