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VESSELS tract. With delivery order in hand, this Program of Record purpose-built pilot boat design by naval architect Bill Pres- contract is for over eight–hundred Wing P4.7 (7-Person ton. The design utilizes the weight of a single bow-mount-

In? atable Combat Raiding Craft), and over six-hundred ed diesel engine and an extremely sharp forward entry to

Wing P5.8 (15-Person In? atable Combat Assault Craft), slice levelly through waves as opposed to riding over the top along with Wing collapsible fuel bladders and Evinrude/ of the crests and then plummeting into the troughs. Due to

BRP 30hp Multi-Fuel Engines. FoBaM is a ? ve-year ful- its enhanced stability, this proven design is used by several ? llment contract, accompanied by 10 years of sustain- pilot groups operating in the often adverse open ocean con- ment. Signi? cantly, it’s the largest in? atable boat contract ditions encountered along Florida’s Atlantic Coast. Metal ever awarded by any of the U.S. Armed Forces. Using Shark added its own unique touches to the design, such as a Computer Aided Design program, the only one of its its use of wraparound “pillarless” glass in the pilothouse to kind in the world — custom-built for Wing, the software substantially reduce blind spots for greatly enhanced safety streamlines the process of tube design, taking into account during inclement weather or night operations. unique polyurethane stretch along the horizontal, vertical and diagonal axis for a tighter ? t, higher performance and Eastern Shipbuilding’s Thunderbolt Vision better looks. In 2015, Eastern Shipbuilding Group unveiled its vi- sion of the future for inland waterways with its 120 foot,

EBDG-designed CAPE HORN Delivered into Service 4,200 horsepower Inland Towboat design. The THUN-

Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) earlier this year an- DERBOLT combines Twin Electric V-Pod Propulsion and nounced the delivery into service of the CAPE HORN, Diesel-Electric Technology, providing increased ef? ciency, a Specialty Oil? eld Vessel that it designed. EBDG part- performance, maneuverability, crew comfort and capacity. nered with Gulf of Mexico Operator SeaMar, LLC and Eastern is now integrating their proven “Tiger Shark Class”

Gulf Island Marine Fabricators on the class design and Diesel-Electric technology into a re? ned, environmentally production engineering for the ship. The design of the friendly, highly maneuverable Inland Towboat design.

CAPE HORN was developed from concept to produc- Working with Gilbert Associates, the THUNDERBOLT tion in EBDG’s Gulf Coast of? ce and features an innova- has been designed using ABS Class Rules for Building and tive tank farm unique to Specialty Design Oil? eld Vessels. Classing Steel Vessels for Service on Rivers and Intracoast-

EBDG provided full design services including structural, al Waterways-2014. It is also designed to the Proposed mechanical, piping and out? tting design, and served as the U.S. Coast Guard 46CFR (Sub-Chapter M) Towing Ves- primary point of contact for all regulatory body requests sel Rules and IEEE 45 2002 Standards. In a nutshell, the for information. THUNDERBOLT is a 120’ Inland River Class Towboat with 690VAC diesel-electric and twin azimuthing Ver-

Metal Shark Pilot Boat for Canaveral Pilots haar Omega electric V-Pod Propulsion Units. Cummins

A pilot boat delivered this past year to the Canaveral Pi- Mid-South, LLC is providing the generator package with lots Association at Port Canaveral, Florida is a custom 45- 3 identical diesel-electric power plants, Cummins QSK38- foot aluminum vessel built at Metal Shark’s newly-opened DM. The vessel’s design offers enhanced performance of shipyard in Franklin, Louisiana. Canaveral Pilots speci? ed a V-Pod propulsion, diesel-electric with constant speed gen-

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