AC Marine began in 2003 when Stefan was asked to help with the rigging of a commercial sailing barge. With the background of a manufacturing and mechanical engineering degree, 15 years living afloat and converting and rigging two barges over the years, he then decided to make is love, interest and enthusiasm his future professional career and created AC Marine. Together with John Tims, George Griffith and a couple of old hands in the boating trade very quickly the dormant Tims Boatyard at Staines was revived and an operating barge yard was established.

What does AC stand for? AC Marine stands for Anglo-Continental Marine.

Why Anglo-Continental - we believe that with the increase of barges and especially Dutch barges in the UK, it is beneficial to use best practice barge building principles as well as barge specific designs, components and equipment from the Continent as well as the UK.

We work closely with a number of barge yards and boat builders, surveyors, brokers, chandlers and charter agencies, mainly in Holland, in order to provide you with the best possible solution to your barging needs.

AC Marine Services aims to provide a One-Stop Shop to the barging community. That doesn’t mean you have to stop with us for all your needs but if required within our group we have experts for most aspects of barging. AC Marine Services is a group of professionals with years of experience in the boat and barging trade.

How do we operate - we have our core team based at Staines. Meet the AC Marine Team.
From here we run the barge yard, deal with enquires and manage all projects. Within our team we have two carpenters, a boats builder, a marine engineer and an electrician.
We don’t claim to be experts in everything and if we need more hands on deck or a specialist for a particular job we can draw on your extensive network of subcontractors, who we have used for many years. For surveys, brokerage, charter and deliveries we have a number of associates who exclusively work with AC Marine Services.

If you are interested to learn more about AC Marine or would like to meet us,
call Stefan on UK 0797-1199 712 or e-mail stefan@ac-marine.com