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Number Table

Shipyard Reader Service #

Bollinger Machine 118

Broward Marine 119

Christensen Yachts 120

Derecktor 121

Freeport Shipbuilding 122

Infinity Yachts 123

Knight & Carver 124

Palmer Johnson 125

Puglia Shipbuilding 126

Skipperliner 133

Swiftships 127

Trinity Yachts 128

Westport Shipyard 129

Workboats Northwest 130

Artist's conception of the 114-foot Derecktor- built MIT sea AH. models include the 620, with a 62- foot length, and the 700, with a 66- foot length.

Well-established in the megayacht business on the West Coast is

Christensen Motor Yachts. Accord- ing to Dave Christensen, during 1990, the Vancouver, Wash., firm delivered five megayachts in the range of 110-150 feet. Since the luxury tax, however, Mr. Chris- tensen said that his firm hasn't delivered one megayacht to a do- mestic owner. Christensen exported one megayacht to Italy last year, and is constructing two others for owners in England and Belgium.

Also out on the West Coast is

Puglia Shipbuilding, Inc. The Ta- coma builder took over the construc- tion of a 150-foot, Caterpillar-pow- ered megayacht following the de- mise of Tacoma Boatbuilding.

In Westport, Wash., Westport

Shipyard's latest delivery is a 96- foot, Caterpillar 3412TA-powered

Westship called Tahiti. Westport also has on order a 98-foot Westship, powered by 16V92TADDEC Detroit

Diesels, and two 106-foot Westships, which are both powered by MTU 8V 396TE94s.

Seattle-based Workboats North- west delivered the 103-foot alumi- num Shana in 1989 and was sched- uled to deliver a Detroit Diesel-pow- ered 90-footer in 1991.

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Major Yacht Builders (continued from, page 15) foot all-aluminum, three-deck mega- yacht is powered by three Caterpil- lars and Nomera waterjets for a do- mestic owner.

On the East Coast, construction of a 114-foot luxury motoryacht "MIT sea AH" is well underway at

Derecktor's Mamaroneck, N. Y., yard.

She will be powered by twin MTU 12V396RE94s, and is scheduled to be delivered in the spring of 1993.

In the Midwest, Palmer Johnson, the established Sturgeon Bay, Wis., yacht builder, was recently con- tracted to build a 131-footer by a

European client for delivery in 1993.

The new yacht, designed by Tom

Fexas of Florida, joins four other projects underway at "PJ"— two sail- boats of 107 and 116 feet, as well as motor yachts of 80 and 90 feet.

Said Mike Kelsey, chairman of

Palmer Johnson, Inc., "Prospective buyers are waiting to see if the tax will be repealed; we believe our sales will increase with its repeal."

Producing diner and excursion vessels with passenger capacities as large as 225, Skipperliner Shipyards in LaCrosse, Wis., is also well-known in the custom-designed luxury mo- toryacht market. Skipperliner's 600

Coastal Motor Yacht, designed in- house, has an overall length of 60 feet with standard twin Caterpillar 3208TAs. Other aluminum-hulled

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