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Hoval goes the extra few hundred miles

Hoval engineer Phil James got more than he bargained for when he went to commission two Hoval UltraOil boilers at an energy centre serving a radar station on St Kilda – and what should have been a two-day journey took over a week.

The St Kilda energy centre

St Kilda is a UNESCO World Heritage site in the northernmost part of the Outer Hebrides. It was evacuated in 1930 and is now home to a few contractors maintaining the radar station, as well as occasional visiting naturalists. Travel facilities to and from the islands are limited at the best of times but when the regular boat breaks down things get really challenging.

Rising to the challenge, Phil was able to hitch a lift to the island of Harris, with a passing diving boat, and then onwards to Skye in the same boat – journeys that took a few days in themselves. From Skye it was then a matter of using public transport and hitch-hiking for a further two days to get back to his car.

In all the journey took over a week but the radar station on St Kilda now has an energy-efficient boiler installation that will help to keep the cold out for the few people residing there.

 

1 July 2020

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