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In December 1990, Swiftships de- livered a 117-foot megayacht Safe

Conduct II for the U.S. market, and will deliver an 86-footer for a domes- tic owner shortly.

Bollinger Machine Shop & Ship- yard, Lockport, La., is expected to secure a contract to build a 182-foot megayacht, the 1 argest of her type to be built in the U.S.

The luxury megayacht Miss

Pauline, built by Broward Marine in

Fort Lauderdale, Fla., features

Ulstein-Liaaen lightweight fixed- pitch Speed-Z type FPZ-47 propel- lers. The units are powered by 1,500- hp diesels which give the vessel a cruising speed of 24 knots.

Phillip Chrysler of Infinity

Yachts, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., said the luxury tax is the "single biggest reason" why his company's sales are off. Infinity Yachts' latest delivery was the 1991-built 56-foot

Infinity D/DC (Duo-Delta Conic

Hull) sport yacht, powered by an 8V92 DDEC Detroit Diesel with sur- face drives.

The last three boats sold by Infin- ity, according to Mr. Chrysler, were for export, but, he said he is "guard- edly optimistic that the domestic market will rise" in the coming years.

Freeport, Fla., builder Freeport

Shipbuilding delivered one mega- yacht last year and is constructing a second this year. The 127-footby 24- (continued on page 16)

Westport-built yacht Lestralaw. peare, "we had about $12 million backlog in-house and have not closed a domestic customer since. We have several smaller projects for export to the Japanese market and are working on other business poten- tials."

Mr. Shakespeare pointed out that as many as 25,000 direct indus- try jobs may have been lost as a result of the excise tax.

U.S. Megayacht

Builders

Trinity Yachts, Inc., one of the newer companies in the megayacht market, completed the 97-foot Leda, last year. This year, according to

William S. Smith III of Trinity

Yachts, the firm is building a 72-foot twin-diesel sportfishing yacht for foreign owners and a 30-foot alumi- num tender/landing craft for use on a 250-foot superyacht.

Major multimillion-dollar recon- struction projects at the yard in- clude extensive modification work on the 250-foot superyacht Golden

Odyssey and the 192-foot October

Rose, both foreign-flag vessels. The

Golden Odyssey is the first superyacht dry docked at Trinity's 240- by 120-foot drydock. "The luxury sales tax has ad- versely affected the sale of yachts that were U.S. flagged," said Mr.

Smith. "The repeal of the luxury sales tax will help our sales of new construction, but it will take some- time to get the word out to the public after the tax has been removed."

Another new entrant to the megayacht market is Swiftships of

Morgan City, La. The Louisiana builder is nearing the completion of the 155-foot Intrepid, one of the larg- est megayachts ever built in the

U.S., and first in a series of orders placed by an offshore corporation to

G.I. Robinson Yacht Designs, Inc. of

St. Augustine, Fla.

The Caterpillar 3516TA-powered all-aluminum, four-deck Intrepid has a range of about 4,700 nautical miles and a cruising speed of 18 knots. Auxiliary power is also pro- vided by two 165-kw Caterpillar

The 87-foot yacht Notre Dame from Knight & Carver.