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SkipperLiner Designs And Builds

Authentic Sternwheeler

Travel Systems, Ltd. of Zephyr Cove, Nev., contacted SkipperLiner of LaCrosse, Wis. in search of a 600-passenger cruise vessel for opera- tion on Lake Tahoe, Nev., to replace M.S. Dixie.

The M.S. Dixie //is an authentic replica of a turn- of-the-century sternwheeler. The vessel has two complete types of propulsion: a functional hy- draulic sternwheel and a twin screw system. In reality, the M.S. Dixie II has two types of propul- sion, but three totally separate sources of propul- sion. This is an important safety feature to the owner.

The vessel is operational on one or all systems, achieving a 14-knot speed under the Dual Sys- tem. The vessel is 141 feet long with a beam of 33 feet and draft of 4.7 feet. Travel Systems owns and operates three vessels on Lake Mead, Nev.:

M/V Desert Princess, M/V Echo Princess and

M/V Echo Four, and will replace M/S Dixie on

Lake Tahoe with M/S Dixie II. • ^ . <5 f \ //1 . niiiiiimiiiiiiiEl i j -- 1

Trinity Delivers Anchor-Handling/Tug

Supply Boat

Dixie II Equipment List

Sternwheel propulsion Caterpillar

Generator Caterpilla

Bow thruster Westerbeke

Screws (propulsion) Michigan Wheel

Marine gear Twin Disc

Engine mounts Lo-Rez

Propeller shaft coupler Lo-Re

Steering system Skipper Hydraulics

Shifting (propulsion) Mathers Micro Commander

Shifting (paddlewheel) Mathers Micro Commander

VHF/FM marine radio Icom

Depth sounder Datamarine

Radar system Furuno

BIW Engineer Receives Award

The Marine Machinery Association (MMA) presented this year's "Jack Flannigan Award" to

Roland O. Melcher, chief engineer of Bath Iron

Works (BIW). The MMA established the award several years ago to honor its founding chairman, the late Jack Flannigan. It is given to recognize and honor individuals connected with building

Navy ships who have distinguished themselves by their technical abilities and ethical conduct.

David Choate, an MMA director who, like Capt.

Melcher, graduated from Maine Maritime Acad- emy, presented the award at a luncheon.

Coltec Awarded $19 Million Contract

The Fairbanks Morse Engine Div. of Coltec

Industries Inc. received an order valued in excess of $19 million to produce four engines and related equipment that will propel the first new ship in the nation's Sealift program, and options valued in excess of $95 million to produce engines to propel five additional ships in the sealift fleet.

The four engines for the first ship are scheduled to be delivered to Avondale Shipyards in 1995.

For more information on Coltec's Engine Div.,

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Mjellem & Karlsen, Norway To Build $33 Million, 312-Foot Passenger Ferry

Mjellem & Karlsen of Bergen, Norway has signed a contract worth about $33 million to build a 312-foot aluminum fast passenger and vehicle ferry. The large aluminum hull will be manufac- tured in sections and assembled at Halsnoy Verft, a yard in the Mjellem & Karlsen group. Final outfitting will take place at Mjellem & Karlsen's main shipyard in Bergen. The 600-passenger, 160-car monohull ferry will be built for European

Ferries Denmark AS of Copenhagen.

The hull design was developed by computer simulation and tank testing to ensure optimum performance. Mjellem & Karlsen said the design's flexibility makes it possible to meet the require- ments of individual customers and trades cost- effectively. The machinery on the newbuild is arranged in a redundant, dual-compartment con- figuration, fully automatic, controlled and moni- tored from the bridge. The ferry will have four diesel-driven waterjets for a maximum speed of about 35 knots in 13-foot waves, and future models may be fitted with gas turbines. For more information on Mjellem & Karlsen,

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NASSCO To Participate In NSRP

Standards Program

National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO) of San Diego has announced a project to evaluate foreign and international standards for accept- ability in U.S.-flag vessel applications. Spon- sored by the National Shipbuilding Research

Program (NSRP), the project is designed to in- crease U.S. shipbuilding competitiveness by re- ducing the cost of foreign equipment procure- ment and approval by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). The project will first perform a survey to establish marine industry priorities for stan- dards evaluations. Based upon these priorities,

NASSCO and its subcontractor, Petrochem Ma- rine Consultants (PMC), will then perform evalu- ations of foreign and international standards, including comparisons to recognized U.S. stan- dards. Acceptable evaluations will then be sub- mitted to the USCG for review and approval. All project data will be maintained in a database that will be made available to the industry and the

USCG to expedite future foreign equipment and standards approvals. NASSCO urges the marine industry to support this project by responding to the survey and providing any known foreign equipment and standards approvals for the project database. For more information from NASSCO,

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Artabaze, the first anchor handling/tug sup- ply boat built in the U.S. in over a decade and the first of its type built by a U.S. company for a

French one, was recently delivered by Halter

Marine, Inc., the subsidiary of Trinity Marine

Group that designed and built the vessel. The vessel is about 218 feet long with a 46-foot beam, a 20-foot deep hull and 17-foot design draft. It is the first of two nearly identical vessels by

Trinity for SURF of Marseilles, France, and will work first off the coast of France and later near

Gabon, West Africa.

It is powered by two Caterpillar 3608 diesel engines developing a total of 7,260 hp through

Reintjes VAL-3640 reverse/reduction gears.

Electrical power comes from one Caterpillar 3406 diesel driving one 250-kW generator and two Caterpillar 3408 diesels driving two 350- kW generators.

One Caterpillar 3304 diesel drives the 60-kW emergency generator. The second ship will be powered by Caterpillar 3612 diesels developing nearly 11,000 hp.

John Dane III, Trinity president, said

Artabaze reflects tremendous advances in com- puter-driven systems and design/manufactur- ing techniques over vessels of its „ype produced more than a decade ago, citing Artabaze's

Robertson dynamic positioning system, Bollard pull capacity in excess of 80 metric tons, 16.5- knot speed, and Ulstein steering rudders. Add- ing to the vessel's maneuverability and thrust are twin four-blade Berg cp propellers in Kort nozzles. A Schottel bowthruster driven by a

Caterpillar 3412 diesel adds to maneuverability and station keeping.

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Gold Coast Yachts Delivers 59-Foot

Wave Piercing Ferry, Edge

Gold Coast Yachts recently delivered a GC 18WP wave piercer ferry, the Edge, to Pelican

Watersports of St. Maarten. The 59-foot vessel will carry 49 passengers, operating as an excur- sion ferry in the 24-mile-wide open channel be- tween St. Maarten and Saba. The wave piercer's design reportedly combines elements of the mod- ern displacement power catamaran, which af- fords practical fuel efficiency, with the SWATH concept — for proven excellent seakeeping and motion characteristics.

Edge Equipment List

Main engines Lugger

Propulsion Hamilton jet

Engine controls Morse

Jet controls Jastram

Coatings Awlgrip

Compass Danforth

Windows American Marine

Safety Equipment Cal June

The ferry will be powered by twin Lug- ger L6125 diesel engines which develop 400 hp through an Aqua Drive tubular axle system with torsional dampeners and intermediate support bearings, to a

Hamilton 362 jet. Top speed is estimated at about 30 knots, with a 24-knot cruising speed at two-thirds payload. Construction is composite wood with unidirectional glass and epoxy. The vessel is Gold Coast's largest wave-piercer to date.

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