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Deutz-powered catamaran Dolphin will operate between San Francisco and San Pablo Bay for Crowley's Red & White Fleet.
Nichols Delivers Another Passenger
Catamaran To Red & White Fleet
Crowley Maritime's Red & White
Fleet recently took delivery of a new 86-foot catamaran intended for pas- senger service between San Francis- co and San Pablo Bay. The 400-pas- senger commuter vessel Dolphin was christened at the fitting-out yard of Nichols Brothers Boat
Builders, Inc. in Langley, Wash. It will provide the first ferry service between San Francisco and Vallejo in 49 years, according to David
Pence, general manager of the Red & White Fleet.
The new catamaran is a virtual sister vessel of the Catamarin, which the Red & White Fleet now operates between San Francisco and Marin
County.
Monday through Friday the Dol- phin will carry commuters on morn- ing and evening runs between the
Ferry Building in San Francisco and
Vallejo. It takes a commuter some
IV2 hours to drive from Vallejo to
San Francisco across the Oakland
Bay Bridge. The catamaran will make the same trip by water in about 50 minutes. At mid-day and on weekends, the vessel will carry passengers to Marine World/Africa
DOLPHIN
Major Suppliers
Main engines (2) Deutz
Reduction gears (2) Reintjes
Propellers (2) Coolidge
Propulsion controls . . . . Systems Engineering
Steering system Wagner
Motor starters . . . . Klockner-Moeller
Generators . . . Alaska Diesel Electric
Generator engines John Deere
Pumps . . . Pacific & Pump Industries
Lifesaving & marine hardware . Fisheries Supply
Valves Tsubota
Coatings . . . . . . International Paint
Wiring/fixtures . Hardware Specialties
Anchor & rope . Everett Steel
Doors & windows . . . Pacific Coast Marine
Piping Alaska Copper & Brass
Radars (2) . . . Furuno
Loran C . . . .
Depth sounder Ross
Speed log . . Datamarine
VHF radiotelephone Raytheon
Aluminum plates and shapes Reynolds
Anchor winch . . Washington Chain
October, 1986
U.S.A., a new theme park being built on San Pablo Bay.
Like other Nichols-built catama- rans, the Dolphin was designed by
International Catamarans, Pty, Ltd. of Sydney, Australia. The vessel has a beam of 31 feet 6 inches, depth to the main deck of 9 feet 2 inches, and design full-load draft of 7 feet 2 inches. Fuel capacity is 4,000 gallons and fresh water 1,000 gallons.
Two Deutz B16AM 816 diesel en- gines, supplied by KHD Canada, each with an output of 1,346 bhp, will drive the vessel at a top speed of 30 knots via Reintjes WVS 832 reduction gears with ratio of 1:2.29, supplied by Karl Senner, Inc. The power train includes Coolidge 5- bladed stainless steel propellers,
Systems Engineering propulsion controls, and Hough-Wagner steer- ing system. The electronics suite, supplied by PSI of Seattle, includes two Furuno radars, Furuno Loran
C, Ross depth sounder, Datamarine sea temperature/speed log system, and Raytheon VHF.
Three other International Cata- marans-designed vessels are under construction in U.S. yards. Nichols will deliver a 100-foot, MWM-pow- ered cat to Robert and Lori
Giersdorf for use by Glacier Bay
Yacht Tours this fall. A 78-foot ves- sel powered by Rolls Royce engines for use as a diving party boat in the
Bahamas is nearing completion in
Florida, and Gladding-Hearn Ship- yard in Somerset, Mass., will build a 79-foot catamaran for an eastern buyer.
Other vessels under contract at the Nichols yard on Whidbey Island in Freland, Wash., include a 150- foot topsail schooner that will be
Hyundai Introduces
Three Standard Crude
Oil Tanker Designs
Recent increases in the oil trade have prompted more tanker owners to bring their laid-up tonnage into service, while studying possibilities of replacing obsolete vessels with competitive new ones. This trend could lead to increased demand for large- and medium-sized tankers, though a more moderate scale than the tanker boom of the early 1970s.
In order to swiftly meet such mar- ket conditions, Hyundai Heavy In- dustries Company, Ltd. (HHI) re- cently introduced three standard crude oil tanker designs with dead- weights of 254,000, 156,000, and 114,000 tons. Their hull form is shaped for minimum resistance and structured for increased speed and greater deadweight capacity with as used as a medical ship in Microne- sia, and a sternwheel excursion ves- sel for use in Fairbanks, Alaska.
In another development, the
Washington State Department of
Transportation has announced it will purchase the 86-foot catamaran
Glacier Express from the Giers- dorfs and use it to initiate passen- ger-only ferry service between Seat- tle and Bremerton, Wash., in Octo- ber this year. The vessel will be reconditioned and renamed; Nichols delivered the Glacier Express in 1985.
To obtain free literature fully de- scribing the shipbuilding services and facilities of Nichols Brothers,
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HHI began its shipbuilding oper- ation with the construction of two
VLCCs in 1973. Since then the Kor- ean yard has become a leader in the area of crude oil tankers. Its wide experience with this type ship in- cludes delivery of 12 VLCCs, eleven 62,500-dwt crude oil tankers, and four of 80,000 dwt. HHI currently has four tankers on its orderbook, including one 254,000-dwt VLCC.
For further information and free color brochures on HHI's standard tanker designs,
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