McElroy/Catchot to Design and Supply for Rigdon PSVs

McElroy/Catchot Winch Company announced that they have been chosen to design and supply the deck machinery for the ten (10) new Rigdon Marine 210 ft. PSVs currently being built at the Bender Shipbuilding & Repair facility in Mobile, Alabama. The equipment for each vessel will include two single electric bow anchor windlasses of an improved design to allow for increased deck accessibility, and a completely self-contained hydraulic tugger winch. Additionally, the company has also been awarded a contract to furnish six (6) electric bow anchor winches to Master Boat Builders of Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Harold S. Catchot, president of McElroy/Catchot, says "these recent contract awards will be great additions to our long history of supplying quality deck equipment, since our original founding in 1915."