Fuller’s Fast Cat Korora Provides First Aluminium Hull Reference For Thordon Seal Fullers Group’s has provided a first reference for Thordon Bearings’ TG100 seal on an aluminum hulled fast ferry. The New Zealand ferry operator’s new 34.9m (114.5 ft.) catamaran Korora, delivered from the Q-West shipyard in December, features a water lubricated propeller shaft arrangement based around a Henley Integrated Propulsion System. Auckland-headquartered Henley Group, an approved Thordon distributor, with a history dating to 1917, secured the contract to design and supply Korora’s complete drivetrain, following the company’s involvement with the first vessel in the series, the 2014-delivered Te Kotuku. Mark Power, Managing Director, Henley Group, explained: “Our brief was to design and supply the ent

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