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Swath/Hydrofoil Hybrid Presented At FAST 95 (Continued from page 46) m •• sswp1 tracted side floaters and slamming of the wet deck will be avoided in 4- meter waves.

Along with current technical studies, in collaboration with the

Bremerhaven based Design

Laboratorium, new concepts are currently being investigated for: superstructure design; passenger compartments; and efficient load- ing and berthing of fast vessels.

These studies will lead to addition- al modifications, particularly in the area of the superstructure and the interior design of the vessel.

General aspects of improving pas- senger transportation at sea will be central to these studies.

The information in this feature was presented in a paper titled Hybrid Hydrofoil Monohulls at the FAST '95 conference in Travemunde,

Germany. The authors of the paper include: V.

Bertram, University of Hamburg; H.J. Schmidt,

EMIT GmbH; and J. Marzi, EMIT GmbH. EMIT is the development center for maritime and industrial technology of Germany's Bremer

Vulkan Verbund.

Sizing Up MARK

This table provides weight predictions for both versions of the MARK HYSWAS.

Description mass (t)

MARK IV

Diesel mass (t)

MARK VI

Gas Turbines

Structure (aluminum) 170 170

Foil system (steel) 20 20

Machinery (incl. shafts, propeller, gearbox, pumps, firefighting, water supply, electric equipment) 100 59

Auxiliary diesel 5 5

Side floaters 30 30

Equip., furniture, AC 65 65

Fuel (max. 200 nm) 13 16

Water 5 5

Car (max. 83 @ 1 ton) ...83 83

Passengers & crew (max. 350) 25 25

Total 516 478 may i

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Autohelm Expands SeaTalk

Instrument Range

Autohelm, a Raytheon company, introduced its latest integrated

ST30 product, the ST30 Compass system. The ST30 Compass, aimed at the small and mid-size boat markets, joins the SeaTalk instrument range.

The ST30 Compass is a steering compass housed in the standard 3.46 in. X 4.33 in. ST30 waterproof casing. This compass is designed to complement the ST30 range of speed/log, depth and wind instru- ments.

The ST30 unit consists of an LCD display head and also provides average heading for use in heavy sea states. Automatic lineariza- tion is said to provide correction for deviation errors, allowing direct readout of the magnetic heading on the display. This can be offset by variation to display true heading.

The ST30 Compass provides a

Man Overboard (MOB) feature.

When activated, the display will continuously show heading back to the point at which the MOB was activated.

Sea Talk integration allows the

ST30 Compass display to be used either as a repeater, or to utilize the heading information from a

SeaTalk Autopilot locked heading.

For more information on Raytheon

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