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Geo Shipyard Delivers

M/V Hoover & Truman

The crew boats Hoover and

Truman, a pair of 36-ft catamaran crew boats, were built for Axxis

Drilling Company to service their inland and near shore drilling rigs.

The vessels were designed by

Morrelli and Melvin Design &

Engineering group in Long

Beach, Calif.

The boats have seating for 13 passen- gers. The seats were built and furnished by

Sterlings

Upholstery in

New Iberia,

La. The aft two seat backs on the port side fold down to form a day bed for the captain to rest between trips. The vessels have two roof top HVAC units for comfort and are powered by a Kohler 5 kW generator. The vessels electronics packages are a Furuno 1834, 10- inch color radar and GPS unit, a

Garmin GPS unit, a Furuno depth sounder, a FLIRS night vision cam- era, a Ritchie compass, two Perko 10-inch spot lights and two Icom

VHF radios. The vessels are USCG certified for lakes, bays and sounds for 13 passengers. The vessels are surrounded with aircraft tire bumpers.

Photo courtesy Geo Shipyard, Inc.

Specifications:

Length, o.a. ................36 ft

Beam..........................12 ft

Depth ...........................3 ft

Draft..........................2.7 ft

Main propulsion..2x Mercury .......................300 hp each

Propeller ................Mercury

Generator .........Kohler 5 kW

Speed...................36 knots

Fuel capacity...........400 gal

Potable water capacity30 gal

Passenger capacity ........13

Crew................................1

Cargo capacity.....3,000 lbs

Kvichak Marine Industries has recently delivered a 30-ft rapid response oil skimmer fitted with a

Kvichak/Marco Pollution Control

CL-1 Filterbelt oil recovery module to Administração do Porto de Sines (APS), Portugal. This is the second skimming vessel fitted with the

Kvichak/Marco Filterbelt in the APS response fleet. The first was delivered in 1976 and is still in service.

Construction of the skimmer was supervised at Kvichak Marine in

Seattle by representatives of APS. The vessel was delivered early — less than 10 weeks from contract execution.

The Kvichak 30-ft rapid-response skimmer is a shallow-water capable, near shore skimming vessel and is ide- ally suited for use on oil spills in waterways, bays and harbors. The all- aluminum skimmer is easily trailered.

Powered by twin 60-70 hp outboards, the skimmer is capable of a response speed of over 17 knots and has a recovered oil capacity of 1,000 gal- lons.

Specifications:

Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30.3 ft

Beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 ft

Freeboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2.5 ft

Displacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7,000 lbs

Outboard engines . . . . .2x 60 hp, 4-stroke

Fuel capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 gal

Skimmer Delivered to Portugal

Photo courtesy Kvichak Marine

In December 2010 another towboat was added to the fleet of Higman

Marine Services’ subsidiary, Higman

Barge Lines.

As with many earlier boats the M/V

Baffin Bay was built by Hope Services of Dulac, La. But this boat is one of the newly designed and larger 78 by 34-ft vessels. Hull number 174 from

Hope’s yard is also the 36th vessel from Hope Services for Higman.

The boat continued the long estab- lished practice at Hope Services of installing a pair of 38-liter Cummins tier II compliant KTA38 engines each rated for 1,000 hp at 1,800 rpm. The engines turn into Twin Disc540 gears with 6.14:1 reduction. The two 85 kW generator sets are powered by

Cummins 6BTA engines.

Baffin Bay Delivered to Higman

Jeff L. Yates photo courtesy Cummins Marine