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(Image: AAM) with symmetrical bow, asymmetrical tunnel and integrated wave piercer.

Power for the propeller driven vessel will be provided by a pair of Cummins

QSB 6.7 Tier 3 engines rated 250 mhp at 2,600 rpm and auxiliary power will be supplied via a Cummins Onan 21.5kW generator. The suite of deck gear in- cludes a hydraulic A-frame, davit, sci- enti? c winch, side mount sonar strut, and moon pool with deployable sonar strut.

Hawboldt Wins

Tidal Winch Deal

Hawboldt Industries won a multimil- lion dollar contract with the Cape Sharp

Tidal project, which has potential to be the ? rst grid-connected tidal array in the world. Hawboldt was awarded a $4.7-million contract for the design and manufacturing of three heavy lift winches to be used on the OpenHydro deployment and recovery barge. Cape

Sharp Tidal is a partnership between

OpenHydro – a DCNS company – and

Emera Inc. to develop a tidal industry in

Nova Scotia.

OpenHydro has extensive experience using this winch technology in turbine installations. It was ? rst safely and suc- cessfully used in the Bay of Fundy in 2009, as well as in subsequent turbine deployments throughout Europe.

“This is an important opportunity for our business,” said Hawboldt Industries

GM, John Huxtable. “Cape Sharp Tidal is a major project for our region and we’re happy our local expertise will be right there on the water as part of it.”

In its ? rst phase, Cape Sharp Tidal will deploy two, 2MW, grid-connected tur- bines off Parrsboro, NS later this year.

The project aims to progress in phases toward a 300MW, commercial scale in- dustry in the 2020s.

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