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Montgomery mooring system

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Montgomery mooring system

Forty tonnes of pressure is applied to the hull of a ship by Peter Montgomery’s MoorMaster vacuum mooring system. This is the inter-island ferry Aratere at Picton, where the MoorMaster secures and releases the ship in 10 seconds.

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Mark Derby, Inventions, patents and trademarks – Transport inventions, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25404/montgomery-mooring-system (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mark Derby, published 11 May 2010, updated 1 February 2015.