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FAST FERRIES

Australia's WaveMaster offers many fast ferry vessel types from which to choose.

WaveMaster:

Offering Speed & Safety In One Package

MTU Powers Fully-Loaded, 175-Ton Ferry To 46.5 Knots

WaveMaster International has found its niche in the production of high-speed, high performance aluminum craft, and offers customers a wide selec- tion from which to choose.

The WaveMaster-built Nansha 18 fast ferry, a 175-ton, 386-passen- ger vessel built for the Panyu

Nansha Port Passenger Transport

Co. of Hong Kong, reportedly trav- elled 46.5 knots during trials, fully- loaded, exceedingits specified speed by a full three knots.

The 138-foot vessel is one of the latest catamarans from the

WaveMaster stable of aluminum craft.

The power behind the perfor- mance is provided by four series 396 MTU 16V engines driving four

KaMeWa 635 waterjets through

Reintjes VLJ 930 gearboxes.

The engines are mounted in tan- dem on the two hulls, and are ar- ranged to allow service in the event of an engine shutdown or mainte- nance.

Nansha 18 can achieve a fully- loaded speed of 36 knots on three engines. The Nansha 18 is also built for comfort and safety, featuring an aircraft-style interior incorporating a noise dampening system. The wheelhouse of the vessel includes a specially upgraded Vistar night vi- sion system with two monitors to facilitate navigation through busy waterways. An additional safety feature is an extra Bremshey seat— four instead of the usual three—to maximize good vision in the dark.

Pong Jiang Challenge: High

Speed, Lew Wake

The Jiangmen Hong Kong-Macau

Joint Passenger Transportation Co. specified a vessel with maximum speed and minimum wash, so it could negotiate some of China's inland waterways without causing damage to riverbanks and small craft. The result: the 113-foot Peng Jiang, a 193-passenger, 40-knot vessel.

Marking the fourth vessel

WaveMaster has built for the

Jiangmen operator, the vessel re- quired the WaveMaster design team to devise a vessel which had no more than 15.8" in wave height. Months of design work, balancing between high speed and low disturbance, re- sulted in a vessel which reportedly beats the specifications comfortably at full speed. The Peng Jiang is constructed of Marine Grade alumi- num and powered by a pair of series 396 MTU 16V engines, driving

KaMeWa waterjets through ZF gears.

Svper Ffyfe Garners Design

Award

In October, WaveMaster won a design award in the 1993 Western

Australian Industry and Export

Awards, for its entry, the 550-pas- senger Super Flyte.

The 146-foot monohull vessel is powered to 27 knots by a pair of series 396 MTU 16V engines, and was delivered to Boat Torque Cruises in early 1993.

Features which helped earn the award include a wave control sys- tem, a system developed by

WaveMaster with the assistance of

Maritime Dynamics at the company's Henderson Shipyard.

The effect of the computer-operated hydraulic system, which includes four large lifting surfaces at the ship's transom, has been to report- edly reduce the vessel's rolling by 65 percent and pitching by 35 percent.

The vessels also sports a new window application in which the glass panes are fixed directly to the superstructure with a special adhe- sive, making the normal fixtures of frames, screws or rivets unneces- sary, while reportedly minimizing corrosion and maintenance.

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