Posted on 10/24/2017
SMS Shoalbuster, a 26m Damen Shoalbuster 2609 owned and operated by GSS Marine Services based in Rosyth, Scotland, has recently completed a 14,572 nm round trip that included two transatlantic crossings.
When SMS Shoalbuster departed Stathelle, Norway, earlier this year, no-one realised that she would be gone for so long or sail so far. At the time, she was on charter to tow some floating pipes to Porto Plata in the Dominican Republic, a distance of 4,400 nm.
However, while she was underway, GSS was offered a second job. This involved towing a backhoe dredger from the...