We would like to invite you to come and see the range of products at any of the Showcase Roadshow Events.
The second event is taking place on Sunday 29th April, 2012. Please click here for the complete list of the Showcase Roadshow Events.

Originally the Blue Marlin’s name was Hurricane. She was manufactured for actress Marlene Dietrich’s female lover Marion Barbara “Betty” Carstairs.
Unfortunately she declined to accept the “Hurricane” and sold her immediately after the boat was delivered. The yacht eventually ended up in Italian hands while being kept in Izola on the Adriatic coast of Slovenia. The boat aged and began to fall into disrepair, eventually sitting disused in a harbour for several years. A Finnish banker and sailor, Henrik Andersin, found and bought the vessel, which was carefully transported from Slovenia to Finland in 2006. In its new home, the Blue Marlin is being restored to her former glory.
To find out more about the project, please click here.

We are delighted to have been chosen by Red Sky Craft to supply six Custom Built Tanks (pictured below) for the famous Blue Marlin.

Custom Diesel Tank Port	Custom Diesel Tank Stb
Custom Diesel Tank	Custom Waste Tank
Custom Water Tank Port	Custom Water Tank Stb

We are proud to be chosen by Traka Sport to provide a fluro coated petrol tank for their RB12 (pictured below).

 
Boat spec:
- Hull Humber Quinquari RHIB – based on the commercial Offshore Platform
- Length: 10 m
- Beam: 2.8 m
- Weight: 2500 kgs
- Power Twin 300 HP Evinrude ETEC Outboards
- Propellers stand and counter rotation stainless steel
- Speed: 60 knots (70 mph)
- Fuel: 700 litres
- Endurance: 400 miles

Please click here  to find out all about The Traka RB12 Challenge.

Good luck to everyone involved!

Features:
 -> industrial strength  
 -> encloses the tank completely in a fully welded frame with a secure fitting to the vehicle floor
 -> resistant against corrosion
 -> maintenance free

Construction: 50 x 50 Angle Iron
Frame Type: Fixed
Fixing: Bolted

With multiple bolt holes you can be sure of a secure fitting to your vehicle.

The project is built on the innovatve concept of a Floating Berthing Dock for mid size racing yachts.

The primary purpose for the device is to create a working platform to facilitate the repair and maintenance of yachts. The dock will have
a displacement of 7 tones and capability of lifting yachts about 2 meters above the water.

All other project details are kept strictly confidential. We can only say that we will be supporting this project by supplying our plastic tanks.

The photographs below show two pairs of tanks supplied by Tek-Tanks for the Floating Berthing Deck Project.

The University of Southampton and the design team reserve all the intellectual property rights associated with the idea.

Tek-Tanks are pleased to announce their involvement with the Ocean Pedal Challenge.
Brothers Kieran and Shaun are going to cross 3000 miles Atlantic Ocean, using nothing but pedal power in their one-of-a kind human powered ocean pedal craft the “Lydia Rose” to raise money for the Children’s Heart Unit at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.
They hope to complete the challenge in 30 to 35 days claiming an impressive Five World Records for the UK.

We have been asked to supply two 57 litre Series C water tanks (TT-5013) and one 32 litre Series C water tank (TT-5012).

With the boat in place, the date of the crossing was set for December when the intrepid two will set sail from Puerto De Morgan in Gran Canaria heading South West on a course for Barbados.
There will be no support vessels close by should they get into difficulty and help could be up to three days away!

Good luck to all involved!

Follow the team at www.oceanpedalchallenge.co.uk

We were glad that you had a chance to see our new range of custom built stainless steel and aluminium tanks.

We look forward to hearing from you.
Please let us know if there is any further information you might need about our products.

We had a visit from the headmaster and his naughty schoolgirls!
Chris Coburn from Lee Sanitation was there to promote their new toilet called the HeadMaster.

Realiable, attractive and comfortable porcelain marine toilet with all the styling of a domestic model. The straight back design cleverly conceals all of the plumbing and the macerator mechanism to give a clean and smart appearance to your on-board bathroom. Two user controllable settings help manage your water consumption. For more information please click here.

If there is one show not be missed in 2011 it is METS 2011.

Welcome to Tek-Tanks in hall 3, stand 216.

The draw will be made on Friday 9th of September 2011. The draw results will be published on our website as soon as possible.

The Tek-Tanks Southampton Boat Show 2011 Prize Draw winners are:

Mr. Simon De Courcy
Mr. Alan Tompsett (Katfish Charters)
Mr. James Huddleston
Mr. Michael Battson
Mr. Colin Churchill (Romsey Coaches)
Mrs. Abi Kennedy
Mr. James Bailey (Trodell Plant)
Mr. Jonathan Mills (Classic Chambers Luxury Mobile Loos)
Mrs. Lorna Brown
Mr. Peter Wonson (First Marine Services)

Congratulations to all the winners.
Tickets will be posted on Monday.

The other day the phone rang in the office and it was Shelley Jory-Leigh (Shelley is one of the United Kingdom’s leading powerboat racers and the top female in the world) asking us if we like to help out with some tanks for the new British Global Circumnavigation boat she will be a team member of.

The boat, named ‘Good Heart’, is a completely new design based on experience and modern technology. She is 80 feet of pure technology, designed and constructed in the UK from aluminium, and encompassing an exceptionally efficient ultra-slim wave-piercing hull. She will be able to submarine beneath waves under the constant propulsion of her twin engines.

The Global Circumnavigation Challenge is a bid by British ocean adventurer Alan Priddy to design and build the fastest and most efficient wave-piercing powerboat to circumnavigate the globe for the much coveted UIM world record, which is currently held by the New Zealander Pete Bethune at 60 days 23 hours 49 minutes. The Global Circumnavigation Challenge team intend to cover the 24,000 miles at sea in under 50 days.

The tanks we will be supplying are for water and waste. We do not have any more information than that at the moment as the boat is in it’s early stages of build. As soon as we have made them we will put some pictures of them here.

For more information on the Team and the Boat please click here to visit the website. The story can also be followed on Facebook.

We wish Alan and his team the “Best of British Luck” in their attempt and look forward to posting the outcome on the blog soon.

Global Circumnavigation Record Newsletter October 2011
Global Circumnavigation Record Newsletter November 2011