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Marine Services Partners with Mersea Trailers to Enhance Trailer Offerings in Ireland

2nd January 2025
Ireland's MarineServices.ie has joined forces with the largest and most popular trailer manufacturer in the UK, Mersea Trailers
Ireland's MarineServices.ie has joined forces with the largest and most popular trailer manufacturer in the UK, Mersea Trailers

MarineServices.ie, the commercial arm of the well-known Irish National Sailing and Powerboat School, has joined forces with the largest and most popular trailer manufacturer in the UK, Mersea Trailers.

Mersea Trailers has been manufacturing and distributing trailers throughout Europe for over 30 years. Operating from the manufacturing site at Great Bromley, Mersea Trailers also produce Rapide Trailers, Snipe Trailers and Bramber Trailers.

Mike Corduff, owner and managing director of Mersea Trailers, says he is proud of the range of strong, reliable trailers. Whether you are towing boats, using your trailer for garden maintenance or using it in a commercial setting for building, or transporting plant machinery, we have the perfect trailer for you. In addition, we have our own in-house design team that can design the trailer to fit your requirements.

The first delivery of Mersea Trailers arrive at Marine Services in Dun LaoghaireThe first delivery of Mersea Trailers arrive at Marine Services in Dun Laoghaire

All our road trailers are hot-dipped galvanised to marine standards and our trolleys can be built in steel or lightweight aluminium. All our products come with a one-year manufacturer warranty.

It is a natural partnership for Marine Services, who are the dealers and distributors in Ireland for many brands, including RS Sailing’s diverse range of dinghies and Ocean Play, the new manufacturing name for the popular Pico, Vago and Bahia boats.

All of the above fleets use Mersea trailers, launching trollies and combi trailers, and both single and double stackers. Thus, this new connection makes all the more sense.

Mersea Trailers also manufactures more traditional box trailers with racks suitable for boats like Optimists, Lasers, toppers, etc.

Marine Services took in a large stock of trailers just before the Christmas break and has something for your requirements ready to dispatch from our Dublin base.

For more information, please contact [email protected]

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Kenneth Rumball

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Kenneth Rumball

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Kenny Rumball is the Principal of the Irish National Sailing School in Dun Laoghaire Harbour. He is a multi dinghy champion and offshore sailor. In 2018 he was awarded the Royal Ocean Racing Club's Seamanship Trophy for a Man Overboard Rescue in the Round Ireland Race. In May 2020 he embarked on a mixed offshore doublehanded keelboat campaign with Pamela Lee.

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The Irish National Sailing and Powerboat School is based on Dun Laoghaire's West Pier on Dublin Bay and in the heart of Ireland's marine leisure capital.

Whether you are looking at beginners start sailing course, a junior course or something more advanced in yacht racing, the INSS prides itself in being able to provide it as Ireland's largest sailing school.

Since its establishment in 1978, INSS says it has provided sailing and powerboat training to approximately 170,000 trainees. The school has a team of full-time instructors and they operate all year round. Lead by the father and son team of Alistair and Kenneth Rumball, the school has a great passion for the sport of sailing and boating and it enjoys nothing more than introducing it to beginners for the first time. 

Programmes include:

  • Shorebased Courses, including VHF, First Aid, Navigation
  • Powerboat Courses
  • Junior Sailing
  • Schools and College Sailing
  • Adult Dinghy and Yacht Training
  • Corporate Sailing & Events

History of the INSS

Set up by Alistair Rumball in 1978, the sailing school had very humble beginnings, with the original clubhouse situated on the first floor of what is now a charity shop on Dun Laoghaire's main street. Through the late 1970s and 1980s, the business began to establish a foothold, and Alistair's late brother Arthur set up the chandler Viking Marine during this period, which he ran until selling on to its present owners in 1999.

In 1991, the Irish National Sailing School relocated to its current premises at the foot of the West Pier. Throughout the 1990s the business continued to build on its reputation and became the training institution of choice for budding sailors. The 2000s saw the business break barriers - firstly by introducing more people to the water than any other organisation, and secondly pioneering low-cost course fees, thereby rubbishing the assertion that sailing is an expensive sport.

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