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BOATBUILDING

Some of Vigor’s Alaskan Shipyard operations staff

Courtesy: Vigor “In the Seattle yard, we’re now on our second class for building ferries for them.

There’s a wonderful sort of momentum around building ferries. Again, now both in Alaska and in Seattle, and we’re seeing a national interest and we’re becoming known as ferry builders across the nation.” – Joe Corvelli, Vigor Industrial’s Sr. Vice President of Fabrication and Sales water and it’s pretty prone to weather conditions, as much form numerically based optimization on the hull form. of Alaska is,” said Vigor’s Adam Beck. “Some of the big chal- A model of this optimized hull form was then created by lenges that they deal with are not only the heavy seas, but Force and tested to con