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Originally Posted by Tim Gibbs
Ken Higget = Tom Wigget ? !
I have been responsible for 10 ships from ASL since 1977. My experience was that, in general, we got exactly the ships we needed, whereas from many other yards (particularly Dutch) you got the ship they wanted to give you!
It was always a bit stressful getting the Appledore ships finished and performing to spec but in the case of 5 of them (AS 126, 148/9 and 169/70) they turned out to be great vessels and made us serious money ....... because they were exactly the vessels we needed.
You need to know your business now and into the future to know what ship you need to match the business. Sounds obvious but even today there are shipowners who seem incapable of defining what their business needs and end up specifying what they want- often two very different things!
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You got it! Tom was Ken 😀
Just remembered another couple I stood by there as well. A Cuban dredger (can’t remember the name) and a Wimpey offshore vessel… think it was Wimpey Seadog?
Great yard…..