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Deutz-powered catamaran Dolphin will operate between San Francisco and San Pablo Bay for Crowley's Red & White Fleet.

Nichols Delivers Another Passenger

Catamaran To Red & White Fleet

Crowley Maritime's Red & White

Fleet recently took delivery of a new 86-foot catamaran intended for pas- senger service between San Francis- co and San Pablo Bay. The 400-pas- senger commuter vessel Dolphin was christened at the fitting-out yard of Nichols Brothers Boat

Builders, Inc. in Langley, Wash. It will provide the first ferry service between San Francisco and Vallejo in 49 years, according to David

Pence, general manager of the Red & White Fleet.

The new catamaran is a virtual sister vessel of the Catamarin, which the Red & White Fleet now operates between San Francisco and Marin

County.

Monday through Friday the Dol- phin will carry commuters on morn- ing and evening runs between the

Ferry Building in San Francisco and

Vallejo. It takes a commuter some

IV2 hours to drive from Vallejo to

San Francisco across the Oakland

Bay Bridge. The catamaran will make the same trip by water in about 50 minutes. At mid-day and on weekends, the vessel will carry passengers to Marine World/Africa

DOLPHIN

Major Suppliers

Main engines (2) Deutz

Reduction gears (2) Reintjes

Propellers (2) Coolidge

Propulsion controls . . . . Systems Engineering

Steering system Wagner

Motor starters . . . . Klockner-Moeller

Generators . . . Alaska Diesel Electric

Generator engines John Deere

Pumps . . . Pacific & Pump Industries

Lifesaving & marine hardware . Fisheries Supply

Valves Tsubota

Coatings . . . . . . International Paint

Wiring/fixtures . Hardware Specialties

Anchor & rope . Everett Steel

Doors & windows . . . Pacific Coast Marine

Piping Alaska Copper & Brass

Radars (2) . . . Furuno

Loran C . . . .

Depth sounder Ross

Speed log . . Datamarine

VHF radiotelephone Raytheon

Aluminum plates and shapes Reynolds

Anchor winch . . Washington Chain

October, 1986

U.S.A., a new theme park being built on San Pablo Bay.

Like other Nichols-built catama- rans, the Dolphin was designed by

International Catamarans, Pty, Ltd. of Sydney, Australia. The vessel has a beam of 31 feet 6 inches, depth to the main deck of 9 feet 2 inches, and design full-load draft of 7 feet 2 inches. Fuel capacity is 4,000 gallons and fresh water 1,000 gallons.

Two Deutz B16AM 816 diesel en- gines, supplied by KHD Canada, each with an output of 1,346 bhp, will drive the vessel at a top speed of 30 knots via Reintjes WVS 832 reduction gears with ratio of 1:2.29, supplied by Karl Senner, Inc. The power train includes Coolidge 5- bladed stainless steel propellers,

Systems Engineering propulsion controls, and Hough-Wagner steer- ing system. The electronics suite, supplied by PSI of Seattle, includes two Furuno radars, Furuno Loran

C, Ross depth sounder, Datamarine sea temperature/speed log system, and Raytheon VHF.

Three other International Cata- marans-designed vessels are under construction in U.S. yards. Nichols will deliver a 100-foot, MWM-pow- ered cat to Robert and Lori

Giersdorf for use by Glacier Bay

Yacht Tours this fall. A 78-foot ves- sel powered by Rolls Royce engines for use as a diving party boat in the

Bahamas is nearing completion in

Florida, and Gladding-Hearn Ship- yard in Somerset, Mass., will build a 79-foot catamaran for an eastern buyer.

Other vessels under contract at the Nichols yard on Whidbey Island in Freland, Wash., include a 150- foot topsail schooner that will be

Hyundai Introduces

Three Standard Crude

Oil Tanker Designs

Recent increases in the oil trade have prompted more tanker owners to bring their laid-up tonnage into service, while studying possibilities of replacing obsolete vessels with competitive new ones. This trend could lead to increased demand for large- and medium-sized tankers, though a more moderate scale than the tanker boom of the early 1970s.

In order to swiftly meet such mar- ket conditions, Hyundai Heavy In- dustries Company, Ltd. (HHI) re- cently introduced three standard crude oil tanker designs with dead- weights of 254,000, 156,000, and 114,000 tons. Their hull form is shaped for minimum resistance and structured for increased speed and greater deadweight capacity with as used as a medical ship in Microne- sia, and a sternwheel excursion ves- sel for use in Fairbanks, Alaska.

In another development, the

Washington State Department of

Transportation has announced it will purchase the 86-foot catamaran

Glacier Express from the Giers- dorfs and use it to initiate passen- ger-only ferry service between Seat- tle and Bremerton, Wash., in Octo- ber this year. The vessel will be reconditioned and renamed; Nichols delivered the Glacier Express in 1985.

To obtain free literature fully de- scribing the shipbuilding services and facilities of Nichols Brothers,

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HHI began its shipbuilding oper- ation with the construction of two

VLCCs in 1973. Since then the Kor- ean yard has become a leader in the area of crude oil tankers. Its wide experience with this type ship in- cludes delivery of 12 VLCCs, eleven 62,500-dwt crude oil tankers, and four of 80,000 dwt. HHI currently has four tankers on its orderbook, including one 254,000-dwt VLCC.

For further information and free color brochures on HHI's standard tanker designs,

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