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MVS Tay vessel Badger - Maritime Volunteer Service

Badger is an extremely capable, seaworthy vessel, purchased and wholly owned by Taymara. She is fully equipped with the latest navigational aids and safety equipment.

Badger has a full schedule which encompasses working as one of our training vessels, commercial sailing as a passenger craft, and in addition she fulfills many other functions in support of our local community.

She has been fitted with a Simrad integrated Radar/GPS/Chart Plotter/Echo Sounder.

Phone Taymara    Head of Unit             Bob Richmond -  tel.       01382 542516

Badger is fitted with new twin 225hp Perkins Sabre turbocharged diesels recently installed as part of her 2008 refit

E-mail Taymara  website - contact@taymara.org
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Badger - 34ft. Nelson class launch

Badger is a 34ft Nelson class launch powered by twin 225 hp Perkins Sabre turbocharged diesels and is crewed, skippered and fully maintained in code by our membership.

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Regular meetings on Marigot, berthed alongside North Carr Victoria Dock, Dundee - Thursdays 7.30 pm and on Sundays throughout the winter

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Passing the Royal Tay yacht moorings on her way to the Tay Bridges
Nautical Training

Navigation Training

Phone Taymara    Head of Unit             Bob Richmond -  tel.       01382 542516

E-mail Taymara  website - contact@tyamara.org
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Wildlife Watching

For Tay River Trip enquiries, booking and general information click                          www.tayrivertrips.org

For other enquiries

Phone Taymara    Head of Unit             Bob Richmond -  tel.       01382 542516

E-mail Taymara  website - contact@tyamara.org

Badger is slipped every year (around March/April) repainted, anti-fouled and refitted.

Badger's Navman radio was fitted in 2005

New props were fitted in 2006 as the old ones were found to have extensive pitting.

Her entire navigation system and her fuel system have been replaced, and new props were fitted

During Badger’s 2009 refit her British Leyland engines were replaced with these brand new twin 225hp Perkins Sabre turbocharged diesels.

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Line Drawing of Badger's hull.

Badger is coded to carry 10 persons by the MCA

Badger towing a yacht into Tayport Harbour after she broke her moorings and drifted onto rocks at Woodhaven.

2007 and she's just rescued a motor cruiser.and towed her to Newport following engine failure. Badger is a well known vessel around Dundee.

Badger coming alongside at Woodhaven pier, between the Tay bridges on the Fife shore.

Returning from a trip to Perth

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Thanks to all our sponsors and all those who have supported us including -

Mr Clive McKeag, The DC Thomson Charitable Trust, The St. Katherines Trust, The Mathew Trust, The Tay Charitable Trust, The Alexander Moncur Trust, The Robertson Trust, Forth Ports and the Port of Dundee, The Apex Hotel, Dundee City Council, David Winch and Gareth Norman of Secureforce Controlled Environments

 

Other pages in this website
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About Taymara
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News Archive - an ongoing record of our training trips activities and events
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Practical Training
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Classroom Training
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Joining Taymara
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If you want to see more dolphins, look in the Dolphin Gallery
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From the Air

Aerial views of the River Tay
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Tay Gallery for the river, landscape and sky
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Taymara Boats
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and Tails of the Riverbank for local beaks and whiskers
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Yes, that is a Pelican and it is (was) local.