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Cummins and learned of the company's commitment to lowered emissions under the year 2000 IMO regulations.

He met with Cummins West's territory sales manager Tom O'Conner and decided to replace the exiting 600 hp engines with a pair of Cummins KTA19

M3 with continuous duty ratings of 600 hp. Doing all of the work at their own dock, the eight month project saw the engine room completely stripped of plumbing and wiring, sandblasted and repainted. The old engines and gear came out to be replaced with the new

Cummins coupled to Twin Disc 5202 deep case gears with 5:1 ratios and turn- ing Sound Propeller's 60 x 47-in. work wheels. At the same time, gensets and steering were replaced, although the original four flanking and two steering rudders were retained. The galley and wheel house were completely redone.

Even the lazarette got sandblasted and coated with 90 gallons of new paint. "People can't believe the difference when they see the engine room, they want to know what we are going to do with all the space," says Aaron, "The old engines, which we will destroy under the program, weighed 12,000 lbs. each.

The new engines weigh only 4,000 lbs. each. We gained 10 in. of freeboard which helps coming up the river as we have to work the tides."

Aaron is equally enthused by the per- formance of the virtually new boat. "The old engines took 85 gallons of lube oil in the crank case and burned 10 gal- lons on a 24 hour round trip to the south bay with 14 hours at max and the rest idling and jockeying.

The new engines have 10 gallons of lube oil in the base and burn no oil on the same trip. The old engines each burned 35 gallons per hour while the new ones burn only about 29 gallons per hour."

The people who oversee the Carl

Moyer Program are equally impressed and have declared the boat to be the most successful project in the Bay Area

Air Quality District. While the program didn't cover all of the costs of the refit, their grant contribution equaled the cost of the engines excluding the gears.

Aaron, who at 28 years of age and has had his masters ticket for eight years, explains that he took a special and per- sonal interest in the project to honor his younger brother Trig, who died in an automobile accident just over a year ago.

In a further recognition the boat, for- merly named Jerico Spirit will be renamed the Trig Lind at a rededication ceremony, once the boat has completed all of the sea trials.

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February, 2001

Bender Shipbuilding To

Construct Oil Barge

Bender Shipbuilding & Repair of

Mobile, Ala., has been selected to build a 150 x 60 ft. (45.7 x 18.2 m), 10,000

BBL capacity Well Test Barge for The

Hanover Company of Houston, Texas.

The barge, which will be built accord- ing to ABS class standards for interna- tional service, is scheduled to be com- plete in four months.

It will be equipped with pumping, generator and separation systems to per- form its well test mission.

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A b DOVER) DIVERSIFIED COMPANY

Alabama Shipyard Signs

Another Tug/Barge Contract

Alabama Shipyard has signed a con- tract to build an articulated tug and barge (ATB) vessel for Allied Trans- portation Company of Norfolk, Va. Both vessels will be designed and built to

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