Bay Ship & Yacht: Number One Yard For USCG Dry-Docking & Ship Repair On West Coast

This month, the 175-ft Buoy-Tender George Cobb, home-ported at San Pedro; the 225-ft US Coast Guard Cutter Hickory, home-ported at Homer, Alaska; and the 110-ft Cutter Edisto, home ported at San Diego joined the long list of US Coast Guard vessels that have undergone periodic maintenance and repair at Bay Ship & Yacht in Alameda on San Francisco Bay.

“Work on the Cobb is a 70-day job; work on the Hickory is a 65-day job; and work on the Edisto is a 50-day job,” according to Ira Maybaum, Director of Business Development for the yard. “The combined work on the three vessels will require the skills of 120 craftsmen per day.”

Bay Ship & Yacht has the capability of handling the work on all three of these Coast Guard vessels at the same time. The yard’s facilities include not only a 390-ft floating-dock, but also the West Coast’s most modern Syncrolift, which can lift vessels weighing up to1,200 tons and 200-ft in length from the water to a rail transfer system with 12 fully-equipped dry-berth work stations (as shown in the accompanying photograph of the USCG George Cobb).

“In the past eight years, we have completed more than 120 work orders for the Coast Guard including 95 dry-dockings,” Maybaum pointed out. “These jobs have ranged from work on the new 418-ft National Security Cutters to the smaller, 87-ft patrol boats, and all sizes in between. In addition, our sister yard, Bay Marine Boat Works, located on the bay in Richmond, has completed countless maintenance and repair projects on smaller USCG vessels.

“The bottom line is that over the past 10 years, it is estimated that the work performed by Bay Ship & Yacht on US Coast Guard ships has amounted to at least 5,000 work days, which is undoubtedly more than any other shipyard on the West Coast,” according to Maybaum.
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Photo: US Coast Guard Buoy-Tender George Cobb undergoing maintenance and repairs at Bay Ship & Yacht in Alameda, Calif.