San Diego Shipbuilding Delivers Dinner Cruise Vessel To Bahia Resort

San Diego Shipbuilding & Repair, Inc. of Chula Vista, Calif., recently completed the dinner cruise/excursion vessel William D. Evans for the Bahia Resort Hotel on Mission Bay, San Diego. Built to look like a 19th century riverboat, the 600-passenger vessel, with an overall length of 127 feet, beam of 39 feet, and depth of 8 feet 6 inches, is classed by the American Bureau of Shipping and certified by the U.S. Coast Guard for operation on lakes, bays, and sounds.

Although the vessel is outfitted with an 18-foot-diameter wooden paddlewheel at the stern the propulsion is conventional, with power supplied by two Caterpillar 3406 BDITA diesel engines, each rated 322 bhp at 1,800 rpm. Electric power is supplied by 250-kw and 90-kw Caterpillar generators. She is equipped with a Wagner hydraulic steering system and Kobelt air engine control system operable from three stations, one in the pilothouse and one on each bridge wing. Bow thruster units, Omnithruster model OJM 450, have been installed for ease in maneuvering, especially during docking and undocking operations.

The electronics package includes a Raytheon 1200 radar, ICOM ICM80 VHF radiotelephone, Furuno FMV-601 depth recorder, RCA forward- and aft-looking video camera and monitors with pan and tele control, and a 16-station Comdial intercom system.

The Evans has been designed and built as a multipurpose platform capable of providing all forms of live and recorded entertainment, fullservice dinner parties, exhibit hall facilities, plus multiple meeting room and banquet arrangements.

Food will be served from a fully equipped galley below the main deck to each passenger level via a service elevator. There are two bars, stages, and wood dance floors. Stage areas are fitted with built-in amplifiers, sound mixers, enhancers, special effects controls, lighting controls, and speaker combinations for a band, disco, "canned" background music, and a stage revue.

As a meeting and banquet facility, the William D. Evans offers seating for more than 200 people on each of her enclosed air conditioned decks.

The deck areas are fitted with complete built-in audio/visual convention services including the capability for teleconference equipment, closed-circuit video, dual-screen slide projection, and remote control presentation display boards. The sun deck offers the attractive alternative for open-air meetings and banquets.

For further information and free literature on the services and facilities offered by San Diego Shipbuilding & Repair, Circle 88 on Reader Service Card

Maritime Reporter Magazine, page 8, Oct 1986

Read San Diego Shipbuilding Delivers Dinner Cruise Vessel To Bahia Resort in Pdf, Flash or Html5 edition of October 1986 Maritime Reporter

Other stories from October 1986 issue

Content

Maritime Reporter

First published in 1881 Maritime Reporter is the world's largest audited circulation publication serving the global maritime industry.