Maintaining the port
One rather grey and misty morning a somewhat unwieldy looking vessel came sailing down from the direction of the naval dockyard.
It dropped anchor in front of the West Mallard buoy and launched a small inflatable over the side with two men in.
The crane was then shackled to the buoy and it proceeded to lift it out of the water.
The copious amount of seaweed growing on the buoy was then removed by pressure washing the buoy.
When it was reasonably clean it was hoisted aboard the SD Navigator.
Then the new buoy was attached to the old mooring chains and lowered into position.
Barrie