Bad weather puts boatyards behind; gulf yard sends ex-scalloper out west

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Omega Protein's menhaden fleet in Reedville, Va., is in three Virginia yards for repairs. The 164-foot John S. Dempster Jr. is having in-water structural work done at Chesapeake Marine Railway in Deltaville, and the 160-foot Tidelands is at Ampro Shipyard in Weems.The Tidelands is having a bulkhead replaced between the engine room and fish hold, new framing in the bow, and the majority of the decking replaced. "It's a huge amount of steel work," says Lynn Haynie, Ampro's yard manager. "They are trying to get as much done here as possible, so when it goes to Lyon [Shipyard in Norfolk, Va.], it will only have to be hauled for routine bottom work."