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Yard .... Leroux & Lotz

Type.... Fast ferry

Name .. Emeraude

Nantes, France-based Leroux &

Lotz built the Emeraude, a Corsaire 6000-series fast ferry which was made of aluminum alloy and built to operate in rough seas with its deep-

V monohull concept. Built for

Emeraude Lines, the ferry is pow- ered by three KaMeWa waterjets, two of which are lateral and the other one central and non-steerable, for use as a booster. Backed by the fast ferry's Deutz MWM main en- gine, the propulsion package gives

Vargoy Equipment

Engines MTU

Waterjets Kvaerner Energy

Fuki 8 Equipment

Engines.. Yanmar

Gears ....

Steering Marol

GPS

Compass Daiko Keiki the boat a speed of 34 knots at 100 percent power. The lateral waterjets are each driven by an MWM 604

BV16 engine of 3,050 mhp maxi- mum power. Without the central jet, the boat can still achieve 22 knots.

Yard.... Kvaerner Fjellstrand

Type.... Fast ferry

Name .. Varg0y

The Varg0y "Flying Cat" type of catamaran was built by Kvaerner

Fjellstrand for Finnmark

Fylkesrederi. The 131.2-ft. (40-m) boat operates between Hammerfest and Honigsvag in the far north of

Norway. It was the first vessel to be fitted with Kvaerner Energy-de- signed and -built 680mm waterjets, each with an MCR of 2,000kW, but service rated at l,800kW. The ves- sel is powered by a pair of MTU 396TE74L engines.

Emeraude Equipment

Engines Deutz MWM

Waterjets KaMeWa

Bowthruster Jimecal

Yard.... Etoh Marine

Type.... Monohull ferry

Name .. Fuki 8

Etoh Marine Corp. of Imari City,

Japan, delivered the Fuki 8, a 235- passenger monohull vessel, for op- eration between Tomishima and

Akashi, Japan.

The 110-ft. (35.5-m) ferry has a beam of 21 ft. (6.5 m) and a draft of 3 ft. (1 m). It is powered by a pair of

Yanmar V-16 model 16LAK-ST1 engines, which deliver 1,600 bhp each. The engines drive conven- tional five-blade propellers through

Niigata MGM 433 reduction gears.

With this propulsion package, the boat has a top speed of more than 28 knots.

Electrical power onboard is pro- vided by a Yanmar 40-kW genera- tor. Electronics include Furuno

GPS, radar and VHS.

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