Elysian have visited us for a few years straight for various routine maintenance jobs but in this instance came to us with an unusual request.

The crew and Owner wanted a non permanant structure to carry their 38ft Wajer tender on Elysian safely when she is offshore on delivery. This would eliminate the external shipping methods they had been using to transport the tender in the past, and would give Elysian a bit more automony to pull into any port big enough for her as she no longer needed to meet the tender or vice versa. The cradle also needed to be able to be assembled or dissassembeled in a matter of hours by the crew and stored on board thus furthering the crews independance from external contractors. A further requirement was that when the cradle is removed, no evidence of the cradle could remain.

Woodstock Boatbuilders, to fill this need, using drawings created by the experienced captain and Naval Architect, built a cradle from recycled I beams which sits in and over the yachts aft swimming pool and around the structures within it.

The cradle has now done 10’s of thousands of ocean miles with the tender still safely in place and the crew happy!