Workboats

Elastec’s Omni Catamaran was featured on “Hometown Heroes” Episode 106. The video focuses on Elastec’s involvement with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Clean The Bay Day. Since the event began in 1989, Clean the Bay Day has engaged approximately 161,700 volunteers who have removed more than 7.1 million pounds of debris from more than 8,000 miles of shoreline. […]

Elastec’s Omni Catamaran, an innovative trash-skimming boat, will be navigating the waters of Norfolk and Portsmouth with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) during their 30th annual Clean the Bay Day the morning of Saturday, June 2, 2018. Elastec is bringing the Omni Catamaran to clean up trash, debris, and litter in the waters of Hampton Roads. A group

The two Elastec Omni Catamaran skimmer boats (Skimmy Dipper and Skim Pickens) operated by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago were recently featured in a story from Chicago Tonight. The article describes how the two river skimmer boats are doing the dirty work of keeping the Chicago River Clean, especially with the summer tourism season on its

The following excerpt appeared in the November 2017 issue of Pompano! Magazine By Marie Puleo Every month, a cleanup crew patrols over 100 of Pompano’s canals on a work boat, fishing our trash using nets and gaffs, a slow and difficult process. But the city’s recent purchase of an automated skimmer boat is expected to improve