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Midstream it

Shift it

Tankering — load or offload

Steam the product

Change of cargo washing

Gas freeing

Minor wet dock repair

Fleet it

Koch-Ellis is your marine supermarket for one stop tank barge service. p^OCH-£LLIS MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN WATERWAYS OPERATORS, INC. ts BARGE & SHIP SERYIC E

Call: (504) 436-3766 P.O. Box 9130 Westwego, LA 70094

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Derrick Barges 25 to 200 Tons Capacity

BARGES FROM ZIDELL

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For Sale or Lease

You can order a deck, cargo, crane, tank or dry cargo barge built to your exact specifications... and then lease it from

Zidell at lower cost than owning your own. A lease plan, custom-tailored to fit your needs, long or short term, gives you the best of both worlds: a barge built to precisely serve your needs, leased from one of the country's best known marine equipment lessors. Send for a free book- let on our leasing and charter programs.

If you're presently operating a barge which has out-lived its original design use, look to Zidell to convert it. We rou- tinely convert lumber and deck barges to oil barges, retrofit oil barges, build float- ing derricks and virtually anything else you may require in unmanned marine equipment. Send for a free booklet tell- ing what we can do for you in building, fitting, retrofitting or conversion of all kinds of barges. 3121 S.W. Moody Ave.

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Ask for Tom Sherwood or Bill Gobel

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Nichols Brothers To Build

Catamaran Cruise Ship

For Glacier Bay Yacht Tours

Drawing of the Executive Explorer, which will be able to operate on voyages with a range of 2,600 miles.

Nichols Brothers Boat Builders Inc., Free- land, Wash., is building a 30-meter (99-foot), 25- knot catamaran for operation by Glacier Bay

Yacht Tours, Inc., that will provide luxury pas- senger accommodations for 49 people in 25 staterooms.

The catamaran, being built for Robert and

Lori Giersdorf of Seattle who will in turn lease the vessel to Glacier Bay Yacht Tours, Inc., will be delivered in time for the early summer cruising season in Alaska, according to Mr.

Giersdorf.

The cruise vessel, which will carry the name

M/V Executive Explorer, is being built to inter- national shipbuilding and safety standards for domestic and international operations. Glacier

Bay expects to operate the vessel in Hawaii and the South Pacific during winter seasons.

Matt Nichols, president of the building yard, said that the vessel will be the largest cruising catamaran ever built in the U.S., and may well be unique among world cruise ships.

Accommodations in the triple-deck vessel will include a forward view lounge on the main deck.

The dining room aft will have full sitdown meal service from a well-appointed galley.

For further information on the full services and facilities offered by Nichols Brothers Boat

Builders,

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Thomson-Gordon Introduces New

Acrylic Adhesive For Bonding

Thordon Elastomeric Bearings —Literature Available

A new acrylic adhesive, called TG-6, has been introduced by Thomson-Gordon Limited of

Burlington, Ontario, Canada, for bonding its

Thordon elastomeric marine bearings and bear- ing materials to a wide range of backing metals, including steel and nonferrous metals.

The adhesive is primarily intended for the installation of Thordon propeller-shaft and rud- der-shaft bearings by shipyards, large boat- builders and marine and fishing-boat repair depots. Depending upon the application, the bearing or bearing staves can be bonded to the shaft housing rather than being shrink fitted using dry ice or liquid nitrogen.

TG-6 provides room-temperature curing and gives, according to the manufacturer, an excep- tionally strong bond, resistant to oil and water.

The surface should be cleaned and the activator applied. The adhesive is then applied and the joint made and tightly clamped for two to five minutes at 23° C (77° F), when handling strength is achieved. Working strength is reached in 60 minutes, full strength in 24 hours.

For further literature containing full informa- tion,

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