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Country Focus Australia

AUSTAL USA Launches 150-ft. Crew Boats

Austal USA has launched its first two vessels, Anapaula and Veronica from the new. high-tech facility in Mobile. Ala.

The 120 man workforce watched as on

December 2 — and then December 20. — each of the vessels made its way onto the launch barge supplied by part owner.

Bender Shipbuilding and onto a dry- dock for floating off. The Austal USA team produced these two vessels in just eight months in the large construction hall on the edge of the Mobile river.

These vessels are also the first of a new range of crew boats designed by Austal

Ships of Australia which vary in length from 135 ft. (41.1 m) up to 170 ft. (51.8 m). While alongside, these vessels will be commissioned followed by sea trials which are already underway for Ana- paula. the first to be launched. Han- dover to Otto Candies LLC will take place during January 2002.

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The Cat Completes Record

Canada-Australia Passage

A new record for the fastest sea pas- sage between Canada's East Coast and

Australia has been established by the

Incat's The Cat.

The Cat set out on its 10,294 nautical miles passage to Hobart, Tasmania from

Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy on Novem- ber 13. Just 15 days, two hours and 30 minutes later the craft was safely along- side at Incat's shipyard in Hobart.

The first leg of the voyage, a distance of 2,238 nautical miles averaging an impressive 37.5 knots, was completed on November 15 when The Cat arrived at the Panama Canal.

The next stage of the voyage, 4,500 nautical miles at an average speed of 26.47 knots, was accomplished when the craft arrived at Tahiti on 23 Novem- ber.

The third and final leg from Tahiti to

Hobart, a distance of 3,556 nautical miles, placed The Cat in Hobart at 0900hrs GMT (2,000 hrs. local) on

November 28 . beating all previous pas- sages between Canada and Tasmania.

Since The Cat started making the twice-yearly journey in 1998 the typical time taken has been around 20 days.

Each year since her delivery to Cana- da in 1998. The Cat has been chartered to TT Line by owners Bay Ferries of

Nova Scotia for the southern hemi- sphere summer season on Australia's

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