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Northwind Marine Offers

Versatile SAFE Boats

Northwind Marine of Seattle will build the patented, rigid hull

SAFE aluminum boats. Boats under construction include models from 19 to 28 ft. (5.8 x 8.5 m) fitted for shrimp fishing, oil boom deploy- ment and dive charter service. The full line of SAFE Boats range from 13-ft. (3.9-m) yacht tenders to a 40- ft. (12.2-m) models suitable for ser- vice as a dive platforms, and other applications. Northwind will build the boats — under a license from

Norseman Marine Products, which developed and patented the line of boats.

Seacor Debuts

Next-Generation

Platform Supply Vessel

A 248-ft. (75.6-m) boat which rep- resents Seacor's "new" generation of platform supply vessels designed for deepwater cargo ser- vice was recently recommissic in New Orleans.

The vessel, which was origin 218 ft. (66.4 m), was lengthenec ft. (9.1 m) and fitted with dynai positioning equipment and ac tional thruster capacity. 1

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Crowley: In It For The Long Haul

Crowley Marine Services recently tackled a pair of big transport jobs. A tandem of two

Crowley barges departed October 1 from

Seattle, enroute to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (pic- tured).

The company transported the first of three 310 x 52 x 18-ft. (94.5 x 15.8 x 5.5-m) precast concrete pontoons and related structures for a floating bridge being built by Dillingham-

Manson for use by the Navy between Ford

Island and the main island of Oahu. The 5,000- ton pontoons were built by Concrete Technology of Tacoma, Wash.

The barges are being transported in tandem behind Crowley's 7,200-bhp Invader-class tug

Bulwark.

Crowley used float-on/float-off methods to load the massive precast unit at Todd

Shipyards' drydock in Seattle.

The barge — No. 400 — was submerged in the drydock, then the pontoon — which draws approximately 12 ft. — was floated into position above the barge deck. Raising the barge placed the unit aboard the barge, where it was secured for the 2,500-mile sea voyage. "In Hawaii, we'll sink the barge right in Pearl

Harbor," said Craig Tonga, Crowley's general manager of Oil Industry Services. "We've selected the off-load site and had both a bottom survey and a side scan completed to make sure it's a good area to set the barge on the bottom in order to float the pontoon off."

Tandem Tow Heads To Kwajalein

Two 400-ft. (122-m) Crowley barges departed on October 15 from Seattle, bound for the

Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, trans- porting construction equipment and materials on behalf of the J.A. Jones Construction Co.

Approximately 21,000 tons of construction cargoes were aboard the two barges, including cranes, forklifts, dump trucks, graders, and containers full of bags of cement and aggregate.

The barges were towed in tandem by

Crowley's 7,200-bhp tug Sea Victory. Because of its large fuel capacity and economy of opera- tion, the vessel was scheduled to complete the 5,000-mile journey without a fuel stop.

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