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Design & Build “The boat is 100% custom-modi? ed and designed from scratch,” said Bryan Nichols, Director of Sales at Seattle’s

Vigor Fab, the fabrication and new-build arm of Vigor In- dustrial. Jensen Maritime Consultants won the bid to de- sign the boat in June 2014. “A bid went out to a group of shipyards and Vigor won the bid at $11,637,660.”

While the new ? reboat cannot provide electrical power offshore, it does have a requirement for providing continu- ous pumping onshore for 72 hours through twenty-eight discharge manifolds where attack hoses from ? re engines could be hooked up. In extreme emergencies, such as land ? res from a major earthquake, the new ? reboat can pump for up to two weeks. The twin engine, shaft, rudder, and propeller ? reboat has a top speed of twelve knots and comes with one bow thruster and two underwharf monitors, one monitor on the port and starboard side of the bow. The boat will also have foam inductors and a 1,000 gallon ? re? ghting foam capacity. Vigor laid the keel in November of 2014.

The boat will have an ABS Grade A steel hull with a 5083 (plate) and 5086 (shapes) aluminum alloy superstructure.

The Pilothouse glass will be ½” thick and defrosters are standard with a defroster on each forward facing window, three defrosters on the side windows, and two defrosters on the rear windows. Steel composes the underwharf monitor boxes, which are 1,500 GPM nozzles remotely-controlled via hydraulics from the Pilothouse. The railings and search- lights are made of aluminum while the discharge manifolds on the deck will consist of stainless steel. “The boat uses commercial off-the-shelf, but state-of-the-art technology— everything will be new,” said Lietzenmayer.

The boat additionally comes with a standard warranty of one year for craftsmanship, which may be extended on some parts, and expected sixty-year hull life expectancy. The new ? reboat will have three decks, a Machinery Deck below the

Main Deck with a workshop, a storage room, an engine room with two Cummins QSK19 engines and a steering gear room, a Main Deck with a command center, a restroom and an equipment storage room, and a Pilothouse Deck.

Lietzenmayer described the Pilothouse interior, saying “The Pilothouse will have a console in the forward-most part of the Pilothouse that will have steering and propul- sion controls on the outboard sides. The center of the con- sole is reserved for the ? re? ghting controls. Touchscreen panels will be installed for the AMS [Automated Monitor- ing System]. There will be a display to monitor off-ship ? re? ghting pump discharge pressure. An analog pressure gauge will be mounted in the console to monitor overall system pressure.” www.marinelink.com

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