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B B , I .LOUNT OATS NC

Blount has been building high quality, innovative shal- 461 Water Street low draft designs for 66 years. Blount’s designs have cre-

Warren, RI 02885 ated new industries such as dinner boats and mini-cruise

Telephone: (401) 245-8300 vessels and also improved ef? ciency in the ? shing and oil

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.blountboats.com and gas industry. In April of this year, Blount Boats de-

CEO/President: Marcia Blount livered the Atlantic Pioneer, America’s ? rst U.S.-? agged

Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) for Atlantic Wind Transfers.

It began service for Deep Water Wind Block Island at the end of May. The 21-meter aluminum vessel was de- signed by South Boats IOW (Isle of Wight), who has de- signed and built approximately 81 crew transfer vessels for the European Offshore Wind Sector servicing wind farms throughout Europe. In 2011 Blount Boats signed an exclusive licensing agreement with South Boats cov- ering the U.S. offshore wind industry. The South Boats’

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Over time, the Blount shipyard has built more than 21m is a twin hulled, all aluminum catamaran, dual cer- ti? ed to USCG Subchapter T (Small Passenger) to carry 365 vessels. Today, Blount Boats’ clients include Fire Is- land Ferries, Casco Bay Island Transit District, Puerto Rico up to 47 passengers and subchapter L (Offshore Supply and Municipal Islands Maritime Authority, Spirit Cruises, Vessel) to carry up to 16 offshore workers. Over the past

Circle Line Statue of Liberty (Hornblower), South Ferry three years, Blount has delivered 30 vessels, including on Shelter Island, Long Island, and the Kwajalein Army a series of 16-meter aluminum crew boats, built under license with Damen.

Base on the Marshall Islands.

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B H RISTOL ARBOR

Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. (BHGI) is a full service naval

G , I .ROUP NC architecture and marine engineering ? rm located on the 99 Poppasquash Rd. Unit H harbor in Bristol, Rhode Island. BHGI has produced more

Bristol, RI 02809 than 50 unique designs to which more than 100 vessels

Telephone: (401) 253-4318 have been built. Specializing in commercial vessel design

E-mail: [email protected] and consulting, the ? rm’s experience spans tugs, barges,

Website:

ATB’s, passenger vessels, dredges and yachts. The BHGI http://bristolharborgroup.com/ professional team hails from some of the best naval archi-

President: Greg Beers, P.E.

tecture schools in the country. and the Gulf Venture, has recently been delivered to its owner, John W. Stone Oil Distributor. BHGI was respon-

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BHGI has been working on a number of projects sible for the design and engineering of both vessels. Both through its second contract with the U.S. Army Corps vessels were built at Conrad Shipyard in Amelia, LA under of Engineers (USACE), Philadelphia District. One of the ABS survey.

projects that BHGI is currently working on with the US-

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ACE is the design of a wicket lifting vessel for operation at the Olmsted Lock & Dam on the Ohio River. Extensive BHGI is one of the leading naval architecture and ma- use of both Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and rine engineering ? rms in the country. Constantly innovat-

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) was incorporated in the ing and pushing their work product to the limits, BHGI design process to ensure that the vessel is capable of per- has years of experience providing naval architecture, ma- forming the necessary operational and maintenance crane rine engineering, and project consulting services to the lifts. An Articulated Barge unit (ATB), the Gulf Carrier marine industry.

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