Boat building, maintenance and painting tasks are all greatly enhanced, with one of these light, easily and quickly constructed PORTABLE SHELTERS, in that all of these tasks can be carried out undercover away from the sun, hail and rain, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Every endeavour is aided by the fact that the weather will no longer play any real part in daily operations. Your bottom line will be improved, your staff will be happy, so will the Workplace and Safety and EPA authorities, which will also remove the fear of penalties.
For Marinas, boat maintenance is obviously an ongoing exercise and these shelters are versatile to the extent that you can work on them 24/7, should the need arise. They allow the operator to paint sand blast etc. (see our Paint Enclosure section). You will get more out of your staff which comes back to quicker turnarounds and higher profits. The shelter can be telescoped or mounted on wheels to enable it to be moved from location to location, meaning you can work on two boats at a time. They can be crane liftable, allowing the sheds to be moved to any area of the site .They are held down with Ballast weights.
These Portable Shelters come in an infinite number of sizes, suitable to build anything from a dingy to a mega yacht. You can even cover a dry dock with the aid of a telescoping shelter on tracks.
For a one off builder, they will serve well until the project is finished. The Shelter can then be on sold to someone else wishing to do the same thing. Or could even be rented out to another boat builder in situ or on their own land.
For the larger boat building operators they are a more presentable and versatile proposition than a steel framed and clad building, as they can be moved, either on light rail tracks, on wheels in a 'C' section track, or crane lifted. The ends can be left open, or closed off with roll up doors. The doors can be made high enough to take a travel lift, so that the boat can be set down inside the shelter until works have been completed. They can then be picked up and put back in the water. For really large craft there are shelters that are telescoping on tracks allowing work on all parts of the boat at anytime. For instance, the center section can be rolled away to fit heavy equipment such as engines or air conditioning systems whilst other work goes on uninterrupted. When not in use the sections can be rolled inside one another, taking up a third of the space. Indeed this smaller shelter can be used to work on smaller vessels. As the shelters are crane liftable, this allows the shelter to be moved anywhere on the site, giving further versatility.
If a vessel on an assembly line has a problem with any particular facet of its manufacture, instead of the catch up crew having to carry out the final finishing off tasks in either the heat or rain. An open ended shelter suitable to take extra large craft or a couple of smaller boats will greatly enhance urgent time schedules as the crew can get on with repairs instead of wasting time sealing and unsealing the vessel from the elements every time they have to leave for tools etc.
The wind loading of the shelters is a feature, in that they have withstood winds in excess of 100 kph, and if the unit is in a cyclone area, should winds be predicted to exceed 150 to 200 kph the top can be lowered to one side, rolled up and secured, then replaced when the cyclone has passed. They also have the ability to withstand baseball size hail.
Our Shelters are constructed with double dipped galvanized steel tubing. Each rib is a truss. The cover is a UV protected vinyl of varying thicknesses, in four colours, white, green, grey and tan. For full details see Features and Specifications.
Clearly this versatility is advantageous for any sized operation. They are more pleasing to the eye, more than comparable on price and much faster to construct. An 20m long by 12m wide by 10m high shelter can be constructed in 5 to 7 days with one supervisor and 5 assistants, general tools, a scissor lift and small truck crane.
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