Portal de Aguilas
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Salvador García-Ayllón, general director of Transport, Ports and Costas, attended this morning at the start of work to install two large tonnage heavy cranes in the port of Aguilas that reflect the sailboat Penelope, which sank January 4.
The cranes are mounted on four three-by-two-meter structural plates, which have been specially designed for these jobs and placed on the harbor's fishing pier.
In addition, each plate has two chains formed by four chains.
The two cranes are large, each weighs 150 tons, and have been brought from outside the Region.
The sailboat will be refloated when weather conditions allow.
These works are carried out following the emergency resolution issued by the Ministry of Development and Infrastructures on January 5 in order to proceed to the reflote, removal and scrapping of Penelope.
Salvador García-Ayllón emphasized that "all the actions that are being carried out since the day the sailboat was sunk are aimed at safeguarding port activity and avoiding any situation of danger."
The emergency order and the planned works were communicated to the auxiliary coordinator of Explotación Portuaria de Águilas, to the Maritime Captaincy of Cartagena and to the City of Eagles.
The maneuvers for the reflote of the boat began last week, with the help of the Maritime Captaincy, with the stabilization of the sailboat, the securing and cutting of the masts.
Once the boat is rescued from the sea it will be transferred to land for later scrapping.
The Penelope boat was the first recreational sailboat built with aluminum in 1968, in the French shipyards Eugene-Cornu.
It weighs 145 tons and has dimensions of 38.8 meters in length, 7.2 meters of sleeve and 4.1 meters of draft in aft.
This vessel, with flag of Gibraltar, had been abandoned in the Port of Eagles.
Source: CARM
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