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www.marinelink.com MN 23 a total of 200 tons of scrap.” Martin has grown his fleet to include two 85- ft single-screw boats, one 95-ft single screw and a 100-ft twin-screw boat.

Recently they had a powerful 110 by 28-ft shrimper style vessel built at

Rodriguez Shipyard in Bayou La

Batre. Rodriguez has built a lot of shrimp boats in the past, but this new boat shares a bit of heft with the jack- up boats that Rodriguez has been building of late. The new shrimper/clean-up boat is built much heavier than a conventional Gulf shrimper. Named the Poncho, it is powered by a pair of 850 hp Cummins

KTA38 main engines turning into

Twin Disc 5321 gears with 6:1 ratios.

This adds up to 1,700 hp, significant- ly more power than a conventional shrimper, but it is power that will be put to good use scraping pieces of oil- rig off the bottom of the Gulf of

Mexico. The new boat from Rodriguez is also fitted with two Cummins-pow- ered 65 kW generator sets. There is plenty of work for the new boat.

Martin explained that to tow the grid on a 1,320-ft radius around a platform will take about four and a half days when it is all cleaned up. But they have spent up to 90 days cleaning the mess created when hurricane Katrina tipped a rig into the Gulf. The final part of a clean-up requires that conventional gear be towed over the area. Martin uses four 50-ft nets with two-inch mesh, equal to what most shrimpers in the area are using. For the clean-up to be approved these lighter nets must be towed on a north-south and then an east-west grid.

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Because of the increasing ship traffic and safety concerns, the design of pilot boats used to transfer pilots to and from ships has evolved signifi- cantly in recent years. Cat marine engines will power the majority of the new breed of pilot boats built for ports across Canada. The

Laurentian Pilotage Authority (LPA), based in Montreal, recently commis- sioned a new pilot boat constructed at Hike Metal Products Ltd. shipyard and designed by Lengkeek Vessel

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Cat dealer Toromont was in charge of supplying the propulsion machin- ery and generator sets.