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Cover photos (clockwise from logo): Semi- submersible off the coast of Corpus Christi (American Petroleum Institute); Guided missile frigate Robert G. Bradley, FFG-49 (Navy photo); Diamond M Eagle semisub- mersible off the Louisiana coast (American

Petroleum Institute); OTC '88 exhibits;

Guided missile frigate Aubrey Fitch, FFG-34 (Navy photo); (inset) Aegis guided missile cruiser, USS Ticonderoga, CG-47 (Navy photo).

Preview-OTC '89 (photo: Jackup drilling rig in Gulf of Mexico,

API)

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Preview-ASNE Day (photo: Battleship Iowa, BB 61, underway during sea trials off the Mississippi coast,

Navy photo)

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Balehi Marine Converts

Crewboat Into Party

Charter Yacht 'Celebrity'

Balehi Marine, Inc. of Lacombe,

La., recently converted a former crewboat, the Grandeur, into a yacht for use as a party charter boat in New York Harbor by Peter

Mercurio of Leisure Yacht Sales.

The vessel, renamed the Celebri- ty, was stripped, a new steel super- structure added aft and an alumi- num stateroom installed behind the pilothouse. It was rewired, piped and outfitted to yacht standards.

Extensive steel repairs were neces- sary because the hull had been ex- tensively dented, as happens to crewboats in rough water service when loading crews and supplies up against oil rigs in heavy seas.

A complete new electronic pack- age was installed, consisting of Ray- theon radar and loran, Uniden

VHF, Apelco hailer, Data Marine

Fathometer, and Newmar Phone in- tercom.

The 100-foot-long Celebrity is

USCG certificated for 149 passen- gers. She is powered by two Cater- pillar D-348 engines and two Gener- al Motors generators, one 40 kw and the other 30 kw. Speed is 20 mph.

The vessel, which is now like new, was bought and converted for less than $700,000, which is approxi- mately one-fourth the coast of building a new, identical boat.

For free literature giving full de- tails on the facilities and capabili- ties of Balehi Marine shipyard,

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