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Marine
Specialties hits Hartwell with a splash
Marine Specialties, Inc. (MSI) opened its Lake
Hartwell location in Anderson, S.C., in June.
Marine Specialties is a full service marine
construction company that installs rip rap for erosion control,
sells and installs HydroHoist boat lifts, Wahoo boat docks and does
water front dredging.
The company’s home office is based in Gainesville,
GA. MSI has been servicing both South Carolina and Georgia lakes for
nearly 20 years and has earned the distinction of the number one
dealer in the country for HydroHoist boat lifts for the past eight
years running as well as the number one dealer of Wahoo aluminum
boat docks for the past three years.
MSI has hit opened eyes across Lake Hartwell with
Nora Reese (a state of the art twin engine diesel barge pusher)
saddled behind one of the largest rip rap hauling barge decks ever
put into service on the lake, says Tom Child, president and founder
of the company. “This new hybrid super barge is capable of hauling
more rip rap more equipment and more crew then any of the original
four barges we have in service on Lake Lanier at the moment,” he
said.
“Lake Hartwell has a very vast shoreline and takes a
considerable amount of time to navigate from one end to the other so
we wanted to make sure that our new customers on Lake Hartwell would
be getting the best possible service and keep them from worrying
about time delays on their lake front projects,” Child said.
“The sheer capacity of the new barge ensures faster
service simply because the crews can stay on the jobs longer with
less re-stocking of rock and fuel. The new barge will also enable
MSI to mobilize heavy equipment to lake front customers who need
their boat docks re-launched from the ever present drying
shorelines.”
The plan is to increase the barge fleet on Lake
Hartwell to at least two vessels by mid season or sooner in 2009, he
said.
Child added that the new location will allow the
company to be more efficient in serving customers on lakes Keowee,
Russell, Thurmond, Greenwood, and Succession, particularly with the
boat lift and shoreline steps division.
Child said one of the reasons for his company’s
growth in the face of challenging issues like the drought by saying:
“We have never assumed we are done with the job until our customers
say we are done with the job. Our customers inevitably like to make
changes in what they were originally envisioning and MSI will
accommodate them happily.”
The new Anderson location’s address is 5606 Hwy. 24,
Anderson, SC 29625 or give them a call at 864-287-5880.
Boatlift remote
control system now available at Marine Specialties
 HydroHoist
Marine Group has introduced the HydroLaunch, a control system with
multiple functions for boatlifts.
The system is available at Marine Specialties Inc. on
Browns Bridge Road.
“The HydroLaunch remote control is our latest
high-tech gadget,” said Mike Vaughn, P.E., HydroHoist engineer. “It
has a full range of features including dock lighting control,
monitor mode, push button control panel, manual and automatic up and
down control, auxiliary circuit with timer function, ground fault
circuitry, and leak detection with auto correction. All of these
functions operate with nothing more than the touch of a button.”
In monitor mode, the HydroLaunch watches for
potential leaks in the boat lift system. If a leak should occur and
the boat drops seven inches from maximum capacity height, the
HydroLaunch control unit automatically turns on and airs the lift
back to full capacity, explained Webber.
“Another outstanding feature is that the HydroLaunch
transmitter is waterproof. It is hermetically sealed and floats, so
dropping it into water will not be detrimental to its life,” Vaughn
said.
Working range of the transmitter in optimal
straight-line conditions is 500 feet.
The auxiliary circuitry for turning on and off
external features such as dock lights is a standard feature on the
HydroLaunch.
For more information call Marine Specialties at
770-531-7735.
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