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Damen AluCat 1350 "Jacky" Built By

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The Damen AluCat 1350 "Jacky".

Damen Shipyards of Gorinchem, Netherlands built the "Jacky," a vessel from the Damen AluCat 1350 series, in 15 weeks for her owner, Dredging

Company Boskalis B.V. at Papendrecht in Hol- land, who will use her for hydrographic survey operations. Jacky is 45 feet long with a beam of 15 feet and a 3-foot draft. The all aluminum vessel can achieve speeds above 20 knots. The high speed enables the vessel to maneuver quickly in heavy traffic areas. The Atlas Deso echosounder fitted on board during trials functioned properly at both high and low speeds. The wheelhouse provides a clear view of both the survey desk and the helmsman position. The cargo well in the forward part of the vessel is made for carrying light equipment and for boarding of personnel.

Platforms are placed on the top deck with foldable gratings for boarding high freeboard vessels.

Jacky

Equipment List

Main engines Caterpillar

Coatings International Paint

Gearboxes ZF

Waterjets Hamilton

Engine controls Kobelt

Bilge pump Sihi

C02 fire fighting system .. Ajax de Boer

Ventilator engine room Salor

Airconditioning Carrier

Generator sets Onan

Lighting ... Aqua Signal

Liferaft Viking

Compass Plath

Radar Furuno

VHF Sailor

Depth Sounder Lowrance

Echo Sounder Atlas

New Westport Tour Boat Will Operate

In National Park In Alaska

The latest model in Westport Shipyard, Inc.'s line of fast tour boats is the 90-foot x 22-foot "Kenai Explorer II." The Detroit Diesel powered, 27-knot boat was delivered to Kenai Coastal Tours in April 1993. "I want to thank designer Jack Sarin and

Randy and Rick Rust, who run Westport, for their responsiveness in incorporating the things we wanted into the vessel," said Captain Ed- ward Ward of Kenai Coastal Tours. "Among improvements to a basic Westport vessel we wanted were more length, wider wheelhouse, and particularly a good turn of speed. The Detroit

Diesel engines give us 27 knots and that means that we can take our passengers on a conducted tour of the Kenai Fjords in 5-1/2 hours as opposed to the usual eight hours." 100

The vessel's propulsion system employs two

Detroit Diesel 16V92TA engines that develop 1,300 hp at 2,300 rpm. Engines drive 42X43, four- blade, Nibral propellers through DDC 332V 2.38:1 ratio reduction gears. Westport built the 16-inch wet exhaust and silencer system.

Controls involve MMC Micro Commander elec- tronic propulsion systems and a Jastrum hydrau- lic steering system. Westport supplied its own foil-type, cast urethane rudders. A fairly exten- sive electrical system involves a 24-volt alterna- tor on one engine and a 12-volt on the other; M- 439D 36 kW Northern Lights generator; and M- 843 12-kW Northern Lights generator. The elec- tronics suite supplied by Northern Electronics encompasses Furuno 7040 radar, GP-70 GPS,

LC90 MKII loran, and FCV-561/200 sounder;

Stephens SEA-UHF Standard Infinity VHF; Com-

Nav 2001 autopilot; Aiphone four-station inter- com; and ACR EPIRB and searchlight. Jack

Sarin, Bainbridge Island, Wash., designed the

The Kenai Explorer II tour boat. vessel based on an Airex PVC core fiberglass hull from a Monk-designed expandable mold.

For more information on Westport,

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J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Completes

Tug For Shaver Transportation

Shaver Transportation Company of Portland,

Ore. recently took delivery of its new 3,000-hp ship assist tug Vancouver from J.M. Martinac

Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Wash. The

Vancouver will be an important addition to, and a significant upgrading of ship assist capability in the Port of Portland, and on the lower Columbia

River. The new 12-knot tug was designed by

Robert Allan Ltd. of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and was based on the familiar Z-30 design devel- oped by that firm for C.H. Cates & Sons Ltd. of

North Vancouver.

The tug is powered by a pair of Detroit Diesel marine diesel engines driving a Z-drive rudder/ propeller, Niigata Model ZP-2A, through a reduc- tion gear and torsional coupling. The propulsion system was supplied by IMPEG of Vancouver, which represents Niigata Engineering Company

Ltd. in Western Canada and the U.S. Northwest.

The engines of the tug are mounted on Lo-Rez spring isolators, and the engine is connected to the gearbox through a Lo-Rez Type F/HF/8HLF flexible coupling.

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