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Coastal Conference

Slated For August 13-16

In Newfoundland

The Associate Committee for Re- search on Shoreline Erosion and

Sedimentation, in cooperation with

Memorial University of Newfound- land, will present Canadian Coastal

Conference 1985 on August 13-16 at the Hotel Newfoundland in St.

John's. This conference is being organized as a forum for inter-disci- plinary discussion of Canadian scientific research and engineering practice in the coastal zone.

Session topics will include coastal processes and engineering, erosion and sedimentation, nearshore wave dynamics, and ice interaction with the coast and coastal structures.

For further information contact

D.H. Willis, National Research

Council, Building M-32, Montreal

Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OR6,

Canada; (613) 993-6629.

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Fiberglass Passenger Vessel Built

By Westport For Catalina Channel

Westport Shipyard, Inc., West- port, Wash., has delivered a 90-foot fiberglass vessel to Catalina Chan- nel Express Lines for service on pas- senger routes between Los Angeles

Harbor and Catalina Island.

Catalina Channel Express Lines, which already is equipped with

Westport-built vessels, serves both

Avalon, and Two Harbors at the

Isthmus of the southern California resort island. The new vessel will carry the name Catalina Express (shown above), in keeping with its status as the flagship of the fleet.

According to Doug Bombard, president of Catalina Channel Ex- press Lines, the boat will be able to carry as many as 149 passengers at speeds of up 30 knots on a run. Mr.

Bombard operates the company with his son Greg, who also serves as a skipper in the fleet.

The 1,700-hp, 21-foot-wide vessel was built in Westport's adjustable fiberglass mold with hull lines de- signed by Edwin Monk Jr., of

Bainbridge Island, Wash. Jack

Sarin, also of Bainbridge Island, designed the deckhouse and the in- terior arrangements which include airline-type seating in the main cab- in. A VIP lounge has been installed aft in the wheelhouse, while the top deck features open seating.

Westport built the 80-foot Avalon

Express, which was delivered last year, as well as an earlier 56-foot fiberglass vessel for the California operation.

The Catalina Express is driven by two 850-hp Detroit Diesel engines supplied through Pacific Diesel of

Portland, Ore. Wagner Engineering steering controls were supplied by

Hough Marine, Seattle. The Seattle firm of Alaska Diesel Electric fur- nished a 12-kw Northern Lights generator for electrical power.

Furthermore, the vessel's bow thruster came from Wesmar Marine

Electronics Company, Bothell,

Wash. Spencer Fluid Power of Seat- tle supplied the vessel's hydraulic system, which is arranged so that an additional hydraulically driven gen- erator can be added to the system.

Among other equipment, the boat has a Naiad Roll Control System to smooth out the ride in heavy seas.

Over the past several years, the firm in Westport, which is managed by brothers Randy and Rick

Rust, has turned out a number of 65-foot and up fiberglass vessels.

Vessels which have been built by the

Rust brothers, in addition to the

Avalon Express, include the 85-foot

Wesmar VI, an extensively ap- pointed electronics showcase boat operated by Wesmar Marine Elec- tronics; the 80-foot Glacier Spirit, in excursion service in Alaska; and the 95-foot luxury yachts Platypus and

Domino, the latter now in service as a charter vessel in the Mediterra- nean.

The Rusts, originally from Taco- ma, equipped the Westport plant with a number of advanced fiber- glass tools, including a semiauto- matic fiberglass impregnator from

Venus Products, Inc., Kent, Wash.

The brothers are now building an additional adjustable fiberglass mold with the bow section designed by Nickum & Spaulding Associates,

Seattle. This mold will allow con- struction of vessels of up to 120-feet in length.

Westport expects to use their new adjustable fiberglass mold to pro- duce a 112-foot hull, which will be delivered to a Canadian firm for fin- ishing a yacht.

For further information concern- ing Westport Shipyard,

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Alberti Named Managing

Director Of Selesmar

Carlo Alberti, formerly general manager of Selesmar S.p.A. of Fi- renze, Italy, has been appointed managing director of the company.

He joined Selesmar in 1981 when the company purchased the Marine

Radar Division of Salenia of Rome.

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