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Seaward Delivers New

Specially Designed

Foam-Filled Spar Buoy marine spar buoy.

Seaward International, Inc.,

Clearbrook, Va., recently delivered a specially designed, foam-filled marine spar buoy to the Naval Air

Center in Patuxent River, Md.

Because the operating param- eters of this buoy were unusually tight, it was essential for Seaward engineers to evaluate every aspect of spar buoy behavior to meet the strict requirements. This included close examination of a range of oper- ating loads and wave action har- monics on the buoy at various sea states.

Although relatively small (only 475 pounds of displacement), the buoy supplied by Seaward was re- quired to hold its mounting plat- form at a stable vertical elevation above the waterline while restrict- ing the degree of sway from the vertical to an absolute minimum. In addition, these parameters had to be held tight in sea states having 5 feet of wave action.

Seaward International, Inc. is an

Elastomer Technology Company serving the needs of the marine market through the production of foam-filled fenders, buoys, coatings and composite materials.

For further information on Sea- ward products,

Circle 22 on Reader Service Card

Nigel Fountaine Joins

Comsat As Director,

Maritime Consumer Sales

Comsat Mobile Communications,

Washington, D.C., has appointed

Nigel P. Fountaine as director, maritime consumer sales, reporting to Ed Ryznar, vice president, mari- time sales.

Prior to joining Comsat, Mr.

Fountaine was employed at

Magnavox Marine and Survey Sys- tems Division in Torrance, Calif., where he held the positions of North

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American sales manager and, most recently, Satcom product manager.

In his new capacity, Mr.

Fountaine will be responsible for developing Comsat's entry into the consumer maritime market, which will rely heavily on two emerging technologies for smaller vessels;

Inmarsat-C for data only, and

Inmarsat-M for compressed voice, data and fax services.

Both will be promoted heavily to owners of motor yachts and sailing vessels in the 50- to 100-foot range, who sail into international waters and would greatly benefit from a global communications capability, but who have not considered an

Inmarsat-A satellite system because of its size and cost.

Comsat Mobile Communications provides maritime, aeronautical and international land mobile commu- nications to customers around the world through its Inmarsat land earth stations, located in Southbury,

Conn., and Santa Paula, Calif.

Comsat Corporation represents the

U.S. in the 64-member Inmarsat and the 120-member International

Telecommunications Satellite Orga- nization (Intelsat).

For further information and free literature,

Circle 19 on Reader Service Card ¥>u Could LoseUpTb 94,000 Passengers

This^earlo Weight Problems.

A twin-diesel power plant can weigh over 40,000 pounds, and puts out 6,000 shp maximum. That can cost your ferry tons of passengers.

But substitute two TF40 turbines and the scales shift dramatically.

TF40's are just l/10ththe weight of comparable diesels, and they still give you over 8,000 3,454 mm you have lots more room for passengers.

That can mean as many as 94,000 more fares every year.*

So before you go diesel, weigh the alternative.

Call our Director of

Marine Marketing at (203) 385-3863 for more on the TF40.

The TF40. It puts the 1,854 mm 1,118 mm shp. So you get more speed —potentially enough to add an extra round trip a day.

And since TF40's use far less space,

L 1,321 mm

A diesel exhaust system alone weighs more than an entire TF40. That's a lot of fares gone up in smoke. people in the seats. And leaves the diesels on the dock.

Were OnThe Move. *Based on a 10% increase in passenger capacity on a 450-passenger ferry- operating three round trips per day, 350 days per year at 90% capacity.

For details and an estimate of how many more passengers the TF40 can put in your boat, call us at (203) 385-3863.

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