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BOATS & BARGES

Blount Marine Delivers 192-Foot Dinner/Excursion Boat

M/V Spirit Of Boston

Blount Marine Corporation, War- ren, R.I., recently announced the delivery of the M/V Spirit of Boston to Holiday Cruise II, Inc., a subsid- iary of Cruise International head- quartered in Norfolk, Va.

The 192-foot-long by 35-foot- wide dinner/excursion boat carries a crew of 75 who are responsible for vessel operations, gourmet food ser-

The Caterpillar-powered Spirit of Boston is the largest and most elegant of more than 25 dinner/excursion vessels designed and constructed at Blount Marine Corporation.

SPIRIT OF BOSTON

Equipment List

Main Engines .... Caterpillar Sanitary water

Reduction gears .... Twin Disc pressure set . . . . . Lowara Pump

Propellers .... Spirit Marine Equipment Bilge pump .... Jabsco

Engine Controls .... . . Mathers MMC Fire pump . . . Gorman-Rupp

Auxiliary engines . . . .... Caterpillar Radar Furuno

Bow thruster engine . . .... Caterpillar Depth sounder . . .... Datamarine

Keel coolers . . . . Fernstrum Compass Dirigo

Steering system .... Wagner Air horn Kahlenberg

Freshwater Search light .... ITT Jabsco pressure set .... . . .Aurora Pump HVAC . . . Dunham-Bush vice, and entertainment. The vessel will operate in Boston Harbor and is certified for 600 passengers on three fully enclosed, carpeted, climate- controlled decks. The ship provides a luxurious change of pace for din- ing, weddings, company functions, and special events.

The Spirit of Boston will join six other ships built by Blount for

Cruise International. They are based in New York, Chicago, Los

Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington and New Jersey.

Luther H. Blount, president and founder, has specialized in building dinner boats. While vis- iting France in the late 1960s, he studied the operation of the Ba- teaux Mouches, one of the first din- ner boat enterprises, which began in

Paris in the early 70s. The Bateaux

Mouches served as a model for

Blount's first dinner boats, the Le- bateaux fleet which operated out of

Washington, D.C., and Ft. Lauder- dale, Fla.

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HIGH

PRESSURE

TOGO!

Jofra's all-new

DPC family now has a variety of solutions to the problems of field calibration.

If you need to adjust gauges, pressure switches, transmitters, transducers, safety valves, fuel nozzles or pressure systems you need a Jofra DPC. The DPCs accept hydraulic oil or water as their media and are supplied with a screw pump.

DPC models are available with pressure ranges from 1 PS I up to 5,000 PSI.

Each Jofra DPC calibrator set consists of a precision indicator with an accurate strain gauge transducer, a pressure source and accessories packed in a rugged carrying case ready for use.

For complete information or to arrange a demonstration, contact us today. 22 Manhasset Ave.. Manhasset, NY 11050 (516) 767-9505 Fax (516) 767-9527 iillliiiiiiiii^ - BAY QUEER CRIES- 114 x 39. "Vistarama" by Blount Marine Corp., Warren Rl (401) 245-8300 "I set out to build a better boat.

It had to have the best engines."

Luther Blount chose Lugger 400 hp 6125A diesels and two Northern Lights 125 kW/1200 rpm gensets for his new

Vistarama dinner- excursion vessel.

Based on its 10+ knot performance, quiet operation and stingy fuel use, he ordered Lugger-Northern Lights power for his new 173 foot mini- cruise vessel. Here's what he says.

Blount on the Lugger 6125: "In a cruise boat, people are paying for comfort. You need quiet engines. That's why we used 1200 rpm Northern Lights gensets too." "Luggers are slim; easier to install than most V-engines. There's less clutter and more room around the engine. 1 like the Bosch-type injection

Lugger uses. You don't have to tear the engine apart to work on it. And they use a lot less fuel than some of the engines we have used. Plus

Luggers are lighter in weight, and that's important for shallow draft." "They're working out so well that we're putting two Luggers and three

Northern Lights in our new shallow draft 173 footer. That's how much I think of these engines."

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