The Equipment Parts and Yachting Accessories You Need
The finest luxury yachts deserve functional accessories. Nautical Structures manufactures and distributes standard and custom products to improve your yacht’s aesthetic appeal and utility. Safety features are vital to design, style, and function of our line of cranes, lifts, and vessel-boarding equipment — all exceptionally crafted in the United States. We produce equipment that safely handles tenders weighing 300 pounds to more than 25,000 pounds.
The broadest selection in yacht boarding and tender-handling equipment
Available Spring-2010; the Nautical Structures' Product Matrix. Registered Users to this site will have the ability to search our extensive portfolio of developed equipment, sorting by specification criteria. Look for the link to the Product Matrix here.
Yacht and boating accessories designed for you
All Nautical Structures projects are unique to each client’s requirements & specifications. Engineers working with AutoCAD™, MathCAD™, and SolidWorks™ design software develop each deck crane, beam-system crane, passerelle, or other structure to the highest industry standards. The final product will interface with the vessel properly, function as specified, and be styled to look proportionate with the architecture of the vessel. That is our commitment to you.
When the only choice is the finest, choose Nautical Structures marine equipment.
Our design philosophy is safety first, then reliability, operational ease, and styling. Nautical Structures products are supported with extensive product documentation. All product comes with testing “Statement of Fact” documentation, operation and service manuals.
Nautical Structures was the first company to fully develop and utilize Hydraulic Linear Winch technology in large deck-crane systems. The same technology was enhanced for use in SOLAS/MCA Large Yacht Code (MCA-LY2) compliant cranes with our gravity load-release system — another Nautical Structures innovation. Small davit power rotation, Passa-Cranes, fully integrated crane systems, wireless proportional control systems, and periscoping standpipe-mounting systems are a few of our other specialized innovations. Perhaps this is why Naval Architects and shipyards around the world turn to Nautical Structures when innovation and creativity is desired.
How we manufacture your yacht equipment
Raw materials are received and inventoried in the west bay of the factory. Three CNC machining turning-centers and a large (2.5-m x 6-m) water-jet cutter process metal with digital precision. A large hydraulic NC-controlled shear processes aluminum plate while an automated cut-off saw cuts tubing, pipe, and bar stock for fabrication. Nautical Structures has the ability to complete most of the metal-processing needs in-house with a full machine shop outfitted with hand-lathes, large line-boring machines, and traditional knee-mills.
Product fabrication
Product fabrication is serviced by metal-processing equipment on the west bay of the factory. There are more than 12 fabrication stations that utilize the most current welding technology, including MIG and TIG welding processes. All Nautical Structures products are still hand-fabricated by true craftsmen. Our welders maintain certification to ensure the finest skill-sets combined with decades of experience at the craft.
Many of our craftsmen have worked with Nautical Structures for well over a decade; manufacturing experience that can not be duplicated!
After a fabricated product moves through all welding stations, it goes to the north end of the plant where it’s checked for quality control and fit together prior to final line-boring. The product is then moved to a grinding booth, where welds are ground and edges are routed and finished to ensure exceptional product finish-quality.
The body shop
Once the product is buffed, it is moved to the body shop and paint facility, where it is first cleaned, then chromated. Aesthetic treatments are added at the body shop. After fairing and priming, the product is moved to the paint booths where the final topcoat is hand-applied.
Assembly and final testing
When the product is cured, it is brought to the assembly department; supported with a secure storeroom, electronics shop, and hydraulic shop. Electrical controls, hydraulic valving, and cylinders are configured, tested and added to the product.
Once the product is assembled, it undergoes final testing, which may take a couple hours or several days. In some cases, the product gets a full classification society certification. To ensure the quality and long-term reliability of a product that will experience a ship’s potentially harsh marine environment, the product goes through the following testing: severe static-load pull testing, dynamic load testing, and often severe inclination testing. Fully classed equipment is tested under the survey of a classification society. Nautical Structures is a Red Ensign Flag State approved manufacturer of classed tender-handling equipment, and is authorized to self-certify products to the MCA-LY2 standards.
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| HCC-1100 Training Davit |
Commercial ships, Passenger Liners and Military Vessels need specialized cranes for heavy hoisting and Rescue Boat Launching. Browse through Nautical Structures’ low-maintenance and weight-efficient aluminum deck crane line.Click here to learn more about our deck cranes. |
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| SL-500 Wheelchair Transport |
Nautical Structures designs and builds overhead beam cranes and tender-garage crane systems specific for new-build and refit projects. Read more about our beam cranes.
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| 9-m Tri-Section Passerelle |
A Passerelle is more than an entrance — it’s a comfortable and convenient walkway leading to your yacht’s elegant deck. Want to know more about Passerelles and Gangplanks? Click here
- Pocketing Hydraulic Gangplank, Deploy, Luff & Slew.
- Pocketing Single-Telescoping Gangplank, Luff & Slew.
- Pocketing Double-Telescoping Gangplank, Luff & Slew.
- Pocketing Single or Double-Telescoping w/ a Self-Leveling End Section, Luff & Slew.
- Pocketing Triple-Telescoping Gangplank, Luff & Slew.
- Pocketing Fold-Over Gangplank, Luff & Slew.
- Pocketing Fold-Over Gangplank, with Single-Telescoping Final Section Luff & Slew.
- Pocketing Fold-Under Gangplank, Luff & Slew.
- Pocketing Fold-Under Gangplank, w/ Single-Telescoping Final Section Luff & Slew.
- Above models with an Extended Car Section, allows deployment through aft-stairs.
- Above select models with self-leveling stair section.
- Swim-Platform Mounted Passerelle, w/ self-leveling final section. (Jack-Knife Style)
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| 9-step Deluxe Tri-Rail Stair |
Nautical Structures offers several versions of boat stairways for an accommodating, close-to-deck entrance. Read more about our yacht stairs
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| Nauti-Lift Deploying |
Davit and crane systems are not suitable for use on all vessels.Some yachts, patrol vessels and purpose-built craft that need to carry a tender or auxiliary craft are better suited for a hydraulic transom lift system (Nauti-Lift) . Read more about our transom lifts.
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| Hydraulic Power and Controls |
Hydraulic Power is perhaps the best choice of equipment power on a ship. Hydraulic power is clean, quiet, safe, easily routed through the vessel and reliably controlled. Hydraulic power supplies the steering system, trim stabilizers, bow and stern thrusters, warping capstans and anchor windlass, passerelle, accommodation stairway, shell-doors, hatches, davits and cranes. Is there any doubt that hydraulic power is the first choice of equipment designers and shipyard engineers when selecting the type of power equipment used in their builds? Click here to learn more about our Hydraulic Power and Controls.
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| Manufacturing and Cutting Services |
Custom and one-off manufacturing is always a challenge, no matter how experienced the company. Nautical Structures has made large investments in machinery, tooling special extrusions that permit us to be as efficient as possible manufacturing high quality marine equipment. Nautical Structures Industries also offers cutting and manufacturing services to our clients. Whether it is a special set of sheaves needed to rebuild a large crane, or a unique intricate shape water-cut from titanium plate, Nautical Structures Industries is your source for specialty manufacturing services. Click through to see our list of machinery and services available
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| Medical Angel Hands |
We cannot go day-by-day business as usual without thinking about the sacrifices young men and women make around the world to protect our freedoms and way of life. Nautical Structures Industries has developed a series or medical products specifically to help those that have lost the use of their legs and mobility. Working with other specialists in the industry, Nautical Structures Industries has developed “Angel-Hands” and “Halo”. Angel Hands is a specialized lift apparatus that gently and securely slides itself under a patient to provide a secure lifting platform in place of cumbersome slings. The name “Angel Hands” came from the sensation caused by the caress of the lifting arms as they slide between the bed covers and the patient’s thighs. Prior to Angel Hands a patient had to be physically ‘rolled’ to one side by one or two orderlies or care-givers, a sling slid partially under the patient, rolled back in the opposite direction, the sling pulled-through, adjusted for the patient’s weight and mass, and then pulled up to attach to a hoist. Angel Hands allows the patient to be lifted by a single care-giver, and in many instances the patient may operate the device and become self-sufficient. Angel Hands has returned dignity to the young men and women unfortunate enough to have lost their mobility while serving. Please click-through to the video link and see for yourself how this innovation is changing the lives of so many by providing mobility.
Video Angel Hands Devise May Give Patients More Autonomy – View Video Now
St. Petersburg Times
Article Angel Hands - Invention Aims to Lift Bodies That Can't Lift Themselves – Read More
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