Lay-up Process
Plan, Prepare & Preserve
Before a vessel arrives, we start the lay-up process. Our motto is ‘Plan, Prepare and Preserve’.
Planning for an arriving vessel helps eliminate costly mistakes which can extend a lay-up.
Planning is essential to help control the lay-up process. Vital information needs to be communicated, and expectations need to be managed. Equipment needs to be ordered and service providers put in place.
Lay-up Process
Plan, Prepare & Preserve
Before a vessel arrives, we start the lay-up process. Our motto is ‘Plan, Prepare and Preserve’.
Planning for an arriving vessel helps eliminate costly mistakes which can extend a lay-up.
Planning is essential to help control the lay-up process. Vital information needs to be communicated, and expectations need to be managed. Equipment needs to be ordered and service providers put in place.
The following demonstrates our planning process:
Lay-up step by step
Scope of agreement
- Determine areas to be dehumidified.
- Agree who is responsible for delivery of standard services.
- Request additional services, such as anodes or mooring blocks.
- Decide whether the vessel will be laid-up at the anchorage, or alongside a wharf.
- Agree on a demobilisation plan, based upon services required.
- Agree on pricing.
- Sign a contract
Pre-arrival checklists
- Write operating procedures for equipment.
- Supply certificates and drawings.
- Complete and return all checklists.
- Clean and prepare in readiness for arrival.
Arrival
- Sound tanks, then sign for Remains on Board.
- Mobilise equipment for the vessel.
- Set up for watchmen to live aboard.
- Begin demobilisation of crew.
- Transport equipment from vessel as required.
- Remove rubbish and combustibles.
- Install lay-up generator, and put vessel in dead ship mode.
Deactivation
- Shut down systems systematically for preservation.
- Start blanking spaces to be dehumidified.
- Clean areas and stow equipment, if a cold lay-up.
- Divers blank hull penetrations.
- Fit suspended anodes as required.
- Fit dehumidifier trunking, and start machines.
- Monitor spaces to ensure fast pull-down of humidity.
- Write routine maintenance procedures, if a cold lay-up.
- Write and submit lay-up report.
- Write reactivation plan.
Lay-up routines
- Commence maintenance routines and inspections.
- Submit daily logs and monthly reports to client.
- Note and report defects.
- Watchmen begin 24/7 coverage to our Emergency Response Base.
- Inspect underwater every six months.
- Do additional maintenance and repairs as requested.
Reactivation
- Bring vessel alongside a wharf if required.
- Remove equipment used during lay-up.
- The divers remove blanks and photograph seawater chests.
- Reactivate systems.
- Reprovision vessel.
- Arrange service agents, and attend vessel as required.
- Update class certificates
- Restart class maintenance.
Tow vessel to dry-dock if requested.