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Chandris Celebrity's 'Horizon/

Built By Meyer Werft,

Makes Her New York Debut

Chandris Celebrity Cruises' new- est addition, the 46,811-grt luxury liner Horizon recently made her de- but in New York City following her christening and subsequent voyage from Meyer Werft's shipyard in Pa- penburg, West Germany. Following her New York debut, the Horizon set sail on her inaugural cruise to

Bermuda.

The $185-million Horizon along with her sister ship, the Zenith, cur- rently under construction at Meyer

Werft, are the yard's largest new- buildings and the largest passenger ships ever built in the Federal Re- public of Germany.

The 4,300-dwt Horizon has an overall length of about 681 feet, molded breadth of 95 feet and draft of 23.6 feet.

The 12-deck ship is propelled by a father-and-son four-engine plant consisting of two MAN B&W 9 L 40/54 "father" engines with an out- put of 5,994 kw at 514 rpm each and two MAN B&W 6 L 40/54 "son" engines, each developing 3,996 kw at 514 rpm. The engine output is being transmitted via double reduction gears with integrated lamella cou- plings to the controllable pitch pro- peller plants. The main and auxilia- ry engines are designed to operate on heavy fuel oil IFO 600.

To insure an optimum maneuver- ability, the Horizon was fitted with two controllable pitch propeller plants, two bow thrusters, one stern thruster and two flap rudders which are operated by a joystick.

The stabilizers, which are abso- lutely necessary for a cruise vessel, are capable of reducing the rolling motion by 90 percent at a speed of 19.5 knots.

The 12-deck, MAN B&W-powered Horizon plies the waters of the Hudson River assisted by

Moran tugs in her New York debut.

The 1,354-passenger Horizon was built in compliance with the rules and regulations of the classification society Lloyd's Register of Shipping to the class notation + 100 A1 Pas- senger Ship + LMC, UMS World- wide Unrestricted Service.

The Liberian-flagged vessel has 533 outside and 144 inside cabins.

She has been designed with five decks, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 10, for cabin accommodations so that they are completely separated from public rooms. There are a total of 14 public rooms covering an area of about 6,100 square meters and arranged on decks 4, 5, 7, 8, 11 and 12.

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Furuno Introduces New Autopilot,

Compact, Lightweight Gyrocompass,

And 10-Inch Color Video Sounder

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Furuno U.S.A., San Francisco,

Calif., recently announced the intro- duction of several new products.

Furuno's new FAP-55 micropro- cessor-controlled autopilot features five operating modes, a large easy- to-read LCD display, built-in dodge steering, heading input from mag- netic compass, gyro, or fluxgate sen- sor and optional dual station with full function remote. All systems inputs are made via sealed touch- pads and the large backlit LCD screen shows full digital system in- formation and mode selected; an analog portion of the display shows rudder direction indicators and operator's choice of course devia- tion, rudder angle or cross-track er- ror.

The new GY-700 gyrocompass is a high-precision, reliable instrument for marine navigation. The self-con- tained master compass is compact and lightweight enough for installa- tion on almost any vessel, from workboat to megayacht. The com- bined advanced electronic technolo- gy and precision mechanical design result in a gyro with greatly reduced settling time: 30 minutes for ± 1 percent accuracy, and 60 minutes for ±0.5 percent accuracy once esti- mated latitude and heading are en- tered.

Furuno's new FCV-271 is a com- pact, simple-to-operate color video sounder designed for sport and com- mercial fishermen. It features a bright, high resolution 10-inch CRT that displays fish and bottom echoes in eight vivid colors to

Furuno's FCV-271 10-inch single frequency color video sounder. depths of 6,000 feet. Output power is 1,000 W rms, with choice of 28, 50, 88, or 200 kHz operating frequency.

Standard performance features, all selected from convenient front panel controls, include user's choice of range scale, six zoom and bottom lock ranges, variable range marker, surface clutter control, switchable noise limiter, signal level, blue/dark blue/black background color, fish/ bottom/temperature alarm, and au- tomatic bottom tracking.

For more information on the new

FAP-55 autopilot from Furuno,

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GY-700 gyrocompass,

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