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Maritime Reporter/Engineering News IGBE Special Supplement page 11

Nichols Brothers To Build Second Catamaran For South

Pacific, Hopper Barge For Portland Company

Nichols Brothers Boat Build- ers, Inc., will build a second cruise/ dive catamaran for Alaska Dive

Boat, according to Matt Nichols, president of the Whidbey Island,

Wash, shipyard. The yard also recently won a contract to build a 237.5-ft. (72.4-m) split hopper dump barge for Manson Construc- tion Co. of Portland, Ore.

Owner Dave Usibelli, president of Alaska Dive Boat, said the new 100- foot (30.5-m) catamaran will operate out of Palau in Micronesia, as part of an Aggressor Fleet, Inc. franchise.

The vessel will be about 30 ft. (9.1 m) wide and draw 4.5 ft. (1.4 m). The new vessel will be larger than the 80- ft.(24.4-m) Kona Aggres- sor II that Nichols built for Mr. Usibelli's Live/

Dive Hawaii in 1992. The new catamaran, designed by International Catama- rans, Ltd. of Australia, will accommodate 49 passengers on day dive trips or 16 on extended cruises. It will utilize longer "Zee hulls" developed by InCat that re- portedly cut wake, enhance fuel

Drawing of a cruise/dive catamaran to be built by

Nichols Brothers for Alaska Dive Boat. efficiency and improve ride.

The boat will be powered by Cat- erpillar 3412TI, 1,050 bhp diesel en- gines driving Hamilton 571 waterjets through 1:2.03 reduction gears, pro- viding a speed of 22 knots. Service power will be provided by a pair of 50-kW Northern Lights generators.

The hopper barge will be built from 1,167 tons of heavy steel and will have a complex spoon bow. The barge will have a 54-ft. (16.5-m)beam and an overall depth of 22 ft. (6.7 m).

A machinery space will enclose an 8712 General Electric diesel engine to power the hydraulic system that will operate the split hoppers to dump dredge tailings. Nichols also built earlier vessels for Manson construc- tion, such as a 220-ft. (67-m) by 54-ft. (16.5-m) ABS ocean load line cargo barge and the 267-ft. (81.4-m) by 54- ft. (16.5 m) 4,000-cu.-yd. split hull hopper dredge, Newport. For more information on Nichols Brothers,