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Harbor Craft,

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Navy and Coast Guard Specifications. • Core consists of closed-cell, resilient, energy absorbing foam, covered with a protective, seamless polyurethane elastomer skin. Filament nylon tire cord reinforcement is continously wound in the skin for added strength and durability. Will not mark or scratch vessel hulls. • Constructed with integral swivel end fittings, internally connected with a heavy duty chain. • Easy to install with very little maintenance. • Light weight and extremely buoyant with a lower reaction force than either hard rubber or pneumatic fenders. (Almost 40% higher energy absorption than pneumatic fenders.)

URETHANE PRODUCTS CORPORATION (800) 913-0062 17007 South Broadway, Gardena

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Tel (310) 532-3662 • Fax (310) 532-9884

Stocking Distributors:

Waterman Supply Company 910 Mahar, Wilmington, CA 90744, U.S.A. 1-800-322-3131

Tel (310) 522-9698 • Fax (310) 522-1043

Anchor Marine &

Industrial Supply, Inc. 6545 Lindbergh, Houston, TX 77087, U.S.A. 1-800-233-8014

Tel (713) 644-1183 • Fax (713) 644-1185

The DAT concept is the result of work carried out by

KMY to solve the problem of open-water performance of efficient icebreaking vessels.

Propeller & Shafting

Symposium Set For September

SNAME announced its ninth triennial

Propeller and Shafting Symposium. The two-day event is scheduled to be held at the Cavalier Hotel, Virginia Beach, Va. on September 20 and 21, 2000. The symposium is held once every three years and is organized by the M-16

Panel of SNAME. The last symposium was in 1997, and it drew more than 150 attendees who heard 29 technical papers from experts around the world, thus bringing the total of papers read and dis- cussed over the years to 169. In all, 21 countries have contributed. These include countries from the Americas,

Europe, the Middle East, and the Orient and Soviet Block nations, even before

Soviet reassimilation into global culture.

The M-16 Panel of SNAME is dedi- cated to gathering and disseminating information on propulsion shafting and was founded in 1960 as part of the soci- ety's Technical and Research Program.

Over the years, the panel's mission has evolved to include techniques necessary for selection, design, installation, align- ment and maintenance of all shipboard components that comprise and support a shafting system. These include the shaft(s), couplings, bearings, and the propulsors themselves. The panel's scope of activity does not include engines and gears, but the bewildering variety of propulsors and shafting sys- tems seen in contemporary vessel design has added new dimension to these pro- peller and shafting seminars. Those interested in attending should contact:

Mr. Jerry Havel at: tel: (212) 839-5095; fax: (212) [email protected]

August, 2000

Investment in Design

Circle 302 on Reader Service Card J 3 as a co-originator of the Azipod system, and by the special design of the aftbody.

Two 16,400-dwt Arctic tankers, Uikku and Lunni, retrofitted with Azipods in 1993 and 1995, provided early platforms both for podded propulsion and for the

DAT principle in rigorous operating conditions. The robust pair is deployed by Nemarc Shipping, a joint venture of

KMY and Fortum Shipping, previously known as Neste Shipping. The first DAT newbuilds were two icebreaking supply ships delivered by the Finnish ship- builder to Wagenborg for Caspian Sea service in 1998. Fortum's newly ordered 106,000-dwt crude oil tankers, to be constructed in Japan by Sumitomo

Heavy Industries, give a huge fillip to a design concept, which offers long-term opportunities for opening up the Russian

Arctic trade. In the meantime, the For- tum sisters are destined to ensure dependable, year-round supplies of

North Sea crude to the group's Finnish refineries at Porvoo and Naantali.