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ancy when fully flooded. An impact test was also conducted, which re- quired the completed prototype to be loaded with weights equal to the number of persons approved for the rescue boat, and hung by its single point release mechanism. The boat was then pulled laterally to a posi- tion so that when released, it struck a concrete vertical surface at a ve- locity of 11.5 feet per second without sustaining damage effecting its operation.

To obtain USCG approval to

SOLAS 74/83 of its 22-foot rescue boat, Willard Marine has invested in excess of $200,000 in engineer- ing, prototype construction and test- ing, indepedent laboratory costs, and the production of comprehensive training, operations, and mainte- nance manuals. The company is now beginning the same SOLAS process for its 18-foot RIB.

Willard Marine is currently pro- ducing a run of its 22-foot SOLAS rescue boats for use by the U.S.

Navy auxiliary fleet oilers under construction at Avondale Industries,

New Orleans, La.

In business for over 30 years,

Willard Marine is a designer and builder of fiberglass RIBs and other boats from 18 to over 60 feet in size for commercial and military mar- kets.

For free literature detailing the 22-foot SOLAS rescue boat from Wil- lard Marine and its other RIB de- signs,

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Under Construction

At Tri-Star Marine

Tri-Star Marine, Inc., Seattle,

Wash., is readying a 3,000-horse- power tugboat for delivery this month to Anderson Tug & Barge of

Seward, Alaska.

The 86-foot Gale Wind will act as both a harbor ship-handling tug, as well as a long haul towboat. The first tug built by Tri-Star Marine, the Gale Wind has a beam of 32 feet, draft of 12 feet and is powered by two 1,500-hp Caterpillar 3512 DITA diesel engines with Reintjes WAE 760 marine gears, with a reduction ratio of 5.75:1, and Nautican 90- inch four-blade skewed propellers.

Other equipment on board includes two Detroit Diesel generator en- gines, one 4-71 model and one 3-71 model, two Lima generators, one 50- kw and one 42-kw, Mathers AD 12 four station engine controls, Hough

Marine steering controls and a

National model 4204 tow winch.

The yard is also constructing two 124-foot crab/tender vessels concur- rently with the Gale Wind.

With 60 employees, Tri-Star

Marine, founded about four years ago, is a full service yard, perform- ing ship construction, repair, con- version and drydocking work on vessels 200 feet and under. The fishing industry accounts for about 80 percent of its workload.

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June, 1991

AMFELS Wins Contract

For Drill Barge Work

AMFELS, Inc., Houston, Texas, has been awarded a contract to modify and upgrade two drilling barges from Atlantic Pacific Marine

Corporation (APMC) of Houma, La.

Extensive modification work began last month on the two drilling

Our

Co&st G for use o vival en activate cue Light has two-plus mil operates for more than eig barges, Rig 11 and Rig 14, at AM-

FELS' yards in Brownsville, Texas.

The work will include the addi- tion of two longitudinal sponsons and the construction of a cantilever drilling structure over the stern of each of the drilling barges.

AMFELS will also upgrade the bilge and ballast piping system and apply a new tank coating system on both drilling barges.

AMFELS' engineering staff in

Houston and Brownsville is han- visibi dling all the engineering design.

Both drill barges will be redeliv- ered to their owners by the end of this year for operations in Lake

Maraoalbo, Venezuela.

AMPC, a subsidiary of Maersk

Inc., operates 12 drilling and workover rigs in the U.S. Gulf of

Mexico.

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