Sachal

20/12/2024

🌟 Celebrating Excellence and Dedication 🌟

Today, we proudly honor our incredible team members who have reached significant milestones with us. These long-service award winners exemplify loyalty, hard work, and unwavering dedication to our shipyard.

Building boats requires craftsmanship, passion, and teamwork, and these individuals have shown all that and more over the years. Their contributions are woven into the legacy of excellence we strive to uphold every day.

Thank you for being the backbone of our success. Your commitment inspires us all to aim higher and work harder.

06/12/2024

🌊 Inside Our Renowned Work & Fishing Vessels ⚓️

Our vessels are already celebrated for their robust performance and versatility at sea, but it’s the interior finishing that truly sets them apart.

🚤 What Makes Our Interiors Stand Out?

Crew Comfort: Thoughtfully designed spaces for safety and relaxation, keeping the team at their best.
High-Quality Finish: Precision craftsmanship that ensures functionality and lasting appeal.
Value Retention: Interiors that maintain their durability and aesthetic, keeping your investment strong.
Because a great vessel isn’t just about how it performs—it’s about the environment it creates for those who work within it. Good boats attract great people. 💼

02/10/2024

Introducing the Expertly Designed Tuna Pole Vessel from Sachal Shipyard

Renowned for its outstanding efficiency and performance, our Tuna Pole vessels set the industry standard. Expertly designed and built by Sachal Shipyard, these vessels deliver optimal results for your fishing operations.

Looking to enhance your fleet? Contact us to discuss your next project and let us bring your vision to life!

World leading composites vessels

16/09/2024

Luna Sea on her mooring preparing for a trip to the mining grounds. Luna Sea is one of many very successful 15m mining vessel we have launched over the past few years.

Our vessels have proven to be very efficient, cost effective and offer a large working deck space. Combining these attributes with a customizable layout sets our vessels apart from the rest in the mining and workboat sectors.

02/09/2024

The Ultimate Vessel for OPL, Crew Transfer, and Supply Duties

Introducing the ultimate solution for offshore operations, crew transfer, and supply duties. This vessel combines versatility with exceptional performance, tailored to meet a range of maritime needs.

Customizable Layout: Adapt the vessel to your exact requirements, whether for deck cargo, tank space, crew seating, or a combination of features.

Proven Efficiency: Demonstrated efficiency in operational tasks, ensuring reliable performance and cost-effectiveness.

Exceptional Seakeeping: Designed to perform admirably in the harshest conditions, maintaining stability and safety in challenging environments.

Experience the blend of adaptability and robust capability that sets this vessel apart. Contact us today to discuss how this vessel can be customized to support your specific operational needs.

Custom commercial boat yard building composite boats for harsh conditions and demanding environments

13/08/2024

Versatile and Robust Workboats customized to various applications.

Designed to be under 25 gross register tons, and below 14m registered length, makes these vessels cost effective to operate. Boasting a working deck space of 43 square meters and 40 cubic meters of hold space means operators get a lot into a small vessel.

Customizability, outstanding fuel economy, and minimal running cost make these vessels very effective in multiple sectors such as OPL, support, supply, harbour work and survey operations.

Contact the Sachal Shipyard team to discuss your next project.

09/08/2024

Today we celebrate women in Boat Building, as well as the greater maritime industry.

30/07/2024

Boats built with passion, for a purpose!

08/05/2024

MFV Thorfin fully loaded and heading to port to unload her catch after another successful trip.

22/04/2024

We are a officer.

25/03/2024

SACHAL BOATYARD LAUNCHES TWO NEW WORK BOATS, WITH MORE ON THE HORIZON

It’s a bumper year so far for Vredenburg yard Sachal which reports two recent launches for the local market and a solid order book for the coming months.

The two launches are both work boats under 25GRT for the diamond mining industry. One vessel (Lady Liya) is the first of its kind, featuring a 1.5m diameter moonpool through the vessel centre to accommodate a large dredging pump. “She will be used to remove sand and silt at a rate of 800 cubic meters per hour and discharge 1km away,” explains Sachal shipyard manager Nic Stevens. “The dredge pump is controlled by an advanced AHC (active heave compensation) system to keep the suction head at the optimal position relative to the seabed. The dredge head features a high-pressure water jet to loosen the material to be sucked up. All of this is powered by a 300kW HPU in the vessel machinery room and a 10kVA gen set for the rest of the systems and the AHC controller.”

The second vessel (Gaba-Iphiwe) is geared for mining in the harsh conditions off the South African coast. She has facilities for up to ten crew for multiple-day trips. She is full-composite, designed to be fuel efficient and comfortable, and powered by a 280HP 11L Doosan engine with a top speed of 11knots and a cruising speed of 9knots – and using only around 8litres of diesel per hour.

“With a total fuel capacity of 4000L extended voyages are no problem,” says Stevens. “She is kitted with a full Furuno electronics package, internet and surveillance camera and high spec systems.” She also has a fully-equipped galley with a gas oven, stove, fridge and freezers, and can carry 3000 liters of fresh water.

Stevens says the Sachal yard is “at full swing” with various other projects on the go, among them the construction of tooling for a 27m x 8m displacement hull, designed for the Stern Trawl, small Pelagic and workboat markets. “We also have few 15m vessels planned for the year. The possible refit on a 90ft fishing vessel is also on the cards. Another exciting project coming up is the full restoration of a classic cold mould IOR sailing yacht,” Stevens says.

21/03/2024

Robust workboats built for harsh conditions offering excellent seakeeping and fuel economy make Sachal the leaders in composite workboats.
Since 1957 Sachal has been providing clients with high quality vessel for all applications, from fishing to offshore supply, mining, patrol, OPL, workboats, dredging, aquaculture, oil pollution control and naval.

Exceptional seakeeping and fuel economy combined with quality workmanship makes Sachal the leader in GRP workboats. Designed to operate in harsh conditions a...

12/03/2024

The latest vessel emerged from Sachal Shipyard last week. This masterpiece features a moonpool to accommodate an AHC (active heave compensation) controlled dredge pump. She is designed to cost effectively and efficiently clear sand and silt at a rate of upto 800 cubic meters per hour.

AHC system supplied by Scantrol, dredge pump by and hydraulic installation by ACTOM

26/02/2024

The latest vessel to join the Sachal family was launched on the 20th of February. This master piece will be joining the South African mining fleet.

14/02/2024

We are a

14/12/2023

Nora-Gem on mooring, awaiting her delivery crew for her trip up the West Coast.