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Callum Reid
Yard Director
Thirty-one years in repair, the last twelve running this yard. Started as an apprentice plater on Dock 2.
About BoatGap Marine
The yard behind the promise.
Since 1987, BoatGap has grown from a single berth on the Tyne into a class-approved repair yard trusted by fleets in 40+ ports — without ever outgrowing the promise it was built on.
- Vessels repaired since 1987
- 2,400+
- Average emergency response
- 6hrs
- Ports with mobile teams
- 40+
- Redelivered on or before date
- 96%
Since 1987
Four decades of steel, salt and deadlines.
BoatGap began as a two-berth yard on the Tyne repairing North Sea trawlers. Today we run three drydocks, a 4,000-tonne shiplift and mobile teams that fly to your vessel wherever she lies.
What hasn't changed is the thing our customers actually buy: a berth date we hold to. Every day alongside is revenue lost, so we quote honestly, we start on time, and we tell you early when something under the paint turns out worse than the survey suggested.
Gerald Jeffery
Founder & Chairman
Founded the yard, 1987
From the founder
I started BoatGap in 1987 with one dry berth, a borrowed compressor, and a single frustration: every yard I had worked in treated the redelivery date as a suggestion. Owners were losing thousands a day while we found reasons the schedule had slipped.
So we built this yard around a different promise — that we would tell you the truth early, quote it honestly, and hand your vessel back on the day we said we would. Nearly four decades and two-and-a-half thousand ships later, that is still the only thing we actually sell
I am proud of the steel we have renewed and the engines we have saved. But I am proudest of the calls we have made at four in the morning to owners we had never met — and of the fact that they called us again.
Gerald jeffery
Principles
The standards we hold to.
01
Tell the truth early
The worst news is cheapest the day we find it. We ring you the moment a survey turns — with a fixed price, not a week later with an invoice.
02
The date is the deliverable
A berth date is a commercial promise, not an aspiration. We sequence every trade around it and we hold to it — 96% of the time, to the day.
03
Measure before you cut
We open only what the numbers justify. Readings first, opinions second — the discipline that keeps a repair from becoming a rebuild.
Who runs the yard
Leadership
The people who sign off the work — and pick up the phone at 2am.
PR
Priya Raghavan
Head of Structural
Naval architect, LR-approved for structural repair schemes. Signs off every steel renewal that leaves the yard.
TW
Tomasz Wójcik
Superintendent, Emergency
Runs the mobile response desk. If you call at 0200, this is who picks up.
Approvals & accreditations
Approved Repair Facility
Lloyd's Register
Approved Service Supplier
DNV
Recognised Repair Yard
American Bureau of Shipping
ISO 9001:2015
Quality Management
ISO 14001:2015
Environmental Management
ISO 45001:2018
Occupational Health & Safety