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Gladding-Hearn Builds

Whale-Watching Cat FIGHTING CORROSION

Gladding-Hearn plans to deliver a 92-foot catamaran to Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co. in June.

The success of fast ferries for com- muter and excursion trips during the past decade has led to an order for the nation's first Incat-designed high-speed passenger vessel, spe- cifically built for whale-watching.

According to the builder, Gladding-

Hearn Shipbuilding of Somerset,

Mass., licensee for Australia-based

International Catamaran Designs (Incat), the new 92-foot, 149-pas- senger catamaran is being built for

Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co., a whale watch and excursion vessel operator in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Delivery of the vessel, for which keel was laid in December 1993, is set for June 1994. The vessel will have a beam of about 30 feet and a depth of eight feet.

Unlike other catamarans built by

Gladding-Hearn, the all-aluminum vessel incorporates Incat's unique

Z-bow configuration, adapted from the designer's wave-piercing cata- maran. The resulting longer water- line improves the vessel's high-speed performance and adds buoyancy for passenger crowding on the foredeck, explained shipyard officials. It also includes bow pulpits and wide walk- around decks.

Powered by twin 815-hp Detroit

Diesel DDEC engines, the catama- ran is designed for 25- to 27-knot speeds, which owner Marc Brent said will allow him to make three daily whale watch trips instead of two. "We generally travel about 33 miles offshore to find whales," Mr.

Brent explained. "In our older boats, this trip would take two hours; now we can make the same trip in half the time, and by running smaller, more efficient engines, we can travel farther without increas- ing our fuel costs."

Mr. Brent added that the vessel's 25-foot-wide main cabin should in- crease his dinner cruise business.

The heated main cabin features up- holstered seating, tables, a snack bar and three heads, including one for disabled passengers. Resilient mounts between the hulls and su- perstructure reduce noise and vi- bration.

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Equipment List

Engines Detroit Diesel

Propellers Hall & Stavert

Compass Ritchie

Radar

Reduction gear Twin Disc

Engine controls Morse

Generators Kuboltz

Generator controls... .. Industrial Power Systems

Mounts McKav

VIS Delivers Monitoring

Systems For Four

Oil Carriers

Vessel Information Systems, Inc. (VIS) has delivered and commis- sioned pump room monitoring sys- tems for four U.S.-flag crude oil car- riers. The systems integrate com- bustible gas and 02 concentration monitoring in the pump room atmo- sphere with pump vibration and temperature monitoring to increase the safety of cargo rooms.

Elliott Bay Design Group of Se- attle worked with VIS to develop

February, 1994 the system in compliance with U.S.

Coast Guard and ABS regulations.

A standard 'Vessel Information and Alarm System" (VIAS-128) pro- cesses data from the different sen- sors and displays all measured val- ues and alarm conditions in the cargo control room on a color CRT with customized screens.

In addition, combustible gas alarms are displayed and/or sounded in the wheelhouse, at the pump room entrance, and in the lower pump room.

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Quality products, effective services, timely delivery.

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We offer an extensive line of zinc, alu- minum, and magnesium tanker/ballast anodes, large and small hull anodes, tear drop anodes and boiler/engine anodes. We can also design anodes for your special project. Our new state-of-the-art facility allows us great flexibility to produce anodes at high volume with low cost. We are committed to delivering products on time and within specifications.

ACS prides itself on being the full service corrosion company, capable of managing your complete job.

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