Laitaatsillan Telakka Oy

Laitaatsillan Telakka Oy is a ship repair yard operating on a shipyard site founded in 1911 at Laitaatsalmi in Savonlinna, on the deep-water channel in the middle of Finland's Saimaa lake system. It describes itself as the most important and only year-round repair yard in the Vuoksi watercourse, serving both commercial operators and leisure boaters with docking, refits, conversions, engine machining, painting and sandblasting, and water and electrical system installations. Vessels served include ferries (lossit), tugs, workboats and pleasure craft, with docking available for boats up to 36 metres. The yard also runs an authorised Tohatsu service point and services most other marine engine brands.

Laitaatsillan Telakka Oy is a repair yard in Savonlinna, Finland, working from a shipyard area established in 1911 at Laitaatsalmi beside the Saimaa deep-water channel. The company presents itself as the most important and only year-round repair yard in the Vuoksi watercourse, serving Saimaa's commercial operators as well as touring and leisure boaters. Work covers repairs, refurbishment and conversions, dockings, servicing and machining, and water and electrical system installations. The business is led by owner and managing director Kalle Laamanen.

Services

Dockings, including survey dockings, and boat lifts and launches
Repairs, refits and conversion work on vessels
Engine and equipment servicing; authorised Tohatsu service, plus most other marine engine brands
Engine machining: cylinder boring, cylinder head work, crankshaft grinding
Propeller shafts, sterndrives, hydraulic and steering gear units
Electrical, heating, fresh water and wastewater systems; marine electrical work
Navigation equipment installation and repair
Interior fit-out work
Painting and sandblasting, including fine-sand blasting of GRP boat bottoms
Service on-call to keep boats running

Facilities

Historic yard area with a small slip for vessels under 15 m and a larger slip for vessels up to 40 m in length; commercial dockings quoted up to 36 m boats
Paint shop taking workpieces up to 4 x 6 x 15 m
Machine shop equipment: 2 lathes (max workpiece length 4000 mm, diameter 800 mm), line borer (max 2 m), milling machine, keyway planer, surface grinders, drill for cylinder head work, crankshaft grinding machine
Site includes repair shops, sheet metal, joinery, engine and paint workshops, winches and storage buildings dating from the early 1900s

Vessel Types

Cable ferries (lossit) and tugs
Commercial and work vessels up to Saimaa Canal traffic size class
Pleasure and touring boats, outboard-powered craft
Other items handled in the blasting and paint shop, such as trucks and containers

Location

Laivamiehentie 2, 57510 Savonlinna, Finland
On the Laitaatsalmi strait between Haapavesi and Pihlajavesi, at the centre of the Saimaa lake system